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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="Sparky61" data-source="post: 1746647" data-attributes="member: 376025"><p>ferrarr, thanks for chiming in. I had called in to Apple when I could not find a copy of El Cap in the app store. The tech directed me to a couple things, I downloaded onto a USB drive, all good.</p><p></p><p>After my last post above, I think I figured out what to do. I knew I needed an "installer" for El Cap but a diligent search of the USB revealed no such installer. Then I recalled that after the El Cap download, there was a new icon in my Dock. I ignored it but ye olde light bulb finally went off, I checked in Applications, and viola, El Cap installer (app) was there. I just copied it to the USB drive because that version of Applications will get wiped out when I format the drive (I assume). Now all I have to do is work up the courage to format my SSD (I'm writing this from another machine) and run the app from the (bootable) USB drive containing El Cap ... I think ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sparky61, post: 1746647, member: 376025"] ferrarr, thanks for chiming in. I had called in to Apple when I could not find a copy of El Cap in the app store. The tech directed me to a couple things, I downloaded onto a USB drive, all good. After my last post above, I think I figured out what to do. I knew I needed an "installer" for El Cap but a diligent search of the USB revealed no such installer. Then I recalled that after the El Cap download, there was a new icon in my Dock. I ignored it but ye olde light bulb finally went off, I checked in Applications, and viola, El Cap installer (app) was there. I just copied it to the USB drive because that version of Applications will get wiped out when I format the drive (I assume). Now all I have to do is work up the courage to format my SSD (I'm writing this from another machine) and run the app from the (bootable) USB drive containing El Cap ... I think ... :) [/QUOTE]
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