Thanks Randy. Bev in TX sent me the link to your article this morning, and I used it for the upgrade.
Thanks too for the warning about Mail. I will watch closely for the next couple of days, and if necessary will downgrade back to Mojave.
Jim
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On Mar 18, 2020, at 16:52, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
On Mar 18, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Jim McGarvie wrote:
I am ready to upgrade to Catalina, and I would like to do a complete clean install
I have an entire Web site devoted to telling you what to do:
Upgrading To The Very Latest Macintosh Operating System
especially item #6
I just want to point out that upgrading to Catalina is fraught with pitfalls. Here is what I posted to another list just the other day to someone asking if it is okay to upgrade to Catalina:
While the largest bug causing data loss in Mail.app has been fixed as of 10.15.3, there still seem to be bugs in Mail that can cause data loss. The most common of which occurs if you move data from one folder to another in Mail.
Catalina breaks a lot of drivers for third party scanners and printers, and the manufacturers of these scanners and printers have been unusually slow (or completely negligent) about providing updated drivers. The developers of VueScan and ExactScan are likely happy about the situation though. (These are third party, commercial, scanner drivers that often solve the problem.) Users shouldn't upgrade to Catalina until they are sure that there are updated drivers available for all of their peripherals.
And, of course, lots of 32-bit apps need to be updated for Catalina. Microsoft and Adobe apps in particular may have to be re-purchased at very high cost if one upgrades to Catalina.
Office 2011 isn't 64-bit, and never will be. So it can't run under Catalina. It has to be replaced after upgrading to Catalina.
Office 2016 isn't 64-bit, but it can be updated for FREE to be, and once updated it will run find under Catalina:
Office 2019 (the latest version), of course, is entirely compatible with Catalina.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
