As the end of another year looms… time to back everything the fck up.
Projects, sample collection, patches, settings & anything in “my documents”.
Usually I do a clean install after burning everything to disk (check your disks before you finally wipe the lot).
Doesnt take too long. Handy way of making space & deciding what to keep / jettison.
doning mind tomorrow lol i usually do this once a year to help give an new lease of life to my old machine.
not me… I cant stand having to install all my programs again and reauthorizing everything. Its annoying as fcuk!
this is a really good idea. i just did a new install like 3-4 months ago… but i would love it if my productions folder was clean again and void of the 30 or so projects I have started or worked on over the past 4 months. good call on pointing this crap out.
Great idea I just did mine about a week ago!
i time machine at least once a week but def time to do a full on clean up of my macs
I did all that about 2 months ago anyways, it’s a pain in the arse lol.
I did mine last week.
Formatted the lot. So glad I did. Lots of updates that I’d not noticed. Now installed and up to date. Even in Live 8.2.1 is the most bug riddled thing I’ve ever seen.
Mine is well overdue…
I am very interested as to what you guys think is the best way to back up our stuff???
To an external - or online?
Using a program??? Which one???
Do you just backup certain folders or the whole drive(s)???
I have a macbook for mobile stuff but write my music on my PC in my home studio.
All input welcome.
Let the debate begin :Wow:and thank you in advance SA community.
I usually use to back up all my Music and project in 2 different portable Hard Drives .
Whooaa, not sure about a fresh install lol 
if I ain’t broke…
But I defineatley clean/tidy up my drive and folders
Good idea, I’ve got my time machine always on, but I’m considering upgrading DropBox to $9.99 option and putting my music folders in it
There no need for reinstall ever! Unless your system is totally ****ed with a virus beyond repair or you change your motherboard.
Just keep a back up of important on another internal or external HD or set your system up in RAID so everything is backed up in realtime.
Ensure you clean your reg every time you install and uninstall something, defrag on a regular basis and claen up all temp files etc etc. I generally use ccleaner at least once, and I mean at least a day.
this site [url=http://www.piriform.com/]http://www.piriform.com/[/url] has excellent stuff for all of that and its all 100% free.
Doing a reinstall is a bloody pain in arse, no need for it either.
I’ll be doing a Defraggler overnight, done a full scan disk the other night to repair anything out of line… take ages with 4 harddrives