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Can I run El Capitan on an external drive to test legacy apps on Mac internal drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1823132" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>I agree and with what Slydude says.</p><p></p><p>But be aware that some applications will only run when installed on the boot volume, assuming they are compatible.</p><p></p><p>And if they aren't, just keep and run such apps buy booting the appropriate volume and then running the app.</p><p></p><p>In my case, I keep several bootable volumes/partitions: 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, 10.9.5 Mavericks, 10.12 Sierra.</p><p></p><p>In some cases I have aliases to the application I may need or want, other times I have to boot into the particular volume where the application will run. It actually sounds more involved than it actually is, and things usually just work.</p><p></p><p>It's just that sometimes there is the odd application that is not normal, or it may need something that a later OS X version removed. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>- Patrick</p><p>======</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1823132, member: 175845"] I agree and with what Slydude says. But be aware that some applications will only run when installed on the boot volume, assuming they are compatible. And if they aren't, just keep and run such apps buy booting the appropriate volume and then running the app. In my case, I keep several bootable volumes/partitions: 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, 10.9.5 Mavericks, 10.12 Sierra. In some cases I have aliases to the application I may need or want, other times I have to boot into the particular volume where the application will run. It actually sounds more involved than it actually is, and things usually just work. It's just that sometimes there is the odd application that is not normal, or it may need something that a later OS X version removed. - Patrick ====== [/QUOTE]
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