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Apple Computing Products:
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OS upgrade - 10.7.5 to something higher
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1812553" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Your iMac, from 2011, cannot go to Mojave. It has to be a 2012 or later model for that. But you could go to High Sierra. I don't think you need all of the versions in between to jump from Lion to HS. You can move to 10.8 and from there directly to HS. Make a backup before you start, and test it. I would personally recommend a clean install, formatting the drive and erasing everything, then installing HS, and as soon as it asks you if you want to migrate, take that opportunity, point Migration Assistant to the backup and let it run. At the end you will find that your account is created exactly as it was, with all your data moved and those applications that work with HS installed for you. You may need to re-register some software, particularly Adobe and Microsoft products. Here is Apple's reference: <a href="https://support.apple.com/macos/high-sierra" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/macos/high-sierra</a> I couldn't find a good reference for how to get to ML (10.8), sorry. However, you might try downloading the HS installer and making a bootable USB Thumb drive with DiskmakerX <a href="http://diskmakerx.com/whats-this/" target="_blank">What is DiskMaker X ?</a> and then just jumping straight from that bootable thumb drive to HS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1812553, member: 396914"] Your iMac, from 2011, cannot go to Mojave. It has to be a 2012 or later model for that. But you could go to High Sierra. I don't think you need all of the versions in between to jump from Lion to HS. You can move to 10.8 and from there directly to HS. Make a backup before you start, and test it. I would personally recommend a clean install, formatting the drive and erasing everything, then installing HS, and as soon as it asks you if you want to migrate, take that opportunity, point Migration Assistant to the backup and let it run. At the end you will find that your account is created exactly as it was, with all your data moved and those applications that work with HS installed for you. You may need to re-register some software, particularly Adobe and Microsoft products. Here is Apple's reference: [url]https://support.apple.com/macos/high-sierra[/url] I couldn't find a good reference for how to get to ML (10.8), sorry. However, you might try downloading the HS installer and making a bootable USB Thumb drive with DiskmakerX [url=http://diskmakerx.com/whats-this/]What is DiskMaker X ?[/url] and then just jumping straight from that bootable thumb drive to HS. [/QUOTE]
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