For starers I have a mid-2014 MBP running Big Sur 11.1. My HD is 500GB and since I’m running this after a complete erase of my HD I have 465GB free space.
A recent thread here about this abruptly ended without a resolution, and even after reading through it and following the advice there I still get the same issue. I’ve poured over 20 hours trying to get this to work and no matter what I do I keep getting that same message every single time. I’ve spoken with 6 people with Apple and have done every single thing they’ve told me to do (their last resort was to erase everything and reinstall macOS) but even after doing this multiple times it still doesn’t work. I have absolutely no idea what to do and at this point I’m willing to try anything. I don’t have automatic backups set on Time Machine, I’ve run first aid on my HD (and the USB stick I need) and nothing comes up as being wrong with either of them. Apple straight up stopped responding to me since it’s been such a long lasting problem (the entire past 3 days trying this) so I figured i’d try here.
A recent thread here about this abruptly ended without a resolution, and even after reading through it and following the advice there I still get the same issue. I’ve poured over 20 hours trying to get this to work and no matter what I do I keep getting that same message every single time. I’ve spoken with 6 people with Apple and have done every single thing they’ve told me to do (their last resort was to erase everything and reinstall macOS) but even after doing this multiple times it still doesn’t work. I have absolutely no idea what to do and at this point I’m willing to try anything. I don’t have automatic backups set on Time Machine, I’ve run first aid on my HD (and the USB stick I need) and nothing comes up as being wrong with either of them. Apple straight up stopped responding to me since it’s been such a long lasting problem (the entire past 3 days trying this) so I figured i’d try here.
