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Comment by jazzyjackson

1 day ago

> "I wish I didn’t.”

Can't you do a factory reset/recovery on Mac that lands on the version of macos shipped with the device? Then you could re-upgrade to the os you wanted, without trying it it seems Sequoia is still available in the app store

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trollbridge  1 day ago

Yes, you can install any version of macOS that was ever supported for your Mac. (It’s been a long time since they used System Enablers.) I’m so frustrated with Tahoe that I’m about to do this.

  • valleyer  1 day ago

    But you cannot, in general, migrate your data backwards. Apple's system apps will upgrade their data stores forward only. This isn't a problem if you are willing to e.g. re-download all of your (Mail.app) mail.

    • ValentineC  1 day ago

      > But you cannot, in general, migrate your data backwards. Apple's system apps will upgrade their data stores forward only.

      One huge reason to use third-party programs where possible. I dislike Apple's tight coupling of utilities as it is.

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    • xoa  1 day ago

      Yep, though you can mitigate it a little bit in various ways. For one weird example, I keep my main user Home folder on my NAS and mount it via iSCSI. Mostly that's for data integrity/size/backup purposes, but it does also make it free to snapshot before trying out a system upgrade. If I hate it I can rollback my entire set of user data along with the OS.

      Though amongst many other wonderful things lost in the mysts of Mac history I still desperately miss NetBoot/NetInstall and ultra easy clone/boot with something like CCC and TDM. It's so fucking miserable now in comparison to do reinstalls/testing/restores.

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  • larsmaxfield  1 day ago

    Safari can't be upgraded past a certain point on older versions of macOS. That can cause certain websites to break. Minor but annoying.

    • MarleTangible  8 hours ago

      While we're talking about Safari, it also developed this bug where picture-in-picture leaks memory like crazy where it sometimes consumes over 80GB of RAM, gets compressed to nothing but freezes the app to the point where I cannot type anything in the address bar.