

The most emphasized recommendations are to back up your computer and create a bootable disk in case you need to restore the operating system. Upgrading my operating system is not a common task for me, so I read all of the information Apple provides about how to do it ( ). That meant at least a few of my software applications would be incompatible and I’d have to upgrade them as well (i.e., dish out some money). My only choice was to upgrade directly to High Sierra, which made me nervous not only because it would be jumping up 3 levels, but also because High Sierra is based on a new 64-bit architecture. None of the download links I tried for them worked. I quickly discovered that El Capitan and Sierra are no longer available as downloads in the Apple store.

I’ll just upgrade to El Capitan, which is the next OSX in the sequence: One of the more promising tools I was considering for video conferencing-Skype for Business-requires Mac OS X El Capitan and higher (see system requirements). That’s because my students are in Newton, Massachusetts and I now live in Florida. I am teaching my Graphic Design 2 class remotely this semester. What started as a simple need to install a software program gradually grew into a larger, more complex series of events. Yes, you can have a snowball effect in sunny Florida! I know this because it happened to me this week.
