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How to Clean Install MacOS High Sierra

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Some Mac users like to perform a clean install when a new operating system is released. Usually this is reserved for more advanced users, as a clean install means the hard drive is formatted and completely erased, removing the existing Mac operating system, and erasing all contents, data, files, applications – everything from the Mac is completely removed. This allows the new macOS High Sierra installation to be blank, kind of like if the computer were brand new, thus the name “clean install”. Users who opt for clean installations of macOS usually perform extensive manual file backups and then copy their important data over after the installation is complete, and then they must manually install all their applications again.

This tutorial will walk through how to perform a clean install of macOS High Sierra (10.13+).

Important note: A clean install requires the Mac hard drive to be erased, meaning all data, files, photos, movies, apps – everything will be erased from the computer. Additionally, performing a clean install can be a cumbersome and time consuming process that involves a lot of manual intervention with app installs, manual data backups, and then specific data restoration, which is why most users avoid the clean install process and simply choose to update and install macOS High Sierra as usual. A clean install is best used for specific reasons by advanced Mac users who have the capability and patience to perform these actions competently. Any failure to sufficiently backup data will lead to permanent data loss.

How to Perform a Clean Install of MacOS High Sierra

We’ll break up the clean install process into five main steps: backing up the Mac and all important data, creating a bootable installer drive for High Sierra, erasing the Mac, running through the MacOS High Sierra installer onto the freshly blank drive, and then manually restoring your data, apps, and files. This is usually a lengthy process that should not be taken lightly and without a proper time commitment.

1: Backup the Mac, Files & All

Remember that performing a clean install erases everything on the Mac. Literally every single thing will be erased; all data, all files, all applications, all photos, all movies, every single thing on the computer will be erased. Thus it is critical you backup your important data first. How you do this is entirely up to you, but it must be done.

Before performing a clean install, it is a good idea to perform two types of backups: a complete system backup using Time Machine on the Mac or something similar. Additionally, you will want to perform a manual backup of all of your important files, application installers, photos, videos, and personal information, by either coping that data to an external hard drive, or to iCloud Drive, or DropBox, or your manual file backup method of choice.

Do not skip backing up your data before going further. You will lose everything on the computer by formatting and erasing the hard drive. If you skip a backup, the data will be completely unrecoverable.

Backup the Mac

The advantage to performing a manual backup in addition to a Time Machine backup is that if you decide that a clean install is far too great a burden to manage you can just restore from the Time Machine backup. Seriously, do not skip making those backups.

2: Make a Bootable USB MacOS High Sierra Installer

You will need to create a bootable macOS High Sierra USB install drive if you haven’t done so already. This is so that you can boot from the installer drive, format the Mac, and then perform the clean install.

Follow the instructions here to make a bootable installer for macOS High Sierra. You will need a 16GB or larger USB drive, and the complete macOS High Sierra installer from the App Store.

MacOS high sierra boot installer

After you have made the High Sierra bootable installer, you can proceed with the next step of formatting the hard drive.

3: Format & Erase the Mac Hard Drive

With the MacOS High Sierra boot drive connected to the Mac, reboot the computer and hold down the OPTION / ALT key until you see the Startup Manager screen. At the boot drive selection, select the macOS High Sierra installer drive.

Choose the MacOS High Sierra installer drive

At the MacOS Utilities screen, choose “Disk Utility”.

Choose Disk Utility to erase the hard drive for clean install of High Sierra macOS

In Disk Utility, select your hard drive (usually named Macintosh HD) that you wish to erase, then click on the “Erase” button in the menu bar. Choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” as the format type and GUID Partition Map as the scheme, then click on “Erase” – THIS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON THE MAC, DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU HAVE NOT MADE COMPLETE BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA

Erase the hard drive for performing a macOS High Sierra clean install

Once the drive has been formatted, quit out of Disk Utility which returns to the macOS Utilities screen.

