I upgraded to Calatina 10.15.3 only to learn that my Epson Scanner ( that I use extensively) is not compatible with this version. My mistake, I didn't read before upgrading. This is the most helpful video I've seen on downgrading from Catalina 10.15.3. Thank you!
same here the expensive Virus Ti2 synthesizer only runs on much older mac os x so need to downgrade to version before Catalina to get this very expensive hardware synthesizer to work!
worked brilliantly. thank you so much! whenever i upgrade my computer i ALWAYS instantly regret. normally I just figured its a lost cause to even bother undoing the damage but this was great. thanks so much!!!
I can't thank you enough! This video saved me so much time. I recently took my macbook pro into apple for a repair. They had to wipe it and in the process installed Mavericks. When I got home and did a recover, I realized that my final cut, compressor and a few other items were not compatible with that system. I thankfully saw your video and realized I could wipe my hard drive and then restore from my last back up (which was Mountain Lion). Worked like a charm! You saved me so much time (4 hours driving time), waiting and money to try and get them to install an older version. :):):) If you have a time machine backup this is the way to go to revert back to an older operating system.
This seems the easier process-at least compared to the downloading and creating a bootable drive process, but there seems to be less of a risk of losing files you’ve created and apps you’ve installed since the initial upgrade with the latter.
Great! Thanks for the tutorial. Planning to downgrade my late 2009 working IMac so I could use the computer as a second display to my newly ordered IMac (only works in IOS Sierra and prior.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 it's when you take the installing files of a version of mac OS and put it on a drive, which you can then use to install on another drive. Unlike time machine this will not preserve any old files and will cause your system to start anew with only the stuff that comes included with the installation of the OS
Yeah… I just spent a long time writing a comment with a few questions, but now that I am looking through this comment section, it seems like he didn’t respond to that many questions at all. 😢
I bought a refurbished mac that had newer OS installed and had to wipe to older version to use with my synthesizer gear. Since it was possible to wipe out, no need to take a backup.
I made a mistake of downloading Big Sur Mac OS and little did I know that both of my DJ sets don't support that software and now I have no idea when it is going to be available. *cries*
On the select a destination screen I click Macintosh HD but at the bottom it says “the system can’t be restored onto this disk because the hfs systems can’t be restored to space sharing APFS volumes. Reinstall macOS on this disk and then use migration assistant to transfer data from your backup instead”
All your videos are super helpful. Thank you so much. I had one question: I have too many files saved after I upgraded to Mojave from High Sierra so I was thinking of getting an SSD to replace the current HDD, Install it with High Sierra using bootable drive (following your video instruction :-)) and then bring the data back using the most current time machine back up (made when I had the Mojave). Will the back up bring Mojave back? Wouldn't I be able to bring back the data in full to the freshly install High Sierra?
I have an old MacBook Pro I want to give to my neighbors kids for school. I DO NOT want to use one of my computers backups. I just want the computer wiped clean (which I did) and then to install a fresh copy of an old OS as it is a super old Mac. this is like the most simple yet impossible feat in computers today. I just want an old copy of Mac OS that isn't someones time machine back up. I'm assuming I'm not alone this is ridiculously hard to accomplish.
I know your questions old, but it sounds like the solution would be to revert to your old operating system by using one of your time machine back ups, and then wiping all of your personal files off of the machine using a different method.
CATALONA UPGRADERS BEWARE..... My upgrade (2012 Macbook pro) was problematic with much erratic machine behaviour and non working apps afterwards.... went to restore to my fresh pre-upgrade time machine back up ... which was on a 32 bit drive .... and had real trouble getting it recognised by the Catalina 64 bit upgrade!
I”m George from Japan. I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mac OS Catalina. I don”t like how catalina works. I want to load the Old OS Mojave System back in my Mac to downgraded to this previos versión. The quetion is? Can I apply the procedure shown on the. video to downgrade to Mojave again?
Can you help? I recently bought a refurbished 13 inch MacBook Pro and I tried to do a factory reset but when I did the hard drive and the partition of the APFS did not show on my reset. And I’m trying to go back to an older macOS version. Again can you help or give advice please?
I tried to get the latest one and now it says OS X Utilities and i cannot go back to the normal way it worked there is no Home Screen or the apps at the bottom it’s just grey with a flag and WiFi symbol
hi, i need you help .. because i have macbook pro mid 2012 , which used to with mavericks ,the original system that it have when i bought. but i ve upgrade to high sierra and it go more slow , my question is : Can i downgrade to mavericks, even if ive never did a backup with timemachine?? i hope your answer..
