Practical steps to ready yourself — and your computer — for a new OS 2017 07 08 by Prescott Perez-Fox in Habits, Techniques, Tools & Resources The new version of the Mac operating system, High Sierra is just around the corner.
MacOS High Sierra update stuck and eventually failed to install on Mac 'I was so excited when Apple announced macOS 10.13 High Sierra beta, thinking that I must get it immediately. I ruined it, in fact, the update didn't go smooth. After selecting the option to upgrade to AFS, install got stuck and eventually failed. Need to restore from Time Machine, but the program was disabled! It's officially said that the next big event - macOS High Sierra is coming this fall with many new attractive features, and we know that a majority of Mac users would happily do an upgrade. Seeing from the past experience of each Apple operating system update, there is a great chance for Mac users to come across a variety of update issues, especially, just like the user story we put in the beginning.
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So, we initiate this topic about how to fully prepare your Mac before getting each major Mac OS X update (This time macOS High Sierra), for the purpose of raising people's attention and getting to know an extremely user-friendly Mac backup and recovery software. Why backup Mac before macOS High Sierra update We all wish a worry-free and risk-free new OS update truly. How to realize the goal? Only take a full backup of the current operating system, hard drive partitions, critical data, emails and files you always care about. No one can predict how macOS High Sierra downloading and installing process goes, will the update success or fail?
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Sometimes, a new OS update will have many unsolved problems that need a system rollback. For example, Mac becomes slow and sluggish after macOS High Sierra update, files mysteriously missing after macOS High Sierra update, etc.
In order to prepare yourself with an additional help after encountering such incidents, you're so recommended to take a necessary backup before upgrading your Mac to the next coming macOS High Sierra update. How to create a complete backup with the best Mac backup software? Here, we introduce you an easy-to-use and powerful so that you can easily backup Mac without Time Machine, which restricts many backup demands, including system backup and Mac hard drive clone to SSD.
EaseUS Todo Backup for Mac is what we highly recommended to all Mac users who are preparing for macOS High Sierra update. It offers comprehensive backup solutions, including simply copy files from one location to another, create a compressed backup image in order to release disk space, create a system backup, clone Mac drive to another bigger one and more features that wait for your own exploration. To prepare for macOS High Sierra update, learn the following backup guide.
Download, install and launch EaseUS Todo Backup for Mac on Mac. Click the first Backup tab or simply click + button at the left corner of the left pane to create a backup project - name the backup project and click OK.
Set up the backup destination where you want to store Mac files as backups, automatically backup frequency etc and click OK. Add files and folders to the backup project. Click File+ to selectively choose files and folder to backup and click the blue start button to backup your Mac to another drive or external device now.