4: Install macOS High Sierra

Back at the macOS Utilities screen, choose “Install macOS” to install a new copy of macOS High Sierra. This will be the clean macOS install onto the freshly erased hard drive.

Perform a clean install by choosing Install MacOS

Click on “Continue” and navigate through the installer screen, selecting “Macintosh HD” (or whatever your hard drive is named) as the destination for macOS High Sierra to be installed on.

Choose the hard drive for the clean install

If you have an SSD equipped Mac, you’ll want to use AFPS file system which offers performance benefits, whereas other hard disk types won’t have AFPS available yet as an option until a future macOS High Sierra update.

Let the macOS High Sierra installation complete. When it is finished, the Mac will reboot and go through the standard setup procedure as if the computer was brand new. Enter your Apple ID, user account creation information, setup iCloud, and when complete with the setup you will be on a completely fresh and clean installation of macOS High Sierra.

5: Manually Restore Data & Files, Reinstall Apps

Now the fun part… you get to manually restore your important files, data, and reinstall apps that you want on the clean macOS High Sierra installation.

Most users who opt for clean installs will just copy files over directly from an external drive or cloud drive service, but you can do whatever method you want. As for reinstalling your apps, you will likely be downloading many of them from the Mac App Store, downloading them again from the developers, and perhaps restoring others from your manual file backup made in the first step. File and app restoration can take a while.

Use the App Store to redownload and reinstall mac apps after a clean install

And that’s it, once you’re all setup with your apps, files, and data again, you’re on a clean installation of macOS High Sierra!

macOS High Sierra desktop

What is the point of a clean install? Why bother with a clean install of macOS High Sierra?

Some users may be wondering what the point of a clean install of macOS is. The main objective is usually to start fresh, without any accumulation of old and outdated data, any prior data, files, settings, preferences, unwanted apps, or holdovers from ancient updates or long gone software.

Sometimes a clean install can offer the best performance for a Mac, and thus some users will perform a clean install for performance reasons. Much like when you buy a brand new Mac it feels quite fast, a clean install can offer a similar feeling sometimes.

Rarely, a clean install is necessary to overcome some dramatic software update failure or colossal mishap during a system software update (like an interrupted installation or a corrupted hard drive). This is pretty unusual but it can theoretically happen with situations like a power outage during a system software update, or a user erroneously removing critical system files or components, or similar catastrophic errors involving the core macOS system software.

The main reason to not perform a clean install is the potential for a hassle. It’s obviously a lot of work to thoroughly backup all of your data manually, and then to format a computer, manually restore your files and data, then re-download and reinstall all of your apps, it can take many hours to complete this process if not nearly an entire day to get your computer back to where you want it to be once all is said and done. Thus, the clean install process is really only best for committed users with advanced skill sets that don’t mind the burden or nuisance of recreating their digital workstation flawlessly and without data loss. It is infinitely easier to use the normal macOS High Sierra download and installation process, and that approach is best for the vast majority of users.

Do you have any tips, tricks, commentary, or experiences with a clean install of macOS High Sierra? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

October 2, 2017 0 comment
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How to Enable Night Shift in iOS 11 Control Center on iPhone and iPad

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Accessing Night Shift quickly has changed in iOS 11, and while Night Shift is still easily accessible via Control Center on iPhone and iPad, users will have to dig just slightly deeper to reveal the Night Shift setting toggle and be able to enable and disable the feature through Control Center.


For the unfamiliar, Night Shift is the excellent iOS feature which adjusts an iPhone or iPad displays color hue to be warmer during the evening hours, theoretically helping to reduce eye strain and perhaps even improve sleep by reducing blue light exposure too. Night Shift is really popular, and while it’s perhaps best used on a schedule to automatically turn itself on and off as daylight goes and comes, users can also toggle Night Shift off and on through Control Center whenever wanted. In iOS 11, the Night Shift toggles in Control Center are hidden however, but don’t worry they are still easy to find and adjust as needed.

