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• My Apple Macbook late 2009 has been upgraded to 4 GB and Mountain Lion but runs very slowly. When I check the memory system activity monitor, I see that there are 1.6 GB inactive. Is this the cause of the slowness and what I can do?

  My Apple Macbook late 2009 has been upgraded to 4 GB and Mountain Lion but runs very slowly. When I check the memory system activity monitor, I see that there are 1.6 GB inactive. Is this the cause of the slowness and what I can do?

  Reinstall OS X from scratch and add more RAM.

  Ways to help make a slow Mac faster

  17 reasons why your Mac runs slower than expected

  Slow performance of Mac? This Article addresses!

  Difficulty of slow start in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

  6 easy tips to speed up OS X Yosemite on your Mac.

  Avoid using third-party software that claims to clean your computer. This software does more harm than good. In addition, you don't need it. Note that all computers become slower over time even in the normal conditions of use. Generally, the experienced users erasing the hard drive and do a clean install from scratch at least once a year or every time that the installation of a major upgrade of the OS. Well sure doing so also means that you need to maintain regular and several backups.

  Add more RAM or reduce the number of simultaneously executed from applications and utilities. Remove unnecessary software such as anti-malware and that promises to clean your Mac. Look for the runaway process: Runaway applications can shorten the battery life, affect performance and increase the heat and fan acti... See also:

  Before Mavericks

  Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the drop process .  Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If find you a process that uses a large amount of time processor (> = 70,) then select the process, and then click the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

  Mavericks and later versions

  Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the menu display .  Click the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If you find a process that uses a large amount of CPU %, then select the process, then click on the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

  Things you can do to solve the slow Downs

  If your computer seems to run slower, here are some things you can do:

  Start with tours: OS X maintenance - MacAttorney;

  The X Lab: the X-frequently asked questions.

  " Safe mac" Mac Performance Guide;

  " Safe mac" the myth of the dirty Mac;

  Maintenance fast Mac Help.

  Start in Safe Mode , and then repair your hard disk and permissions:

  Fix the hard disk and permissions before Lion

  Boot from your OS X install disk. After the installer loads, choose your language and click on the button continue. When the menu bar appears select utility drive in the Utilities menu. After that the charges of THE select your entry from hard drive (mfgr. ID and car size) in the list on the left.  In the status area, you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is faulty or has failed. (State SMART is not reported on external drives Firewire or USB). If the drive is "verified", then select your OS X volume in the list on the left (subentries under the entry for the road), click the first aid tab, then click the repair disk button. If THE reports any errors that have been corrected, and then run repair disk again until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, click repair permissions. Wait until the operation is complete, then exit FROM and return to the installer.

  Repair the hard drive - Lion-Lion/mountain/Mavericks

  HD recovery start:

  Restart the computer and after the buzzer, press on and hold down the COMMAND and R until it appears the screen of Menu utilities. Otherwise, restart the computer and after the buzzer, press on and hold down the OPTION key until the Boot Manager screen. Select recovery HD disk icon and click on the button below.

  When the recovery menu appears, select disk utility. After that the charges of THE select your entry from hard drive (mfgr. ID and car size) in the list on the left.  In the status area, you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is faulty or has failed. (State SMART is not reported on external drives Firewire or USB). If the drive is "verified", then select your OS X volume in the list on the left (subentries under the entry for the road), click the first aid tab, then click the repair disk button. If THE reports any errors that have been corrected, and then run repair disk again until no errors are reported. If no error is not reported, then click repair permissions. Wait until the operation is complete, then exit FROM and return to the main menu. Select restart from the Apple menu.

  Restart your computer normally and see if it helped at all. Then do little maintenance:

  For disk utility can't handle situations, the best third party is Disk Warriorutility;  Fixed DW only for problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by the corruption of directory; Warrior drive 4.x is now compatible with Intel Mac.

  Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will boot Mac running Snow Leopard or earlier. He cannot start Mac that came with Lion or later preinstalled, however, DW will work on these models.

