Nervous about upgrading to El Capitan

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• I want to upgrade to El Capitan, but might want to back Lion

  I am running Lion and thinking about upgrading to El Capitan.  However, I have some graphics programs (which I need for work) and I fear that they can not working correctly after I upgraded (what happened in the past).  And I don't have the money to upgrade all software.

  What is the best way to make them after I've upgraded, can I return to Lion if I need to (if my programs no longer work)?  A bit nervous about switching where I can't go back.  Or am I just worrying about nothing?

  Use a program such as disk utility or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone Lion on an external drive or install El Capitan on this disc.

  (142940)

• Nervous about the upgrade to El Capitan!

  Need input, OS X 10.9.5, computer works fine most of the time. Should I upgrade or leave it alone. Don't want to screw up my computer. Read the "reviews" on the App Store and I hesitate. Ned first hand experience.

  Thanks in advance.

  Before any update always create a backup. How to create a clone of startup

  This way you can always fall back if necessary.

  I have not had any problems upgrading to El Capitan.

• After that upgrade to El Capitan about this Mac does not work"

  After the upgrade to El Capitan by clicking on about this Mac, nothing happens and by double clicking on System profiler I get the error message from the Application "System information" cannot be opened.  I ran disk utility, tried in safe mode and as a guest and all user are the same.

  It is a late 2008 MacBook.  It's on 10.5.8.  I did a clean install of 10.6.3 with upgrades to 10.6.8 to give birth to El Capitan.  According to me, that he was working at that time.  Then, I migrated the user of a backup image of the 10.5.8 account. Who could have when it stopped, but I'm not sure.

  I had two newspapers @ pastbin.com/Mca6LS4H

  Hello mrtrytofixit,

  Thank you for reaching out to the Community Support from Apple. I know how it is important to be able to rely on public services provides your Mac and I want to help you get things working again. With troubleshooting, you have already done, it seems that it is a systemic problem.

  From there, what I recommend is reinstall OS X El Capitan using OS X Recovery on your Mac. It should not remove or erasure of your data, but it is recommended that you make backup before you do incase of an emergency.

  These articles will guide you through the backup and reinstallation:
  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
  How to reinstall OS X

  If you have any questions or concerns, inform the community. We are all here to help.
  Best regards.

• Time machine is unable to perform a backup. Not able to access the sparsebundle. Problem occurred first on snow leopard OS. Followed Dragon upgrade to El Capitan. Only difference has error code of 109 changed to null. What about someone?

  Time machine is unable to perform a backup. Not able to access the sparsebundle. First of all, there is problem with the Snow Leopard operating system. Dragon followed in the upgrade to El Capitan. Only difference was error code 109 changed to 'null '. What about someone?

  We need some info.

  You can access from the finder Time Capsule? If this isn't the case, then Time Machine will not work.

  You upgrade the computer snow to El Capo and keep the same name?

  If you want to backup, it is best to start again... clean the new backup any attempt to add a previous backup failed.

  I recommend that you actually erase the TC... do a complete factory reset and start again.

  The previous backup if necessary can be archived on a USB drive connected to the TC assuming that Airport utility can still access it. Airport utility accesses the TC?

  With update installs all sorts of things can go wrong... so tell me more if you can not get anywhere.

• I use LR3 and is about to be upgraded to El Capitan.  What's going to happen? Should I disable LR before upgrade?

  I used LR3 on my MacBook Pro and getting ready to upgrade to El Capitan.  What will happen to my photos? Should I disable LR before the operating system upgrade?  What is the sweetest way for me to keep my intact photos?

  Yes, you simply to copy the backup on a dvd

  You can select a location to save the catalog from Lightroom > catalog settings

  ~ Assani

• My MacBook Pro (late2009) stalled for 2 days now trying to upgrade to El Capitan. It neither improved nor returned to Yosemite. Help, please.

  I have macbook pro late 2009. I started to upgrade to El Capitan 2 days ago. Downloaded, it stalled during installation. It has frozen about 95% installation and remained so for 2 days. Help, please.

  Try to Safe Mode Setup:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201262

  Start safe mode and see if the problem persists:

  Restart now ' shift '.

  (Wait to take more time to start in this way because it runs a check of directory first. Also give it some time after the start because he runs maintenance routines at the beginning.)

• Try to upgrade to El Capitan

  I am running Snow Leopard on a Macbook in early 2008. I meet all the requirements for the upgrade to El Capitan, but the App Store said that I can not install on this computer. Any suggestions?

