It’s been a little while since I have setup a brand new machine

[Andrew Richards]

[Jeremy Garchow] “It hasn’t been updated in a long time. It’s my connection to legacy apps. ;)”

The irony! It’s killing me!

Best,
Andy

[Darren Roark]

[Andre van Berlo] “Thanks Bob! I do a clean install every now and then but never thought of doing it this way. I would just format the drive and then use Time Machine…

my Tube will arrive in February (sigh) and your suggestion is exactly what i’ll be doing!”

Time Machine can bring back all of the slowness causing gremlins back.

C.C.Cloner or any of the other options can clone a 256GB SSD in under a half hour if you have a decent USB 3.0 drive. I set mine to update a sparseimage nightly in case of emergency. I’ve RMA’d two SSD boot drives so far so I also keep a semi current fresh install bootable USB drive.

This has saved my bacon several times when having to deauthorize apps and plugins after a drive failure since doing a fresh install counts as an additional computer. Time Machine is great for set it and forget it backups, but it doesn’t always carry over strict licensing activations over.

[Andre Van berlo]

Thanks! I’ll look into cc cloner then. I didn’t know doing a fresh install could actually cost me an extra license, ridiculous when you think of it really. I buy the software, shouldn’t that be enough?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Harlan] “I’m bummed because I’m planning on a new Macbook pro, but Avid and Mavericks don’t play well yet. I’m hoping this will change soon, but…. Oh, well. I wish I could install Mountain Lion on it. Maybe I’ll run Win 7. Sigh.”

It will be worth the wait.

[Jok Daniel]

FYI, Avid released MC 7.0.3 today, with support for Mavericks (10.9 and 10.9.1).

[Jeremy Garchow]

…and it was a short wait!

[Chris Harlan]

[Jok Daniel] “FYI, Avid released MC 7.0.3 today, with support for Mavericks (10.9 and 10.9.1).”

Yahoo!