12-19-2024, 05:31 PM
Tiangou wrote:
I'm curious: Did you migrate your user account and settings to the new Mac or did you make a new user account?
I wonder how much of your difficulty is simply not starting out with all of the little tweaks you've made to settings over the years.
I did not use Migration Assistant. I created a new user account, and have manually moved my files, etc. to the appropriate places. Other than the Music App losing all the album artwork for ripped CDs everything that I've moved has worked with out problems.
Other the adapting to the larger display and full size keyboard, what's been getting to me are the little things. Like the wake from sleep problem that I was having. I know it can probably be tracked down and eliminated, but is a pain and is annoying and may entail more expense. Haven't had the keyboard and not working after waking up since Saturday, but am still having issues with the keyboard not waking it. I keep tweaking settings hoping for a elimination of the problem.
Then there's the wallpaper not changing. I know it's not important, but it worked on the MacBook Pro.
There are a number of things with Finder that are an annoyance, one is the fact that it doesn't replicate the behavior of High Sierra's finder that I now know was a bug, but I still miss it. Also on High Sierra the icons for changing the view from columns, to list etc. were all displayed and could be changed with one click. Now there's one icon with a list of views, so you have to click, scroll, select. Nothing big, just different for no apparent reason.
The fact that the magnification controls in Preview have been moved from the left to over on the right bugs me.
Other than the wake from sleep issue nothing major just annoyances.
I also need to make a decision on moving to Quicken Classic Deluxe from my old Quicken 2007. I know this will be a big change and may not go smoothly, but I'm also aware that doing this will entail an annual cost. Quicken Classic Deluxe won't run on High Sierra, so if I make this choice there will be no going back.
I can't really stay with the MacBook Pro much longer because of it's age. One way or another I need to do something.
Mostly I've never experienced this before with upgrading my Mac or the OS.
ka jowct wrote:
You could look for a used 2018 Mini with decent specs. It can run Mojave and would probably be fairly inexpensive and less of a PITA.
Yeah, but that's already 6-years old and Apple will obsolete it and I'd be in the same boat I'm in with the MacBook Pro.