  Your MacBook does not meet the requirements:

  Mac hardware requirements

  For more information about your model of Mac, click the Apple in the top left of your screen, choose about this Mac, and then select Details. These Mac models are compatible with OS X El Capitan:

  • MacBook (early 2015)
  • MacBook (late 2008 or early 2009 or newer aluminium)
  • MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
  • MacBook Air (late 2008 or newer)
  • Mac mini (early 2009 or newer)
  • iMac (mid-2007 or newer)
  • Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
  • Xserve (early 2009)

• MacBook Pro(MID-2012):Issues after Upgrading to El Capitan

  I use Macbook Pro mid-2012 version. After upgrading to El Capitan, I am facing a lot of questions.

  (1) the DMG files does not open. said hdiutil attach has busy resource failed.

  (2) my Macbook Pro will not stop completely.

  (3) my systems updates install completely. They hit each other between installation (had to force quit)

  ' (4) ' about this Mac ' gets hit when trying to access storage tab.

  Any suggestions?

  Your MBP was working perfectly before the update?

• Upgrade to el capitan and hoping to drive DVD would work properly but no, still do not play some of my DVDs. Is there an upgrade available? my library of playable DVD shrinks

  Upgrade to el capitan and hoping to drive DVD would work properly but no, still do not play some of my DVDs. Is there an upgrade available? my library of playable DVD shrinks. IMac originally purchased in 2010. DVD 5.9.5

  I'm having no problem with my DVD.

  Could you give more details about those who are out of work?

• Import old box Inbox and sent in the Mail after upgrading to El Capitan

  There has been much discussion about the e-mails lost after upgrade to El Capitan, but I have not seen this particular question.

  I discovered that, like many others, all emails in my Inbox and in my sent folder to leave before the upgrade had disappeared. The issue has not affected the emails I had moved to folders.

  Open the mail library file (in the Finder, hold down the Option key selecting go to the top menu and the library appears), I discovered that Mail was created a new file V2, account, while the old one, V3 (created in 2013), sitting next to her. Go by the size files, it seems fair to assume that the V3 still contains my "lost" emails

  So, I don't know if the bug is that a new V2 should have been created at all, or is it a sync error, or something else. What I know is that when I try to import the items from Inbox and sent from the V3, I get an error message telling me that no mbox valid was found. This is patently false.

  I also tried to copy on an external hard drive, gave them a different name, but even then I couldn't import them. Reconstruction did not help either.

  Anyone able to help? I have a few crucial e-mails out there, and I try to avoid the upgrade...

  

  Address postal (El Capitan): import or export the mailboxes

• Is it safe to upgrade to El Capitan

  I have a computer with current books with Yosemite. I read about the problems with El Capitan. Should I upgrade or will I find my files do not work?

  Hello

  As long as you have a Time Machine backup or another backup system enabled you do not risk anything by upgrade to El Capitan. As long as the installation process goes well, you will always be able to access your books. If you use more specific written apps, you can ensure that they are compatible with El Capitan to https://roaringapps.com rest

  Happy update

  James

• Upgrade to El Capitan has replaced the boot on Configuration partition dual boot

  I've been using find for a dual-boot my Macbook Pro with OSX and Ubuntu.  Today, I decided to upgrade my OSX Yosemite to El Capitan.

  After downloading all the 6G, which took about six hours, and the installation program, I received a prompt to restart my computer.  After that, and waiting more than 10 minutes staring at a blank screen, I pressed the power button, but nothing happened.  After doing this several times and get in trouble in the meantime, I pressed and held.  To my surprise the blank screen is having a background slightly shine completely black color.  Then, I realized that the computer was actually still on, and I interrupted probably something I shouldn't.

  Then I turned on my computer, and instead of being presented to the screen where I choose which operating system to load, I got OSX loading screen with the Apple logo and progress bar.  After some time, the OSX installer appeared and told me that it would take 19 minutes to install OSX.  However, after a minute and a half, the installer left with the message:

  OS X could not be installed on your computer

  A partition of start-up assistance is required when working with the storage of carrots.

  Exit Setup to restart your computer and try again.

  
  

  Product restarts the same result, as described above.

  Using the disk utility program, I see that I still have my Ubuntu partition, although not like OS X doesn't shows being available and has no information about it other than its size.

  As a customer, I am pretty upset by this situation.

  Why don't/that the installer should overwrite the MBR?  It's totally useless!  Why the installation program could not upgrade the OS that he treated and leave the rest alone computer?  If someone at Apple has not considered the possibility that some of their users will want to double to start their systems?

  Why are there not warnings or other information displayed during the preparation phase indicating that this would happen?  Why me staring at a screen empty while something, probably important, took place in the background and leading me to believe that my computer had hung up?  Surely a window could have been displayed saying something like "do not turn off your computer.

  Now that I have my setup porked, I need to recover from an old backup, get kind of rEFInd running again, back up my Ubuntu installation and probably delete the partition.  Then try to upgrade to El Capitan again after the download of an another 6G.  Once El Capitan is at work, I'll have to recreate the EXT4 partition and restore Ubuntu top and install rEFInd.  This seems to be an arrangement rather STUPID having to cross in 2016.

