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 mitgrate to a newer computer with the same files, preferences, users, and other elements as their current one. That’s particularly true when they want to keep their system and essentially brain transplant it to the latest two updates, macOS Catalina and Big Sur, and find there’s no direct 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
