Upstairs neighbor somehow paid no heed to my warnings to not download Catalina (for a 2012 laptop with old software).

And . . . her Time Machine backup is to the same hard drive.

Anything she can do without buying an external drive and moving everything onto it?

Theoretically possible, but she should get an external drive, so she can also end up with a proper backup.



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Depends, I think. Are you trying to get rid of APFS or just Catalina. I think you could just install Mojave over Catalina.

But....also what btfc said--get a backup!

It can be done in theory, and restore with Time Machine to right before the upgrade, but I’ve never tried.
[support.apple.com] Relevant info @1, and at the bottom of the page too.
Or she could try to sort the problems brought by Catalina.

Thanks. She thought she could get along without Microsoft Office for a couple of days, so I advised her to order a 1TB external drive from Amazon.

Let her know about the Libre Office/ Open Office alternative to MS Office.

Id just spend the $7 a month for 365. Also comes with 1 TB cloud.

Thats a $5 purchase by itself. More than enough room to keep ALL her Office files backed up to the cloud...

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