The restore is done purely using system resources; SuperDuper! is not used at all. You create the Big Sur version by installing the OS from Apple and then using system-provided migrate procedure to add the data. The nice thing about clones (or under Big Sur, data clones) is that they don’t require the creation software for the restores.
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Ok, Thanks Alan!
First time poster.
Upgraded last week to BS. On my 2020 MBP, which i got in June 2020… after 10 years on a 2009 MBP running Snow Leopard. lol. ( I got the new machine in the middle of the pandemic b/c it would not support the Zoom upgrades.)
The new machine (came with Catalina) upgraded to BS with one irrelevant hiccup. No issues.
I abandoned Apple’s mail program >6 years ago b/c I found it buggy and unreliable. Just my 2 centimes.
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I’m curious, what do you use instead?
jclark: I use gmail. I find it safe, protective and easy.
Odd, my sacrificial Mac with BS also had poor power management while asleep (always warm), but it got better as soon as I turned off PowerNap. (It’s virtually always plugged in, so I have no data on battery usage.)
My 0.02. I abandonned all Mail apps to get rid of any mail app databases mushrooming; failures of different kinds to send receive; contacts sync issues; backup bloat and slowdowns due to #1.
I now just use gmail in browser or gmail app on iOS.
No more technical issues or glitches.
I upgraded my iMac to Big Sur a few weeks ago and was initially pleased with performance and look and feel. Since then about 1 weaken Mail failed and now will not import al the mail living in it’s buried folder in Library/ etc it crashes out variously after importing thousands of emails. I have taken backup copies of the mail database into Eaglefiler in case of catastrophic losses. Called apple support and guess what have I upgrade to the latest version of Big Sur - well no so I did. No change now on 11.3.1 and just the sam. Will try Apple support again (ah but wait OS has just been upgraded to V11.4 so better upgrade to that or I will get nowhere.
As an alternative and to keep working I added my main accounts to Outlook and proceeded without difficulty using that until today when lo and behold Outlook now crashes ( I will reboot when I have finished what i am doing but for now it restarts all the time and the error is "Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0
Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
ExceptionEnumString: 1
Exception Code: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS "
I hope a restart will bring it back to life but so far Loving Big Sur except Mail in all forms apart from Webmail are dying on me.
Ho Hum
Simon
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I’d recommend that you do two basic troubleshooting things:
- Use Disk Utility to verify your drive.
- Boot into macOS Recovery and reinstall macOS.
Those kinds of errors just scream drive corruption to me. Worst case, you might want to completely reformat your drive and restore from backup.
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I upgraded from Mojave to Big Sur last week.
Did my homework, I had some “kernel” stuff to update. Removed all non 64 apps, etc…
Some minor issues prevail, like auto connect to my Synology NAS is not working. I have to connect manually.
Upgrade went smooth…most all working as expected…then, naturally, Apple released 11.4!
Ran new back ups, installed 11.4, and for the first time in over six years, I am on the latest MAC OS!
Not sure I like the way Mail has split up my folders.
I like the integration with other devices in this OS…still learning new things.
2019 27" iMac…
Rich
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There’s an app called ConnectMeNow that solved this issue for me.
Thanks for the tip.
Seems after the 11.4 update it now connects…SOMETIMES…no idea why it doesn’t connect ALL the time?
Rich
I had similar issues going back to Mojave or so where my iMac server volumes would not stay mounted reliably through sleep/wake cycles. I had just put aliases to each of them on the desktop and double clicked when I needed them but then found ConnectMeNow…which has kept them mounted for a couple of months going on now.
I have not installed yet. Seems to be working, but I fear the issue is intermittent. So I may just use this app after all.
thanks again…
Hi,
I just updated one of my Macs from Mojave (10.14.6) to Big Sur (11.4) and hit a bug I have not seen described before.
I had a directory /Shares which had 3 sub-directories that where each shared using using SMB: to the other Macs on the network. If I go the the Sharing System Preference it shows the shares are still set up, but the directories are missing. If I look around on the File System, I indeed can not find the files. Fortunately I do have the files backed up with both BackBlaze TimeMacine.
Any ideas on where the files went and/or If I can just restore them or if they need to go someplace else with the new boot volume system?
Thanks,
Harris
I’m pretty sure no root level directories like that got moved to /Users/Shared…you can’t put them at the root my more so look there and just reshape them from there. Otherwise, restore from TM or backup to Shared and proceed.
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I checked /Users/Shared and the files are not there.
If I Open Macintosh HD in the finder or do a ls -la / in terminal I do not find the directory and SpotLight does not find the directory. However if I go to Disk Utility open Macintosh HD - Data and from there do Open in Finder I see the directory and all it’s contents.
I think I am more confused than ever.
Ok…there’s a folder on the desktop (I think) named removed items or moved files or something similar…maybe in there? If not…do you remember the name of one of the files in the share…you can search for it and will likely find the rest as well. Restore from Time Machine maybe…they won’t (again I think) restore to the root of the drive but will restore elsewhere and then you can move them to Users/shared. Do you have a pre-update clone you can get them from?
The folder on the desktop is usually just an alias to /Users/Shared/Relocated Items.
You may have to upgrade again next year. I think I saw a message when I used TurboTax this year that Mojave would not be supported for TT’s 2022 software.
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