# Moving from WinOS to MacOS **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-from-winos-to-macos/106894 "2025-06-02T12:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yousef\_Ali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/87869e/32.png) [@Yousef\_Ali](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Yousef_Ali)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-from-winos-to-macos/106894/1 "2025-06-02T12:02:01Z")
Hi, i am moving from WinOS to MacOS .. it hard experience but i have to do it .. i have few question may i get some help . in WinOS i installed different Ignitin version on same machine , changed the folder directory sety , different service name , and i keep all service running manually .. In macOs i installed different version. first one `usr/local/ignition/` second one `usr/local/ignition1/` third one `usr/local/ignition2/` during installation , i didn't run ignition service once i run `/usr/local/ignition/ignition1.sh start` it run the first one... it seems by default it keep the first installation as default even we run the second or third one . ---
**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-from-winos-to-macos/106894/2 "2025-06-02T12:06:58Z")
Don’t bother running multiple installs of Ignition on one OS… wasting your time and it’s bound to go badly. Use Docker…