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manual migration to El Capitan
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I’ve found that Exchange and Apple Mail are often a little wonky. Exchange works great for iPhones and devices. The problem is either Apple refuses to license Exchange Push, or MS refuses to add it to Apple’s desktop mail unless you get office 365 and the Outlook app. It’s very frustrating to want to use Apple Mail, but then find yourself waiting a long time after your phone notifies you of a new mail for it to finally show up in Apple Mail. I found IMAP solutions tolerable.
That LAUSD post sounds like something written by a PC engineer who is maybe just trying to avoid questions.
https://www.godaddy.com/help/apple-mail-mac-set-up-email-8903
If you have exchange on the phone and IMAP on the mac, it’s totally fine. To migrate your Pop over to IMAP on the old desktop:
- keep the pop account on, and enabled on the old mac
add a new account to your old desktop mail of the exact same email, but this time as an IMAP account (get the process from your server)
let everything load in, which depends on how many emails you have in the cloud. Sounds like you have a months worth.
Once the IMAP mail has loaded in, you’ll have TWO inboxes under a single all accounts inbox. Move the POP mail folders from the ‘on your mac’ section of the side bar to the ‘inbox’ subfolder of your newly added IMAP account
Let it copy over. This uploads all your old emails back into the cloud.
*NOTE: You might want to copy a few folders at a time (it brings subfolders over, don’t worry). It’s easier to navigate any upload errors you might get if there are less folders in a single batch of moves.Monitor the processes of everything with mail/window/activity to know when all your uploads are done.
Once done, go to your email on the new mac and put your IMAP account info in. All email, including the former POP ones, will now sync to MAC #2.
Side note, all these mails and folders will now be visible on your phone. You can select specific subfolders to sync in the mail app from folder view. Also you can pin favorite folders to the top of the list for quick access.
Even with this sometimes I found IMAP to be sluggish with Office365. I gave up on them and switched to FASTMAIL and couldn’t be happier.
I personally ONLY sync mail, and let my iCloud handle Calendars, Notes, and the like. This prevents me getting confused about which service has which mail accounts. We do this at the office, too.
Good luck!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
- keep the pop account on, and enabled on the old mac
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Charlie Austin turned me on to Affinity Photo on the app store. It has lots of el capitan photos extensions that fill in the gap. I did love my Aperture though. I still keep it for small non-personal projects and just create single libraries that I zip up when done. Photos does the rest. Affinities Skin Smoother is pretty great.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Reluctant to rely on third party plug-ins. It makes each update a concern. And the money adds up since they often have no incentive to make it work with each update. Nor does Apple always support these third party developers by helping them transition to each update. I remember when FCP X came out the buzz was that plug ins would fill in all the gaps. I’m not saying that there aren’t good plug ins for FCP X; but it is taking hold cause Apple filled in a lot of what was missing.
I suppose since Aperture still works, I could transition to a new app like Lightroom, but there are really mixed reviews if Lightroom really has the same abilities that Aperture has. The sense I get is better with some, less with others, like all pro apps. I feel fluent in Aperture and that’s the real problem with this constant learning curve of EOLing apps. When FCP 7 was EOL I was pissed cause I had started to get to a new level with it. But I felt really sad for the editors where using it was just an extension of their mind, the mechanics being mastered. That doesn’t happen over night.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/affinity-photo/id824183456?mt=12
Affinity Photo is about $50 and is a standalone app in the mac app store. Extensions let it ‘hook’ into Photos for specific tasks.
That said I’m not trying to sell you on leaving Aperture. I tried Lightroom and the lack of certain basic things like a blur brush made it unwieldy for me (yes, I know, make a sharpness adjustment and set it to -4 or whatever). I think Photos Library Manager app now lets you work back and forth with Aperture.
Affinity is slowly taking over for me, at least until another app comes along that’s even better.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[John Davidson] “Extensions let it ‘hook’ into Photos for specific tasks.”
FWIW – this is also true of Pixelmator.
[John Davidson] “I think Photos Library Manager app now lets you work back and forth with Aperture.
“And they both show up as visible libraries inside FCPX.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Craig Alan] “I could transition to a new app like Lightroom”
For what it’s worth. I was (am) a long time Aperture user. (I’ll try and refrain from going on a rant about Apple dropping products, then again, this is the proper forum for such a rant)
I’m not a big fan of Lightroom. I also don’t care for Adobe’s subscription model.
I finally decided (after spending a fair amount of time learning it) to move to Capture One. It’s a little more like Aperture than LR. At least in terms of not having to switch between develop and library modes. It’s very customizable. Plus, it’s RAW converter is better than both Aperture and LR. At least for my Fuji cameras. Plus, C1 can read your Aperture Libraries. While not perfect, it’s better than not.
It’s not cheap, but it does come with the ability to load the SW on three of your computers. (I think, haven’t tried that yet)
Capture One has lots of videos (long detailed ones) on You Tube, so trainmen is basically free.
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Well that sounds promising. Aperture still works so I’ll give it a year and see how this evolves. I have about 2.5 TB of raw shots to edit and organize for a multimedia video and not really in the mind set to learn a new program first.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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