How to Turn On / Off Night Shift in Control Center for iOS 11

Accessing the Night Shift toggles in iOS 11 Control Center is the same on iPhone and iPad, though due to screen size it may look slightly different. Here’s how it works:

  1. Swipe to open Control Center on the iPhone or iPad as usual (swipe up from the bottom of the screen)
  2. Tap and hold on the brightness setting slider, it’s the one with the sun icon (iPhone can 3D Touch the setting too)

    3. Tap and hold on Brightness setting to reveal Night Shift in iOS 11

  3. The display brightness slider will enlarge and reveal the hidden “Night Shift” setting, tap on that to enable or disable Night Shift in iOS 11

    4. The Night Shift setting in Control Center for iOS 11

If Night Shift is turned on, the settings toggle switch will be orange and state “Night Shift On Until (time)”, whereas if Night Shift is disabled it will state that. The “Until” time stated in the Night Shift toggle of Control Center is the time that is set in the Night Shift scheduling of iOS, which is recommended to enable and on the warmest tolerable setting for best results.

Night Shift enabled in iOS 11 Control Center

iPhone and iPad users can also continue to access Night Shift through the iOS Settings app too, where it is found within the “Display & Brightness” settings as “Night Shift”, with switches for scheduling, manually enabling or disabling, and to adjust color temperature.

Remember that when Night Shift is enabled, the screen will be warmer in appearance. That means the colors will shift to be more orange and brown on the display, almost having a sepia tone type appearance. When Night Shift is disabled, the screen will look as usual.

And that’s how you access Night Shift in iOS 11 Control Center! It’s always possible that a future iOS software update will give an additional option to directly toggle Night Shift off and on without long-pressing on the Brightness setting again, like how it used to be access prior to iOS 11, but that remains to be seen. For now, just remember to tap and hold on the brightness setting in Control Center and you’ll see the Night Shift switch.

Source: OSX Daily

October 1, 2017 0 comment
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How to Save Games on SNES Classic from Anywhere, Anytime

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If you have managed to get your hands on the coveted SNES Classic Edition, you’re probably interested in learning how the new optional suspend point save system works. Suspend Points allow you to save any game from anywhere, at any time, rather than only at a dedicated save point or by using the in-game save menus on Super Nintendo games. On SNES Classic, suspend points are a lot like saved states on an emulator, so if you have experience with those this should be pretty familiar to you.

Saving from anywhere in any game on the SNES Classic Edition with Suspend Points is super easy, but it may seem a little counterintuitive at first because it relies on using the systems reset button. We’ll review how this system works to save games from literally anywhere in a game, and also how to resume those saved games on the Super Nintendo Classic.

How to Save Games on SNES Classic from Anywhere

  1. Are you where you want to save in the SNES game? Good, let’s assume you have a game open and want to save the progress exactly where you are

    2. How to save a game from anywhere on SNES Classic

  2. Press the “RESET” button the SNES Classic console

    3. How to save a game from anywhere on SNES Classic

  3. You will be placed back at the main SNES Classic menu, now press the DOWN button on the controller direction pad to access the Suspend Point List

    4. How to save a game from anywhere on SNES Classic

  4. With the Suspend Point List visible, press the Y button to save the current game progress in one of the suspend point slots

    5. How to save a game from anywhere on SNES Classic

Each individual game allows for up to four suspend points to save to per game, so you can have multiple game progress points or multiple people can each have their own game suspend point to resume and save to.

How to save a game from anywhere on SNES Classic

Saving from anywhere is particularly great in tough games before a particularly challenging aspect, and RPG fans will undoubtedly use and enjoy the save-anywhere suspend points.

Admittedly it feels a bit strange to hit the “Reset” button on a console when you want to save, but that’s just how the Suspend Point system works on the SNES Classic. As of now you must hit the Reset button, there does not appear to be a way to initiate the suspend point process from the controller of SNES Classic alone.

How to Resume Saved Games on SNES Classic

You can resume any game from a suspend point by selecting the game from the SNES Classic main menu, then pressing direction down again.

