Re: Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread matthew dyer 
Hi Andrew,

If you have a bootable usb drive connected, holding down the option key for a 
few seconds then pressing left arrow once to select it should work.  HTH.

Matthew


> On Sep 28, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Andrew Lamanche  wrote:
> 
> Hi Listers,
> 
> Is it at all possible to downgrade from OS Sierra to El Capitan again?  If 
> yes, would it require a clean install of El Capitan and thus loss of all the 
> data?  Although my late 2010 Macbook air is listed by Apple as being capable 
> of running Sierra, I wonder whether it is too much to ask of it.  It may be 
> just on the border, and If I were not to be able to use Alex on it because of 
> the crashes, I'd be inconsolable.  No other voice seems to come up to 
> scratch.  And other voices seem to be more sluggish as well as interpret 
> things somewhat differently.
> 
> If a clean installation of El Capitan were to be necessary, I have 
> instructions on how to create a bootable El Capitan usb drive.  The only 
> question mark I have is - as you restart your mac with the option key 
> depressed in order to get a list of available booting disks - how can I 
> choose the usb drive reliably?  It's a matter of moving the right or left 
> arrow key once to select a different disk to start from but I can't remember 
> which way I need to move the cursor.  Any ideas?
> 
> Andrew
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Re: Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread christopher hallsworth 
Hi so on my girlfriend’s upcoming first ever mac will the c shortcut only work 
for USB? Asking as my late 2011 mac the c shortcut only boots from CD/DVD and 
not USB. Need to give her this information should she need to reinstall macOS.


> On 28 Sep 2016, at 18:43, Jonathan Cohn  wrote:
> 
> Doesn't the C shortcut work for USB in addition to CD/DVD boots? 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:17 AM Anne Robertson  wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> 
>> On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:13, Andrew Lamanche  wrote:
>> 
>> If a clean installation of El Capitan were to be necessary, I have 
>> instructions on how to create a bootable El Capitan usb drive.  The only 
>> question mark I have is - as you restart your mac with the option key 
>> depressed in order to get a list of available booting disks - how can I 
>> choose the usb drive reliably?  It's a matter of moving the right or left 
>> arrow key once to select a different disk to start from but I can't remember 
>> which way I need to move the cursor.  Any ideas?
> 
> Press the right arrow key twice to get to the USB key. The first press takes 
> you to the recovery partition.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
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Re: Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn 
Doesn't the C shortcut work for USB in addition to CD/DVD boots?

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:17 AM Anne Robertson 
wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>
>
> On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:13, Andrew Lamanche  wrote:
>
> If a clean installation of El Capitan were to be necessary, I have
> instructions on how to create a bootable El Capitan usb drive.  The only
> question mark I have is - as you restart your mac with the option key
> depressed in order to get a list of available booting disks - how can I
> choose the usb drive reliably?  It's a matter of moving the right or left
> arrow key once to select a different disk to start from but I can't
> remember which way I need to move the cursor.  Any ideas?
>
>
> Press the right arrow key twice to get to the USB key. The first press
> takes you to the recovery partition.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
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Re: Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread michael babcock 
How to downgrade from macOS Sierra back to OS X El Capitan | iMore
http://www.imore.com/how-downgrade-macos-sierra-back-os-x-el-capitan 


> On Sep 28, 2016, at 6:13 AM, Andrew Lamanche  wrote:
> 
> downgrade from OS Sierra to El Capitan

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Re: Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread Anne Robertson 
Hello Andrew,


> On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:13, Andrew Lamanche  wrote:
> 
> If a clean installation of El Capitan were to be necessary, I have 
> instructions on how to create a bootable El Capitan usb drive.  The only 
> question mark I have is - as you restart your mac with the option key 
> depressed in order to get a list of available booting disks - how can I 
> choose the usb drive reliably?  It's a matter of moving the right or left 
> arrow key once to select a different disk to start from but I can't remember 
> which way I need to move the cursor.  Any ideas?

Press the right arrow key twice to get to the USB key. The first press takes 
you to the recovery partition.

Cheers,

Anne


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Downgrading to El Capitan

2016-09-28 Thread Andrew Lamanche 
Hi Listers,

Is it at all possible to downgrade from OS Sierra to El Capitan again?  If yes, 
would it require a clean install of El Capitan and thus loss of all the data?  
Although my late 2010 Macbook air is listed by Apple as being capable of 
running Sierra, I wonder whether it is too much to ask of it.  It may be just 
on the border, and If I were not to be able to use Alex on it because of the 
crashes, I'd be inconsolable.  No other voice seems to come up to scratch.  And 
other voices seem to be more sluggish as well as interpret things somewhat 
differently.

If a clean installation of El Capitan were to be necessary, I have instructions 
on how to create a bootable El Capitan usb drive.  The only question mark I 
have is - as you restart your mac with the option key depressed in order to get 
a list of available booting disks - how can I choose the usb drive reliably?  
It's a matter of moving the right or left arrow key once to select a different 
disk to start from but I can't remember which way I need to move the cursor.  
Any ideas?

Andrew

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