  Suggestions for OS X maintenance

  OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are supposed to take place on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. Maintenance scripts that are run at the beginning AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep). If this isn't the case, then a great solution is to download and install a shareware like Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacronor Anacron utility that will automate the maintenance regardless of whether activity if the computer is off or asleep.  Dependence on third-party utilities to run periodic maintenance scripts has been significantly reduced since Tiger.  These utilities have little or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later version, and must not be installed.

  OS X automatically defrags files smaller than 20 MB in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files it little need to defragment the hard drive.

  Under no circumstances should you install operating MacPaw or ZeoBit software (CleanMyMac/CleanMyDrive or Mac Keeper, respectively.) You don't need special software to keep your computer.

  Useful links about malware Protection

  "If you have an immediate problem with ads popping up see the Mac without danger" Adware removal Guide and AdwareMedic.

  Open Safari, select Preferences from the Safari menu. Click the Extensions icon in the toolbar. Disable all Extensions. If it stops your problem, then re-enable one by one until the problem returns. Now remove this extension as it is the origin of the problem.

  The following comes from user stevejobsfan0123. I made minor changes to adapt to this presentation.

  Difficulty a few pop ups browser that supported Safari

  Common pop - ups include a message saying that the Government has taken over your computer and you pay release (often called "Moneypak"), or a false message saying that your computer has been infected and you need to call a number of tech support (sometimes claiming to be Apple) to get it to be resolved. First of all, understand that these pop-ups are not caused by a virus and that your computer has not been assigned. This "hack" is limited to your web browser. Also understand that these messages are scams, so don't pay not money, call number, or provide personal information. This article will give an overview of the solution to remove the pop-up window.

  Quit Safari

  Usually, these pop-ups will not go by clicking 'OK' or 'Cancel '. In addition, several menus in the menu bar may become disabled and show in grey, including the option to leave Safari. You'll probably force quit Safari. To do this, press command + option + ESC, select Safari, press on force quit.

  Relaunch Safari

  If you restart Safari, the page will reopen. To avoid this, hold the "Shift" key when opening Safari. This will prevent windows since the last time that Safari was running since the reopening.

  It will not work in all cases. The SHIFT key must be maintained at the right time, and in some cases, even if done correctly, the window is displayed again. In these circumstances, after force quit Safari, turn off Wi - Fi or disconnect Ethernet, depending on how you connect to the Internet. Then restart Safari normally. He'll try to reload the malicious Web page, but without a connection, it will not be able to. Leave this page by entering a different URL, i.e. www.apple.com and try to load it. Now you can reconnect to the Internet and the page that you entered is displayed rather than the malicious.

  An excellent link to read is Tom Reed Mac Guide of malicious programs.

  Also, visit the FAQ XLab and read of detection and avoid malicious software and spyware.

  Check out these articles from Apple:

  Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection

  OS X Lion-Protect your Mac against malicious software

  OS X Lion mountain - protect your Mac against malicious software

  OS X Mavericks-Protect your Mac against malicious software

  On the quarantine of file under OS X

  If you need antivirus protection Thomas Reed recommends to use ClamXAV. (Thanks to Thomas Reed to this recommendation.)

  The user Joe Bailey comes this equally useful advice:

  The facts are:

  1. There is no anti-malware software can detect 100% of malware out there.

  2. There is no anti-malware that can detect all targeting the Mac.

  3. the best way to prevent breaches the most is for you as the user is aware that

  the most successful malware attacks rely on sophisticated social engineering

  techniques preying on human greed, * and fear.

  4 Internet pop-up windows telling the FBI, NSA, Microsoft, your ISP has detected malware on

  your computer is designed to trick you into installing their malware thinking it's a

  protection against malware.

  5. some of the anti-malware market products are worse than malware

  go where they are supposed to protect you.

  6. be careful where you go on the internet.

  7. don't download anything from sites, you know are safe.

  8 avoid links that you receive in email, always be wary, even if you get something

  you think a friend is, but that you did not expect.

  9. If there is any question in your mind, then assume that it is malware.

  Troubleshooting Applications

  I recommend that you download a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaneror hiding a Cocktail that you can use to delete the former newspapers and archives, cleaning, etc. Corrupted cache, logs or temporary files can slow down the application or OS X crashes and panics of the kernel.

