My girlfriend tried to replace her laptop computer from I feel was Catalina to Sequoia and after hours of wait, can not go previous the login display screen. I then took it house to strive repair it.
I can entry restoration mode wonderful and ran First Help on all volumes and containers, the whole lot appears wholesome on that aspect.
I then determined to reinstall Sequoia from there, on prime of the prevailing system, possibly one thing went barely unsuitable throughout the first replace. Hours later, set up appears sucessful however very same concern, cannot previous the login display screen.
What I expertise is I attempt to login, then a progress bar seems as if the replace was nonetheless kind of finalising, then will get caught at 75% and would not transfer. I even left it in a single day considering it was only a bit longer. nothing modified.
I googled so much, seen folks speaking about protected mode, so I attempted that. I made it previous that progress bar to what appears like a extra regular macOS login display screen. I enter my password once more and now I’ve that pin wheel that but once more, spins indefinitely however does not appear to go anyplace.
My subsequent answer was to wipe the drive clear and do a contemporary set up. Downside being she does not have any backups. So I connected an exterior drive and began trying an answer to backup her recordsdata from no matter software is obtainable in restoration mode. From Disk Utility it does not seem 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 person profile house. This failed as effectively after many hours with the error message “unsuitable arguments”, that does not actually assist me in any respect. I then open a Terminal and begin copying recordsdata with a great previous cp
. For some motive, a number of the recordsdata (not even system recordsdata, simply random photos, and so on) 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 value mentioning that it is at all times the identical recordsdata inflicting this error, even cp -f
cannot get by way of it.
So I am now in a scenario the place I both want:
- A dependable method to reinstall a working system with out shedding person recordsdata
- A dependable method to backup recordsdata so I can wipe the disk and do a contemporary 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} data with no working system (and all the tactic to do it from restoration mode failed for me)
Any assist or suggestion can be drastically appreciated. I am actually tech savvy and blissful to strive convoluted/difficult strategies so long as I could be assured they’ll work.