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Working on that at the moment.

Backed up with SuperDuper! Now need to boot into that, delete the original partition and copy from the Backup.

I did try updating in the normal way but that only offers Catalina, not Mojave.

Disk Utility says I have a SATA disk. I assume that would say if it was a Fusion drive?


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Which APFS option should I select please?


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Chose the basic APFS, erased and formatted the disk, then tried to run the update. However, it seems this is only an update and requires the OS in order to run, so I am restoring from the Backup.

Presumably the update will then work over the top of that as it will be Mojave 10.14.1 on an APFS partition, which it what it wanted in the first place.


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All updated successfully to 10.14.6.

Thanks everyone for your help. Merry Christmas


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Sorry, Nighthawk4. I've been away on family duties today.

You have done admirably well without me:):app

I'm so glad you got things sorted - and thank you for posting back.

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All updated successfully to 10.14.6.

Thanks everyone for your help. Merry Christmas
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Good to read you finally got the Mac OS update you wanted up installed.

Not exactly the easiest Upgrade path that it should have been no thanks or credit to Apple.

May things be better for the New Year.


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Silly question perhaps - my new iMac has two Thunderbolt ports. Are they the same as USB-C?


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Silly question perhaps - my new iMac has two Thunderbolt ports. Are they the same as USB-C?
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Yes and they will connect to USB-C devices. I have two external Samsung T5 SSDs which are USB-C/USB 3.0 that I use with my iMac for backup.
 
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Yes and they will connect to USB-C devices. I have two external Samsung T5 SSDs which are USB-C/USB 3.0 that I use with my iMac for backup.
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I knew that was true for the most recent incarnation of Thunderbolt. Is it also true for the first and second incarnation of Thunderbolt?
 
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This is on a 2013 iMac. Perhaps it was misleading when I said “new”. It is new to me but is refurbished, not the latest model.

I am guessing this has version 1 or 2 Thunderbolt not the most recent?


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Sorry if I mislead you, but Slydude is correct. Your model iMac has TB 2 ports which are not compatible with USB-C but are compatible with the Mini DisplayPort standard. I thought you had a 2017 or 2019 model iMac which does have TB 3 ports.
 
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Sorry if I mislead you, but Slydude is correct. Your model iMac has TB 2 ports which are not compatible with USB-C but are compatible with the Mini DisplayPort standard. I thought you had a 2017 or 2019 model iMac which does have TB 3 ports.
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That's the only reason that answer caught my attention. I remember thinking something like "Have I been missing out on USB C all this time?"
 
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So, as my cheap unnamed DVD Drive didn’t work, I bought an Apple SuperDrive - three times the cost but at least it is Apple so it should just work.

Hehe, no it doesn’t.

Tried a different DVD and it can identify the disk and I can browse the contents, but it still doesn’t play.

Maybe it would have been better to get the hard drive replaced in my old iMac - at least that had a built in DVD drive.

Incidentally, the new one came with Intel graphics rather than the nVidia I was expecting. I assume the Intel graphics can play DVDs?


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I tried VLC and that doesn’t play it either


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Correction - I dragged and dropped the disk onto VLC and it is playing :)


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