  Has anyone else had this problem?  If so, advice on how to get all this done effectively?

  New user account is not happy!

  
  

  Well, it seems that the recovery of my Time Machine backup is not so simple...

  In the setup of OS X, utilities disk is available, so I ran it.

  I've selected the partition where OS X is installed and choose the editing command-> restore from the menu, and then set the "restore from:' location to my partition backup (located on an external USB drive) and press ."

  This produces a message saying "restore process has failed. Press OK to continue.  (Continue where?)

  Open the details view showed me:

  Validation of targets...

  Validation of source...

  Could not unmount volume "/ Volumes/Image . (No end of quote)

  " Volume" (busy resource) (Who's using it?  (Not me!)

  Operation failed...

  
  

  I installed the following devices:

  SM0512F SSD APPLE (disk0)

  MyOSX (disc 1)

  HGST (disk4) external drive

  OSX_Backup (disk4s2)

  Apple Media (DIS3) disk image

  System basis of OS x (disk3s1)

  Apple Media disk image (2)

  OS X install ESD (disk2s2)

  What volumes cannot be disassembled?  Apple media disk image?  Why?  What these volumes As make me writing disk4s2 to disk1?

  I'll try to disassemble the Terminal and see if disk utility can help you.

  
  

• Safari freezes several times after upgrade of El Capitan

  Hello world

  I've upgraded to El Capitan this afternoon on my MacBook Pro (late 2011 version) and since then have been essentially unable to use Safari as it freezes several times, forcing me to force to leave every time. I noticed that others on the Board had listed their etrecheck results, so mine are below.

  It has been quite frustrating - Safari was my go - to browser and seems today almost no functional for me. (Firefox works fine, no problem, then what is it with Safari?)

  Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.

  ***********

  EtreCheck version: 2.6.6 (226)

  Report generated 12/13/15, 17:32

  Duration 09:04

  Download http://etrecheck.com EtreCheck

  Click on the links to [click for support] to help with non-Apple products.

  Click on the links [click for more details] for more information on this line.

  Click on the [click to delete] links for help to remove the adware.

  Hardware information: (does that mean?)

  MacBook Pro (13 inch, early 2011)

  [Click for plug technique]

  [Click here for the User Guide]

  MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8, 1

  1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 strands

  4 GB of RAM expandable

  [Click here for upgrade instructions]

  BANK 0/DIMM0

  OK 2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz

  BANK 1/DIMM0

  OK 2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz

  Bluetooth: Old - transfer/Airdrop2 not supported

  Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

  Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 183 - SN = 9G1320RPTD3MA

  Information about this video: (does that mean?)

  Intel HD Graphics 3000

  Color LCD 1280 x 800

  Software system: (does that mean?)

  OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 15 c (50) - since the starting time: 4 hours

  Disk information: (does that mean?)

  Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0: (320,07 GB) (rotation)

  EFI (disk0s1) : 210 MB

  HD (disk0s3) [recovery] recovery: 650 MB

  Macintosh HD (disk 1) /: 318,84 (Go 187,62 free)

  Storage of carrots: disk0s2 319.21 GB Online

  MATSHITADVD-R UJ - 8À8)

  USB information: (what does this mean?)

  Computer, Inc. Apple IR receiver.

  Apple Inc. FaceTime HD camera (built-in)

  Apple Inc. Apple keyboard / Trackpad

  Fitbit Fitbit Inc. Base Station.

  Apple Inc. BRCM2070 hub.

  Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB host controller.

  Lightning information: (does that mean?)

  Apple Inc. Thunderbolt_bus.

  Guardian: (what does this mean?)

  Mac App Store and identified developers

  Adware: (what does this mean?)

  Genieo, InstallMac Adware! [Click to remove]

  Launch system officers: (does that mean?)

  com.apple.BezelUI.plist [killed]

  com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist [killed]

  com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist [killed]

  com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.CDPD.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.CoreServices.appleid.authentication.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.followupd.plist [killed]

  [killed] com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.findmydevice - user - agent.plist

  com.Apple.icloud.fmfd.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.scopedbookmarkagent.XPC.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.Security.cloudkeychainproxy.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.Security.idskeychainsyncingproxy.plist [killed]

  com.apple.spotlight.IndexAgent.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist [killed]

  14 killed process lack of RAM

  Demons of launch system: (does that mean?)

  com.apple.GSSCred.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.audio.systemsoundserverd.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.corestorage.corestoragehelperd.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.nsurlsessiond.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.softwareupdated.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.wdhelper.plist [killed]

  com.Apple.XPC.SMD.plist [killed]

  8 killed process lack of RAM

  Launch officers: (does that mean?)

