Am I weird to want to wipe drive/reintall Leopard?

[Parasitic]

I have to say though it's more organizational than it is a performance issue, although lately I have been seeing a lot more of the rainbow beachball...

Yea, my hard drive is getting cluttered and while XSlimmer and AppZappers are great there are still traces of other things I can't get rid of, like PocketMac/Missing Sync, and I couldn't update Microsoft Office '08 to the newest version. In addition, my Parallels VM drive ran out of space and I can't for the life of me figure out a way to merge multiple drives into one letter.

I know I could just nuke the VM but I might as well wipe everything off and start from a clean slate, right?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Don't ever want to do it unless it's a new OS release!

 

[alfa147x]

just did it, on my macbook had the last install running for over a year and a half

when i had a HP XP laptop there was a reinstall every 6 months

 

[TheStu]

I reinstalled Leopard recently since I had been running install for more than 6 months and it had become cluttered from all teh stuff that I had installed. I just wanted to start fresh. Something was screwing with my ability to playback 720p, and that is a big no-no in my book.

 

[Parasitic]

Ok, reinstalled OS up and running...for some bizarre reason with all the same programs I gained almost 2 extra gigs in space :S

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Ok, reinstalled OS up and running...for some bizarre reason with all the same programs I gained almost 2 extra gigs in space :S

Not installing the OS X printer drivers and languages will save about 2GB. Also, updates to OS X and your other software can eat up space.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. I tend to reinstall OS's every 6 months. Personally I don't think it matters with OS X, but I used to do that with Windows because it would really hinder performance if I didn't. So for me, it's more of a habit.

 

[randomlinh]

What do you guys do on your Windows machines these days that need a reinstall so often? I may have had to do it once a year at most... aside from screwing up the system myself from say, overclocking.

It's been two years since I bought my iMac. I have never reinstalled... just, upgraded from 10.4->10.5 too, heh. I wanted to, from my windows root of hell going from one revision to the next. But it worked, and I put it off, and here I am.

 

[xanis]

I've had the urge to reinstall many times... a habit from Windows.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: timswim78

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Ok, reinstalled OS up and running...for some bizarre reason with all the same programs I gained almost 2 extra gigs in space :S

Not installing the OS X printer drivers and languages will save about 2GB. Also, updates to OS X and your other software can eat up space.

First thing I did when I got my MBP back in March was to reinstall Leopard to get rid of those. I'm comparing my current install config with that back in March, not the factory install.

I think I figured out why though - it's probably because instead of letting OSX do incremental updates to 10.5.5, after I put Leopard on (10.5.0) I downloaded the combo updater myself and it went straight to that.

XSlimmer is awesome though - saved me a whole gig off all my apps on top of that. For those of you who don't have XSlimmer...get it!

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
What do you guys do on your Windows machines these days that need a reinstall so often? I may have had to do it once a year at most... aside from screwing up the system myself from say, overclocking.

It's been two years since I bought my iMac. I have never reinstalled... just, upgraded from 10.4->10.5 too, heh. I wanted to, from my windows root of hell going from one revision to the next. But it worked, and I put it off, and here I am.

I went through a fair amount of reinstalling Vista on my MBP myself. Most of this was due to testing between Parallels/Fusion and experimenting with disk space on boot camp though.

Although to be fair I think most of the Windows-only users on AT do it to maintain system performance. There are computers in my family that were still running on their original installations of Windows 2000.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Parasitic

Originally posted by: randomlinh
What do you guys do on your Windows machines these days that need a reinstall so often? I may have had to do it once a year at most... aside from screwing up the system myself from say, overclocking.

It's been two years since I bought my iMac. I have never reinstalled... just, upgraded from 10.4->10.5 too, heh. I wanted to, from my windows root of hell going from one revision to the next. But it worked, and I put it off, and here I am.

I went through a fair amount of reinstalling Vista on my MBP myself. Most of this was due to testing between Parallels/Fusion and experimenting with disk space on boot camp though.

Although to be fair I think most of the Windows-only users on AT do it to maintain system performance. There are computers in my family that were still running on their original installations of Windows 2000.

I reinstalled a lot early on because of all various OSes I was using either bootcamped or VMed... nowadays I almost never truly need to reformat, I did recently to clean stuff out and fix some video performance issues I was having, but I generally don't see the need to reformat OS X on a regular basis.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I've been running the same install of Tiger that came with my Mac in Sept 2005...