  If you have leopard snow or leopard, then for similar repairs install Applejackfreeware utility.  If you do not start in OS X, you can boot into single-user mode , where you can run Applejack to make a set of routines for repair and maintenance of the command line.  Note that it takes 1.5 AppleJack for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later versions.

  Basic backup

  For some people, Time Machine will be more than enough. Time Machine is part of Mac OS X. There are two components:

  1. a panel of Time Machine preferences as part of the system of preferences;

  2. a request for Time Machine, located in the Applications folder. It's

  used to manage backups and restore backups. Time Machine

  requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the

  drive being backed up.

  You can also get an external drive at least equal to the size hard disk internal and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the disk utility's restore option. You can also create and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (the order is not significant):

  1 Carbon Copy clone

  2. get backup

  3 already seen

  4 superDuper!

  5. Synk Pro

  6. Tri-Backup

  Visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the backup and restore.  Also read How to back up and restore your files. For using Time Machine, visit FAQ Time Machine of Pondini for help with all this time Machine.

  Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate .

  Additional tips

  Make sure you have a sufficient amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run simultaneously. Make sure to leave a minimum of 10% of the capacity of the hard disk as free space.

  Add more RAM. If your computer less than 2 GB of RAM and you use OS X Leopard or later, then you can do it with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion works much better with 4 GB of RAM that is their system. Most concurrent applications, that you tend to use the more RAM you should have.

  Always have at least 15 GB, or 10% of the capacity of your hard disk as free space, the largest. OS X frequently accesses your hard disk, so offering enough free space will keep things slow down.

  Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:

  Before Mavericks

  Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the drop process .  Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If find you a process that uses a large amount of time processor (> = 70,) then select the process, and then click the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

  Mavericks and later versions

  Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the menu display .  Click the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If find you a process that uses a large amount of time processor (> = 70,) then select the process, and then click the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

  This problem occurs often because of a corrupted cache or the preferences file or an attempt to write in a corrupted log file.

• Transfer photos after downgrading to El Capitan in Mountain Lion

  I upgraded my Mac Book Pro (mid2009) to El Capitan about 6 months ago. It was horrible and my computer is slower than molasses. I tried to work with it, the best that I could, because I did not save my system before the upgrade. #badmove Finally, I backed up the weekend last and erased the hard drive. Go to the Apple Store today, that they returned to Mountain Lion and it's much better. My problem is that some of my apps (like iPhoto) will not now transfer because she has been saved with the new version of El Capitan.  It is a way to always transfer my photos?

  You have a copy of iPhoto that works with 10.8?

  You can try to select the iPhoto library, then control - click/view the contents of the package. Do drag the photos on your desktop and then import them into iPhoto.

• What is the best solution of virtual machine to run El Capitan in Mountain Lion?

  Looking for the best solution run El Capitan in a mac Mountain Lion. I just need to use El Capitan to run xcode.

  There are 3 main reasons that I improve my main system at El Capitan:

  1 apps that I always trust that are only optimized to work up until the 10,8

  2. I want the convenience of not having to restart my computer to use 1 program.

  3. don't like projector or the interface of the user interface in general of 10.11

  Knowing that, what solution recommend you so I can use El Capitan in the environment of mountain lion.

  I know only vmware and parallels. Other options I'm missing? What would you recommend?

  Thank you

  I would recommend "don't bother." You don't like El Capitan then why do you want what it? If you know how to partition a disk, then install El Capitan on a new disk partition.

• Can I downgrade El Capitan to Mountain Lion?

  I have a new 4 k iMac 21.5, el Capitan 10.11.4 running.  with i7 Quad core 3.3 Ghz, 16 GB of Ram... Can I downgrade to Mountain Lion as I run Pro Tools recording software that is not compatible with el Cap without messing up my Mac?

  OS X El Capitan: revert to a previous version of OS X

• Bootable USB Stick - El Capitan/Mountain Lion

  Using a MacBook running El Capitan, can I create a bootable USB key to run Cougar?

