Big Sur update: Well I did it the Big Sur Update: What happened, #1- changed my wallpaper not in order of Importance. #2- lost everything saved on my desktop #3-lost Nik filters...

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Well I did it the Big Sur Update:
What happened, #1- changed my wallpaper
not in order of
Importance. #2- lost everything saved on my desktop
#3-lost Nik filters
#4-ColorMunki would not work
#5-Changed my colors on my monitors
Now after 5 hrs I have almost everything back to normal
Down loaded iStudio for ColorMunki
Found Nik filters still in my Adobe CC 2020 plugins folder and moved them to 2021 folder .Got a message late last night that My Nik collection would not work with Big Sur Must buy a newer version. Hummm it's working just fine.
Profiled my monitors, Colors looking great, the same on both monitors.
This is the first Mac OS up grade that has caused, such problems.

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

I'm running Mojave and it's very slow with some things.
My plan:
Install Mojave on bootable external drive because some of my SW will not run on Big Sur.
Install BS on my hard drive as primary OS.
Cross fingers and pray, pray, pray.....
I believe that I can actually run 2 different OS at same time.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jayluber wrote:

I'm running Mojave and it's very slow with some things.
My plan:
Install Mojave on bootable external drive because some of my SW will not run on Big Sur.
Install BS on my hard drive as primary OS.
Cross fingers and pray, pray, pray.....
I believe that I can actually run 2 different OS at same time.

You may not be able to run Catalina or Big Sur on your computer I had that happen on my 2009 iMac because I didn't keep up with all of the OS updates

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

Manglesphoto wrote:

You may not be able to run Catalina or Big Sur on your computer I had that happen on my 2009 iMac because I didn't keep up with all of the OS updates

I'm sure I can - It's a 27" 2017, 4.2 Intel i7

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jayluber wrote:

I'm sure I can - It's a 27" 2017, 4.2 Intel i7

Kewl

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

jayluber wrote:

I'm running Mojave and it's very slow with some things.
My plan:
Install Mojave on bootable external drive because some of my SW will not run on Big Sur.
Install BS on my hard drive as primary OS.
Cross fingers and pray, pray, pray.....
I believe that I can actually run 2 different OS at same time.

I fortunately had no serious issues upgrading my mid-2014 MacBook pro from Mojave to Big Sur.
But I did enjoy your reference to Big Sur as "BS"

wjones8637 Loc: Burleson, TX

Manglesphot wrote:

This is the first Mac OS up grade that has caused, such problems.

Not true. We bought a Mac that came with os10.0, spent two days trying to get it to work only to find out that we're to include update disks with the sale an CompUSA forgot to give them to us.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

wjones8637 wrote:

Not true. We bought a Mac that came with os10.0, spent two days trying to get it to work only to find out that we're to include update disks with the sale an CompUSA forgot to give them to us.

Oops I forgot to say no problems for me!!!!

Brian S. Loc: Oak Park, MI

jayluber wrote:

I believe that I can actually run 2 different OS at same time.

No you cannot run both at the same time. When you restart the second OS the first will be removed from memory.

You might (?) be able to do it with Parallels but I doubt it. If you did not mean at the same time yes you can boot from different versions of Mac OS but only run one at a time. And if you plan to run Adobe software on two different Mac OS versions once you get to number three there could be a problem with having more than 2 activated.

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

Brian S. wrote:

No you cannot run both at the same time. When you restart the second OS the first will be removed from memory.

You might (?) be able to do it with Parallels but I doubt it. If you did not mean at the same time yes you can boot from different versions of Mac OS but only run one at a time. And if you plan to run Adobe software on two different Mac OS versions once you get to number three there could be a problem with having more than 2 activated.

Thanks Brian - didn't make sense to me when I was told I could run both at same time. I'll work on this over the weekend. Appreciate your help.....

Brian S. Loc: Oak Park, MI

jayluber wrote:

Thanks Brian - didn't make sense to me when I was told I could run both at same time. I'll work on this over the weekend. Appreciate your help.....

Jay you can PM me if you need any help.

Brian

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

thanks Brian. I was gonna get Apple on the phone to help me set up Mojave on my external drive as a bootable segment, and BS on the maid drive.

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

It seems like there is a new operating system very frequently. Or is that just my imagination? I'm scared to update anything when I hear about all of the software that won't work any longer.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

I updated to Big Sur on an iMac and have no problems.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

kvanhook wrote:

It seems like there is a new operating system very frequently. Or is that just my imagination? I'm scared to update anything when I hear about all of the software that won't work any longer.

I haven't had Software not working other than when I didn't keep my OS up to date on my Macs.
I used to have problems with Windows not playing nice with software but that was not very often. Had more problems with hardware mfgrs. not updating drivers to work with the new OS.