If you still run out of space after deleting some files, or you feel helpless about it, I recommend using the third-party application- PowerSuit which will help you to free up Mac storage by deleting application caches, logs, large files and duplicate files and more. Release the Shift key when you see the login window. Most macOS updates provide users with a separate update installation package to install and update.
Here is the download link of macOS Catalina Note: the macOS Catalina How to encrypt Safari bookmarks on Mac? Apple Care have NOT had anyone else contact them with this problem. AND they do not have a solution. Spent hours with them.
I have a Macbook air No problem with my Imac. One saying Mac and the other saying Mac- Data. Both the same drive with the same size but the data one seems to highlight the data. How do I remove the Catalina installer that I downloaded? Thanks for any help. The installer downloads into the Applications folder — you should be able to just delete it without any problem.
Thanks for the tips. I see that some of the old tricks from previous systems, almost all the way back, might still work on Catalina and Mojave which is on my previous laptop. Just a little more difficult to track things through the system and connect them all. I want to enjoy my Mac like I did early Apple products. It is what made Apple great back then and why Steve Jobs was successful. He saw what people needed, but also realized that computers could be fun and made sure Apples were….
Again, thanks for the help. The real problem? But just in case, I would highly recommend you call Customer Support at 1. I am also unable to install Catalina. My hope was that these problems were over after the incredibly difficult situation with Mojave. Odd, I also have a Mac, which is currently stuck in an unusable state after I attempted to update to Catalina.
If so, how did you get your Mac back to a usable state? Tried installing Catalina. A MacBook pro. Could this be a problem? At least the techs at OWC should look into it to find the problem or avert other problems with their SS drives.
Same thing happened to me. I recently bought an excellent condition Mackbook Pro from you. I had some real problems with Catalina and with the Migration assistant. I have a similar Macbook Pro I bought from you a couple of years ago. The old one works with it plugged into a stand-alone monitor, but is erratic when watching the lap screen.
Anyway, I tried to use the apple migration assistant utility and it froze during the transfer of apps, programs, and files from the source computer. I tried everything to get it up and running again and finally, the next day, I was able to run it when I held down command and R to put it in restore mode. From there I was able to reinstall Catalina in about 3 hours time.
I have about GB of stuff I need on the new computer so I can send out the old one for repair. I think it is a short or another problem with the screen of the laptop. Please advise me. I am a regular customer and have bought a ton of stuff from you including 3 computers, several hard drives and memory updates. In response to your second question, I would recommend calling OWC customer service at 1.
Perhaps someone here will have thoughts as well! Migration Assistant is usually the best method to transfer your apps, documents and files to a new Mac, but there are a few other ways. The harder item to move over are any third-party apps. This comes from a long history of very mixed success at copying apps to a new Mac. The exception is old Apple apps that are no longer supplied. You can try copying those, but I would not expect them to work under Catalina.
Third-party apps can be copied over, make sure you place them in the same directory as the original. Now for the hard part, to get third-party apps to work, you will also need to copy over any support files they may use.
Additionally, some locations in the older Mac system may be off-limits for you to copy to in the new Catalina system, so you may need to update the apps anyway to get them to run. So when Catalina went golden, as soon as I had some time I wanted to see if Catalina would solve my hang problems. I had a GB Boot Camp and a 2.
I created a bootable Catalina install flash drive and booted from that. I somehow managed to delete the Boot Camp and looked in the GUI at repartitioning the fusion drive and found to my surprise that there was a 2. I somehow managed to delete the Mac partition and was left with a 5. I then migrated everything back from one of my CCC clones. At first I though my situation unique, until I searched the Apple Community forms and found someone in a nearly identical situation.
I posted how I dealt with the situation, and he was able to get his system working by doing the same thing through internet recovery and installing from there. Verne Arase Former Sr. Deskstop and Network support same responsibilities, deprecated title Retired. It asked to quit the installer and select start up disk but none appear in the list.
My problem has been trying to download Catalina. I have a 75 mbps line. It starts downloading at full speed MBps but after the first gigabyte of the 8. Where am I supposed to store them, if not on my hard drive?
Anyone know? Especially since the new Catalina system makes use of a read-only system volume. You can place the Relocated Items you wish to keep anywhere in the user space, this can be done by placing them anywhere under your user name. In both cases, it was the same issue — Select the drive, click Install, get the spinning beach ball of death.