  Unless you've downloaded the OS X App Store before the publication of the Mavericks Mountain Lion, your only option is a purchase ($20USD) Cougar via the Apple store online. Once you have downloaded the OS X App Store ML using this purchase key, you can then run DiskmakerX top to make a USB bootable (8 GB min).

  The current (5.0.3) of DiskMaker X version only works with the Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan. Mountain Lion, to the 3.0.4 version on the developers site. It provides a direct download link to it. I don't know if this old X DiskMaker work on El Capitan.

• I buy a new 2015 mac mini with El Capitan.  I currently have a 2013 mac mini with Mountain Lion.  It would benefit me to upgrade my 2013 to El Capitan, before migrating my information to my mac mini to 2015?  Thanks in advance!

  I buy a new 2015 mac mini with El Capitan.  I currently have a 2013 mac mini with Mountain Lion.  It would benefit me to upgrade my 2013 to El Capitan, before migrating my information to my mac mini to 2015?  Thanks in advance!

  Yes, it is better to update the old Mac EC.

  Make sure that you back up the old Mac before the upgrade.

  Note the application of some may require updated to work with CBS. To check see it:

  https://roaringapps.com/apps

  Also, some devices may require updated drivers and for some devices such drivers do not exist.

• Mountain lion in El Capitan upgrade - problem with lack of image file.

  "Image" folder disappeared after the update of Mountain Lion to El Capitan. I looked around her but can not find this folder, which always seemed under Favorites in the menu finder.  I hope that certainly he has not disappeared for good.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Any tips?  And no, I unfortunately had not saved.

  If you are referring to the sidebar, it is probably not spent.

  Go to your Macintosh HD / users / user / photos

• MacBook Pro has started to randomly stop when it is on battery since the upgrade to El Capitan

  I have a MacBook Pro (15 inch, early 2011) which works very well on the Mountain Lion for a long time. I finally got round to upgrading to El Capitan last week: directly to 10.11.6. A few days later he just powered down without warning while I was working. He was so very well for a few days, but then made several times in the last 48 hours.

  I am moderately sure it happens only when it is on battery (it did not in the past hours 8 while that plugged). Whenever it happens, that there is no warning and the Mac then fine restarts (manually) - Although the clock resets always in 1970 until he can contact an NTP server. One of the curious side effects is that my PostScript fonts were blank on the screen in Excel for a few reboots yesterday but then OK once again!

  No hardware has changed. Major software change is only El Capitan and possibly an iStat Menus update.

  I have reset PRAM and SMC. I ran the short AHT. I disassembled the machine and clean the fans. they were OK, but the problem seems to occur when the Mac is hot.

  Spotlight and Time Machine sometimes seemed to be struggling for the upgrade, and I also saw rpcsvchost with 100% of a core for a while. The machine feels sometimes slow - but for the last 8 hours, it was very good. The only model that I put in place, is that it seems to occur only on battery; It's even happened then that the Dock (etc.) were loading after logging in after an unexpected shutdown.

  The other thing common is in the newspapers every time:

  Cause of previous stop:-128

  I scanned a number of related posts to aspects of it, but do not look at who blames El Capitan rather than material. Yet, many people reported this kind of problem after the upgrade... Coincidence?

  Any ideas?

  Thank you.

  Cause of previous stop:-128

  A negative stop code generally indicates a hardware failure. Have the Apple to assess your Mac. The fix may be as simple as a spare battery.

  Start here: contact support

• Nervous about upgrading to El Capitan

  Hello

  I am currently using OS X 10.8.5 on a Mid 2012 Mac Book Pro.  I have a 500 GB HD and 432 GB available.  My processor is an Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz and I have DDR3 4 GB 1600 MHz memory.

  My question is my browser (Safari 6.2.8) is updated as much as possible with the Mountain Lion and my credit card company wants an updated set browser to access their site, and I don't know there will be others to follow soon as well as social security, Healthcare.gov, etc.  Also I was see the rotation occasionally surfing autour beach ball.  I can't use Google chrome, either as the OS is too old for that as well.  If unfortunately an upgrade is probably in order.  I've never backed up my computer, I know my pain, but to tell you the truth, it seems really complicated and unreliable.  I copied my spreadsheets, music and photos on the big flash drives. I'm NOT super trendy clientele and mostly use my computer to surf the web, pay your bills online and photos and music.

