Macbook Pro

[cameronR]

seems I have over upgraded my laptop, I got it in late 2012 it was screaming fast the.
Now I have upgraded to the Catalina and its a dog slow. Is there a way I can back of the items needed on
the laptop and start again from scratch, then just doing later OS upgrades to an acceptable OS?
Thank you in advance

 

[Natzoo]

If it is files that you want to backup, a USB drive will work great. Yea Catalina is trash, mojave or high sierra works best. You can downgrade to mojave, forgot how though.

 

[cameronR]

ok will loot for Mojave downgrade.
Anyone with suggestions

 

[Natzoo]

Try downloading mojave from the mac app store and see what happens? I did this when I was upgrading my 2010" with an SSD. I installled a different OS from the mac app store and formatted it to the SSD.