Time Machine said it was preparing a backup, and that was my iMac pretty fully accounted for. I tried to open SystHist to see what had been installed, but its icon just bounced and bounced in the Dock, forever it seemed. Even the weather forecast wasn’t bad, and thunderstorms exceedingly improbable.Ī little more than an hour later, Mojave was up and, well, sort of running. I had a complete bootable clone of my Sierra system, and Time Machine’s backups in case it was better to restore from them. I could keep things going on my MacBook Pro as I tried to resuscitate a crashed Fusion Drive or a failed installation. I now had a good choice of escape routes. I had already copied the Mojave installer across from my MacBook Pro, so at around 1752, I ran it. With everything looking ready to go, I turned Time Machine back on and ran one last manual backup. I then ensured that its software was fully up to date, and ran Disk Utility’s First Aid to check the Fusion Drive. ![]() I only have one third-party peripheral attached, a Promise Pegasus RAID drive housing my Time Machine backups. ![]() With slightly more than 1 TB to copy across, that took my iMac much of the afternoon. I prepared my tools, turned Time Machine off just after it had made a backup, and make a clone of my Sierra startup drive – the Fusion Drive – to a 2 TB Thunderbolt 1 external disk using Carbon Copy Cloner. This week, I picked a day when I could afford to take some time away from writing. I upgraded FileMaker Pro Advanced to version 17, as I use that for my accounts, and made sure that all other essential tools, like MarsEdit, were ready for Mojave before even thinking about upgrading my iMac. My hand was forced, and I finally settled on Postbox, which is proving a worthy successor. When Mojave was released, it was clear that Mailsmith was broken, possibly beyond repair. A former product of Bare Bones Software, developers of the wonderful BBEdit, Mailsmith is free but “no longer under active development”.Ĭhoosing an email client is never easy Entourage and Mailsmith had proved excellent over the years, and I really didn’t want to have to migrate my thousands of existing messages yet again. I came to Mailsmith when Microsoft killed Entourage, about eight years ago. I also spotted a problem with one of my most important apps, Mailsmith, the email client. ![]() The chances were that something fairly global could go wrong. With Mojave and my iMac, the situation was different: I knew that the installer was going to do deeply internal things to the iMac’s Fusion Drive, changes which only a year ago Apple decided weren’t ready for the public. Yes, I have current Time Machine backups, but normally that is my only concession to safety. I admit that, when it comes to upgrading my Macs, I seldom follow my own advice.
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