  I have read several threads here about backing up your computer and even of level 1 users they all seem like they know their way around a hard drive, but most seems to be Greek.  Archive or back up or cloning?  really! I read glowing reports for EC balanced with an equal percent of horror stories.  There are still enemies with each new version, but he always puts fear in me.   So here's my concerns and I hope that someone will be willing to help me with questions.  I apologize beforehand for the length, just trying to give as much information as possible.  I hope this is the right forum for this.

  1. once I figured out hard drive external not really "drives" I checked a few Mac ready those off to use with TM, WD and Seagate are most available.  I really useless a backup by the hour of my computer because I do not change that much every day and it seems that you have to leave this plugged in 24/7, which seems to be a pain for a laptop, making it not so portable. In addition, I read to turn off the computer to remove the external hard drive safely.  really? Just do a manual backup to once per week or per month?

  2 would it not be better for me to use a cloning software, so that I can just do a (bootable?) copy of my current operating system and files instead of the hour by hour back ups with time machine?  I don't know if I'm wise enough to understand all this.  I've been to the site Web of Super Duper and they seem useful, but that's another $ 30 on top of $60 for a 1 TB hard drive.

  3. I've read that you should have 2 copies of your back upward.  This means that the right of the external hard drive 2?

  4. do you need Internet to do back ups?  I use my iPhone as a hotspot, but go to my children if I need more long-term WiFi although their isn't super fast like his outing in the glue.

  5. I don't have a ton of applications other than those that the computer came with, but those I have I really want to lose.  Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Family Tree Maker for Mac v. 2 being the main.  Also my printer is old so I might have to replace it. I checked their compatibility from a link on this forum.  It seems that two of them will not work.  I don't know how to check if my printer model will work with CBS. Simple workaround?  I hate to lose everything if I update.  For some applications you is impossible to pass up to that you upgrade your operating system, but does that mean that I will lose all the old files?

  6. can you have 1 computer but have 2 OS?  El Capitan when I need to do web stuff and mountain lion to use my other applications?  Probably not easy. Or do I have to take out a loan and buy another computer and keep my old for my obsolete applications?

  7. If I have to do this (upgrade) to EC what should be my game plan be?  Everything to make the transition smoother?  In simple terms for a dummy?

  Anyway, if someone wants to help, I admire!

  If you don't want to upgrade your version of OS X, the version of OS X Lion mountain Safari from Apple is more a web browser secure OS X Lion of the mountains of 10.8 and you should stop using this version of Safari.

  OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion receives more updates of security and, in my view, little time goes more to receive new updates of iTunes, either.

  Same problem with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, which ended support for OS X 10.6 - 10, 8.

  Mozilla Firefox has just ended its support of web browser and its last full version, this emitted (ver. 48.0.0), last August for OS X 10.6 - 10, 8 can still be used for some time more.

  https://www.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/desktop/

  OR

  Mozilla continues support of security (of newest web browser feature support) for the web browser Firefox through their program of Firefox ESR, (that you CAN download, install and use) that will continue only security support for Firefox until next April 2017 for OS X 10.6 - 10, 8.

  You can use these versions of the ESR. Ignore the notes support educational/business.

  https://www.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/organizations/FAQ/

  OR

  See SeaMonkey.

  http://www.SeaMonkey-project.org/

  Good luck!

• Are older OS is available for download to be able to upgrade to El Capitan?

  I'm selling my MacBook Pro for mid-2009 originally shipped with Lion. Years, I bought the discs for Snow Leopard, but they are in my home country (I'm an expat). I will be to reformat the hard drive, but if I reinstall the OS using the original disks of Lion it won't do any good buyer if they want something more recent, such as El Capitan (I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB and 1 TB hard drive.)

  I think that Snow Leopard is available for purchase on disc, not for download. There is no official presence of Apple in the developing/third-world country where I live. I don't know if Apple will be available here, how much it would cost, or how long it would take.

