Dear WeatherCat followers of
da' cult of Apple, It is official, macOS Mojave is going to
"hit the Internet" this coming Monday. This should raise two somewhat independent issues for the WeatherCat community:
- When to upgrade to Mojave on any Mac you own?
- When to upgrade to Mojave on the Mac that runs your WeatherCat installation?
As a general rule, upgrading operating systems is easier on newer hardware and on systems with fewer and newer applications. Potential problems increase for older Macs and for Macs with many applications - especially older ones. So that's one way to look over the problem.
In the past, Stu has recommended against installing a new version of macOS until at least the first round of bug fixes. Stu is extremely busy these days so should WeatherCat have issues with Mojave, he might not be able to fix it as fast as in the past.
In the end it is your decision and your decision alone. However, when it comes to upgrading your Mac that runs WeatherCat basically you need to decide if reliability is more important than being up-to-date. Many of us take great pride in uploading data to various sources and keeping our websites on line. You need to decide how much you want to risk that by upgrading to Mojave.
As is true for any operating system upgrade make sure you have confirmed that your system is healthy. Make sure your backups are valid, and at the very least, run Disk First Aid on all your disk drives before upgrading.
Every time Apple updates macOS we have a few people come to the forum with various sad stories about how their WeatherCat installation no longer works.
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This time beware! You have been forewarned! . . .
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. Believe it or not, I just went through the operating system grind and finally am running High Sierra. My thinking was that this was the last easy opportunity to do this and I didn't want to fall more than one version behind the current version of macOS. So far my system is mostly weathering the change except that my
WC AppleScript Tags Processor is reporting a very mysterious missing file error. Adding to the mystery is that file is exactly where is it supposed to be. These are the sorts of surprises to expect on any OS upgrade.