Personally, I see no advantage in changing OS's because Apple wants to sell more machines. I think Apple forgets about all their customers who will have migration difficulties with all their OS changes.Įl Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, and now Big Sur, this is really annoying. Is it possible to use my Time Machine backups to load El Capitan on the new iMac. This also raises my concern about other El Capitan apps not working on Big Sur. Office 2011 will not run on Big Sur, and I am not going to pay Microsoft a yearly fee for another Office License. I understand the Big Sur will not run 32 bit apps! What about the previous OS's? I am going to contact Apple Support again as I don't want to fiddle with anything on my own.I am considering a new iMac, or iMac Pro to replace my 2014 iMac which has been a great machine.įrankly, I am tired of Apple so quickly changing OS's so I am still using El Capitan, works great.ĭo the new iMac's come with Big Sur installed? The other folder duplicates the first and contains my productivity apps like Office 365, Google Earth, Adobe, Epson printer, Skype, Spotify etc etc. One looks like it may be the basic Apple folder and it is 705Mb. I have just checked my hard drive and I can indeed see two Application folders. But more recently I realised this is almost certainly a Mac OS problem because the bouncing icons in the Dock etc are also seen with other applications such as Adobe Acrobat, and with small apps (they used to be called widgets) downloaded from the App Store. During this period I re-installed both Office 365 and Big Sur and, of course, I have kept both updated throughout. For a long time I thought is was a problem with Office 365 and I had helpful suggestions from the Microsoft Community (although many of the suggested fixes were overly complex for a grey-haired fellow like me).

Three sessions with Apple Tech Support have failed to resolve it.

I suffered the same problem immediately after upgrading to Bug Sur.

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