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I'm planning to upgrade all the Macs in the family from ElCapitan to Mojave.
As part of the initial investigation, I want to find out what functional changes Apple made to any existing capabilities.
I wonder if that was covered in any thread here already I can refer to.
What I am specifically looking for a subtle changes in any of the Apple apps that are either part of the OS or very common Apple apps like iWork.
I tried a clean install of Mojave on an external drive and that took me three tries to complete.
In stalling the OSwas straight forward but the migration of the data from ElCapitan caused some problems.
First time around the migration just stopped about 20% in - I eventually ran Disk Utility on the Mojave installer and something was repaired.
Then tried migration again - it supposedly finished, but I couldn't boot into the partition with Mojave on it - when I held the option key down none of the bootable abckups (which were ElCapitan) nor the Mojave partition showed up. It was almost as if the one partition which was APFS prevented any bootable partition from showing.
Then tried migration again - it finished again, this time all bootable partitons showed up but I couldn't boot into the partition with Mojave on it - I got to the apple logo on the screen but the progress bar never showed.
So then I decided to try a different external - this time after about a six hour exercise, I finally ended up with Mojave and all my current data migrated.
I didn't do much testing so far - don't want to repeat a lot of what might have already been done, but I noticed a couple of things already different from ElCapitan.
1. The installation of Mojave takes much longer than I remember from previous macOSs.
For one, the installation goes through several cycles, sometimes with a grey screen for a while and other times with a black screen. And during installtion, the installer assigned a random password to a non-admin account that one later needs to log into the regular account.
That was new to me.
2. When I checked Disk Utility in Mojave, Apple now no longer shows each external hard drive separately with the manufacturer name and model and then the partitions of each hard drive, but lumps all the partitions under "External"
Don't understand what the point of making that change was, but would that not cause a problem if someone gave a partition on each of several external hard drives that are connected the same name? How would one tell then apart so that one can erase the correct one for instance?
That type of change is what I'm looking for between ElCapitan and Mojave. Subtle but with the potential of creating a headache.
As part of the initial investigation, I want to find out what functional changes Apple made to any existing capabilities.
I wonder if that was covered in any thread here already I can refer to.
What I am specifically looking for a subtle changes in any of the Apple apps that are either part of the OS or very common Apple apps like iWork.
I tried a clean install of Mojave on an external drive and that took me three tries to complete.
In stalling the OSwas straight forward but the migration of the data from ElCapitan caused some problems.
First time around the migration just stopped about 20% in - I eventually ran Disk Utility on the Mojave installer and something was repaired.
Then tried migration again - it supposedly finished, but I couldn't boot into the partition with Mojave on it - when I held the option key down none of the bootable abckups (which were ElCapitan) nor the Mojave partition showed up. It was almost as if the one partition which was APFS prevented any bootable partition from showing.
Then tried migration again - it finished again, this time all bootable partitons showed up but I couldn't boot into the partition with Mojave on it - I got to the apple logo on the screen but the progress bar never showed.
So then I decided to try a different external - this time after about a six hour exercise, I finally ended up with Mojave and all my current data migrated.
I didn't do much testing so far - don't want to repeat a lot of what might have already been done, but I noticed a couple of things already different from ElCapitan.
1. The installation of Mojave takes much longer than I remember from previous macOSs.
For one, the installation goes through several cycles, sometimes with a grey screen for a while and other times with a black screen. And during installtion, the installer assigned a random password to a non-admin account that one later needs to log into the regular account.
That was new to me.
2. When I checked Disk Utility in Mojave, Apple now no longer shows each external hard drive separately with the manufacturer name and model and then the partitions of each hard drive, but lumps all the partitions under "External"
Don't understand what the point of making that change was, but would that not cause a problem if someone gave a partition on each of several external hard drives that are connected the same name? How would one tell then apart so that one can erase the correct one for instance?
That type of change is what I'm looking for between ElCapitan and Mojave. Subtle but with the potential of creating a headache.