Coping with planned obsolescence.

[Walter Miale]

Stoopid question I guess, but. . . now do I just go ahead and download the OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update?

[John Rofrano]

Sound like you have it working. Just be careful with having two partitions with two different versions of OS X. As you have seen, sometimes apps from one partition will be visible to the other. Glad you got it working again.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Walter Miale] “Stoopid question I guess, but. . . now do I just go ahead and download the OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update?”

Yes, I would definitely get the latest updates.

~jr

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[Walter Miale]

1) Before getting the updates as per your recomendation, I started a manual backup of the ElCapitan partition to an external drive. The process kept stopping & needing a password & finally just stopped. Easier to use ChronoSync (question mark)— or what do you recommend. I dont want at present to back up to the disk that Time Machine was using to back up to before, and am concerned if I change disks to back up to, it may get messy after the El Capitan backup is completed.

2) Re re-naming disks: can this confuse the computer or otherwise present problems.

Thanks yet again.

[John Rofrano]

[Walter Miale] “Easier to use ChronoSync (question mark)— or what do you recommend.”

For backing up entire partitions I use Carbon Copy Cloner. It looks like ChronoSync will do the same. I like to make bootable backups so that if something goes wrong I can boot from the external drive in a pinch. I agree that you should be careful not to use TimeMachine to back up two different OS X partitions.

[Walter Miale] “Re re-naming disks: can this confuse the computer or otherwise present problems.”

It won’t confuse the computer because once you rename it, the OS will update any references to the new name. So I would rename the Snow Leopard disk while booted into Snow Leopard so that it’s fully aware of the change. The disk names are really just labels for the humans. Internally the computer uses device names like /dev/disk0, /dev/disk1 so the labels don’t matter much.

~jr

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