#Carbon copy cloner 3.5 7 update
#Carbon copy cloner 3.5 7 upgrade

Many people don't realize this, but if you apply the 'next major OS' upgrade to your Mac, Apple makes it darn near impossible to go back.

In either case, now is a great time to take another look at your backup hygiene. Or perhaps, like me, you're going to test it on your kid's Mac first and hope it doesn't wreck his Minecraft worlds. With the announcement of a ship date for El Capitan, perhaps you are counting down the days to when you can inflict it upon your production Mac.

#Carbon copy cloner 3.5 7 update

This update is free for CCC 4 license holders, and recommended for anyone currently running CCC 4. We released CCC 4.1.4 last week with a handful of minor bug fixes, as well as some enhancements and a stamp of approval for use with OS X 10.11 'El Capitan'. While the aforementioned restriction would prevent that version of CCC from opening on Yosemite, it was the underlying architectural limitations of CCC 3.x that made it not work on Yosemite. * Again, though, understand that CCC 3.5.7 was broken on Yosemite. If you're interested in the longer version of this explanation, see this article: Coping with Apple's pace of innovation in an application that can delete files.

CCC 4.1.5 introduces a mechanism that can proactively warn users if this situation arises, so we no longer restrict that version of CCC from running on a future version of OS X. In the past, CCC refused to open on newer OSes* because we were concerned that a future OS version would break CCC in a manner that could lead to data loss. We will issue a free update for that OS, just as we did for 10.11 El Capitan.ĬCC 4 license holders will not be prohibited from using CCC 4.1.5 (or later) on OS X 10.13 and later I would like to succinctly alleviate these concerns with the following statements:ĬCC 4 will be qualified and supported on OS X 10.12. That being a recent experience, many users share this concern. That has been the case with 8 out of the last 9 major OS releases over the last 13 years, with the notable exception being Yosemite, which broke CCC 3. Generally when a new OS is released, we offer a free update to CCC that allows users to continue using it with the same license on the new OS. 'I'm considering buying CCC, but I am concerned that a new OS will come out and I will be asked to purchase a new license to continue using CCC.'