dax Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Hi there, as MS 3.3 requires at least OS X 10.10, I'm forced to upgrade my systems, starting with my live machine - a MBP 13" (2012). I am using SuperDuper to clone a backup (done already...), and I'm tempted to move forward with simply upgrading my OS from 10.9.5 Mavericks to 10.12.4 (Sierra) via Mac App Store. NOT making a clean install first....jumping over the not so tempting Yosemite (getting older, too, that one...) and El Capitan (buggy?) Does anybody of you MainStagers have some experience to share with me on upgrading this way - directly from Mavericks ->Sierra? I've got some really big instrument libraries (Komplete 10 Ultimate++) residing in the "shared" user folder - and all over the user library -, and by upgrading I hope to save hours of reinstalling. I'm aware of the benefits of clean installing, but since my system is pretty stable at the starting point, maybe the Force would be with me this time... BTW - just found the macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Combo Update, maybe that's the one to use? Thanks for sharing your experience on this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbmke Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 If you don't need the rig to be performance-ready in the near future, go ahead and do the combo update. If it seems buggy, you can always format and do a clean install. I've upgraded OS X without a clean install and it always seems fine. If you have a backup that you could restore from, I would risk it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dax Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 I'll probably wait until May anyway, need to have a predictable setup in the coming month. But, yes, guess all I can do is to jump in and see what happens. Keeping my cloned disk close.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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