Yes, since you don't need to keep your files, that's possible. You can restart and hold Command- R for recover mode. Apple has an article about it here: support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314
What do I do if I have no backups that are from the older versions (this Mac was shipped with Mojave OS but has since been updated to Big Sur and I’m not happy with it anymore and want to downgrade to Mojave) any advice?
I'm on version 10.14.5 & it's not working for me when I try to backan old version of os. I'm trying to get Sierra 10.12.6 all my old stuff doest work on my new laptop because it came with Catalina already on it.i also tried partitioning it with a Mojave version of boot camp assistant but it's not working because it's not compatible. someone help lol
Did you manage to get it to work? It seems one cannot downgrade to an OS version that existed prior to the one that came pre-installed on one's new mac
Press command and R button not the shift + alt+ command and R this takes you to a different thing as another website says.Catalina os is rubbish stick to Mojave.
ok so im a music producer and i updated to catalina, if i were to put all my beats and other files on to my hard drive and revert my update; i would be able to put those files back on my computer with the update i reverted back too (Pls reply i really need to know)
I recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.12 via 10.11. Don't like the later versions, lost many useful commands. Can I go all the way back to snow leopard? Have an imac late 2009
If you have Time Machine Backups all the way back to your Snow Leopard days, it would be theoretically possible to go all the way back. However, remember, it will erase and replace everything on your Hard Drive from those days, so you need to manually back up all your pictures and files etc.. However, Snow Leopard is getting pretty old, and things like Safari, won't view a lot of modern websites correctly and a lot of modern software won;t run on it. I would be very careful about going back that far.
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks Hi there! 😊 I sooooo hope you wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for me. They are kinda related to the OP’s question... Btw, my sincerest apologies in advance that this is going to be a long comment! I hope it doesn’t make your eyes bleed lol! My Mac Mini has been a brick since late August 2014 (a long time, I know!). When I upgraded the OS, it completely screwed me over. I was so upset because I didn’t think I could fix it (I thought I would have to pay an Apple repair company a lot of $$$ to revert everything to how it was before the upgrade, if it was even possible to do so), so I gave up and left my computer as an unusable brick, never using it again. 😢 I’ve only used an iPad and iPhone that were gifted to me ever since. I forget what OS I was using (it is possibly OS X Lion, as that is what my Mac Mini’s user manual says it came with), and I forget what OS I had upgraded to (it was upgraded to whatever the most recent OS would have been in late August 2014 - I can’t boot my machine to check yet, because the hard drive is full, so I need to learn how to boot it up in a special way to delete some large files first before I can proceed doing anything with it atm), but I know that I _DO_ have multiple time machine back-ups for it on my external HD, and should have a back-up that was done very recently before the upgrade was done. Hopefully they are “the right kind” of back-ups (idk if there were multiple ways of doing back ups). So my questions are: *1) Will this method work in my case too, where the two Operating Systems are that old (I see this video is only two years old, having been published in March 2019, whereas my upgrade catastrophe happened in late August 2014)?* This video gives me hope. I had to stop making content for my RUclips channel (under a different account name ofc) because of this massive screw-up. _It REALLY upset me soooo much, and still does!_ There wasn’t any info I could find at the time about how to fix anything myself, like a video like this - I figured that the back-up would only restore files, but unless I had a disk for installing my previous OS, I was screwed (and ofc Apple sucked with no longer giving us an OS disk with our mac minis when we bought them - my Mac Mini is from 2011). 2) The biggest reason I need to downgrade and revert back to a back-up is because (please don’t judge me) I was using a lot of pirated software in order to create the content for my YT channel… I have been disabled since 2004, and thus *extremely* poor. I was actually doing my YT channel in hopes that I could actually make some income to pad my low amount of social security income, but right when my YT channel was close to 1,000 subs to be able to monetize it, this catastrophe happened 😢... So yeah - I can’t afford to buy all the software I was using, nor rent it monthly like the OS I had upgraded it to was demanding of me. _ALL_ of the software I had pirated would no longer work with the upgraded OS (which I surmise is the main reason Apple created that damn upgrade, because it was a terrible “upgrade” and slow af!). If I can get my computer working again, I would love to give it another shot and trying to make my life better by making income from RUclips. Amazingly, I still have the mass majority of subs still subscribed to me, in hopes I come back to my channel. Very cool people! 😊 I never wanted to upgrade my OS... The *ONLY* reason I did so was because my boyfriend at the time had bought me a video game for Steam, and I had never used Steam before. Steam told me that I would have to upgrade my OS in order to run it’s platform. 