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Originally Posted by dnanian
Glad to hear it. Told you the archive-and-install wouldn't be painful!  |
Well... Actually is was VERY painful since the installer returned an error at the very end of the archive and install process and would not complete. Had a big yellow exclamation mark on the alert box and was told by the installer to restart to "try again"
When I restarted the second time, the installer did a clean install instead, which I was not prepared for.
About 8 hours of tedium later, I finally had everything moved over and functioning from the SD backup and was back up and running with a new copy of the system installed.
Since there was something wrong with my original system files that caused the cron failure and prevented an archive and install from finishing, I didn't want to use Migration Assistant to move everything on the SD backup over to the internal drive. I was afraid that whatever was screwed up would end up back on the new system.
It is too bad that OSX is not better at identifying system file problems and fixing them short of a complete re-install. When I ran disc utility on this system prior to this whole fiasco, it found nothing wrong. Neither did Onyx and half a dozen other system maintenance apps I have. :/
Only hint of a problem was the SD scheduler failing to execute, and ultimately the failure of the OSX installer to complete an Archive and Install.