Picking a plan: Go for an easy in-place upgrade or consider a more complex clean install.Joe provides steps for carrying out this essential task in Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Backing up: Avoid upgrade anxiety by ensuring you can return to the previous state of your Mac-and that you can boot from your backup.Compatibility check: Make sure your hardware and software are ready for High Sierra and consider whether this is a good time to buy new hardware, even if it’s not essential for your upgrade.Take in the view: Find out what you can look forward to in High Sierra.

Start fast: A Quick Start overview helps you read lightly or more deeply, depending on your needs.You’ll experience an easy upgrade and deal quickly with post-installation quirks with these topics: You’ll also find information about possible impediments to upgrading-including minimum system requirements, software incompatibilities, and lack of disk space-and how to resolve those issues. In this book, you’ll find out more about the changes Apple has made to the Mac’s file system in High Sierra, and what impact that might have on your upgrade. Learn what you need to know before you begin, how to prepare your Mac and make backups, and be ready to make decisions about installation questions.

In Take Control of Upgrading to High Sierra, Mac expert Joe Kissell outlines a process that will take the stress out of upgrading, showing you how to make the switch more efficiently and in the way that’s right for you. Although Apple has made upgrading to each new operating system easier and safer, there is still room for things to go wrong.

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