Now simply navigate to the suspend point and hit Y to resume the game play at the exact point you left off and had previously saved the game.

The Suspend Points feature lets you save and resume games from anywhere on SNES Classic

Have fun playing those Super Nintendo classics! And if you can’t get your hands on a coveted SNES Classic, you will find that OpenEMU on the Mac is a fantastic emulator with SNES support, and you can browse through other emulator posts here if the topic interests you. Happy gaming.

Source: OSX Daily

October 1, 2017 0 comment
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How to Disable or Enable Auto-Brightness in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad

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Auto-Brightness is a screen setting on the iPhone and iPad which causes the device to automatically adjust the display brightness depending on ambient lighting conditions. For example, if you’re outdoors or in bright lighting, the screen would adjust to be brighter so that it is more visible, and if you’re in a dim room or outdoors at night, the screen would adjust to lower the brightness so that the screen isn’t as glaringly bright. Auto-brightness in iOS also can improve battery life by adjusting the brightness of the iPhone or iPad display down as the ambient lighting permits.

Some users like to turn off auto-brightness, or to make sure that auto-brightness is enabled on their iPad or iPhone. However, as of iOS 11, the auto-brightness setting has been relocated from the standard Display settings area to deeper within the settings of iOS. This has led some users to think that auto-brightness was removed in iOS 11, but in fact the setting was merely relocated.

How to Turn OFF or ON Auto-Brightness in iOS 11 on iPhone and iPad

The auto-brightness setting has a new home in iOS 11 onward, now contained within the Accessibility section of the Settings app, here is where it can be found:

  1. Open the “Settings” app and go to “General” and then to “Accessibility”
  2. Choose “Display Accommodations”
  3. Find the setting for “Auto-Brightness” and toggle OFF or ON as needed

    4. Auto-brightness setting in iOS 11 has been relocated

  4. Exit out of Settings when finished

The Display Accommodations settings mention that “Turning off auto-brightness may affect battery life”, which can be particularly true if you turn the brightness of a device up quite a bit but then disable the ability for the brightness of the screen to automatically adjust downward. If you’re experiencing rapid battery life drain with iOS 11 or other battery life problems then you should probably not turn off the auto-brightness setting and instead leave it enabled while toggling other features accordingly, like geolocation usage and background activity as discussed here.

For what it’s worth, the auto-brightness setting used to exist within the “Display and Brightness” section of Settings in iOS, but for whatever reason it was relocated to be deeper within accessibility settings in new iOS versions from iOS 11 onward. Just keep this in mind if you’re using the feature on different devices running different versions of iOS, since the relocation of options can be a bit confusing and lead users to wonder “where did the auto-brightness setting go?” Well, now you know!

Source: OSX Daily

September 30, 2017 0 comment
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How to Make iPhone Camera Shoot JPEG Pictures in iOS 11

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The iPhone camera will now default to taking pictures in a new HEIF format, rather then JPEG. This camera formatting change to HEIF came in iOS 11, but some iPhone users may prefer to have the camera continue to snap photos in JPEG format for broader compatibility with sharing, copying to a computer, and more.

We’ll show you how you can change the iPhone camera default image file type so that the iPhone will shoot pictures in JPEG format again. We’ll also cover a trick for leaving HEIF image format enabled but have those HEIF images automatically convert to JPEG files upon transfer to a computer.

The iPhone camera image format setting is new to iOS 11 or later. Keep in mind that HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) allows for greater file compression, meaning each HEIF picture file takes up less storage space than a standard JPEG image, sometimes up to half the size per image. While JPEG images are larger, they’re also broadly compatible without any conversion, and they might be easier to share for some users. Whether you want to use HEIF or JPEG for shooting iPhone pictures is up to you.

