RE: Reformating iMac and Installing Catalina

2019-10-31 Thread Simon A Fogarty
@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Angus MacKinnon Sent: Friday, 1 November 2019 12:37 PM To: MacVisionaries Subject: Re: Reformating iMac and Installing Catalina Simon Thank you. Is it CMD+R or Shift+CMD+R? And I shotdown the iMac and Cold Boot with the SD Card in the slot. What option should I choose

Re: Reformating iMac and Installing Catalina

2019-10-31 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Simon Thank you. Is it CMD+R or Shift+CMD+R? And I shotdown the iMac and Cold Boot with the SD Card in the slot. What option should I choose? Angus MacKinnon, Personalism Student Charles Péguy said, “The revolution is moral or not at all” -- The following information is important for all memb

Re: Reformating iMac and Installing Catalina

2019-10-31 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, There is no real need to do a reformat if you are going to use Time Machine to bring apps and data back to your iMac. This process is redundant. The benefits of a reformat are seen because you create a clean install of the MacOS and bring back apps and data via the App Store and other loc

RE: Reformating iMac and Installing Catalina

2019-10-30 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Angus, Irstly yes terminal can be used to format your iMac. As for keeping your data, Only way to do that is to make sure your data on your iMac is backed up to your time machine device However the terminal commands for formatting the drive in your imac is not easy to do if you don’t know