My IMac is failing at start and acting weird, so I want to have a clean install and maybe upgrade to high sierra, my question is can I keep all my softwares regardless of how they where installed, and have them migrated to the next OS? If so, how? Time machine...? Or am I going to re install everything from a scratch again?
iMac, iOS 10.1
If you are doing a clean install because of problems you'll want to test with just default Mac OS apps. If you use Migration Assistant or Time Machine you'll probably migrate the problem back.
But before you go to that trouble, please download and run EtreCheck, created by one of own colleagues here in ASC. It is a diagnostic tool that's very useful to us in finding problems. Also it will give us further specs on your Mac. After it runs post the log file here. It will contain no personal information.
Hopefully, we'll be able to see what is causing the issues.
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If I upgrade to high sierra can I keep all my softwares after formatting?
