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Re: To Catalina or not Catalina #Upgrading

 

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Debbi wrote:
After reading the many messages of Catalina issues, I¡¯m reluctant to pull the trigger. I¡¯ve never made a back-up copy of my current OS prior to installing an update.

Do you mean that you *never* make backups, period?
Because if you EVER make ¡®em, this is probably the single most important time to do so, before an OS upgrade.

I have Time Machine set to automatically back up alternately to two separate external drive, and I also periodically make SuperDuper! clone backups to alternating drives.

I rarely *NEED* the backups to recover something, but the one time that I accidentally deleted my entire Documents folder ¨C and emptied the Trash ¨C I was able to salvage everything easily by using the backup(s).

Also, I plan to double the size of my internal SSD soon, and clone the last Mojave backup back to a 2nd partition on the new drive, so I can dual-boot, and keep using some 32-bit stuff (games, mostly).

I understand that some applications won¡¯t work as they currently do (have been getting that warning for some time now), but I also understand that I can upgrade some and substitute others. I think I can work around that.

Some applications won¡¯t work. Period.
You can download (free) Go64 :(<>)
This will tell you which apps are 32-bit (and won¡¯t run), and which are 64-bit (and will run).
And which are mostly 64-bit but have a unit that isn¡¯t.
Then you can intelligently decide about apps on a case-by-case basis.

I¡¯ve learned that all of the music I laboriously transferred from CD to iTunes will be gone (only iTunes purchases will transfer)¡­

The huge majority of my music is ripped from CDs, and is not only still present on my drive, and available to the Music app, it is still located here:
/Users/<username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music
even though there is no longer an iTunes APP in Catalina.

Here¡¯s my issue: I¡¯ve Googled and checked Canon¡¯s website to see if my MX922 printer will be compatible and I guess I just don¡¯t know enough about what I¡¯m reading to figure it out.

If you get Go64, and set it to show ALL apps, you can then search for ¡°Canon¡± and see whether the driver is 32- or 64-bit.

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Jim Saklad
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