Upgrade Mojave to Catalina for FCPX?

[Bill Davis]

I hesitated a week to finish up a project in progress. Then ran a fresh TimeMachime image of my prior system. Then I totally erased my machine and did a clean install of Catalina. Since I’d already taken a leasurely week to find all my legacy 32-bit apps and trash them, the install went extremely smoothly over two half days. The following morning at 11am I had a session and utterly no issues. It’s been two months since and I haven’t had a single problem. Everything’s operating as expected and super smoothly. And that includes complex days when I’m juggling FCP X editing and live Zoom meetings, running multiple Apps and running both Safari and Chrome for different uses simultaneously.

My 16” MacBook Pro seems to totally love Catalina.

Just my experience.

[Oliver Peters]

Bill,

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but why did you feel the need to do a fresh install on your 16″ MBP? That’s a very recent machine, so it probably shipped with a version of Mojave. Right? Therefore, the OS update should have been very easy without any issues. Just curious.

– Oliver

[Eric Santiago]

Actually, I’ve always wondered if this was a bad move.
I’ve done this many times with brand new systems personally.

The only time it bit my @$$ was years ago when I couldn’t get GarageBand installed via online.

I seem to do this step a lot.

How does everyone feel about this?