I’ve got an older refurbished MacBook with SSD it was sold with Catalina but I upgraded to Big Sur and it’s slowed it down really badly takes ages to startup I can’t use Logic Pro it won’t even play two notes I bought the MacBook to use Logic. I tried downloading Catalina but it’s says the copy is too old. How can I get back to Catalina? Thanks.
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7Richard7 wrote:
I’ve got an older refurbished MacBook with SSD it was sold with Catalina but I upgraded to Big Sur and it’s slowed it down really badly takes ages to startup I can’t use Logic Pro it won’t even play two notes I bought the MacBook to use Logic. I tried downloading Catalina but it’s says the copy is too old. How can I get back to Catalina? Thanks.
You have to completely erase,reformat, initialize the parent drive as new and then install the older macOS to go backwards
ref: Apple— Restore Shipping Software
From Internet Recovery..
https://www.macworld.com/article/673171/how-to-install-older-versions-of-macos-or-os-x.html
How to download and install macOS - Apple Support
7Richard7 wrote:
I’ve got an older refurbished MacBook with SSD it was sold with Catalina but I upgraded to Big Sur and it’s slowed it down really badly takes ages to startup I can’t use Logic Pro it won’t even play two notes I bought the MacBook to use Logic. I tried downloading Catalina but it’s says the copy is too old. How can I get back to Catalina? Thanks.
You have to completely erase,reformat, initialize the parent drive as new and then install the older macOS to go backwards
ref: Apple— Restore Shipping Software
From Internet Recovery..
https://www.macworld.com/article/673171/how-to-install-older-versions-of-macos-or-os-x.html
How to download and install macOS - Apple Support
¿what is the date of your most recent backup, and by what method?
the only way to ge backward is to completely erase all traces of the old version of MacOS. then the shipped-in-the box version can be mantled, then the version you wish can be installed.
Other users are not seeing slowdowns caused by updating macOS versions alone. There must be something else you are running as well that is causing the slowness.
By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself.
¿do you have any of those installed?
Hi I’ve managed to get Internet recovery working but there’s no disk for me to select ‘where you want to install Mac OS X’ the hard drive is an SSD so not the original HD. I’ve found one answer where I’ve got to select partition map scheme and rename it the SSD in disc utility it hasn’t worked, anyone tried this?
How do I know which one is the parent drive to erase etc? it’s got three options in Disc utility.
Its a new SSD hardrive.
There’s no option to ‘Select the disc you want to install Mac OSX’ in Internet recovery.
what are the names of the three things you see"
MacOS Base system of size under about 2 Gb is the Recovery system.
macOS base system of size about 10 GB could be an incoming System getting ready to install.
Your drive to install onto must be larger than about 25 GB. Any of those? what name?
why are you working so hard to go backward?.
Any day now, Big Sur will be obsoleted by the release of a new MacOS, and will no longer get security Updates.
You should be working on figuring out why your installation of Catalina is SLOW, and all that takes is posting an Etrecheck report:
How to use EtreCheckPro for free
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I never suggested you should pay anything.
what I have been trying to suggest is that the MacOS version you are currently running is NOT punishing. Users do not complain that it is more demanding that the ones right before or right after.
I use a 2010 Mac Pro with four processors, and running MacOS 11 Big Sur without issues. it is NOT slow.
There is no need to work hard to get a previous version. Apply your energy to get the version you have running properly, and live happily ever after.
Hi here’s four images of what’s in Disc Utility, from this could you recommend what to choose and setup for the download.
7Richard7 wrote:
Hi here’s four images of what’s in Disc Utility, from this could you recommend what to choose and setup for the download.
Hi it’s an old MacBook refurbished from 2013 so that might explain the slowness?
I think it was refurbished probably last year with a new SSD drive.
Hi I’ve managed to get Internet recovery working but there’s no disk for me to select ‘where you want to install Mac OS X’ the hard drive is an SSD so not the original HD.
I’m not on Catalina. It’s Big Sur. I’m not paying thousands for a new MacBook.
How do I downgrade MacBook to Catalina from Big Sur.
