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Cloning my older iMac to an external drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy Withrow" data-source="post: 1869835" data-attributes="member: 76230"><p>I have an early 2008 iMac running on El Capitan 10.11.6. I bought a new Mac running Catalina 10.15.7. I realize my older 32 bit apps (like Quark, Filemaker Pro, Adobe Photoshops Elements, etc.) will not run on my new 64 bit Mac. Question: If I clone my old Mac onto an external hard drive and plug that hard drive into my new Mac, can I chose to boot up from the external drive and run my 32 bit apps? Would I have to reformat the external drive (which is new) before I clone to it? Would cloning automatically make the external drive bootable and run my El Capitan and apps?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy Withrow, post: 1869835, member: 76230"] I have an early 2008 iMac running on El Capitan 10.11.6. I bought a new Mac running Catalina 10.15.7. I realize my older 32 bit apps (like Quark, Filemaker Pro, Adobe Photoshops Elements, etc.) will not run on my new 64 bit Mac. Question: If I clone my old Mac onto an external hard drive and plug that hard drive into my new Mac, can I chose to boot up from the external drive and run my 32 bit apps? Would I have to reformat the external drive (which is new) before I clone to it? Would cloning automatically make the external drive bootable and run my El Capitan and apps? [/QUOTE]
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