Neil, I am afraid I am at the other end of the spectrum going almost instantly for upgrades/dates. Only the old iPad2 is frozen in the past and the iPhone, iPad4 and iMac are up with the latest. I always had a fondness for Snow Leopard, it was so stable and reliable. Hope your well backed up processes proceed smoothly. Severin
> On 17 Jan 2018, at 12:18 pm, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > > Hi Sev, > > I'm lagging a bit - finally, with some reluctance but accepting the > increasing need, I'm moving on from Snow leopard ;o) > > I'm currently upgrading a 2007 24" iMac to El Capitan (as far as that model > will go) and after years of successive migrations I've decided to start with > a completely clean slate - full erase and clean install and then take the > opportunity to re-organise what I bring over and what can be > deleted/archived - I have both clone and TM backups of the old set-up so I > should only lose what I want/need to lose!! > > Going fairly smoothly so far but one thing I have learnt is not to believe > OSX's estimates of "time remaining" !!! - but it generally gets there in the > end ;o) > > Next cab off the rank will be the 2008 MacBook Pro which also tops out at El > Capitan. > > > Then time to rebuild the 2009 i7 27" iMac - replacing & upgrading failed HD, > replacing superdrive with an SSD and fitting even more RAM. This machine > will be upgradeable to High Sierra but I think I'll just go with all 3 > machines running El Capitan while I move up the learning curve from SL - a > lot has changed from 10.6 to 10.11! > > When I finally get the main 27" iMac up to speed, Georgie will inherit the > 24" iMac - a big step up from the 20" G5 iMac running Leopard 10.5! > > > > Cheers > > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > > > > on 17/1/18 11:24, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: > >> A miracle it has just come up with 18mins > > Sent from Sev's iPhone > >> On 17 Jan >> 2018, at 11:15, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> I started >> the latest High Sierra update on my iMac and after the beginning it came up >> with ³installation in progress. Calculating time remaining ³. That was half >> an hour ago and static and no time remaining estimate. >> Should I just be >> patient? >> Severin Crisp >> >> Sent from Sev's iPhone > > -- The WA Macintosh >> User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe >> - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ____________________________________________________ Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) Mob 0484 624 741 mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> _________________________________________
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