My girlfriend tried to replace her laptop computer from I believe was Catalina to Sequoia and after hours of wait, can’t go previous the login display. I then took it dwelling to strive repair it.
I can entry restoration mode nice and ran First Help on all volumes and containers, every little thing appears wholesome on that facet.
I then determined to reinstall Sequoia from there, on prime of the present system, perhaps one thing went barely improper throughout the first replace. Hours later, set up appears sucessful however very same situation, cannot previous the login display.
What I expertise is I attempt to login, then a progress bar seems as if the replace was nonetheless form of finalising, then will get caught at 75% and would not transfer. I even left it in a single day pondering it was only a bit longer. nothing modified.
I googled so much, seen folks speaking about secure mode, so I attempted that. I made it previous that progress bar to what seems to be like a extra regular macOS login display. I enter my password once more and now I’ve that pin wheel that but once more, spins indefinitely however would not appear to go wherever.
My subsequent answer was to wipe the drive clear and do a recent set up. Downside being she would not have any backups. So I hooked up an exterior drive and began trying an answer to backup her information from no matter software is out there in restoration mode. From Disk Utility it would not appear to be I can do a full picture of the disk or any of its volumes. I assume it is as a result of it is encrypted however I do not actually know.
I then tried to do an “Picture from a folder” taking a picture of her consumer profile dwelling. This failed as effectively after many hours with the error message “improper arguments”, that does not actually assist me in any respect. I then open a Terminal and begin copying information with an excellent outdated cp
. For some motive, among the information (not even system information, simply random footage, and many others) hit the error that does not make any sense to me: fcopyfile failed: Useful resource impasse averted
. What kind of impasse will a innocent image trigger I do not know. It’s price mentioning that it is all the time the identical information inflicting this error, even cp -f
cannot get by means of it.
So I am now in a state of affairs the place I both want:
- A dependable method to reinstall a working system with out shedding consumer information
- A dependable method to backup information so I can wipe the disk and do a recent set up.
Google did not assist other than confirming I wasn’t alone in that case, many individuals have iCloud / Time Machine backups which makes their life simpler than mine.
For reference, the aforementioned laptop computer is a 2020 Intel MacBook Professional 13″. That is all I do know as I can not entry {hardware} information and not using a working system (and all the strategy to do it from restoration mode failed for me)
Any assist or suggestion can be drastically appreciated. I am actually tech savvy and joyful to strive convoluted/difficult strategies so long as I will be assured they are going to work.