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Follow the on-screen instructions to finish installing the software update, which should take around half an hour depending on the spec of your Mac. Once the download has finished, you'll see a macOS High Sierra installer launch.Download progress will appear in your Purchases tab. Click Download to initiate the download, and fill out your Apple ID information if prompted.Once you've backed up your Mac, launch the App Store (located in /Applications) and search for macOS High Sierra.

Wait for the Time Machine backup to complete before continuing with the macOS High Sierra installation.įollow these instructions to install the macOS High Sierra update on your Mac.

A progress bar will appear in the Time Machine system preference pane.

Remember that if you recover from an old backup you will lose the data.

If not, open System Preferences > Time Machine and click Select Backup Disk. Choose a Time Machine backup from before you installed the version of macOS you wish to revert from and click on Continue.

An alert may appear asking if you want to use the drive to backup your Mac.

Choose a new hard drive, or one that you don't mind erasing.

Connect an external hard drive to your Mac.

However, we recommend a full back up before you install it.Īpple makes it very easy to back up your Mac using Time Machine, so there is no excuse not to create a Time Machine backup before installing macOS High Sierra.įollow these steps to back up your Mac using Time Machine. I am a "I like messing with it" person, on my own machines.MacOS High Sierra is easy to install. I am very much a do it manually person while my wife is, "I just want everything the same from my old computer to my new computer and I don't want to have to mess with it."

Migration Assisstant just recreates all of the folder and file structure you had at last successful backup and recreates that exact structure on to a new machine or fresh drive. Just know the names and password for the accounts/folder that you want to pull from Time Machine. Some files and types, just know what you are doing if you are putting them in non-default folders. You can drag certain one's out of the backup file and manually place it where you want. Once this is done and you are logged in, you will now see your Time Machine drive, as an external drive, and you can open it with Finder and search through all of the files that were backup. If you do not want migration assistant to handle your files, skip the portion of setting up the mac that asks you to allow migration assistant to help. 100% wipe the drive or install new drive, whatever the case may be, that drive will be formatted, not updated? Correct? So you are going to do a clean insteall on a machine. Just so I am getting the information straight, for me.