How to upgrade from an older Mac operating system to macOS Catalina or Big Sur<article>
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<p>Many people remember Mac OS X 10.6.8 fondly. Not just 10.6 Snow Leopard, but particularly its very mature 10.6.8 release, the final one in that series. It's considered a stable and perfectly fine version. It’s not a problem—until they want to move to a newer system, particularly macOS Catalina or Big Sur, and find there’s no migration path.</p><p>Apple offers Migration Assistant both when setting up a Mac (whether new or erased) and as an app within macOS, particularly to migrate user accounts and applications. As a source, you can use a Time Machine backup, a disk image copy of your macOS startup volume (via a cloning app, for instance), or another Mac.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3597998/how-to-upgrade-from-an-older-mac-operating-system-to-macos-catalina-or-big-sur.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to upgrade from an older Mac operating system to macOS Catalina or Big Sur
