I have never clean-installed MacOS in my life, and I'm on my 4th MacBook. Always simply installing the updates, and when buying a new mac I always restore a backup from the previous one.
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Apple Provides Instructions to Fix macOS Reinstallation Errors on M1 Macs
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Oh boy, someone is yet to find out about the Application Support dir(s)
The people who immediately reinstall the OS to make a slim system are not the ones buying a Mac because “it just works.” They are power users who jumped head first before looking.
I feel like the comments are more full of vitriol this year, I’d like to think that it due to COVID driving people nuts. But sadly people like to condemn since it’s the easiest thing to do rather than create something of their own.
Since Apple has been testing the M1 for some time they should just release an older macOS like Mojave for the M1
I think people wanted to remove some of the pre-installed software such as iMove, Pages etc.
Some of us brick our Macs on purpose for educational purposes in business. I went and got one today, reproduced the error, learned how to DFU on an M1 and Restored successfully (Apple's article gave me the same error). Now I can teach my team how to resolve this and leveled up my Apple knowledge at the same time.
Oh snap I went through this today, my MBA was really laggy on safari and felt a little off. So I wanted to do a clean install, wiped everything on the drive tried to install Big Sur and got that dumb error, tried resetpassword told me no user and still was getting that error
so I went to Find My app on my iPhone and found my MBA and clicked 'erase device', after a couple minutes my computer restarted and I had to boot into recovery, also got a welcome screen to select a language and enter my network (which I didn't have to do when I first went into recovery), also had to mount Macintosh HD.
But sure enough it worked and installed, also I feel that the computer is faster too, no more laggy scrolling in safari. I suspect a bad update maybe? When I first got the computer I had to install 11.0.1, 5 times as it didn't like it my guess
so I went to Find My app on my iPhone and found my MBA and clicked 'erase device', after a couple minutes my computer restarted and I had to boot into recovery, also got a welcome screen to select a language and enter my network (which I didn't have to do when I first went into recovery), also had to mount Macintosh HD.
But sure enough it worked and installed, also I feel that the computer is faster too, no more laggy scrolling in safari. I suspect a bad update maybe? When I first got the computer I had to install 11.0.1, 5 times as it didn't like it my guess
My cousin used to do something similar. Every time he got a sandwich, he would take it apart and put it back together before eating it.
- Buys a brand new M1-based Mac with Big Sur installed.
- Proceeds to re-install Big Sur.
- Problems occur.
Let's hope that Apple further expands their testing procedures to catch issues like this. Seems like one more of those "oops, we forgot to test that scenario" type of thing.
If you can resolve it, it's not really "bricked" is it?Some of us brick our Macs on purpose for educational purposes in business. I went and got one today, reproduced the error, learned how to DFU on an M1 and Restored successfully (Apple's article gave me the same error). Now I can teach my team how to resolve this and leveled up my Apple knowledge at the same time.
That is probably the most perfect way of doing things, but if you have a lot of third party software and customized your experience in a lot of small ways, that is a huge pain in the assi like doing clean installs. espcially major OS versions. i never seem to have all the issues of people who "upgrade" its like rolling fresh paint over a surface with saw dust all over it
Why would anyone expect doing a clean install to be a problem?
Why would being new have anything to do with doing a clean install?
Why would a person not be able to expect to do a clean install on a brand new computer?
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Yep, App Support Files can be scattered all over the Mac and they don’t get moved to the recycling bin with the App. You can manually locate them with Spotlight or use a program like Nektony AppCleaner to find the dozen files and Launch items.Oh boy, someone is yet to find out about the Application Support dir(s)
This reminds me of the issue I had after upgrading to the Catalina Beta and then trying to delete the disk container and reinstall High Sierra. Internet Recovery failed even in the Apple Store and they installed a new Logic Board for me. It had something to do with the new T2 chips back then I believe.
I was thinking about this as I was rolling back to Catalina and boxing up my 12 Mini 256 and all the overpriced accessories to return. Steve Jobs likely rolling over in his grave.
In the OS world, they do the same, though much of it is automated. It could have been a regression or a new bug.