IMac migration

[GEORGE MCGUINNESS]

Hi
I need help with the migration from my two IMacs one is running High Sierra 10.13.6 mid mid2011 memory 12gb, and iMac 10.15.7 late 2013. Version, I did the migration but some of the apps won’t work and they show a round circle on top of the icons, can anybody help me some idea of what has gone wrong with the process.
George

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[GEORGE MCGUINNESS]

[Rick Squires]

What are you trying to migrate them onto? If it’s an Apple Silicon Mac you need to enable Rosetta. Also, if they are 32 bit apps they will not run in anything later than Mojave

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> On 17 Aug 2023, at 20:28, 'GEORGE MCGUINNESS' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi

> I need help with the migration from my two IMacs one is running High Sierra 10.13.6 mid mid2011 memory 12gb, and iMac 10.15.7 late 2013. Version, I did the migration but some of the apps won’t work and they show a round circle on top of the icons, can anybody help me some idea of what has gone wrong with the process.
> George
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[GEORGE MCGUINNESS]

Hi Rick, Do you know if I can get get hold of a bootable pen drive with Mojave and I’ll be satisfied with that as most of my apps will run with it.
Thanks George

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> What are you trying to migrate them onto? If it’s an Apple Silicon Mac you need to enable Rosetta. Also, if they are 32 bit apps they will not run in anything later than Mojave

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[Gmail]

You can download it from the App Store I believe. Instructions for making a bootable installer are freely available. 

You basically quit the installer and then run a command line tool. Here’s a starting point for downloading the installer

And here’s a link for creating the installer

Plug it in.  Reboot and hold down the Option key. You will get a choice of boot disks. Pick the USB, hit return and away you go

Rick

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On 18 Aug 2023, at 09:58, 'GEORGE MCGUINNESS' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Rick, Do you know if I can get get hold of a bootable pen drive with Mojave and I’ll be satisfied with that as most of my apps will run with it.

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[not a droid]

George, 

For the apps that don’t work head to the makers site (or the App Store) to see if they have a supported version for that newer OS. You may need to check the support page for older compatible versions.

For installing you need to download the Mac OS installer from the Mac App Store. It will need to be in your past purchases to be available (or the latest release should be shown for purchase). 

If the Mac originally shipped with Mojave you may be able to restore via recovery mode. It should download the original OS but you need to erase the disk & boot into internet recovery mode as far as I can recall. I don’t know what OS your models shipped with. Hold Option-Command-R at startup - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl338cf9a8/mac  Do you have any backups at all? If so what kind?

Sorry I don’t think you can just get an 'OS on a stick’ unless Apple have changed their licence etc. The installer has the Apple ID tied to it. 

If you are really stuck try a genus bar appointment maybe?

Drew

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