![]() There will be performance and security updates as always, and new features – I am looking forward to the cursor locator, split view, auto hide/view menu bar, natural search in Spotlight, audio window identifier and 2FA. This is an update to last year’s five steps – the installer now erases and makes the USB disk an OS X Extended disk. This takes a few minutes and you are done! It will ask if you wish to erase the disk check that the volume name specified is indeed “MyVolume”, and then say yes. ![]() Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/MyVolume –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app Open the Terminal App (in your Applications Folder) and paste this exact command and press enter:.Plug in your 8GB (or larger) flash drive – rename it as “MyVolume” – exactly as this, with no space, follow the caps.Quit the Application which will startup automatically. Download the OS X installer from App Store – this is the longest part, depending on your internet connection.Here are the steps from Apple Support’s “ Create a bootable installer for OS X” (): Additionally, most of my data is in the cloud and I have a robust backup protocol in relation to my usage. I admit to not using many of these like I used to, as OSX has shrugged off many of the problems of the past. If your Mac is experiencing problems, an emergency disk with the OS X installer on a thumb drive is useful – I would also pack it with your favourite diagnostic tools such as Disk Warrior, Onyx, Cocktail or TechTool. If you need to install OS X El Capitan on multiple Macs, a bootable install drive is more convenient if you have a slow internet connection as you will just need to download the 6.21GB once. With those projects completed, I’ll just need to shift the lot to Dropbox or the archives, along with all my keynotes for public talks.Īctually, I already did! Create an El Capitan USB installer in four steps Some of my students had used for their thesis work as it offered them a higher capacity of free space compared to Dropbox. Yesterday morning, I learnt that will be kaput by May 2016. With a more convenient setup, I find myself doing local daily backups and shifting data to archives much more frequently. When not active, all hardware is powered off, and this visualisation helped me figure out the most efficient arrangement for cabling and a safe power supply arrangement. I will just have to ensure the drives are powered on until that is complete. I will now add those to CrashPlan, a cloud based backup plan – it might take weeks to upload but is a background process. The visualisation highlighted the fact my very old archives were only on a pair of redundant hard drives. So older data must be pushed to external drives. However, the very fast SSD hardisks on my laptops which make work so much faster, are not large. I would rather work with archives on my laptop especially when preparing lectures and talks. My archives were residing on external hardisks which had been replaced about every half decade to increase their capacity and pre-empt hardware failure.
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