  Is it possible to buy a download of Lion or Lion MTN. in order to have a basis on which the buyer with their own Apple ID can be upgraded to El Capitan?

  The base OS only that they need is Snow Leopard, which is only available on DVD; It is not possible for a pre-2010 Mac Internet Apple system recovery, so they would need to have a physical installation disc where the drive goes down.

  It is also not possible to transfer a Lion or Lion of the mountains to them in this way. If you buy a download code for each operating system, you will not be able to a thumbdrive installation of them without make up the code in your Apple ID, preventing him being transferred to them.

  (143611)

• After the upgrade to El Capitan having problems with the application Mail

  Hello:

  Recently upgraded my Mac mini to El Capitan. Before the upgrade (from Mountain Lion), I got Thunderbird mail application works perfectly access my GMail account and my Hotmail account. Now, I have no problem with Hotmail and Gmail keeps asking for the password to connect to the gmail imap server. I have TBird in my laptop Ubuntu Linux and Windows too and that you have not had any problems like that. Any help to solve this problem is appreciated. Thank you.

  Try this: https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/3178296?hl=en

• A lot of cookies since the upgrade to El Capitan

  With the Mountain Lion, I'd end up usually with 15 to 20 cookies.  Since the upgrade to El Capitan, and using the same sites, I find myself with cookies from 80-90.  The cookie setting is "allow Web sites I visit."  I was wondering if I need to change something or if I missed a setting.  (I've been clear all cookies after each session.)

  You always have the same "ad blocker" installed

  extension or add-ons?

  I'm afraid that this is the best you can do. Or turn off all cookies

• Lion running on base 2011 MacBook Pro afraid of: upgrade to "El Capitan."

  I have a base 2011 MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5. It becomes kind of slow, but I just had it looked at. No problems. I'm afraid of a free upgrade to El Capitan as it may run more slowly. I have much stored and not in the game. Think to pay shop install for $30 Mountain Lion. Thoughts?

  There should be a reason why a Mac starts running slow.  First find the reason (s) and then upgrade.

  A good starting point is a download and publishing a report Etrecheck:

  http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

  Ciao.

• Update of Mountain Lion with server at El Capitan with server

  In my view, that it's time to upgrade my server Mountain Lion at El Capitan.  I am under some Web sites on the server (WordPress and ZenCart), and I'm managing e-mail for a few areas.  This is a hobby - so if I run into any kind of problems, then staring at me forever.

  I use the server to manage several domains, some websites (wordpress and zencart) and e-mail for a few areas.  Is there someone who can asure me that an upgrade will not stop one of my sites/e-mail from accessible summer and that an upgrade is really simple:

  1) move to El Capitan on App Store

  (2) application Server purchase in App Store

  (3) open app Server

  ???

  einarso wrote:

  ......

  I use the server to manage a few areas... Is there someone who can asure me that an upgrade will not stop one of my sites/e-mail from accessible summer and that an upgrade is really simple:

  1) move to El Capitan on App Store

  (2) application Server purchase in App Store

  (3) open app Server

  ???

  I don't think that a single SA will give you such insurance. There are simply too many unknowns in your equation.

  A few questions that I would be:

  1. Where are your plans backup and restore?
  2. The backups have been verified? Have the hardware and other software were mapped for compatibility?
  3. Have you prepared for a recovery after disaster?
  4. What does your schedule look like?
  5. If your clients have been informed, and did you get their buy-in to the schedule planned downtime and one time the program installation or recovery?
  6. What your relief and the secondary standby solution look like?
  7. What makes it look like your hardware failure recovery plan as it is in place? More relevant would be your standby HD, on which I would clone the server for immediate system recovery.

  These aren't all, but only a few pertinent questions.

  Most SA engineers system will tell you that nothing is comparable to moments of sheer terror when they progress through the processes and procedures of a server upgrade, whether hardware or software. The latter is the worst, only comparable to the terror of a student pilot experienced on his first simulated emergency landing, frozen stiff out of pure terror on short final.

  Leo