🙄 I told my bf I didn’t want to upgrade my system, but he absolutely pestered me about it and guilted me so much about his wasting his money on a game I wouldn’t be able to play unless I upgraded my OS, so I finally gave in and did it. I really wish I had stuck to my guns/continued to listen to my woman’s intuition!!! So my second question is: *If I revert back, my pirated software should work again, right?* That is literally the only reason I would bother with trying to fix my machine. 3) My third and final question: *Do you happen to know offhand what buttons I press/hold down to boot my machine up in the way that I can delete files on it when the HD is full like mine is, so that I can proceed with trying to revert it to a back-up?* Actually, a side quick question (sorry!): *Are there actually different types of Time Machine back-ups??? If so, how will I know if I have the correct kind that will restore the older OS **_AND_** all the files I had on my computer at the time?* My external hard drive is full too, so I don’t have enough room to back up all of the files on my computer’s main hard drive before restoring/reverting. _SOOO SORRY_ again for rambling a bit there and writing so much. *Please forgive me for that.* Cheers! Thanks for making this video, btw! 😊
@@teresalogiudice3271 ya i did. First i cleared my internal hard disk then installed High sierra through a bootable device. Then from my backup i manually copied and pasted everything to the necessary folders.
@@teresalogiudice3271 okk. I think you have to reinstall your os. Do you have any timemachine backup. You can erase your hard drive and the restore from time machine backup.
@@prashuryagoswami6122 no time machine backup. because i tried at the beginning the cmd+r than i went to time machine then it just keep searching for it but nothing else
I have a 2010 Mac Pro running my Protools and interface with El Capitian. The startup drive is on a PCIe card SSD. Could I transfer that card over to a 2019 Mac Pro and use it as a start up disk so I don't have to change Pro Tools and interface and plugins and drivers for all my gear? Does anyone have any idea? The new Mac will get up to around 11K so I don't know if I can get one and then return it....etc. Thanks
So...if i HAVENT been PREVIOUSLY using a Time Machine back up....on an older OS that i want to go back to, or my current one.... Can i just select a drive, start and use and back up a Time Machine NOW...and THEN downgrade...and THEN restore from that just activated/ used Time Machine back up...? Thank u for ur timer in answering!
I am obviously not the channel producer here, but simple logic will tell you that if you create a time machine back up with your current operating system, you will not be able to revert back to an older operating system with that new time machine back up. You can see in this video where he shows that his time machine back ups use the previous operating system. You would see with a new time machine back up that it will list your current operating system, not older one. I know your comment is old, but this might help other people who have the same question.
If you installed them after you did your upgrade, then yes it would delete them. This will bring your Mac back to the time you choose before your upgrade using your TimeMachine backup. So, before you do this, you should manually copy and backup any important stuff that you've created since you did the upgrade that you want to roll-back.
What if you have never backed up anything and never added anything after the update after the process does it wipe everything clean or does it just go back to what it was before the update please answer me I need to know fast
No they wont be deleted because drop box is a website and app which is connected to the internet all your files will be saved there. You just need to log in to your dropbox account and all of the files will appear there.
You are reverting to the operating system at an earlier time from your Time Machine backup, so all the Applications you had at that time will come back. Any NEW applications or files or photos or music you have since then will be gone. So, it’s very important that you back those up separately so you can copy them back after.
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I wish the title clearly said ' from a time machine backup' that is a HUGE pre-requisite for this tutorial
Bro thank you. Couldn’t agree more. This should be the top comment
Shit wasted my time
Exactly, 12 minutes wasted.
I just downloaded catalina for my mac and christ its slow. This should help hopefully. Thanks
Spec of your mac? I want to upgrade my old mac to catalina
@@misterbondjoy I did it
And chrome DOES NOT WORK
I hope this vid helps
Same here! Should have known better, if it’s not broke, leave it the f alone 🤣
I upgraded to Calatina 10.15.3 only to learn that my Epson Scanner ( that I use extensively) is not compatible with this version. My mistake, I didn't read before upgrading. This is the most helpful video I've seen on downgrading from Catalina 10.15.3. Thank you!
calatina macos 12.0
same here the expensive Virus Ti2 synthesizer only runs on much older mac os x so need to downgrade to version before Catalina to get this very expensive hardware synthesizer to work!
worked brilliantly. thank you so much! whenever i upgrade my computer i ALWAYS instantly regret. normally I just figured its a lost cause to even bother undoing the damage but this was great. thanks so much!!!
