We have already published an article on the notable features that macOS High Sierra has brought. However, under the hood, this upgrade brings a lot of changes. Despite being the major fourteenth release of macOS, High Sierra isn’t much of a transformation, at least on the first look.
Open iTunes.Announced at WWDC 2017 in July, the long-awaited macOS High Sierra is now available for the public! It means all Mac devices that are compatible can download and install this version of macOS. Your Music folder is now "pointing" to the one in Yosemite. This is what is called a "symlink" (similar to an alias). You should see a new "folder" called "Music" appear in your Sierra home folder. Where (something) is the name of the Yosemite partition (probably "Macintosh HD"), and (name) is your username.Ħ) At the end of the above line in Terminal, type a period: "." (without the quotes) The contents of the line above will now be something like "ln -s /Volumes/(something)/Users/(name)/Music " (There are many ways to do this the simplest is to press command-space to open a Spotlight search, then start typing the word Terminal, and press enter)Ĥ) In the Terminal window you have opened, type the following: "ln -s "ĬRUCIAL: type it or copy it, without the quotes, and WITH the trailing space after the letter sĥ) DRAG the Music icon from the Yosemite partition onto the Terminal window.
On the right, a window showing the contents of the home folder from the the Yosemite partition.Ģ) Drag the Music folder *from the Sierra partition* to the trash.ģ) Open Terminal. On the left, a window showing the contents of your home folder (from the Sierra partition).
This assumes you are running Sierra.ġ) Open two windows in the Finder. (Similar instructions should work for other folders, mutatis mutandis).įor now, let's do it with Music. Be warned that when doing this, commands must be typed or pasted exactly otherwise they may not work, and a wrong command can have serious consequences.Ġ) The purpose of the following instructions is to have your user accoun on Sierra share the "Music" folder from the Yosemite partition. What I am about to explain involves entering a few commands in the Terminal. If you are not sure you understand my instructions, please don't proceed. The following are not for the faint of heart. Luis, I would love you to type those instructions, I know so little. I don't think I'll ever try to be brave again. Thanks in advance, this is not my area of expertise, obviously.
One more, if I can't figure out how to get files into the Sierra partition (likely without your help), can remove that partition? I presume I select it and click erase? Or does that only erase what is on the partition, not remove the partition? Is it as simple as right click copy paste? I just figure you don't save it anywhere on the Sierra partition because that can't be seen when the Yosemite partition is the one booted from. If I do decide to go with Sierra and install it on the Yosemite partition, will it also be clean? Or is that only because it was installed on a new partition with no existing files?Īnd, when you say " You might want to make a copy of the (Sierra) installer outside the Applications folder to avoid having to re-download it in the future." Where would you copy it to, an external hard drive? I have one so that's OK. Did I miss a vital step? How do I get my files into that new partition so I can test a few things? I have everything backed up on Time Machine. No documents in Finder, no images in Photos, no music in iTunes. However, I'm wondering how you can 'test away' when there is nothing to test with. I followed your instructions and now have Sierra on a partition of my hard drive. Your instructions looked like something even I could follow and it sounded like a good idea, try before you commit. Once installed, restart with the option/alt key held down, select the new partition and reboot. You might want to make a copy of the installer outside the Applications folder to avoid having to re-download it in the future. Download the installer from the App Store and when it starts, point it at the new partition.
Name it something and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format (step 5). Select the newly created space and hit the + button (step 4). Using the /// at the bottom move it up (step 3) until the size box decrease by about 50 GB. Open Disk Utility, select your hard drive (step 1), then the Partition tab (step 2), and select the partition.
By doing this, if you don’t like it you won’t have to go though the revert process.Ĭheck to make sure your applications are compatible.Īlso check to make sure there is a compatible driver for your printer. If you like/don’t like it it, you can then remove the partition. One option is to create a new partition (~30- 50 GB), install the new OS, and ‘test drive’ it.