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the other place must be closed.

I don't use Chrome much on the mobile devices, it looked to me as if it didn't have the bookmarks or passwords, but looking more carefully looks like everything is online, so that wouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the tip. The time machine backup is into an external HDD so if unplugged it shouldn't interfere with the clean install unless I decided that I'd like to import settings from it. I was MS beta-tester for a couple of years so on Windows I had a good protocol to save all required settings and folders, including register entries, to get all working after each clean install of every new beta version. I don't have such control on a Mac Despite that I'm more satisfied with OSX than I ever was with Windows, despite not having a Mac version for all the tasks I used to perform. Foobar for instance is better (more convenient, I'm not speaking about sound quality) than any playback software for Mac.

you don't really get that this is not the kind of forum you believe. Please, read this and try to slow down (or simply cut off) your asking silly things.

Thanks again, Steve. My system has both folders in the App Support an utorrent and a ?torrent. The last one is empty. I'm concerned Mac utorrent (the software) would use that pile of .torrent files into the utorrent folder as the list of files it's sharing. Thing is that I took a look into the .plist file and didn't see anything like a list of files, although such list could be into any of the other files that being .data and the like I don't know how to look into them. Maybe I shouldn't get rid of the .torrent files in the App Support until seeing if the program keeps working normally. In my preferences I don't have any backup or moving finished files into predetermined folders, I'm keeping a folder structure which allows me to keep the .torrent files (in the event a re-check is needed) and the data files so I know what I got and from where. Some are perfectly legal, others not that much , but I like sharing them as long as possible. There's a lot of other stuff that I'd need to sort out like passwords (I don't use password management software), activation codes of purchased programs, Chrome settings (I'm not sure my favourite links and such are kept at Google's), etc. I don't even know what would happen with software I'm in the trial period. So this raises a question, if I get another Mac computer, a new one, importing all those settings directly from Time Machine into the new one would somewhat overload and fill up of shit the new system?

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Thanks for your patience and dedication, Steve. I had made a couple of OSX versions ago the ∼/Library folder visible on Finder, but it looks like it stopped being accessible. It's not a folder I check with any frequency. Using the "Go" menu I got there. For the last modification date I'm guessing that the filelist keeping the files information is in the com.bittorrent.utorrent.plist file. The other folders one is keeping a few thousands of .torrent files, it must be some sort of backup since the ones I've downloaded are kept in an external HDD with the data files. The other one is empty. I've found a third folder which might contain relevant data to the program since all of its three files have been changed yesterday. It's the com.bittorrent.uTorrent.savedState which is into the Saved Application State folder. I guess I should be keeping and then transplanting all those folders into the ∼/Library folder once the system is reinstalled.

That's the issue, I spent yesterday some time looking for that. I have no such "utorrent" folder anywhere to be found. There's not even a .plist file or similar with a name suggesting to be utorrent related the only utorrent file is utorren.app in the applications folder. AFAIK Mac computers don't have it, Windows do, I know first hand. The only thing that could help to find the file keeping the seeding files list would be another applications that monitored what file changes when you add or delete a file in utorrent.

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OWC says it should take 2TB SSD. It's the 7.1 model. I've been looking for that utorrent configuration file since I started using Mac computers, but no one seems to know about it. That information is probably a text line into some configuration file, but a "utorrent" search gives very little. Manual search isn't any better. I've been asking at FS forums, utorrent forum and to other supposedly knowledgeable people, but no one seems to know how to transfer the seeding file list from a running uTorrent into another.

Holly moly, what a beauty!!! I hope you're posting many pics once you have it in your hands and wrist.

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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Happy Birthday!!!

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.

Congrats, Özgür!!!