When I read that several months ago I found the idea in my opinion clever, much more sensible in any case that people rushing like mad people to test betas. One has some chances to find a whole thread.but to find a single post seems not possible. I tried and tried and tried but could not find that post. does it affect maybe only the newest MacBook Pros? Why must the "users" folder be excluded from the back cloning ?Īnd what about the rumors I heard that every Mac receives "a firmware update" wenn installing Mojave, is it an urban legend which can be ignored or. I am curious about the reason of not cloning back the "users" folder to the computers HFS+ main drive once updated the 10.14.x auxiliary ("mule") APFS drive. hoping this can be accepted by all those non-Apple applications runnnig now under Mojave and in spite of having kept HFS+ ? ). While actively the "mule" is used only for Apple OSX 10.14.x updates, as you say, all non-Apple-OSX applications (Office, Adobe, etc.) should update, if I understand you right, directly in the HFS+ Mojave volume. the "mule" drive will have all the applications presently used under High Sierra (a clone of it, first made and then upgraded to Mojave APFS). ) with the inner drive of my MacPro End 2013 but at least (thanks God) no T2 chip to worry about.Īnd. Thank you very much Fishrrman for your very kind answer and detailed and clear explanation, which I appreciate very much indeed!Īlas, in my case, it had to work (hopefully. I just don't know, because I don't have one and can't try it.īut it DOES work when you're willing to boot from an external drive as described above.Ĭlick to expand. I don't know if this method can be used on a Mac's internal drive, particularly new MacBook Pro's with the t2 chip. When done, I power down, put the mule drive away, and then I can boot and run with my completely-updated copy of Mojave running under HFS+.īut again - it CAN be done, if you want to take the extra steps to do it. I then run CarbonCop圜loner on it, cloning the entire drive WITH THE EXCEPTION OF the "users" folder.Ħ. When done, I connect my "working drive" (USB3 SSD).ĥ. Software update "finds" the updates and then applies them to the mule drive.Ĥ. When an update is needed, I boot from my mule drive, and run software update.ģ. It's my ONLY APFS drive, and it is never used, except when an update becomes available.Ģ. I have a "mule drive" - a second hard drive (old, platter-based) that has a copy of Mojave running in APFS. It's a little more work than usual to maintain, but it IS possible and "do-able".ġ. I have an external SSD (connected via USB3) that has the latest version of Mojave on it running under HFS+. "You can't keep HFS and if you somehow manage to do (using CarbonCopy Cloner or by mounting the drive and copying stuff over) you will never be offered Software Updates or an avenue to upgrade your Mac."
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