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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1949468" data-attributes="member: 204485">Being a bit of an early adopter I upgraded when Sequoia came out.&nbsp; I usually do this but I do my homework beforehand, reading up on the beta reviews, ensuring all my apps and OS are up to date, have two full backups of my device (Time Machine and a clone) and that my current macOS is running as expected.&nbsp; So, I installed Sequoia the day after it was released and have had no issues with the OS.&nbsp; A couple of apps requested updates over the following days usually when launched.Despite all of that I have had problems from time to time.&nbsp; Upgrading to macOS Big Sur on Intel MBP was a disaster.&nbsp; I still don't know precisely what went wrong the upgrade failed to load and it seemed as though something had corrupted my backups (both of them) so that my attempts to perform a clean reinstall by booting from my bootable clone failed.&nbsp; Cutting a long story short I had to rebuild from scratch but my data was safe even if not bootable.&nbsp; Made a bootable USB macOS installer on my wife's MBP erased my HD and installed Big Sur, installing my data via iCloud and drag an drop from my clone.Then there's that confusing step in Migration Assistant where you are given the option to create a new account or same account on your new device.&nbsp; That had me thinking for a while.Nothing is perfect and I'm no genius, I look up stuff I don't understand until I do and or seek advice.&nbsp; I follow directions where practical to avoid problems and that works for me.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😆" title="Grinning squinting face&nbsp; &nbsp; :laughing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" data-shortname=":laughing:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1949468, member: 204485"] Being a bit of an early adopter I upgraded when Sequoia came out. I usually do this but I do my homework beforehand, reading up on the beta reviews, ensuring all my apps and OS are up to date, have two full backups of my device (Time Machine and a clone) and that my current macOS is running as expected. So, I installed Sequoia the day after it was released and have had no issues with the OS. A couple of apps requested updates over the following days usually when launched. Despite all of that I have had problems from time to time. Upgrading to macOS Big Sur on Intel MBP was a disaster. I still don't know precisely what went wrong the upgrade failed to load and it seemed as though something had corrupted my backups (both of them) so that my attempts to perform a clean reinstall by booting from my bootable clone failed. Cutting a long story short I had to rebuild from scratch but my data was safe even if not bootable. Made a bootable USB macOS installer on my wife's MBP erased my HD and installed Big Sur, installing my data via iCloud and drag an drop from my clone. Then there's that confusing step in Migration Assistant where you are given the option to create a new account or same account on your new device. That had me thinking for a while. Nothing is perfect and I'm no genius, I look up stuff I don't understand until I do and or seek advice. I follow directions where practical to avoid problems and that works for me.😆 [/QUOTE]

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