Should I archive and install?

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O. Hendersen - 31 Oct 2005 05:17 GMT

My system has been screwed up since I had a power outage
a couple of weeks ago. I've had to reboot every 4 or 5 days
because the system gets so slow and the beachball of death
keeps showing up more and more often until it just stays.

I've used DiskUtility and DiskWarrior on it.
It works ok for a few days and then starts acting up again.

I've been thinking of doing and archive and reinstall of tiger.

What will I lose if I do that?

Any other suggestions?

my sys: dual 1.25 G4 MMD, 1.25 GB RAM, OSX 10.4.2

Thanks

O.

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Tim Murray - 31 Oct 2005 06:08 GMT

> My system has been screwed up since I had a power outage
> a couple of weeks ago. I've had to reboot every 4 or 5 days
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>
> Any other suggestions?

Even though Mac OS does a good job of it, I prefer the old-fashioned approach
-- format the drive and install everything from scratch. I bought an external
firewire disk, which is invaluable, to back up data.

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Shawn Hirn - 31 Oct 2005 19:48 GMT

> > My system has been screwed up since I had a power outage
> > a couple of weeks ago. I've had to reboot every 4 or 5 days
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> -- format the drive and install everything from scratch. I bought an external
> firewire disk, which is invaluable, to back up data.

That is my recommendation too. Doing an archive install might help with
the OP's situation, but only if no files other than the ones Mac OS X's
installer creates are corrupt. If corruption occurred to any application
files, such as Safari, MS Word, etc. doing an archive install will not
resolve the problem.

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Should I archive and install?