Glitches with transfer from mid-2010 Macbook Pro with Sierra to new M4 Macbook Pro with Sequoia

Kijake wrote:

Glitches with transfer from mid-2010 Macbook Pro with Sierra to new M4 Macbook Pro with Sequoia

I have messages popping up that won't respond to my attempts to throw them away. This has become a futile activity as I continue to click "Move to Trash" only to have them pop up again, in sequence over and over. It is frustrating...

You are jumping 8 operating systems... I would hardly call it a "glitch."

Do some house cleaning.

Do a Spotlight search if in doubt

Search for anything with Spotlight on Mac

Finder>Go>Go to Folders> copy & paste all the obvious places:

• /System/Library/LaunchDaemons for native macOS processes
• /Library/LaunchDaemons for installed third-party apps

• /Library/LaunchAgents for all user accounts
• ~/Library/LaunchAgents for a specific user account
• /System/Library/LaunchAgents for macOS only

still at a loss—

You can get a good look at your User/System config. and reveal conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com

With the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina (2019), applications will have to be 64-bit. App developers will issue updated apps if they want their apps to work on this newest macOS upgrade

32-bit app compatibility with macOS... - Apple Support

32-bit app compatibility with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later - Apple Support

Check Your Apps and Prepare for a 64-bit World

https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/index.html

Locate all 32-bit apps in System Info

http://osxdaily.com/2018/03/06/find-32-bit-apps-mac/

Kijake wrote:

Spotlight wasn't able to help. I'm not comfortable going into the terminal to muck about

no one made reference to Terminal...

the Finder is not Terminal.app

if still in doubt do a google search using your browser:

Nielsen KBM

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