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Yosemite 10.10.5 - TO High Sierra? Yes/no? Opinions?

Upgrade Yosemite to High Sierra

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 65.0%

  • No

    Votes: 7 35.0%
  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .
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Sam5281

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As title states :

A bit hesitant to do update? Only prompted as the newest update of lightroom does not seem compatible w/ Yosemite.

On flip side - seeing a lot of negatives posts IE: Not being able to REVERT back to any old OS's once done

Etc

So just really trying to gather all info possible before I do.

Thanks in advance guys!

UPDATE:

Thanks to help of forum advice ; successfully on Sierra all working well!
 
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Would Sierra (10.12.6) work for you with the new Lightroom? If yes, then I would choose to install Sierra and give High Sierra more time to work out some of the bugs.

If you do want to proceed with High Sierra then make sure you have good backups in case you have to revert back to Yosemite or lose some data during the update. I would also recommend have a bootable Yosemite USB installer ready if needed for recovering from a possible HS problem.
 
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CoastalOR said:
Would Sierra (10.12.6) work for you with the new Lightroom? If yes, then I would choose to install Sierra and give High Sierra more time to work out some of the bugs.

If you do want to proceed with High Sierra then make sure you have good backups in case you have to revert back to Yosemite or lose some data during the update. I would also recommend have a bootable Yosemite USB installer ready if needed for recovering from a possible HS problem.
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At the moment only High Sierra is available for me in App Store. Did not ever download Sierra. Apparently I’m stuck now, need to look into accessing Sierra installer.

And yes, will be making a bootable Yosemite prior to to have at access on a flash drive.

dogslobber said:
Anything is better than Y.! Try El Cap.
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Haven’t had any issues w / Yosemite to be honest? Don’t know why I’d go to Cap- only update I’d consider now is Sierra preferably.
 
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Sam5281 said:
At the moment only High Sierra is available for me in App Store. Did not ever download Sierra. Apparently I’m stuck now, need to look into accessing Sierra installer.

And yes, will be making a bootable Yosemite prior to to have at access on a flash drive.

Haven’t had any issues w / Yosemite to be honest? Don’t know why I’d go to Cap- only update I’d consider now is Sierra preferably.
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Here are links to downloads of full installer apps from Apple for El Capitan & Sierra:
El Capitan:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886
https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?mt=12

Sierra:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12
 
CoastalOR said:
Here are links to downloads of full installer apps from Apple for El Capitan & Sierra:
El Capitan:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886
https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?mt=12

Sierra:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12
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AMAZING! Thank you so much for this, was having extremely hard time locating.

Just to clarify/ people are experiencing problems reverting back to older OSs from High Sierra? Or Sierra as well? Know there’s a formatting change that occurs
 
At this moment I vote to upgrade to Sierra. After few updates, High Sierra should be fine. At this moment HS is a mess, unluckily for those of us who upgraded. Not worth taking a chance. Sierra seems to work really well at this time on all my macs.
 
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dogslobber said:
El Cap is like Snow Leopard in terms of stability and reception. Y. and Sierra not so much and El Cap is still supported by Apple.
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Helpful. Got some flash drives coming in hot

Honza1 said:
At this moment I vote to upgrade to Sierra. After few updates, High Sierra should be fine. At this moment HS is a mess, unluckily for those of us who upgraded. Not worth taking a chance. Sierra seems to work really well at this time on all my macs.
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Solid. Good to know - this is where I'll probably end up as I was concerned Sierra re-wrote file formats like HS does
 
Sam5281 said:
AMAZING! Thank you so much for this, was having extremely hard time locating.
Just to clarify/ people are experiencing problems reverting back to older OSs from High Sierra? Or Sierra as well? Know there’s a formatting change that occurs
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High Sierra is more difficult to revert back from because it changes the file format to the new APFS automatically if your boot drive is a SSD. Sierra and below OS use the HFS file format.
Here is a link to instructions on how to revert back/downgrade from HS to a older OS:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-remove-macos-high-sierra-downgrade-3581872/
http://osxdaily.com/2017/10/12/downgrade-macos-high-sierra/
 
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CoastalOR said:
High Sierra is more difficult to revert back from because it changes the file format to the new APFS automatically if your boot drive is a SSD. Sierra and below OS use the HFS file format.
Here is a link to instructions on how to revert back/downgrade from HS to a older OS:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-remove-macos-high-sierra-downgrade-3581872/
http://osxdaily.com/2017/10/12/downgrade-macos-high-sierra/
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Got that, solid info thank you for the clarification. Will absolutely hold off on HS momentarily. Have some flash drives I’ll be making boots of later, and then most likely to Sierra.
 
