Thanks Brad, that’s very helpful because I am running high sierra. Sounds pretty straightforward, are there any glitches I might encounter like silent screens and places where VO isn’t talking but I have to enter something and so forth? Sent from my IPhone
> On Dec 18, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Brad Snyder <wb...@swbell.net> wrote: > > I have a 2013 MacBook Air with an i5 1.3 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM and 128 > GB SSD, and I am running Catalina with no issue. > You should have no problem running Catalina on your machine as its specs > exceed mine. > > To upgrade your MacBook Air to Catalina from High Sierra, do the following: > 1. Open the App Store, and from the App Store Toolbar, select Featured, or > just press CMD + 1. > 2. Interact with the “Mac App Store Web Content” area, and navigate to Apps > and Games We Love, which is the first Heading, at level 2. > 3. using VO + Right Arrow, navigate to the first featured app, which should > be macOS Catalina, and select Install. This should begin the download and > once completed, initiate the Install process. > 4. If for some reason, you need to exit the Installer after download, and > resume the process at a later time, you will find the Installer in your > Applications folder. > > That’s all there is to it. > > HTH > > - Brad - > > > > > On Dec 18, 2019, at 18:37, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Mac book Air that I bought in august of 2013. I7 intel, 8GB ram 256 > flash drive. Is this machine capable of handling the upgrade? Also, I’ve > always just upgraded over the previous OS without doing a clean install. > And, I do my upgrades not from a flash drive, but from the recovery menu. Its > been a while and I’m not sure of the process anymore. I think I do the > following > > 1 After doing all necessary backups (btw: what are they?), I log into the > recovery window by holding Option R at startup? > > 2 Here where it gets fuzzy. > Do I have to wipe and reformat the drive, then select install os from the > recovery menu? > > Take me through it someone please. I’m not doing a clean install - I’ll take > my chances as I’ve always done by just installing over the old OS. > And, I’m not using a flash drive but want to do the upgrade over ethernet > cable from the recovery menu screen. > > Thanks > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/1042CFB6-84FA-435C-90C9-6553C13039D1%40gmail.com. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/931027F1-DD2C-495F-9EAE-654C6AB03852%40swbell.net. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/59DEDDF8-57C6-46EB-B858-CE8B96F3630A%40gmail.com.