This was frustrating — until I tried to create one. Lo and behold! The same for my rMBP! I have a Macbook pro retina Early edition and when I chose the update of Catalina it hangs up on the download so then after a while I come back to the computer and see the preferences window is gone and I have to start the process over.
This has happened about times already. I am thinking of waiting until they get this ironed out. I treat them better than I treat humans. Thats the last MacBook Pro I will ever buy.
The increasing difficulty of user upgrades is frustrating to us all. And though it takes a little bit of skill, it is possible to upgrade the battery yourself on an early MBP. If you select your model here , it will show you the correct replacement battery.
Selecting your model on the Install Videos Page will lead you to an step-by-step instructional video for changing the battery yourself. Perhaps this can be a cost-effective option for you. I have a question about Hibernatemode 25 and Catalina. Up to and with Mojave you could close the MacBook Pro mid no retina and then the notebook was in deep sleep Hibernate mode 25 and did nothing until I opened it again.
Now under Catalina the notebook apparently only goes into retirement and no longer into deep sleep. But the hibernation mode 25 itself is activated. Does anyone know anything about this? Many thanks and many greetings DarkAqua. Tried backing up and directory seemed to be restored, but then was lost and back to the incomplete dir.
Working on this. The MBP stays at this point, presumably forever — I actually let it stay that way overnight once. Rebooting the MBP seems to resolve the issue as installation proceeds normally. That machine is currently booted from an external MaxStore drive, circa , believe it or not, so my guess is Catalina may not put in on that one. Hope Apple gets all these installation bugs eradicated soon!
Imac late with Catalina update, all ok apart from now I cannot access energy saver preferences. Any ideas to resolve this?
For those of you still having installation issues, we have posted a new article, How to Downgrade from macOS Catalina to Mojave or Earlier if this is something you are interested in trying. That downloaded and installed Catalina on my internal drive. That worked fine. When it asked if I wanted my data from my cloned drive or a Time Machine Back up, I chose the time machine and it took about an hour to decide what files to restore and then couple more hours to actually restore my data.
Would restoring from a cloned drive been any faster than from a Time Machine back up? Has anyone actually timed the difference between the two options?
When I tried to choose a startup disk, nothing appears. Not like Mac to leave me hanging. After installing Catalina many of my project folders are white instead of blue.
They seem to open as normal but is there a fix for this? It will create as a normal blue rectangular folder. So I shut the IMac down and restarted. The installation then was able to finish. After an upgrade install to Catalina i now have 3 Hardrives on my disk utilities, 2 of the Harddrives say Harddtve Data. I have tried closing the Catalina OS download screen and restarting it with no luck. The only things open are the download screen and the Finder screen.
Thank you. Hi i upgraded today. The log file is no help to me. I can restart, view the log, run disk utilities. Safari daily used Folder Bookmark Tool Bar in Safari put in adjacent folder — odd but easily sorted out. YouTube video in Chrome same issue.
I updated my MacBook Pro with Catalina Everything seemed okay. It shows up on my desktop and you can open it, however it cannot be used as a bootable start-up disk. FW is a no, no. However Apple has thrown us a major curve-ball in the Security Dept. You can start-up from an external drive, but you can no longer remove unwanted Apple Apps.
This is a real deal breaker for anyone that wants to customize their Mac using the latest Mac OS! However, when you open the System Folder you can see another Applications Folder where the Apple Apps are hidden away.
For now, I have the necessary answers. To me this is just really strange! However, for some kind of Security purpose, maybe Apple has a reason for this. If you think that using it is getting strange, you should try developing apps for it …. One copy has the cloud icon with an X through it. The other copy has the download icon next to it. On Catalina some of my folders look like a blank text edit file[white], same shape, not the shape of a folder.
They work as if they are a folder. Tried moving one from another Mojave Mac [air drop]. It still looked like a blank text edit file! The message says to uninstall, use the start up disc. But when the option to choose a start up disc appears there is nothing I can type. My only option is to restart and get caught up in the not enough room loop. Restart does nothing. Also having this issue. Every time I restart, I get the same message. I now have a very expensive unusable paperweight.
Two were vanilla upgrades and on my Mac mini, I created a new partition and installed Calalina on it, leaving Mojave on the other so I have legacy software working until the vendors upgrade, or not. I had a bit of configuration to do to reactivate extensions, but that was expected. Works better on my second display. Since downloading Catalina, all hell has broken loose. My password manager will not open.
