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Walter Miale
May 17, 2017 at 2:07 am in reply to: Remote screen sharing & control

Im moving from obsolete software such as Eudora & Pagemaker & Photoshop CS2 & Snow Leopard to El Capitan and current apps. There are delays at every step of the way re backing up, and downloading and doing settings for new apps which is taking me forever since at the moment I am dual-booting. Most of this should be pretty easy for a knowledgeable person. and would be much easier for me with short phone support sessions.
Walter Miale
May 16, 2017 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Coping with planned obsolescence.

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.
Walter Miale
May 16, 2017 at 2:25 am in reply to: Coping with planned obsolescence.

Stoopid question I guess, but. . . now do I just go ahead and download the OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update?
Walter Miale
May 16, 2017 at 2:19 am in reply to: Replacement Browser

One problem with Chrome on Snow Leopard is I have only 4 Gb Ram, and with more than 20 or so open tabs everything gets real sluggish, and after a crash or just a re-start tabs go missing & I have to go looking for them.

So. . . stay with Chrome on El Capitan or what?
Walter Miale
May 16, 2017 at 2:08 am in reply to: Coping with planned obsolescence.

Hey the tabs are back on Chrome! (although the Dock icon wouldn’t work). A link turned up in an email in Eudora & I clicked & there it was. . . . . . Am I the only one who finds it nervewracking to tinker with software?
Walter Miale
May 15, 2017 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Coping with planned obsolescence.

Oh yeah—-The Reply button. Sorry for the confusion. Heres the query again:

As per instructions I installed El Capitan on a dedicated partition on the internal drive. Now when I click on Startup Disk in System Prefs, the drive partitions other than El Capitan are greyed out, so I cant restart on the old system. So of course I cant access Eudora etc. plus I cant figure out how to get started w Apple Mail. HELP!

Further: should I install the El Capitan update ASAP (question mark). . .
. . . and then install Affinity, and-or. . .
go back to the OS 10.6.8 partition (assuming I can get there!) and install CS2