Recent content by michaelbp

When you used Migration Assistant, did it Restart at completion?

Caution for using Migration Assistant My BIOS was somehow corrupted. I'm pretty sure it was the Migration Assist process - when it ended, I think the program was trying to do a special ReStart (the mac way) - which changed the BIOS. After I reset the bios and rebooted, the Migration Assist...

Stuck on ASUS BIOS screen! I successfully installed Big Sur on my SSD. made a Time Machine backup of the new install. Used Migration Assistant to copy Programs folder from CCC backup to new Big Sur install. Migration Assist ended (I think) and restarted. Now system is stuck at BIOS screen - I...

I was not aware of Migration Assistant. Thank you! (there it is in my Utilities folder) That makes it much more comfortable to make a clean install. Thinking about the goofy extra volume, I suspect it was caused by multiple (failed) attempts to install Catalina and my poor understanding of...

More Information on disk space: The second volume is indeed the - Data volume. (normal in Catalina) but there is something wrong. the System/Volumes folder contains a second OSX Catalina disk Volume. (see images) with another system folder. it's (almost) a complete copy of the system folder. it...

if I do a Clean Install with a new SSD... Will applications work if I do a clean install of Big Sur on my new drive, and then restore the applications folder from the CCC backup? - I don't think you can copy an application from one mac and install it on another mac. it has to be "installed"...

I booted from my ccc backup. used Disk Utility to remove the Mojave volume. - you have to use the ribbon under View, to display the separate volumes, then select and remove the volume Tried to reboot from the installed Catalina - FAILED - I broke something. - perhaps Clover still had some...

My install routine say “not enough disk space to install” I’ve discovered that there is an extra volume* on the boot drive that almost fills the drive. Two volumes display in Disk Utility (but other utilities show 5 volumes) One is current install - Catalina One volume is my old Mojave install...

Re: your machine you have similar hardware (ASUS and a faster i7) - what iMac version are you using for your set-up? my CPU matches up with iMac 13,1 (my original build) but my GPU is a Radeon RX 580 which matches up closer with an iMac 19,1 (but the 19 has a much faster i7 CPU). My current OS...

Solution to my OCSysInfo errors: it would not complete the process of generating the hardware list 1. Installed some command line tools that were missing from my system: (info from apple developers forum) Run the following command in Terminal: xcode-select --install 2. I downloaded the...

OK, I installed Python 3.11.1 and the process gets lots further in the process but still produces some difficult to understand messages. Edit: A pip command in the code was also causing an error. I had to update the pip code too - it's part of python. ===message=== michaelxxx@iMac OCSysInfo %...

right, apparently this is a "Post Install" procedure. - I'm supposed to make a USB map after install. However, I need some help with OCSysInfo. it produces an error. ===error msg.=== Last login: Fri Feb 3 21:27:10 on ttys001 michaelpxx@iMac ~ % cd '/Applications/OCSysInfo-1.0.8/' &&...

More Info: ===from toolbox download=== From macOS macOS is not recommended for several reasons. You won't have features like guessing port types (as there simply isn't enough info for this) as well as binding companion ports (again, no info). However, there's also port limits to deal with, and...

The OpenCore Install Guide, under USB Creation suggests USBToolBox - BUT then the toolbox info says when working from MacOS to use USBMap instead. (USBToolBox is for use on Windows) USBMap has a nice Quick STart guide along with the download. After running step 1. Discover Ports and 2. Create...

Can I update directly from Catalina 10.15.7 to Ventura 13? in System preferences, clicking on Software Update gives me the option to upgrade to Ventura 13.2