Got a new Mac? Unless you’re going to keep the old one, you’ll be passing it on, selling it, or recycling. Here’s how to prepare the old Mac to go away.
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Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.
Proposed solutions will be published here on Monday morning. You could get all three this week, perhaps.
Safe mode, installing the Combo updater, re-installing macOS, and other potential solutions to get that update working properly.
How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.
From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.
The Finder, Disk Utility and Terminal show disks and volumes differently, according to their function. This can appear confusing in Catalina until it has been explained.
When you go to perform a clean re-install of Catalina, what should you do? Which volume(s) to erase or delete, and how to fix problems?
Suggested solutions and explanations for Saturday’s three riddles. Did you get all three this week?
Migration and inheriting backups from earlier macOS and Macs investigated and documented. It’s a smart system, but can take a long time. And a new version of T2M2.
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