The excitement of installing a new version of macOS, especially if its a High Sierra 10.13, is only tempered by the possibility of it not working properly or not being compatible with the apps you use most. Before you begin upgrade to macOS make a bootable backup If you haven’t started the process of upgrading yet, with macOS High Sierra and make a bootable backup. Do it now, before you do anything else. If things go disastrously wrong at least you’ll be able to boot from macOS’ Recovery partition and migrate all your data back to your Mac.

Go to Apple menu —> About this Mac Click on the Storage tab. To get some storage space back. If it doesn’t help, reboot your Mac. Some users reported their Mac was running slower after macOS High Sierra update. Battery drains too fast on macOS High Sierra.

You can use any backup tool you like – Apple obviously favours Time Machine, but you don’t have to use it. You can use, for example,, which comes with your Setapp subscription.

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Common macOS High Sierra problems While most new versions of macOS are relatively problem-free, it’s not unknown for users to have issues – particularly with a beta or.0 release. Thankfully most are easy to resolve. Here’s how to fix the most common High Sierra issues.

High Sierra installer won’t download If you’re trying to download the macOS High Sierra installer, you’ll need to have signed up to App Store. If you’ve done that, and managed to start the downloading process only for it to fail, force quit the App Store app. • Press Cmd-Alt-Esc or go to the Apple menu and choose Force Quit. • Select the App Store app and confirm you want to force quit. • Re-launch the App Store and try downloading again.

MacOS High Sierra won’t install If the download completes successfully but the installation doesn’t finish, force quit the installer using the same procedure as above. • Restart your Mac • Launch the App Store app and go to the Purchases tab.

• Find macOS High Sierra and click Install. If that doesn’t work, try deleting the downloaded installer (it’s in your Applications folder) using and download it again. If you have a copy of macOS Server in your applications folder, that may be the root of the problem. Delete it and try again.

Getting the rainbow wheel every few seconds after upgrade Check console.app and if you’re getting errors from sandboxd and hidd (IOKit), your problem is a third party software. It’s probably because it wasn’t supported by the new APFS file system. It tries to repeatedly update causing your Mac laptop to be stuck in an endless loop. To fix this issue, just find and remove this app and everything will be fine.

What if macOS High Sierra stops responding? If your Mac hangs and you can’t do anything at all, wait up to half an hour to see if that helps. If not, force your Mac to restart by holding down the power button and waiting for it to shutdown and then start again. MacOS 10.13 High Sierra keeps logging out In case you’re getting tired of you new OS kicking you out of your account on random occasions, there’s a chance it’s pretty easy to turn it off. For instance, there is a setting in your Security & Privacy menu that is responsible for that.

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• Go to Security & Privacy > Advanced and find the box saying “Log out after minutes of inactivity.” • Uncheck it. You can go even further and turn off the need to enter your password every time you open your Mac or turn it on. In the same Security menu find General settings and uncheck another box, the one saying “Require password after sleep or screen saver begins.” As you can tell, though, that it not the most secure option, especially if it’s your work computer or if you can expect other people getting a hold of it. If the problem occurs when you’re using Chrome browser, disable the hardware acceleration feature: look for Advanced menu in its settings and turn off hardware acceleration.