Install Disk Creator

Buggy with Catalina - Help please developer!

What Apple obfuscates and makes difficult, great devs make simple. Thank you. Everyone, please chip in when you can!

This app is a butt saver! As an active beta tester I cannot count the times that I have used this marvelous app to create installers that I store on Flash Drives and always have available when that moment arrives and you have an emergency and must reinstall your system. There is no need for an Internet connection for the reinstall incase your Wifi has crashed or is simply not available. As far as periodic reinstall issues as scorned by chasjunk in his review it IS a good idea every few months reinstall. Periodically there are small corruptions in the OS that cause little irritations that are near impossible to isolate. There are apps that sometimes do not get along with others that even after uninstalling leave issues and a new OS reinstall will often correct. By the way if you have an installer on a Flash Drive with3.0 speed capabilities it is faster than going to online recovery!

Excellent !! worked for me

OK, I downloaded Install Disk Creator and it works just fine. In fact, it was so fast that I didn't know it was done. Which is a problem: function aside, there are not enough indicators showing what's going on, not even a "finished" or "done" button. In other words, this app is incomplete as far as user feedback is concerned. We can hope the developer takes the time to finish the app. In the meantime, DiskMaker X has plenty of cues and prompts. And it is functionally more complete as well. It sniffs out all and any installers on media in or connected to your computer, including external drives, which is where I happen to keep my installers. It also does a lot better job explaining what's going on, which helps prevent mistakes. The best that can be said is that Install Disk Creator is a work in progress and has little or nothing to recommend it over DiskMaker X. So three stars is all I can give it, do to the inadequate user interface. We'll see if the developer is up to the challenge or if the negative feedback cools his enthusiasm for the project.

Who recommends doing a clean instal every six months? Maybe for Windows, but the Mac OS is generally stable almost indefinitely given routine maintenance. It depends on how you use your system and what you instal on it. Some things can crap it up, but that's much harder to do in macOS 10.12, Sierra, which isolates system files from user and third-party meddling. You can't even repair permissions any more. Routine software updates take care of that now. That said, in the past some experts have recommended doing a clean install once a year. Which is fine if you don't mind taking the time to reinstall all your software and data. But most people will never reinstall the operating system on Windows or macOS. Still, it is worthwhile for geeks to have an installer handy if and when they need it. Personally I've rarely had a problem with DiskMaker X. It's been around since Lion came out and has been supported ever since. But I'll give this one a look since the price is competitive with the competition. ;-) Though I suggest the developer not try so hard to make his app seem important. His claim that it is "recomendable" to do a clean install every six months is borderline FUD.