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Before upgrade to 10.11.6, how not to lose Mail, bookmarks, make dumb mistakes?
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1746282" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to nthe forums.</p><p></p><p>There are going to be changes as you have stayed stuck in a six operating system old work place. Your Time Machines backups are vital so make sure verything is current. I would suggest when you pop the bootable thumb drive in, erasing the hard drive and formatting Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and doing a nice, new clean install rather than a simple upgrade over all the mystical junk you will have stored on the hard drive. This is the penalty for that 'ages' you mention. After completing the install, enter your location etc details, hook up the TM backup and use Migration Assistant to bring everything over. Some old PowerPC applications, such as Office 2004, will not work but everything should be okay.</p><p></p><p>You have not shared with us how much memory your MBP currently has. It can run 8GB and I would suggest you are wise to have that amount installed. When you are up and running I would be cautios about Firefox as there has been much disappointment with Mozilla lately, and giving Chrome a miss altogether. Suggest installing and using Duck Duck Go as your search engine rather than Google unless you enjoy being tracked everywhere you go.</p><p></p><p>Regarding TM, please consider using cloning software which is much easier to handle than TM. SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner when used on your external drive are both bootable which can be a huge advantage if there are problems. I use SD and the registered version has a Smart Update section which I run every Friday, and it compares the current clones copy to the existing operating system, and makes changes accordingly. The one problem is if you wanted to go back two years for a file, and if it is still not on the internal drive, it is gone.</p><p></p><p>Some folk run two externals, one with TM and one with a cloned system. You are right to be cautious and you have been.</p><p></p><p>I made this post before pigoo, but these administrators have power of time and motion, and even the planets, so he moved mine back!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1746282, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to nthe forums. There are going to be changes as you have stayed stuck in a six operating system old work place. Your Time Machines backups are vital so make sure verything is current. I would suggest when you pop the bootable thumb drive in, erasing the hard drive and formatting Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and doing a nice, new clean install rather than a simple upgrade over all the mystical junk you will have stored on the hard drive. This is the penalty for that 'ages' you mention. After completing the install, enter your location etc details, hook up the TM backup and use Migration Assistant to bring everything over. Some old PowerPC applications, such as Office 2004, will not work but everything should be okay. You have not shared with us how much memory your MBP currently has. It can run 8GB and I would suggest you are wise to have that amount installed. When you are up and running I would be cautios about Firefox as there has been much disappointment with Mozilla lately, and giving Chrome a miss altogether. Suggest installing and using Duck Duck Go as your search engine rather than Google unless you enjoy being tracked everywhere you go. Regarding TM, please consider using cloning software which is much easier to handle than TM. SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner when used on your external drive are both bootable which can be a huge advantage if there are problems. I use SD and the registered version has a Smart Update section which I run every Friday, and it compares the current clones copy to the existing operating system, and makes changes accordingly. The one problem is if you wanted to go back two years for a file, and if it is still not on the internal drive, it is gone. Some folk run two externals, one with TM and one with a cloned system. You are right to be cautious and you have been. I made this post before pigoo, but these administrators have power of time and motion, and even the planets, so he moved mine back!!!! [/QUOTE]
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