How to Change iPhone Camera to Shoot JPEG Format Pictures Again

Want your iPhone pictures to be captured and stored as JPEG, as it was before the latest iOS update? Here’s how to make the setting change in iOS:

  1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone and go to “Camera”
  2. Choose “Formats” and select “Most Compatible” to shoot photos in JPEG format on iPhone camera
  3. Exit out of Settings

Change the iPhone camera image format default to JPEG

With the “Most Compatible” setting enabled, all iPhone images will be captured as JPEG files, stored as JPEG files, and copied as JPEG image files too. This can help for sending and sharing pictures, and using JPEG as the image format for iPhone camera was the default since the first iPhone anyway.

How to Enable HEIF Image Format on iPhone Camera with Image Transfer Compatibility

lf you’d like to shoot and store HEIF images with iPhone camera and have them automatically convert to JPEG only upon copying to a computer, here’s the settings to enable:

  1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone and go to “Camera”
  2. Choose “Formats” and select “High Efficiency” to capture iPhone photos in HEIF / HEVC format
  3. Recommended, next to go “Photos” and under the ‘Transfer to Mac or PC’ section choose “Automatic” to automatically convert the HEIF images to JPEG upon file transfer

If you’re going to leave HEIF format enabled on iPhone camera, then being sure the automatic image conversion setting is enabled is a good idea, because it will automatically convert the HEIF format images into JPEG format if the pictures are being copied from the iPhone to a Mac or transferred from an iPhone to a Windows PC.

Future iPhone models will likely continue to use the HEIF format, but whether you want to use the new HEIF image format or the old traditional JPEG image format for your iPhone camera shots is entirely up to you. Just remember that while HEIF may save storage space on an iOS device, you may experience less image compatibility (before the pictures are converted anyway), whereas JPEG images will take up more storage but be universally compatible with basically any device, computer, operating system, or image reader.

Source: OSX Daily

September 29, 2017 0 comment
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How to Force Quit Apps on iPad with iOS 11 App Switcher

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iOS 11 on iPad features an excellent new app switcher, complete with an all new look and a multitude of nice multitasking features, as well as the ability to perform critical functions like force quitting apps.

We’ll show you how to force quit out of an app on the newly redesigned app switcher for iPad that comes with iOS 11.

Obviously you’ll need to have updated to iOS 11 (or later) to have the new app switcher and properly follow this guide. It’s worth mentioning that forcibly quitting apps on iPad with iOS 11 follows the same general mechanics as prior versions of iOS when closing out of apps, but the interface has been redesigned, and there are now more than one way to access the app switcher too.

How to Forcibly Quit Apps on iPad with iOS 11

  1. Access the App Switcher in iOS 11 on iPad by either swiping up from the bottom of the screen, or by double-pressing the Home button

    2. Access the App Switcher on iOS for iPad

  2. Within the app switcher, locate and identify the app(s) which you wish to forcibly quit

    3. App Switcher open on iPad

  3. Swipe up on the app you want to quit, pushing the app preview panel off of the top of the screen to quit that app

    4. Swipe up on app to force quit on iPad via App Switcher

  4. Repeat with other apps to force quit if necessary
  5. When finished press the Home button to return to the home screen

The brief video below demonstrates an iPad running iOS 11 and forcibly quitting apps. As you can see the app switcher is accessed, and then apps are quit by the swipe up gesture.

If you’re force quitting an app on iPad for troubleshooting purposes, typically relaunching the app is the next step.

If a particular app is repeatedly needing to be force quit due to experiencing difficulties, it’s also a good idea to try and update the app via the App Store.

Force Quitting Multiple Apps Concurrently on iPad with App Switcher in iOS 11

You can also forcibly quit multiple apps at the same time from the app switcher in iOS 11.

To force quit multiple apps at the same time, access the App Switcher as usual (double-tap the Home button or swipe up from the bottom of the screen via the Dock), and then tap and hold on multiple app preview panels. Then while tapping on multiple apps with multitouch, swipe up on them all together, pushing each off the top of the screen.

You can force quit multiple apps this way rapidly if need be by continuously swiping up on every app visible on the app switcher.

Source: OSX Daily

September 28, 2017 0 comment
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How to Force Restart iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

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Apple has changed how to forcibly restart an iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, with the device now relying on a sequence of three button presses to complete the hard reboot procedure.

