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(You are making backups to an external device, right?)įinally, when you begin this process, you might want to do as much disk cleanup/maintenance as possible. And the easiest way to do that is to use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup. But upgrading might not be as "safe" or "OK" as doing a clean, fresh installation of the new OS, and then migrating/copying needed files, folders, settings etc. Maybe skip 2 of them and upgrade to Yosemite. I would advise not skipping "too many" of the various versions. Third, you need to be concerned about any third party software you are using, and most likely, will need either to upgrade some/most/all of them to be compatible with the OS you want to move to, or possibly some of them might not work at all.įourth, for High Sierra, Apple introduced the APFS file system, so that could be a challenge. Secondly, there are 6 more recent versions you could install: Incidentally, you can still find the macOS software on the Mac App Store.First off, you are running OS 10.7.5, which is Lion. One of the benefits of this is that your Mac can be set to automatically download the latest updates and install them, keeping your Mac up-to-date with minimum effort on your part. Now operating system updates come in via Software Updates which is either located in System Settings > General > Software Update or in System Preferences > Software Update (pre-Ventura). However, that changed with Mojave, which arrived in 2018. Since the arrival of the Mac App Store in 2011 (as an update to Snow Leopard) versions of Mac OS X and macOS have been available to download via the Mac App Store. Very old versions of Mac OS X came on a disk and any security updates came via Software Update. If you want to update your Mac to a newer version of macOS the method will be determined by the version of macOS you are running. It’s easy to find out which version of macOS is running on a Mac.įoundry How to install the latest version of macOS If you want to install the latest beta of macOS read about joining Apple’s beta program. You can install a beta version of Sonoma and test new features that haven’t yet launched. We have a full list of which Macs run which versions of macOS here.
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