

This Macrumors thread has a comprehensive list of compatible and incompatible apps. But for other apps like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud, make sure you have updated versions installed so you are not in a chicken or the egg situation after reaching the desktop. Prepare Your Mac Before Installing macOS High Sierra 10.13Īpps will need to be modified to support High Sierra’s file system, especially disk tools. In this article, we cover some things you should do before you download and install High Sierra on your Mac. Apart from the under the hood improvements, High Sierra comes with new features that give its predecessor a lot of fit and finish. The desktop is more exposed, too, with a file manager and more free range to roam, unlike iOS where there are strict guidelines for app developers and behaviors for end users.

Unlike iOS though, macOS is a more complex creature due partly to its need to support third-party applications that are not as curated and carefully managed as those found in the app store on iOS. This won’t work on Mojave however as even if you have root access, macOS prevents you from going down any further than the nodes folder in dslocal.We detailed APFS earlier this year during our prep for the upgrade to iOS 10.3. Ultimately, I was able to go into /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users and delete the. I went through a couple of fixes from various web forums, but nothing seemed to work – I couldn’t delete this user.

I also tried deleting the user using dscl in Terminal, but received an eDSPermissionError error and couldn’t do it. Upon trying to delete the user in System Preferences, it asked for the password of that user (not the admin user) and even when the password was entered, the account couldn’t be deleted. The problem we had was that we needed to delete the Sharing Only user and recreate that user account as a standard user. There were just two users on this machine, one admin user that we used for interactive logins and administering the machine and one Sharing Only user. I had a client with an unusual issue on a Mac mini that used to be a file server, but now is just sharing out some archived content and their Munki repository.
