And need only about 3GB.Īnd, of course, it works like any true backup software: one just designates which files/folders are to be backed up. So it is dormant no more, but now dominant. And it has even more, and advanced, tools than my present one. ![]() And it was purchased at a ridiculously low lifetime-price through StackSocial. I purchased it, in fact, as a backup for my present service, should that service ever go belly-up. Not used, because I have been using a perfectly good service for some years now, and haven't needed it. But what I need/want, and what I have been using, is an online backup service.Īnd now – dumb me! – I realize that I have such a service already paid for but never before used. Dropbox, and others, fall into the former: online storage. I continued to do research on backup services, and realized that there was quite a difference between online storage and online backup. I have installed the software now, and will certainly take advantage of them in the future. ![]() I had only seen passing references to symbolic links, probably in this forum and probably from your posts! But I had never touched them before. Some Macs will be set to update macOS automatically.Thank you very much for drawing my attention to symbolic links. ![]() Your Mac will search for an update and if there is one you can choose Update Now. You may be taken straight to the Software Update pane, if not click on the Software Update cog icon. You can get to System Preferences from the Apple menu: Click on the Apple logo in the top left and choose System Preferences. You can still find the software in the Mac App Store, but you will also see it in System Preferences > Software Update. One of the benefits of this is that your Mac can be set to automatically download the latest updates and install them, keeping your Mac up-to-date with minimum effort on your part. Now operating system updates come in via a new Software Updates pane in System Preferences. However, that changed slightly with Mojave, which arrived in 2018. Since the arrival of the Mac App Store in 2011 (as an update to Snow Leopard) versions of Mac OS X and macOS have been available to download via the Mac App Store. Very old versions of Mac OS X came on a disk and any security updates came via Software Update. ![]() We have a full list of which Macs run which versions of Mac OS X and macOS here. macOS 12: Monterey (Star) – Octo(Latest: 12.5.1).macOS 11: Big Sur (GoldenGate) – Novem(Latest: 11.6.8).OS X 10.9 Mavericks (Cabernet) – Octo(Latest: 10.9.5).OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (Zinfandel) – J(Latest: 10.8.5).OS X 10.4.4 Tiger (Chardonnay) – Janu(for Intel Macs) (Latest: 10.4.11).OS X 10 beta: Kodiak – September 13, 2000.You’ll find a complete list of the latest release of each version of OS X and macOS, along version code names, along with internal code names (if available): Here’s an overview of every version of macOS and Mac OS X Apple has released.
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