I can't thank you enough! This video saved me so much time. I recently took my macbook pro into apple for a repair. They had to wipe it and in the process installed Mavericks. When I got home and did a recover, I realized that my final cut, compressor and a few other items were not compatible with that system. I thankfully saw your video and realized I could wipe my hard drive and then restore from my last back up (which was Mountain Lion). Worked like a charm! You saved me so much time (4 hours driving time), waiting and money to try and get them to install an older version. :):):)
If you have a time machine backup this is the way to go to revert back to an older operating system.
Thank you so much. I needed this info and it worked!
I really appreciate your Video. Thanks got I just completed Downgrade my MAC. This was not supporting MaC Monterey.
This seems the easier process-at least compared to the downloading and creating a bootable drive process, but there seems to be less of a risk of losing files you’ve created and apps you’ve installed since the initial upgrade with the latter.
can i downgrade without a backup because i’m probably gonna wipe everything anyway
yes in that case you need to download the instalment package for the specific OS and put it on a boot drive
I am SO glad I made a time machine because holy balls this would've been complicated
Great! Thanks for the tutorial. Planning to downgrade my late 2009 working IMac so I could use the computer as a second display to my newly ordered IMac (only works in IOS Sierra and prior.
Thanks so much, you helped me big time with this problem
What if you don't have a time machine backup?
My question
@ install an older Mac OS from a bootable pen drive
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What is a “bootable pen drive?“
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 it's when you take the installing files of a version of mac OS and put it on a drive, which you can then use to install on another drive. Unlike time machine this will not preserve any old files and will cause your system to start anew with only the stuff that comes included with the installation of the OS
a lot of good unanswered questions in the comments..... could you maybe respond to a few?
Yeah… I just spent a long time writing a comment with a few questions, but now that I am looking through this comment section, it seems like he didn’t respond to that many questions at all. 😢
I bought a refurbished mac that had newer OS installed and had to wipe to older version to use with my synthesizer gear. Since it was possible to wipe out, no need to take a backup.
Thank You UR Tutorial very Helpfull to down grade my computer. Thank You.
Is "everything" preserved when you restore the time machine backup? Things like library folders and items, preferences within apps etc? Thanks
super helpful, thanks!
thanks that was very helpful
Good vid but how i download the backup time machine app?
Why is there a music bed playing? We are trying to listen to your instructions.
So people could fuckin jam out dude
@@larine4459
lol!
I made a mistake of downloading Big Sur Mac OS and little did I know that both of my DJ sets don't support that software and now I have no idea when it is going to be available. *cries*
What if I don’t have a Time Machine. Why’s the next option?
On the select a destination screen I click Macintosh HD but at the bottom it says “the system can’t be restored onto this disk because the hfs systems can’t be restored to space sharing APFS volumes. Reinstall macOS on this disk and then use migration assistant to transfer data from your backup instead”
All your videos are super helpful. Thank you so much. I had one question: I have too many files saved after I upgraded to Mojave from High Sierra so I was thinking of getting an SSD to replace the current HDD, Install it with High Sierra using bootable drive (following your video instruction :-)) and then bring the data back using the most current time machine back up (made when I had the Mojave). Will the back up bring Mojave back? Wouldn't I be able to bring back the data in full to the freshly install High Sierra?
I have an old MacBook Pro I want to give to my neighbors kids for school. I DO NOT want to use one of my computers backups. I just want the computer wiped clean (which I did) and then to install a fresh copy of an old OS as it is a super old Mac. this is like the most simple yet impossible feat in computers today. I just want an old copy of Mac OS that isn't someones time machine back up. I'm assuming I'm not alone this is ridiculously hard to accomplish.
I know your questions old, but it sounds like the solution would be to revert to your old operating system by using one of your time machine back ups, and then wiping all of your personal files off of the machine using a different method.
Does this move all of my software, too?