  [loading] com.adobe.AAM.Updater - 1.0.plist [click here for support]

  [failure] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist [click for support] [click for more information]

  com.Amazon.sendtokindle.Launcher.plist [race] [click here to support]

  [loading] com.oracle.java.Java - Updater.plist [click here for support]

  Demons of launch: (does that mean?)

  [loading] com.adobe.SC.FPFeedbackService - 1.0.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.barebones.authd.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist [click here for support]

  com.fitbit.galileod.plist [race] [click here to support]

  [loading] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.oracle.java.Helper - Tool.plist [click here for support]

  Launch User Agents: (does that mean?)

  [loading] com.adobe.AAM.Updater - 1.0.plist [click here for support]

  [loading] com.adobe.ARM. [...]. plist [click here to support]

  com.Akamai.single - user - client.plist [race] [click here to support]

  [loading] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [click here for support]

  User Login items: (does that mean?)

  iTunesHelper Application (/ Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

  Garmin Express Service application (/ Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app)

  iTunesHelper UNKNOWN (missing value)

  Dropbox application (/ Applications/Dropbox.app)

  Hidden AdobeResourceSynchronizer Application (/ Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)

  Genieo UNKNOWN (missing value)

  ZipCloud UNKNOWN (missing value)

  Fitbit connect Menubar Helper Application (/ Applications/Fitbit Connect.app/Contents/MacOS/Fitbit Connect Helper.app of the menu bar)

  Other applications: (does that mean?)

  [ongoing] com.Apple.XPC.launchd.oneshot.0x10000008.EtreCheck

  [ongoing] com.fitbit.GalileoMenubar.84192

  [ongoing] com.Garmin.Renu.service.57952

  [ongoing] com.getdropbox.dropbox.53152

  [ongoing] org.Mozilla.Firefox.55712

  Internet Plug-ins: (does that mean?)

  FlashPlayer - 10.6: Version: 20.0.0.235 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

  AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.11 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.11 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  Flash Player: Version: 20.0.0.235 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  Default browser: Version: 601 - SDK 10.11

  SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.5.8 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  GarminGpsControl: Version: 4.0.2.6 Beta - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.1.6r156 - 10.6 SDK [click here for support]

  JavaAppletPlugin: Version: update version 51 check Java 8

  The internet user Plug-ins: (does that mean?)

  Web of Google Earth plugin: Version: 7.1 [click here for support]

  Safari extensions: (what does this mean?)

  EverNote Web Clipper

  PIN button

  3rd party sous-fenêtres preferences: (does that mean?)

  Akamai NetSession preferences [click here for support]

  Flash Player [click here for support]

  Java [click here to support]

  Time Machine: (what does this mean?)

  Time Machine not configured!

  Top of page process CPU: (does that mean?)

  26% mdworker (14)

  6% WindowServer

  1% kernel_task

  1% galileod

  1% Fitbit connect Menubar Helper

  Top of the process of memory: (does that mean?)

  Mds_stores 729 MB

  Kernel_task 434 MB

  Firefox 426 MB

  Mdworker (15) 225 MB

  ITunes 123 MB

  Virtual memory information: (does that mean?)

  18 MB of free RAM

  3.98 GB used RAM (623 MB Cache)

  23 MB used Swap

  Diagnostic information: (does that mean?)

  December 13, 2015, 16:34 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-12-13-163400_[redacted].hang

  December 13, 2015, 16:17:13 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-12-13-161713_[redacted].hang

  December 13, 2015, 16:13:07 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-12-13-161307_[redacted].hang

  December 13, 2015, 16:12:44 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-12-13-161244_[redacted].hang

  December 13, 2015, 16:12:28 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-12-13-161228_[redacted].hang

  December 13, 2015, 13:57:09 /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/galileod_2015-12-13-135709_[redacted].crash

  13 December 2015, 12:40:10 self-test - spent

  December 11, 2015, 20:26:39 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iPhoto_2015-12-11-202639_[redacted].crash

  10 December 2015, 17:36:14 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/PluginProcess_2015-12-10-173614_[redacted].cra sh

  Probably one of your third-party plugins or extensions. Sign in to your account of comments and test Safari.

• Afraid to upgrade to El Capitan

  When I upgraded from the Mavericks in Yosemite, some of my software did not work right.  The 2 that I am concerned about are Quicken and Family Tree Maker.  I had to pay to upgrade to ensure compatibility with Yosemite.  Now, you have El Capitan.  I can't afford to upgrade again.  In fact I have the latest version of Family Tree Maker, so if I go to El Capitan, there's nothing I can do the upgrade of the Family Tree Maker.  I'm just a normal housewife everyday ordinary user.  I don't use a lot of the ability of Mac.  It is worth the upgrade to El Capitan for me.

  NO.