The Answer is no. You will not. All your data and apps will carry over: however, you need to be aware of something. There stands a small chance that some third party apps may not work. Now, don't let that scare you off. It's just a kind of cautionary thing they like to say just to cover themselves. Truth is, most apps should work just fine. There is one notable exception I want to make but I should do it as a new message as a matter of group ediquate.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in!!! > On Sep 30, 2015, at 7:29 AM, Eileen Scrivani <etscriv...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Please explain a bit more for me since I’m not clear on what you’re saying .. > If I upgrade to the new OS, will I loose the IBooks app from my Mac?? I > don’t yet have a lot of vital info on my laptop, so I have not been backing > up. However, I don’t want to loos IBooks, and if necessary I suppose I could > use the backup system I use for my Windows computer. . > > Thanks. > > Eileen > > From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mailto:listse...@me.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:13 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Removing iBooks In El Capitan > > Hi guys, > > I just wanted to let you all know that if you are among those who prefer to > zap iBooks on installation of Apple’s shiny new OSs, iBooks is not among > those applications protected by System Integrity Protection that is new in El > Capitan. Feel free to exercise the sudo rm -rf hammer to your satisfaction > on that festering pile (or is it pestering file?) and go back—yet again—to > the use of iTunes for book management. And if you have found a way to tame > iBooks so that you can back up your books from the keyboard, please tell me > about it. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.