high Sierra prompts for upgrade

[lori5060]

recently purchased MBP and just love it. I purchased one with Sierra on it and not High Sierra.
until I hear that High Sierra is running well and I am comfortable I will upgrade.

however, I keep getting prompts to upgrade to High Sierra and I am afraid that by mistake I just may hit install and once it starts I cannot go back.

to stop these prompts,
I copied Install High Sierra to another folder in my documents..made sure it is same size as file in Apps. and then want to delete from apps.
will this affect my opportunity to install High Sierra when I am ready?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Once you download the High Sierra Installer, I would suggest making a bootable USB stick with it and then you can blow away the installer (or move it anywhere else) to avoid running it by mistake. When ready, you can run the installer from the USB stick or the Installer.app file.

 

[pm-r]

to stop these prompts,

Use google as there used to be various methods to stop the upgrade nagging. I can't recall the details but it worked for me through various "upgrades".

I keep getting prompts to upgrade to High Sierra and I am afraid that by mistake I just may hit install and once it starts I cannot go back.

I'd strongly suggest creating a clone of your current volume using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) or some people use SuperDuper! You can create a working clone in any adequately size volume partition which will also give you another backup which won't hurt having.




- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

until I hear that High Sierra is running well and I am comfortable I will upgrade.

You can wait a long time to hear that. People generally don't post "it's running well" things, they tend to post "I'm having trouble" things.

Let me be the first: It's running well for me and I like it.

 

[pm-r]

You can wait a long time to hear that. People generally don't post "it's running well" things, they tend to post "I'm having trouble" things.

Let me be the first: It's running well for me and I like it.

Phew… that a relief Jake and I was beginning to wonder if there were any satisfied macOS HS users. They are definitely part of the silent minority or majority it seems.

It's certainly not doing what it was supposed to do it seems like the earlier Snow Leopard was designed to do and pretty well did I'd say. But definitely hard to satisfy such a large later Mac user base I guess.

And for many, including my wife and I, we don't need or can't use some of the new "features" and our older version just works fine thanks, and I dare say better.





- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

It's certainly not doing what it was supposed to do

Really? What was it "supposed" to do, Patrick, that you've heard it is not?

our older version just works fine

For now, maybe. But sooner or later, that older version will not work for surfing, or some other function of the Internet that you DO want to work. As as for "better" that is a purely personal opinion. My MBP is faster with HS than it was with Sierra. That's probably attributable to APFS.

 

[pm-r]

Really? What was it "supposed" to do, Patrick, that you've heard it is not?

I was referring to the fact that macOS High Sierra was supposed to be a cleanup and fix version, just as Snow Leopard was, and both included a well advertised "no new features"!!! Really??? Well, Snow Leopard pretty well adhered to that plan and worked well.

But I'm glad to read that macOS High Sierra is working well for you and others, but it does seem that there are more than the average number of posts of problems from others, not only on this forum, but on other Mac forums as well.

And I dare say, the large number of older iMac model users that could realize the speed increase of the new macOS High Sierra APFS might be a bit disappointed with their internal HDDs.

Anyway, that's the latest macOS some users can run and they can "upgrade" or not, their choice IMHO.

And there's lots available to read up on it, i.e.:
12 Cool New Features in macOS High Sierra
https://www.pcmag.com/feature/354220/12-cool-new-features-in-macos-high-sierra
and
https://www.macworld.com/article/3199825/macs/macos-high-sierra-features-specs-pricing-faq.html





- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

I was referring to the fact that macOS High Sierra was supposed to be a cleanup and fix version, just as Snow Leopard was, and both included a well advertised "no new features"

Who advertised "no new features?" It certainly wasn't Apple that did that, and the two articles you linked said it was "supposed to be" a minor upgrade, but then listed major changes, including the really BIG one, APFS. I think some pundits may have expected it to be an incremental update, but to me, shifting the entire layout and file structure of the boot SSD is not "incremental" but more on the titanic shift end of the spectrum! As for complaints on problems being up, that could be, and most likely is, more a factor of more folks owning Macs now and not really understanding the machine/system all that well. You can see that here in the posts that we see where new and new-ish users are asking Windows-like questions about their Mac and the OS. "How can I make it do <what Windows does>?" is a much more frequent kind of post that I am seeing now. So along comes HS, completely changes the file structure and those folks stuck in Windows-land want to treat APFS like it was NTFS or even FAT and it simply doesn't work that way any more. As for rotational HDDs, Apple said from the get-go that HS was not ready for them, or for fusion drives. So that iMac owner with a spinner won't see the full benefit of HS, but that is no reason to hang back. The rest of the features listed in those two articles give good reasons for moving up.

Apple isn't perfect and I disagree with some of their decisions (iTunes being the most current irritant to me), but HS is actually a pretty good version and worth the upgrade.

 

[chitown_1]

on my 13" MBA ... HS is working fine (also) for me