![]() The biggest change was that I started using Safari again. I have a fraught relationship with the new Spotlight, by the way: it’s much more powerful, showing movie times and map results and topical Wikipedia pages, but it can’t do a simple Google search, and it would rather show me emails that reference Taylor Swift than actually help me play "Out Of The Woods." Spotlight is so close to right, but I still use Alfred every time. ![]() Spotlight doesn’t pop up in the corner of your screen, but in the center, in a gray window like Alfred. Some are small: there’s no "full-screen" button in the top right corner of the window, you just press the green button in the stoplight menu. Yosemite only changed a few things about the way I use my Mac. Yosemite is a new look - but it’s not a new idea. But there’s still a dock at the bottom of my screen, still a menu bar at the top, still the same settings and options and gestures and keyboard shortcuts. It’s a cleaner, calmer, more balanced look that I like a lot, even if I did change my background immediately. (Of course, that’s partly because a lot of apps haven’t even updated to support translucency yet. ![]() I stopped noticing it almost immediately. I’d love to say I have feelings about the translucency in the sidebars and menu bars of Apple’s apps, which shows a bit of the app behind whatever you’re looking at, but I don’t. All the fonts were suddenly a little smaller and a lot more Helvetica Neue (and also pretty pixelated unless I was on a Retina screen). After downloading and installing the update (which took about 25 minutes and a little over 5GB of disk space), I had a new wallpaper, the mountain face against pink and purple sky. It’s just that the new look feels familiar, only slightly more refined, like the finished version of what came before. That’s not to say it doesn’t look different - it does. It took about six hours for me to mostly forget that I was using Yosemite. So, simply erase and format - you can find instructions in the Help section (menu bar) in Disk Utility.Our original preview of Yosemite, from July. It also seems easier to format an external drive rather than creating a partition on the internal drive - remember that you do not need any software or drivers on that drive. ![]() You can find instructions for creating clones on the CCC website - it is really quite easy to do. You can boot into it and try it and you can boot back into your regular system any time. That way, you'll have exactly what you'd have on your regular drive. Once you have the clone done, boot into it and download/install the upgrade. If it's external, make sure you format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and GUID Partition Scheme so it's bootable (you do that in Disk Utility in Applications > Utilities.Īfter you create your partition, you can either download Sierra and simply direct the installer to install it on that drive (rather than your regular hard drive) or, if you want an exact copy of your system to install the upgrade on, then you can use either CarbonCop圜loner or SuperDuper to clone your current system to the new partition or external drive. In order to do that, you will need to either create a partition on your internal drive or get an external hard drive.
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