CATALONA UPGRADERS BEWARE..... My upgrade (2012 Macbook pro) was problematic with much erratic machine behaviour and non working apps afterwards.... went to restore to my fresh pre-upgrade time machine back up ... which was on a 32 bit drive .... and had real trouble getting it recognised by the Catalina 64 bit upgrade!
Can you please make a video on how to downgrade Xcode version ? Thanks
3' 36'' Main video begins eventually. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Sorry for the long Intro.
what did I miss? You started out with OS Mohave and ended with Mohave. How was this a downgrade to older version?
he ended up with high sierra 12:12
wasted 3 minutes to find out out i need time machine : \ does anyone know how to do this without time machine
Analogue Waves Can’t & this video such clickbait he doesn’t show you the correct way
Hate how no RUclipsr says you need an External hard drive because it won’t work
Can you do this if you take a time machine backup from another Mac running an older version?
Thanks for your time, but you should put the right title on your video.
I”m George from Japan.
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mac OS Catalina. I don”t like how catalina works.
I want to load the Old OS Mojave System back in my Mac to downgraded to this previos versión. The quetion is? Can I apply the procedure shown on the. video to downgrade to Mojave again?
Catalina sucks and can ruin your programs
You can do the same process shown here.
Thank you 😊
You’re welcome!!
So only things on the macs hard drive will delete not the external
Can you help? I recently bought a refurbished 13 inch MacBook Pro and I tried to do a factory reset but when I did the hard drive and the partition of the APFS did not show on my reset. And I’m trying to go back to an older macOS version. Again can you help or give advice please?
I heard the later versions can cause problems and my Mac won’t shut down so I gotta downgrade
If you're not using Time Machine, and have your docs stored on a random USB Drive, do you still select Restore from Time Machine?
what about if we don't have a time machine with 10.13 on it? .... comon man
i wanna downgrade to mavirks/mountain lion cuz i love the looks.
And thx for this video
I tried to get the latest one and now it says OS X Utilities and i cannot go back to the normal way it worked there is no Home Screen or the apps at the bottom it’s just grey with a flag and WiFi symbol
Mine's said "this copy of the install macos application is too old to be opened on this version of macos" what should I do?
hi, i need you help .. because i have macbook pro mid 2012 , which used to with mavericks ,the original system that it have when i bought. but i ve upgrade to high sierra and it go more slow , my question is : Can i downgrade to mavericks, even if ive never did a backup with timemachine?? i hope your answer..
No, you can only downgrade and keep all your files if you had a Time Machine backup from when you had Mavericks.
thank you. but i just want downgrade to mavericks and i dont want keep all my files . i want to erase everithing and get mavericks . is this posible??
Yes, since you don't need to keep your files, that's possible. You can restart and hold Command- R for recover mode. Apple has an article about it here: support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314
thank you so much... i try it when i have time ......
I also upgrade from mavericks to high sierra and it makes my mac so fucking slow. Worst decision ever to upgrade to that OS version 😣
Mine stuck at select at destination... when i choose Macintosh option it shows Unlock but when i choose external hardrive it shows restore
What do I do if I have no backups that are from the older versions (this Mac was shipped with Mojave OS but has since been updated to Big Sur and I’m not happy with it anymore and want to downgrade to Mojave) any advice?
I'm on version 10.14.5 & it's not working for me when I try to backan old version of os. I'm trying to get Sierra 10.12.6 all my old stuff doest work on my new laptop because it came with Catalina already on it.i also tried partitioning it with a Mojave version of boot camp assistant but it's not working because it's not compatible. someone help lol
Did you manage to get it to work? It seems one cannot downgrade to an OS version that existed prior to the one that came pre-installed on one's new mac
will i loose any applications installed recently?
Can you use an SD card
Press command and R button not the shift + alt+ command and R this takes you to a different thing as another website says.Catalina os is rubbish stick to Mojave.
Oh so i needed to have already made the backup before the update? Guess im fucked
ok so im a music producer and i updated to catalina, if i were to put all my beats and other files on to my hard drive and revert my update; i would be able to put those files back on my computer with the update i reverted back too (Pls reply i really need to know)
im stuck on osx when i was on kac and now i cant play anything
do I need to back up if I don't have anything I want to save anything on my laptop?
No
How to run a application in root
Eg steam runs in Apple I want it to run in root
So how can change apple >root
It will great help if u do a video
Most applications shouldn't require you to run in root at all. What specific issue are you running into that requires you to run Steam in root?