If you’ve been trying to forcibly reboot an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus to no avail, it is because all of the prior methods to hard restart an iPhone no longer work with iPhone 8 models. The new approach to a force restart or hard reboot – sometimes called a hard reset – is relatively easy, once you learn how it works on the new devices anyway.

How to Force Reboot iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Force restarting iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus is now a three step process of using three different buttons in proper sequential order. The restart process is now as follows:

  1. Press down and quickly release the Volume Up button
  2. Press down and quickly release the Volume Down button
  3. Now pass and hold the side Power button, continue holding until you see the Apple logo  on screen

Note how forced restarting of iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus now requires the usage of three different hardware buttons on the iPhone, and the buttons must be pressed in the proper order to initiate the reboot process.

How to force restart iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8

Remember the steps for force rebooting iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8: Press Volume Up, press Volume Down, then press and hold the Power / Lock button.

If the hard reboot fails to start, perform the button presses again in the proper order.

Why Apple changed the force reboot steps on the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8 is not entirely clear, but it may be related to the new iPhone X model, or perhaps a future adjustment to iOS devices.

Is the new force reboot sequence easier, or easy to remember? That remains to be seen, but it is a bit more complicated than the earlier methods of force rebooting iPhone devices, which may help to prevent accidental hard reboots.

For reference, directions to force reboot iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, iPhone 6, 5s, 5, and earlier can be found here, and force rebooting iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 7 can be found here. Both of those hard reboot methods are quite a bit more simple and only require the usage of two buttons to complete the process.

Finally, it’s important to remember that a force reboot is usually not necessary for most tasks, and is generally best reserved for troubleshooting a stuck app, a frozen or unresponsive device, or something similar.

A standard reboot of iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus can still be performed through the regular method of holding down the Power button, powering down the device, and then holding the Power button again to power the iPhone 8 back on.

Source: OSX Daily

September 28, 2017 0 comment
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How to Create a Bootable Install Drive for macOS High Sierra

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Some Mac uses like to create a bootable USB installer drive for macOS High Sierra. A bootable install volume of macOS 10.13 allows users to perform a variety of tasks including formatting and clean installs, updating multiple Macs from the same USB flash drive installer (and without re downloading), and to use as a troubleshooting boot drive should the need arise, amongst other benefits for advanced and more technical users.

This walkthrough will detail how to make a bootable USB install drive for macOS High Sierra.

Requirements to Create a macOS High Sierra Bootable USB Installer

To create a functioning macOS High Sierra installer boot drive, you will need the following:

Beyond that you’ll just need a bit of patience and a bit of technical know-how or comfort following technical instructions. Making a USB install drive requires the usage of precise syntax at the command line with superuser privileges, using the wrong syntax could lead to unintended data loss.

How to Make a Bootable USB Installer for macOS High Sierra

  1. Connect the USB flash drive to the Mac, if you need to format it go ahead and do so
  2. Download macOS High Sierra installer application from the App Store* and be sure the complete installer is located in the /Applications/ directory
  3. When the installer has completed downloading, it will automatically launch – quit out of the installer when this occurs
  4. Open the “Terminal” application found in /Applications/Utilities/ directory on the Mac
  5. Enter the following command syntax at the command line, replacing “UNTITLED” with your USB drive name if necessary:

    6. sudo /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/UNTITLED && say Boot Installer Complete

  6. Confirm the syntax is exactly as written, then hit the RETURN key and enter the administrator password to start making the High Sierra installer drive *

    7. command syntax to create macOS High Sierra boot installer

  7. Let the installer complete, when finished you will be informed that the process has completed

Once you have created the USB boot installer drive for macOS High Sierra, you can either launch it immediately to install macOS High Sierra on the current Mac, reboot and startup from the USB installer drive, or eject it and use it on another Mac.

