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Thanks, Satcomer. Educate me on what a thunderbolt ¾ cable is please. Is that just a 3 or 4 thunderbolt cable?

Hey all - I am bringing an intern into my office to learn the ins and outs of Prepress. I currently use a Mini M1 and that will become the intern's Mac. I will get a Mini M2 (Studio I hope!). What;s the best way for me to clone all of my settings, everything so I still have the same functions as...

I appreciate all the help and encouraging words. I’m an Aries! I rarely give up, wave the flag of surrender. I love the Mac, I hate PCs! But to me, the $20 was less expensive than the time I was losing and not getting anywhere. I lost my wife a year and a half ago and feel now more than ever...

I give up. The Internet Archive install file was corrupt. So I downloaded the full install Cheryl linked above and it won't install because it is apparently an update and a version of Mac OS has to be on the receiving disk. I surrender to Apple! I gave in and ordered a USB startup drive from...

I can’t get to the point of right clicking on the installer and having it show the contacts. Maybe because I’ve been using an update instead of the original El Capitan. I did download what I think is the original El Capitan but won’t get to try it until tomorrow. UPDATE: I can see the contents...

Apple keeps throwing up hurdles. Apparently the installer is looking for an installed version to update and won't install 10.11 and of course there is no download for just El Capitan before upgrades.

You got me by seven years DeltaMac! I’ve been in prepress and on the Mac since 1986. Wouldn’t change it for anything. Maybe I should have started by saying I’m running Ventura 13.6.4. Mac Mini M2. I still didn’t see the GUID option in DU, so I ejected and reinserted the USB and then got that...

Wellll, this is turning into a bigger pain than I intended. I haven't been able to boot the old MacPro, hence the reason to create the bootable USB on the M2. So, on the M2, when I format the USB in Disk Utility, it doesn't give the option of GUID map. After formatting, the info shows Master...

Wow, DeltaMac, you saved the day for me before and this is quite the instruction sheet and I appreciate it. I had read about Terminal but I never realized Terminal you can drag and drop to complete the path. I will report back tomorrow with the results.

But what on the M2 will install that on the thumb drive?

Okay. I think I get what you’re saying. Use the DMG file to create a bootable USB thumb drive. I have 128 GB thumb drive.

Good Saturday - my Saturday project: I am attempting to make a new bootable HD for my old Mac Pro 2008 FROM my new M2 Mini. But I can't get the installer to not want to install on my new Mini. I have a formatted 1gb drive in my dock. How do I get the installer to see the new HD? I just...

I wound up adding the external to the exclude list and then removed it from the exclude list. And then it backed it up. Go figure. Thanks for the help and support!!

The external mounts just fine. I use it all day long for my work files. But when I launch Time machine, it doesn't back the external up. Let alone even recognize that it's there.

Hey Cheryl - the Time machine volume is created no problem and I can back up the startup volume. It just doesn't recognize my work drives on a partitioned USB 3 drive. Maybe I'll contact OWC and see how the drive was formatted out of their plant to make it basically plug n play for Mac and Windows.

Howdy - I have a 2020 Mac Mini M1 Ventura 13.4.1, connected to a partitioned 2TB OWC miniStack USB 3 hard drive. Partitioned into 2-1TB partitions. Formatted as Journaled HFS+, GPT. Nowhere in the documentation does Apple say what format Time Machine needs for external USB 3 hard drives...

Okay, that was easy. I had to go to AppleID and created the new ID there, then I could log in from the M1. What a concept - something easy with Apple! As it should be! Macs and iPhones are so easy, why is support like pulling teeth.

Of course, I’ve tried so many times to make this work, I’m told that I’ve exceeded the number of times to assign an Apple ID and need to contact Apple Support. Sheessh!

That’s it? Apple’s explanation is like a book. As always, thanks Cheryl!

Hey all - I had a Mini with M1 chip followed up with an M2. Both were under my Apple ID. I have now sold the M1 to the company I work for. I've been trying to change the Apple ID on the M1 to the company ID but it then changes my M2 and my iPhones, laptops, everything that I had under my Apple...