Can I do this to downgrade from Catalina to mountain Lion
I recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.12 via 10.11. Don't like the later versions, lost many useful commands. Can I go all the way back to snow leopard? Have an imac late 2009
If you have Time Machine Backups all the way back to your Snow Leopard days, it would be theoretically possible to go all the way back. However, remember, it will erase and replace everything on your Hard Drive from those days, so you need to manually back up all your pictures and files etc.. However, Snow Leopard is getting pretty old, and things like Safari, won't view a lot of modern websites correctly and a lot of modern software won;t run on it. I would be very careful about going back that far.
thanks for your reply. I did reload snow leopard@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks
Hi there! 😊 I sooooo hope you wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for me. They are kinda related to the OP’s question...
Btw, my sincerest apologies in advance that this is going to be a long comment! I hope it doesn’t make your eyes bleed lol!
My Mac Mini has been a brick since late August 2014 (a long time, I know!).
When I upgraded the OS, it completely screwed me over. I was so upset because I didn’t think I could fix it (I thought I would have to pay an Apple repair company a lot of $$$ to revert everything to how it was before the upgrade, if it was even possible to do so), so I gave up and left my computer as an unusable brick, never using it again. 😢 I’ve only used an iPad and iPhone that were gifted to me ever since.
I forget what OS I was using (it is possibly OS X Lion, as that is what my Mac Mini’s user manual says it came with), and I forget what OS I had upgraded to (it was upgraded to whatever the most recent OS would have been in late August 2014 - I can’t boot my machine to check yet, because the hard drive is full, so I need to learn how to boot it up in a special way to delete some large files first before I can proceed doing anything with it atm), but I know that I _DO_ have multiple time machine back-ups for it on my external HD, and should have a back-up that was done very recently before the upgrade was done.
Hopefully they are “the right kind” of back-ups (idk if there were multiple ways of doing back ups).
So my questions are:
*1) Will this method work in my case too, where the two Operating Systems are that old (I see this video is only two years old, having been published in March 2019, whereas my upgrade catastrophe happened in late August 2014)?*
This video gives me hope. I had to stop making content for my RUclips channel (under a different account name ofc) because of this massive screw-up.
_It REALLY upset me soooo much, and still does!_
There wasn’t any info I could find at the time about how to fix anything myself, like a video like this - I figured that the back-up would only restore files, but unless I had a disk for installing my previous OS, I was screwed (and ofc Apple sucked with no longer giving us an OS disk with our mac minis when we bought them - my Mac Mini is from 2011).
2) The biggest reason I need to downgrade and revert back to a back-up is because (please don’t judge me) I was using a lot of pirated software in order to create the content for my YT channel…
I have been disabled since 2004, and thus *extremely* poor. I was actually doing my YT channel in hopes that I could actually make some income to pad my low amount of social security income, but right when my YT channel was close to 1,000 subs to be able to monetize it, this catastrophe happened 😢...
So yeah - I can’t afford to buy all the software I was using, nor rent it monthly like the OS I had upgraded it to was demanding of me. _ALL_ of the software I had pirated would no longer work with the upgraded OS (which I surmise is the main reason Apple created that damn upgrade, because it was a terrible “upgrade” and slow af!).
If I can get my computer working again, I would love to give it another shot and trying to make my life better by making income from RUclips. Amazingly, I still have the mass majority of subs still subscribed to me, in hopes I come back to my channel. Very cool people! 😊
I never wanted to upgrade my OS... The *ONLY* reason I did so was because my boyfriend at the time had bought me a video game for Steam, and I had never used Steam before. Steam told me that I would have to upgrade my OS in order to run it’s platform. 🙄
I told my bf I didn’t want to upgrade my system, but he absolutely pestered me about it and guilted me so much about his wasting his money on a game I wouldn’t be able to play unless I upgraded my OS, so I finally gave in and did it. I really wish I had stuck to my guns/continued to listen to my woman’s intuition!!!
So my second question is: *If I revert back, my pirated software should work again, right?* That is literally the only reason I would bother with trying to fix my machine.
3) My third and final question: *Do you happen to know offhand what buttons I press/hold down to boot my machine up in the way that I can delete files on it when the HD is full like mine is, so that I can proceed with trying to revert it to a back-up?*
Actually, a side quick question (sorry!):
*Are there actually different types of Time Machine back-ups??? If so, how will I know if I have the correct kind that will restore the older OS **_AND_** all the files I had on my computer at the time?*
My external hard drive is full too, so I don’t have enough room to back up all of the files on my computer’s main hard drive before restoring/reverting.
