10-01-2018, 11:18 AM
El Capitan is not a supported OS.
Sierra still receives security updates and is likely to continue to receive support for another year.
Sierra is the better OS and the interface is nearly identical to El Capitan. From your complaints, I wonder whether the iMac is running "High Sierra" which is the OS released last year that's still a bit buggy.
Entourage didn't even run well back in 2001. It certainly won't run properly under El Capitan. Outlook from Office 2016 would be the current equivalent, but even so it has a very different interface from Entourage. It seems that Mavis has trouble adapting to new and unfamiliar applications and if so then she might be best off with Apple Mail.
If you intend to move her files from a recent OS to an older OS, you can't do so via the normal "Migration Assistant" route. You'll need to do a drag-drop copy of her data-files to the drive that has the older OS. One way to accomplish this would be via Mac file-sharing. Put both Macs on the same network, turn on file sharing in the System Preferences on the Mac running the older operating system. Connect to that Mac over the network from the newer Mac and copy her data-files over. However, this wont be helpful in respect of her application-settings and email. Those would need to be dealt with on a per-application basis and migrating email, in particular could get pretty complicated.
...Hoping that others can pick it up from here. I've got to get to work. Good luck!
Sierra still receives security updates and is likely to continue to receive support for another year.
Sierra is the better OS and the interface is nearly identical to El Capitan. From your complaints, I wonder whether the iMac is running "High Sierra" which is the OS released last year that's still a bit buggy.
Entourage didn't even run well back in 2001. It certainly won't run properly under El Capitan. Outlook from Office 2016 would be the current equivalent, but even so it has a very different interface from Entourage. It seems that Mavis has trouble adapting to new and unfamiliar applications and if so then she might be best off with Apple Mail.
If you intend to move her files from a recent OS to an older OS, you can't do so via the normal "Migration Assistant" route. You'll need to do a drag-drop copy of her data-files to the drive that has the older OS. One way to accomplish this would be via Mac file-sharing. Put both Macs on the same network, turn on file sharing in the System Preferences on the Mac running the older operating system. Connect to that Mac over the network from the newer Mac and copy her data-files over. However, this wont be helpful in respect of her application-settings and email. Those would need to be dealt with on a per-application basis and migrating email, in particular could get pretty complicated.
...Hoping that others can pick it up from here. I've got to get to work. Good luck!