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OP:

See that you mentioned it post 11 above, but I will reiterate:

Your "best chance of success" in upgrading will probably come IF you create a bootable USB flash drive and install from that.

Also:
If what you have on your internal drive is important to you, I would suggest that you use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper (both are free to download and use for 30 days) to create a BOOTABLE CLONED BACKUP of your current internal drive BEFORE you attempt the upgrade.

If for any reason things go bad on you, having a cloned backup makes it EASY to "get back to where you once belonged":
a. boot from cloned backup
b. re-initialize internal drive
c. RE-cloned cloned backup BACK TO internal drive.
 
I suppose this will only work with Sierra, not with El Capitan or Yosemite, as disk utility can't recognize an APFS-volume. Or am I wrong?
 
Honza1 said:
At this moment I vote to upgrade to Sierra..
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I would also recommend to update to Sierra. I was on El Capitan until Sierra 10.12.6 was available. I had to upgrade to get the current version of Xcode. So far I'm happy with Sierra, and I will probably never upgrade to High Sierra, because I still heavily rely on Bootcamp Windows and Parallels VM. I need to be able to read HFS+ from Windows.
 
Sam5281 said:
As title states :

A bit hesitant to do update? Only prompted as the newest update of lightroom does not seem compatible w/ Yosemite.

On flip side - seeing a lot of negatives posts IE: Not being able to REVERT back to any old OS's once done

Etc

So just really trying to gather all info possible before I do.

Thanks in advance guys!
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High Sierra is an awesome update! It has definitely sped up my Mac with a conventional HD.
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whg said:
I would also recommend to update to Sierra. I was on El Capitan until Sierra 10.12.6 was available. I had to upgrade to get the current version of Xcode. So far I'm happy with Sierra, and I will probably never upgrade to High Sierra, because I still heavily rely on Bootcamp Windows and Parallels VM. I need to be able to read HFS+ from Windows.
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Why not? High Sierra is much faster and speeds up your Mac. I have noticed a drastic difference in my situation. I am using Boot Camp in High Sierra with no problems.
 
yosemite is horrible, install sierra if you want the most stable one, then wait some months and install high sierra, but high sierra has the best performance in lightroom because metal 2
 
Sam5281 said:
Some reason - Sierra downloaded fine.

Capitan will not - prompting message this computer does not support this OS

Odd?
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Which model Mac/Screen Size/year are you using to download El Capitan (I hesitate to assume it is the MBP in your sig - which does not have the year)?
 
CoastalOR said:
Which model Mac/Screen Size/year are you using to download El Capitan (I hesitate to assume it is the MBP in your sig - which does not have the year)?
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Late 2013 15" MBP Ret

The Sierra went fine from link provided (haven't installed it yet)
 
Sam5281 said:
Late 2013 15" MBP Ret
The Sierra went fine from link provided (haven't installed it yet)
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A 2013 MBP will definitely support El Capitan?
Have you rebooted your MBP since the Sierra download and auto launch of the Sierra installer App? Have you removed the Sierra install app from your Applications folder?
 
CoastalOR said:
A 2013 MBP will definitely support El Capitan?
Have you rebooted your MBP since the Sierra download and auto launch of the Sierra installer App? Have you removed the Sierra install app from your Applications folder?
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El capitan was attempted prior to Sierra - prompting same message in app store that it is now...
 
Sam5281 said:
El capitan was attempted prior to Sierra - prompting same message in app store that it is now...
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I'm not sure what the issue is. The links I provided were originally for people that were on Snow Leopard or could not upgrade to Sierra (El Capitan was their max OS). Maybe that is the problem.

I would suggest just giving Sierra a try. Make sure you have a good backup before installing any OS so you have a recovery path if needed.
 
I wouldn't advice to upgrade to High Sierra at this moment. Too many bugs. The advantages of Sierra and El Capitan vs Yosemite is that they get security updates. However there can be compatibility problems with older software. My printer Canon 540 Pixma doesn't work anymore, I can't save as reduced size in Acrobat Pro (unless i save the file on an usb stick) and under Sierra I can't open using Office 2011 some old complex Word documents with many graphics and equations and FileMaker Pro 10 quits unexpectedly. Parallels 11 luckily runs on 10.11 and 10.12. I don't want to upgrade because for 6 cores it's too expensive.
 
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