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Take Control of Upgrading to High Sierra
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Take Control of Upgrading to High Sierra

by Joe Kissell
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
98 pages
2h 14m
English
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Upgrade Using Plan B: Clean Install

If you prefer a cleaner installation of High Sierra than what an in-place upgrade provides—specifically, one that gets rid of any disk errors and gives you a chance to weed out some types of user-created data—Plan B is what you should follow instead of Plan A. It’s also the right choice if you tried Plan A and encountered problems.

Much of Plan B is just like Plan A, so I refer to earlier discussions for some details. The differences come at the beginning (erasing your disk manually) and the end (using Setup Assistant to configure numerous settings and, optionally, transfer data from your bootable duplicate).

Start Up from Your Bootable Duplicate

Unlike Plan A’s in-place upgrade, Plan B requires a bootable ...

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