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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1840203" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>One slight quibble with terminology, but it's pretty important, IMHO. Catalina has not "been split into two partitions." There is one partition, with one Container but two Volumes in that container. The quibble is important because in partitions, one has to set the size of the partition in advance, and any free space on one partition is still isolated to that partition. But Volumes share the space in the Container dynamically, so that any volume can be of any size at any time (so long as the sum of all volumes does not exceed the Container size). That dynamic sharing of storage is a much more efficient use of the drive space. Plus, to the user the use of two Volumes to house the system and user data is practically invisible, as Finder merges the two into one virtual volume that looks and acts exactly like the old one-drive system did. The user only sees the two Volumes in Disk Utility and if one uses Finder to explore a Time Machine backup (or, I guess, a clone backup as well.) Maybe, but I just did my upgrade over Mojave and let the installer work it out. No need to restore from any backup as it upgraded flawlessly. I have heard from others that a nuke/pave installation worked equally well with Migration Assistant working as it always has to put things back in the proper place. Frankly, other than having to look for 32bit apps, the whole thing went with less fuss and bother than usual for me.I'm not sure what you mean by "more difficult to find" in that sentence. I get notified by the Mac App Store whenever there is an update, or the software I have that checks with the developer for updates notifies me when the updates occur. Frankly, the whole "update" process has gotten remarkably pain-free recently.</p><p>This one is pretty important if you depend on Reminders. To see Reminders in sync, the two system have to be at appropriate levels. Also, for the iPod, the changes from iTunes to Music might cause some issues. You might want to look into that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1840203, member: 396914"] One slight quibble with terminology, but it's pretty important, IMHO. Catalina has not "been split into two partitions." There is one partition, with one Container but two Volumes in that container. The quibble is important because in partitions, one has to set the size of the partition in advance, and any free space on one partition is still isolated to that partition. But Volumes share the space in the Container dynamically, so that any volume can be of any size at any time (so long as the sum of all volumes does not exceed the Container size). That dynamic sharing of storage is a much more efficient use of the drive space. Plus, to the user the use of two Volumes to house the system and user data is practically invisible, as Finder merges the two into one virtual volume that looks and acts exactly like the old one-drive system did. The user only sees the two Volumes in Disk Utility and if one uses Finder to explore a Time Machine backup (or, I guess, a clone backup as well.) Maybe, but I just did my upgrade over Mojave and let the installer work it out. No need to restore from any backup as it upgraded flawlessly. I have heard from others that a nuke/pave installation worked equally well with Migration Assistant working as it always has to put things back in the proper place. Frankly, other than having to look for 32bit apps, the whole thing went with less fuss and bother than usual for me.I'm not sure what you mean by "more difficult to find" in that sentence. I get notified by the Mac App Store whenever there is an update, or the software I have that checks with the developer for updates notifies me when the updates occur. Frankly, the whole "update" process has gotten remarkably pain-free recently. This one is pretty important if you depend on Reminders. To see Reminders in sync, the two system have to be at appropriate levels. Also, for the iPod, the changes from iTunes to Music might cause some issues. You might want to look into that. [/QUOTE]
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