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And since I'm adamant about never paying Adobe a dime to rent their software, I'll have to labor along with with Sierra as my OS ceiling unless and until I can find viable alternatives to CS.Īgain, Allen is right on the money with his post! So unless you can install an SSD inside your iMac, High Sierra would not be the way to go. macOS Mojave (10.14) will not even launch non-64-bit software. It got much, much worse under High Sierra. (That's why I keep bootable "clones" around with older macOS versions around.)Īpple has slowly been dropping support for all non-64 bit native software incrementally ever since Sierra. Under Sierra, I lost the ability to use a lot of Photoshop and Illustrator add-ons, especially filters and brushes.

It was splendid under Yosemite and El Capitan. When I went back, it was gone.Īs for your OS upgrading, if you have applications you love and rely on and can't get upgrades for (like myself and all my pre-Cloud Adobe Creative software), you would be well advised to be cautious.įor example, I have Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection 4. For some reason, Apple seems to move it around and it took me a week to locate it for a simple download (not install). And it can be downloaded from Apple, but you'll have to be patient in your search. Sierra (10.2.x) has been one of the most stable versions of macOS I've seen in years. The cursor gets jerky and the system stutters and stalls even under light CPU loads. On my 2010 iMac, High Sierra is intolerably slow. Personally, with a Mac your age, I'd steer as far from High Sierra as possible. I use SuperDuper! for my backups, the subsequent process of clean installation and "migrating/copying" is much more straight forward (plus I have more control over it).Īs usual, Honestone is offering sound advice. However, I do not know how "easy" it is going to be for you to do the clean installation, and then "migrate/copy" needed stuff, with a Time Machine backup.

Also, if you can down load the Install macOS Sierra file (it will be in your Applications folder), make a copy of it in another location. It would help if you could let us know the exact Mac model you have. Sierra would be a good option, and yes, you need to take an inventory of whatever third party software you have, in case you need upgrades. You would need to get the correct version for the Mac OS you are using. Note that there are different versions of Onyx available, for each different Mac OS. In fact, I will not upgrade to a new Mac OS until there are compatible versions of both of them for the new OS (along with 4 other critical programs that I have). I use it religiously (along with a commercial program entitled Tech Tool Pro).

It is rock solid, has been around a long, long time, and has had many positive reviews. However, I much prefer the excellent free software Onyx:

CleanMyMac used to be "problematic" (from what I understand), but it seems to have improved.