#Chromecast for mac os sierra upgrade#
Step 6: Consider delaying the upgrade for a few days Millions of other people are going to be hammering Apple's download servers at the same time. MacOS Sierra is going to be several gigabytes in size, so make sure you have a good internet connection before you kick off the upgrade.Īlso, be patient. Specifically, make sure you have your Apple ID, because you'll need it when after carrying out the upgrade.Īlso, if you encrypted your backup, make sure that the only copy of that password isn't stored on your Mac, because if things go bad, you won't be able to roll the system back. Wondering why we back up first and then free up space? It's in case you goof up and delete something you need!
Then you can do a quick audit of the applications you have installed and delete anything that you no longer use of have replaced with a different app. Not sure of you have duplicated files? Use the trial version of Gemini 2 to find out. If you have a lot of duplicated stuff on your system - especially audio and video files - then a tool such as Gemini 2 should help free up some storage space. If you want to clear out the system caches, temporary files, and other detritus, I suggest running a tool such a Cleaner for Mac (it's free).
You might free up a few megabytes or hundreds of gigabytes! You can begin by deleting your trash (right-click on the icon and choose Empty Trash). How long this will take depends on how fast your internet connection is and when you last did a backup, so factor that into the equation.Īt the very least, you should plug in a USB stick and copy over onto it any important files and documents (just in case something goes wrong).
Alternatively, you can do an off-site cloud backup.
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