Upgrade to Ventura - External Monitors still work?

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Upgrade to Ventura - External Monitors still work?

Greetings.

I have been burned too many times with upgrades of all kinds.

Would love to move to Ventura, however we are running 4x monitors off our Studio Mac under Monterey 12.6 Studio Monitor, HDMI and (2) older 2009 cinema USB displays. I am fearful Ventura (or any other update) will interfere with that.

Has anyone had similar configuration without issue? And if we experience issue, would we be able to go back to 12.6 from Ventura?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mac Studio (2022)

Posted on Jun 8, 2023 4:55 AM

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a brody

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Jun 11, 2023 5:19 PM in response to Chizzer

Downgrading is possible, although not very clean, unless you keep a backup of your libraries in the older operating system format. That includes photos, music, and movies.

How do I downgrade my Mac OS X operating … - Apple Community

You may want to test a newer operating system on an external hard drive boot before migrating over everything to a newer system.

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Chizzer Author

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Jun 12, 2023 2:05 PM in response to a brody

Excellent idea... I had not considered that.

I have DL the Ventura installer app - can I install it to any external drive or does the drive need to be specially formatted.

I have an external with two partitions - would it be possible to install it on this drive?

Thanks for your time. :)

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a brody

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Jun 12, 2023 2:10 PM in response to Chizzer

Erase it as APFS. Consider how much space is used on Macintosh HD. You can partition it so an exact replica of the Macintosh HD content is installed plus migration assistant to bring over the data when the install is completed. I'd add 50 GB on the external to whatever the Macintosh HD is. You can always increase the partition size later if you find you need it.

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Chizzer Author

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Jun 15, 2023 6:41 AM in response to a brody

Made the update, all is good.

Thanks for your time and advice.

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Upgrade to Ventura - External Monitors still work?

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