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Migrating from El Capitan to High Sierra on new Mac - major problems.
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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1811274" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>So when I ran the migration later and ended up with no files/folders on the desktop and no contacts and no mail - is all that somewhere else on the 2017 Mac or is all that info just lost?</p><p></p><p>I was originally looking for a 2015 MacBook Air since it was originally shipped with OS 10.10 and thus would run ElCap for sure.</p><p>But the Apple store didn't sell that older one, only the 2017 and even then I had to wait to get one with a 512 GB drive. And I didn't want to buy a 2015 MBa from anyone else.</p><p>So right now I'm testing ElCap on the 2017 as best I can.</p><p>One snag I ran into is that cloning to the 2017 from a backup with SuperDuper, I found that the mail passwords didn't get transferred - the mail password field is just blank.</p><p>Don't know if that is because SD didn't pick that up on the back up or if it's an issue because I'm using a 2017 MBa.</p><p>I make backups regularly but I have never had to actually make use a backup before.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, we certainly won't loose everything.</p><p>For one I have a number of backups all the way to OS 10.6.8 and I'm also keeping the 2011 MacBook pro to be able to boot into 10.6.8</p><p>BTW - I must like living dagerously. The 2011 MacBook pro was shipped originally with OS 10.7 but for a number of reasons we needed to run 10.6 on it, and I found out that the 2011 MBp would run 10.6.8 (but not an earlier version of 10.6), so I managed to somehow find a 10.6.8 installer, made a USB 10.6.8 installer and used that 2011 Mac that way for a long time.</p><p>Eventually a webinar site we use regularly did not support 10.6 anymore and we were forced to upgrade the OS - decided to go as far as ElCap since that seemed to be the most stable at the time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>When we went from 10.6 to 10.11 on that Mac, we ended up with photos replacing iphotos automatically.</p><p>I personally don't use photos or iphoto, but from what I was told and what I read on the net, iphoto had a number of ways to manipulate each photo that as missing in the new version of photo. My family member also tells me there are photos missing in photo that were there in iphoto.</p><p>Since I still have the 10.6.8 and even earlier backups, those "missing" photos are not completely lost but trying to find them will be rather time consuming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1811274, member: 67742"] So when I ran the migration later and ended up with no files/folders on the desktop and no contacts and no mail - is all that somewhere else on the 2017 Mac or is all that info just lost? I was originally looking for a 2015 MacBook Air since it was originally shipped with OS 10.10 and thus would run ElCap for sure. But the Apple store didn't sell that older one, only the 2017 and even then I had to wait to get one with a 512 GB drive. And I didn't want to buy a 2015 MBa from anyone else. So right now I'm testing ElCap on the 2017 as best I can. One snag I ran into is that cloning to the 2017 from a backup with SuperDuper, I found that the mail passwords didn't get transferred - the mail password field is just blank. Don't know if that is because SD didn't pick that up on the back up or if it's an issue because I'm using a 2017 MBa. I make backups regularly but I have never had to actually make use a backup before. Well, we certainly won't loose everything. For one I have a number of backups all the way to OS 10.6.8 and I'm also keeping the 2011 MacBook pro to be able to boot into 10.6.8 BTW - I must like living dagerously. The 2011 MacBook pro was shipped originally with OS 10.7 but for a number of reasons we needed to run 10.6 on it, and I found out that the 2011 MBp would run 10.6.8 (but not an earlier version of 10.6), so I managed to somehow find a 10.6.8 installer, made a USB 10.6.8 installer and used that 2011 Mac that way for a long time. Eventually a webinar site we use regularly did not support 10.6 anymore and we were forced to upgrade the OS - decided to go as far as ElCap since that seemed to be the most stable at the time. When we went from 10.6 to 10.11 on that Mac, we ended up with photos replacing iphotos automatically. I personally don't use photos or iphoto, but from what I was told and what I read on the net, iphoto had a number of ways to manipulate each photo that as missing in the new version of photo. My family member also tells me there are photos missing in photo that were there in iphoto. Since I still have the 10.6.8 and even earlier backups, those "missing" photos are not completely lost but trying to find them will be rather time consuming. [/QUOTE]
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