_SOOO SORRY_ again for rambling a bit there and writing so much. *Please forgive me for that.*
Cheers! Thanks for making this video, btw! 😊
Hey man i do not have a backup from before the update. Is there any way i can restore the data from the backup after update
i have the same problem. did you fix yours?
@@teresalogiudice3271 ya i did. First i cleared my internal hard disk then installed High sierra through a bootable device. Then from my backup i manually copied and pasted everything to the necessary folders.
I will try it. Thank you I will let you know if I did it. Because my computer is blocked at the login. No Name no password work.
@@teresalogiudice3271 okk. I think you have to reinstall your os. Do you have any timemachine backup. You can erase your hard drive and the restore from time machine backup.
@@prashuryagoswami6122 no time machine backup. because i tried at the beginning the cmd+r than i went to time machine then it just keep searching for it but nothing else
Can you restore from iCloud back up?
i do not have backup how to get it
bigsur is the worst update if you are a musician
I have a 2010 Mac Pro running my Protools and interface with El Capitian. The startup drive is on a PCIe card SSD. Could I transfer that card over to a 2019 Mac Pro and use it as a start up disk so I don't have to change Pro Tools and interface and plugins and drivers for all my gear? Does anyone have any idea? The new Mac will get up to around 11K so I don't know if I can get one and then return it....etc. Thanks
What if you dont have a Time machine backup!?
You *SOL.*
@@jambam6176 really?
So...if i HAVENT been PREVIOUSLY using a Time Machine back up....on an older OS that i want to go back to, or my current one.... Can i just select a drive, start and use and back up a Time Machine NOW...and THEN downgrade...and THEN restore from that just activated/ used Time Machine back up...? Thank u for ur timer in answering!
I am obviously not the channel producer here, but simple logic will tell you that if you create a time machine back up with your current operating system, you will not be able to revert back to an older operating system with that new time machine back up.
You can see in this video where he shows that his time machine back ups use the previous operating system. You would see with a new time machine back up that it will list your current operating system, not older one.
I know your comment is old, but this might help other people who have the same question.
Hey if I installed a vst or any loop kits to my fl studio or lodic would it delete those things to ?
If you installed them after you did your upgrade, then yes it would delete them. This will bring your Mac back to the time you choose before your upgrade using your TimeMachine backup. So, before you do this, you should manually copy and backup any important stuff that you've created since you did the upgrade that you want to roll-back.
What if you have never backed up anything and never added anything after the update after the process does it wipe everything clean or does it just go back to what it was before the update please answer me I need to know fast
I didn’t know that my time machine wasn’t on and I never owned an external hard drive I really don’t want to loose anything please help me
@@murdrvisuals9408 heyyy...have you gotten an answer to your questions...please help me
I downloaded Catalina and it deleted my version of Final Cut Pro and I had some projects that weren’t saved are those gone or can I get them back?
AM same
Do we need internet connection for doing this?
no
I save a lot of my files on Dropbox, do you know if those files will be deleted?
No they wont be deleted because drop box is a website and app which is connected to the internet all your files will be saved there. You just need to log in to your dropbox account and all of the files will appear there.
macOS Big Sur is trash.. it’s making my computer so laggy.. i really need to do this
big sur overheats my macbook. I'm going back to mojave
how to get a time machine backup?
before using a mac learn how to use it
So am I screwed if I have no backup? I need to use a program for Mac that doesn't work anymore... fucking Catalina.
Fucking Apple is more like it. It seems to be with their upgrades that they intentionally make them so programs don’t work.
mojave to mavericks?
will my applications delete ???
You are reverting to the operating system at an earlier time from your Time Machine backup, so all the Applications you had at that time will come back. Any NEW applications or files or photos or music you have since then will be gone. So, it’s very important that you back those up separately so you can copy them back after.
I'm doing exactly what you said, and when i pressed command R it restarted and my desktop came on as usual. what am I doing wrong.?
Howard Ellis keep pressed
Mac os big Sur looks like shit...Im gonna downgrade it to Mojave
i came here so wine works so i can play jojo mugen and other stuff
took you 5 minutes to say you were gonna restore from time machine backup. 0/5, horrible service
too much talking, going to another video
I can’t play ck2 anymore man wtf fuck this new update
Does this work every commenter like if works dislike if not