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TBH I don't know if a mid 2010 MBP can take a much larger SSD as main internal boot drive. I paid like 250-300€ for the 250GB Crucial drive I installed a few years ago, which is working like a charm, it had no problems to be recognized, formatted and having the OS installed. I could use a larger one for sure, but at 2TB it still wouldn't hold all the files in sharing. Still at these prices it's an option to consider before the clean install. I'm using uTorrent. On Windows I know you just need to keep one file, but that's not an option (as far as I know) on Mac. If changing the SSD and OS I'd have to get all the files re-checked, I might move to another client, although none of the ones I tried (Deluge, Transmission and qbittorrent) were of my liking, so not worth the hassle of moving all the information. Any recommendation?

Thanks guys. I'll give it a try, although not completely sure yet. Getting the file sharing software to activate all the files it's using would be a royal PITA if importing settings from migration assistant isn't the cleanest option Truth is that as though the computer knew what's coming, it's started to run smooth and snappy like it used to do months ago witches or AI?

Thank you very much for the detailed and helpful reply, Steve. I should be good with the Time Machine automated backups I've been doing for years on an external USB HDD. The whole unit isn't bootable but I think the partition holding the BU is. I had the idea that a fresh install should be able to extract from a TM backup all the information needed to configure the programs when needed after the OS is installed, but probably I have a wrong idea of how it works. I swapped the original 500GB HDD with a 250GB SSD, on that intervention I removed the optical drive and added a HDD 1TB unit, which is not the backup one. I also added RAM so the MBP has 8GB now. I did this like four or five years ago. However I didn't make a clean install, I took everything needed from Time Machine. I once tried a clean install from a SD memory card, when Mountain Lion was released, but I didn't get the thing to work, that's why I'm a bit hesitant to try the procedure. Since I'm absolutely OSX command line incapable I'm more pronte to try Disk Maker to create the bootable installer on a USB thumbdrive. As I'm writing this the HS installer is almost downloaded. Just one question, since I guess the install pack has the basic OS, is it more recommendable to apply all the updates before installing the apps? I'll check here for further recommendations before the erasing and installing.

You mean a new MBP don't you?

Nevermind, I've just checked and my dear old MBP isn't Mojave compatible I'm condemned to use HighSierra. I might need to make a fresh install of it to see if it helps with the hiccups I'm experiencing. I've been looking for it at Mac's download page, but they only seem to have the repository of the updates, not the plain High Sierra 10.3.1. Any idea on how or where to get it?

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Mojave OSX anyone? I'm not sure my MBP would handle it well. With Sierra it got slower.

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IMHO Talisker is rather peaty. Not Lagavulin level, but smokey.

what? who are you?

Unusual swinging groove for a pop band, Mikey. Thanks!

I enjoyed the two seasons of that show. I watched it dubbed into Spanish, they did a pretty good job.

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I expected the pump to be deeper in the well

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RIP Montserrat. Great artist.

Condolences, Craig. Fortunately she had good care and company.

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A couple of tunes from the next to be released Neneh Cherry's album Broken Politics Her voice is still good.

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