My printer will not respond. Choosing this or any other file offered produces not effect. Broke the dual displays on my Late Mac Mini. The Thunderbolt-to-VGA adapter works. Apple support has no clue. Rolled back to Mojave and everything is OK. Apple support is calling back next week after I restore Catalina from a Time Machine backup so they can download the logs for review.
I had same experience as I did not risk installing Catalina on my boot drive, but on a different drive. When I started up on my Boot drive Mojave , I had this same problem you are describing.
I successfully installed Catalina, but then I found that my hard drive was locked and could not be unlocked in the System Preferences. All of my files were transferred to a folder on the desktop called Relocated Items which I can access. The only items in my hard drive are four folders labelled Applications, Library, System and Users.
Everything went okay, except for after the install when it was readying the machine for my personal data, it got stuck. I simply rebooted and apparently it by-passed that step. Everything is working well.
My old Doxie scanner was in that category and I have to move it over to Windows 10 with a work around. Now I just dual boot to an older version to use the scanner. Highly recommended on upgrading via ethernet connection to prevent loss of data packets.. I have a Mac Pro five, one with a metal compatible video card. However Catalina is refusing to download let alone install. What can be done? Unfortunately, the Mac Pro 5,1 is not one of the Catalina Compatible Macs being officially supported.
And though I cannot exactly recommend it, there just might be some hacks out there for you. Perhaps someone else will point you in the right direction.
I ended up optiong for Option-Command-R recoverry mode reboot. This allowed me to install the new OS via the internet boot recovery. Good to know I am not the only one with this problem. Installation of Catalina via the Recovery mode will be an absolute last resort. Will keep trying until then. I did not do a clean install. Precious to Catalina install I was having wake from sleep issues. Odd … as I am running Photoshop on Catalina as we speak … Did you try it and have problems, or just assume??
Been looking around for a driver but not luck.. Contacted OWC-was told to watch blogs they are working on it. Hi Bruce! As you can tell by the comments on this post, many people are having problems installing Catalina. We do take this stuff seriously, researching as much we can to try and keep people informed and updated. Watch this blog and scour others as much as you are able, and if you come across any useful information, please share it with us here — we will do the same!
I downloaded and and started the upgrade of Catalina. When the upgrade completed, it said it needs a touch-id or password to alter some system preferences to complete it successfully. I had only an option to cancel so I canceled the screen, it then went to a screen with a spinning wheel.
After Catalilna install, during the last phase of install , after I looked at spinny wheel for 3 hours, I powered off and then back on. The file list will show the last time you opened or used the file.
Delete images and videos shared on iMessage by going to "About My Mac," clicking the "Storage" tab, then clicking the "Manage" button. Choose "Messages" from the list to bring up the files. Typically, you can delete all of them. Deleting these files from iMessage won't delete the images or videos if you've also saved them elsewhere.
Question 4. Cancel the download and use a faster internet connection. First, check the speed of your internet connection. If your download is taking too long, that's usually the problem.
Your internet provider may provide its own speed tester or you can search "internet speed test" to find a free one. If it's lower than Mbps, here are some things you can do to speed up your connection: [7] X Research source Turn off any other devices that are using the internet.
Move your computer closer to your router. Use an ethernet cable to connect your computer directly to your router wired connections are usually faster than wireless. Start the download during off-peak hours, such as letting it download overnight. Question 5. Yes, you can also download Catalina from the App Store. Depending on the age of your computer and the macOS you're currently running, Catalina might not show up as available in the Software Update.
If that's the case to you, go to the App Store and search for "Catalina. You don't have to go through Software Update. Question 6. No, you can skip Catalina and go straight to Big Sur. If you're running Mojave Big Sur requires significantly more available storage than Catalina, so if you were having a problem installing Catalina, you might not be able to install Big Sur either. Question 7. Is there any resolution for this? I am running late mac pro with Check my solution here, I need feedback if it work.
Should also fix App Store purchased app issue. Search by keywords or tags Submit Search Clear search query Additional information about Search by keywords or tags Supported Searches:. Click again to start watching. Hello, I know there are mutliple threads about this issuer, yet this there is no solution found in them, and they don't exactly match up to the problem. If you notice any missing files, they can be found inside a Recovered Files folder in your home folder.
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