Perform Post-Installation Tasks

If everything has gone as expected, your Mac is now successfully running Catalina. (If things haven’t gone as expected, flip forward to Troubleshoot Upgrade Problems.) But there are still a few tasks left to do before you get to work—or play—with your new operating system. In this chapter I cover some important initial setup and configuration activities you should get out of the way right now.

Respond to Immediate Questions

Depending on your starting point, configuration, and upgrade path, you may see a normal desktop and nothing more after installing. In other situations—especially when you have a lot of third-party software—you may be immediately confronted with a large stack of overlapping dialogs and notifications. ...

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