* Note: if you are getting a “command not found” error and you are certain your syntax is correct, be sure to check the file size of the “Install macOS High Sierra.app” as found in the /Applications folder. If the file size of the High Sierra installer is not over 5GB then you have the incomplete installer and will need to download the complete macOS High Sierra installer application as described here in order to create a bootable installer drive.

Booting from the macOS High Sierra USB Installer Drive

With the newly created macOS High Sierra USB installer drive connected to the Mac, reboot the computer. Immediately on reboot, start holding down the “OPTION” (ALT) key to load the boot menu. Select the High Sierra installer at this screen.

Choosing the macOS High Sierra boot installer

Once booted from the USB drive you can proceed with installing macOS High Sierra, using the Disk Utility tools to format or erase a volume, work with Time Machine, and other similar tasks.

MacOS High Sierra installer

If you had previously created a boot installer for the High Sierra beta you may notice the syntax is different for createinstallmedia is different with the final version, part of that is to accommodate the new file name of the application installer, and the remainder removes the necessity of the –applicationpath flag and directive.

Keep in mind that macOS High Sierra can only be installed onto supported hardware, if you’re uncertain whether or not a particular computer supports the release you can check this list of macOS High Sierra compatible Macs.

Do you know of another approach to making a macOS High Sierra bootable install drive? Do you have an easier method, or do you have any particular tricks related to this process? Let us know in the comments.

Source: OSX Daily

September 27, 2017 0 comment
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How to Download a Full macOS High Sierra Installer App

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Many Mac users who are attempting to download macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store will find that a small 19 MB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” downloads to the /Applications folder of the target Mac, rather than the complete 5.2 GB Installer application for macOS High Sierra. This is annoying because it prevents a single download from being used on multiple computers, plus the small installer requires an internet connection during usage to download the rest of the High Sierra update files. Additionally, the tiny 19 MB incomplete installer prevents users from being able to create a USB installer drive or other custom update options available through the command line, like skipping the APFS update.

This tutorial will show you a workaround trick that allows Mac users to download the full macOS High Sierra “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file at 5.2 GB with the complete installer tool set and all dmg files and associated Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/ tools, rather than the tiny incomplete truncated installer at 19 MB.

How to Download the Full “Install macOS High Sierra.app” Application

Warning: this method relies on a third party tool from an unverified third party source, if you are not comfortable with using unvetted and unverified software, and if you do not understand the risks associated with using potentially dubious software, do not follow this process. This is for advanced users only.

  1. Go to dosdude1.com here and download the High Sierra patcher application*
  2. Launch “MacOS High Sierra Patcher” and ignore everything about patching, instead pull down the “Tools” menu and choose “Download MacOS High Sierra”

    3. Download the complete macOS High Sierra installer

  3. Confirm that you want to download the complete macOS High Sierra install application, and then point it to a location to save on the local hard drive

    4. Confirm to download full macOS High Sierra installer

  4. The patcher app will notify you when the download is complete, when it is done downloading quit out of the patcher app

    5. Download of full macOS high sierra installer finished

  5. Locate the “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file you downloaded, it will be the complete installer application with the full Contents/Resources/ toolkit available

    6. MacOS high sierra installer complete download

* The “macOS High Sierra Patcher” application is intended for those with unsupported Macs and Hackintosh users, but any Mac user can use the app to be able to download the complete installer file from Apple servers. The source of this patcher application is a MacRumors Forums

You can confirm that you have the complete Install macOS High Sierra.app application by getting info on the file, the complete installer should be around 5.2 GB rather than the tiny 19 MB incomplete installer that requires additional downloads.

The complete macOS High Sierra installer downloaded

Why do some users get a small incomplete version of macOS High Sierra installer from the App Store?

This is not yet known, but it happens with the final version of macOS High Sierra installer as well as with some of the beta versions.

It is unclear why some users will get a 19MB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” when downloaded from the App Store, while others users will get the complete 5.2GB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” when downloading from the App Store. Interestingly, once a user ends up with the 19 MB version of the incomplete installer, that seems to be the only thing that will download for that user regardless of how many times the incomplete installer app is deleted and re downloaded.

Incomplete macOS High Sierra installer

The installer size and completeness inconsistency appears random, and has no relation to disk space, beta enrollment, software catalog, and other theories seem to be incorrect as well.

Do you know of another method to download the complete macOS High Sierra installer application rathe than the tiny incomplete installer that arrives for some users on the Mac App Store? Let us know in the comments!

Source: OSX Daily

September 27, 2017 0 comment
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How to Prepare for macOS High Sierra

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MacOS High Sierra is now available as the latest Mac system software update from Apple, but instead of jumping right into the installation process you might want to take a few moments to properly prepare for the macOS High Sierra operating system update.

We’ll review a few simple steps you can take before diving into macOS High Sierra. Let’s begin!

Should you update to macOS High Sierra now? Or wait?

Many users wonder if they should update to macOS High Sierra right away. Some people will immediately jump to downloading and installing the update, and others may wait a while. There’s no right or wrong answer to this question and it’s largely a matter of personal preference and individual requirements. With that said, if your Mac is working fine for you as it is right now, there is little rush to update.

The advantage to installing right away is you’ll get access to the latest features and security updates available in macOS High Sierra.

The potential disadvantage of installing High Sierra right away is the small chance that something could go wrong, or perhaps something may not work as planned after updating. Software update problems can lead to troubleshooting and annoyance, and if you don’t have the time in your day to troubleshoot a potential headache or restore from a Time Machine backup, then perhaps waiting until you do have more time available for potential troubleshooting would be warranted.

Some Mac users will also choose to wait until a particular point release update is issued, which is likely to be versioned as macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, 10.13.2, 10.13.3, etc. That approach is sound, as point release software updates typically include bug fixes and compatibility improvements to issues encountered by users.

Considering APFS, the new file system

The new APFS file system is said to improve performance, but in some situations it can reduce compatibility with older Macs or older Mac system software versions.

Drives and devices formatted to HFS+ (the longstanding Mac file system) can be read and written to by hardware formatted to APFS. However, drives formatted to APFS can only be read and written to by other devices also using APFS, or with other Macs using HFS+ but they must be running High Sierra. You can learn more about APFS compatibility with file sharing, boot camp, File Vault, Time Machine, and external volumes, here on Apple.com.

Check Compatibility with High Sierra

If the Mac can run MacOS Sierra, then that same Mac can also run MacOS High Sierra.

That includes most Mac, MacBook Pro, and iMac released from 2010 onward, but a few late 2009 iMac and MacBook machines also make the cut. You can see the complete list of MacOS High Sierra compatible Macs here if you are not sure, including directions on how to check your Mac model year for compatibility.

Beyond basic system compatibility, you’ll want to be sure your Mac has at least 10GB of storage free to be able to download and install the software update.

Backup the Mac more important than ever

Perhaps the most important element in preparing for macOS High Sierra is having a complete backup of the Mac. Installation problems are rare, but if they do happen often the only resolution is to format the computer and restore from a backup.

Failure to backup a Mac could result in permanent data loss of anything or everything on the computer.

You can use whatever backup approach you want, but using Time Machine is recommended because it is easy to setup and configure, simple to use, and allows for easy automated Mac backups. All you need is an external hard drive. If you are not regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine yet, you should start doing so anyway, but it’s absolutely critical to backup before installing MacOS High Sierra.

Do not skip backing up the Mac before installing MacOS High Sierra.

Ready to go? Download and Update to High Sierra

If you’re ready to install macOS 10.13 and you have backed up your Mac, then you can
download macOS High Sierra now via the Mac App Store.

Once the installer has downloaded, it will launch automatically where you can install the software update.

The installation should go seamlessly and without a hitch, but should anything go wrong you should be able to easily recover by restoring from a Time Machine backup made prior to the installation.

Whether you’re installing macOS High Sierra right away, or waiting a bit,

Source: OSX Daily

September 25, 2017 0 comment
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