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fuksinjo

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Nov 13, 2020
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Hello everyone,

I hope someone will be able to help me with my problem, or at least someone will provide any info about why this is happening.

I bought a brand new Macbook Pro 13” 2019 in July this year. First day I setted it up, I updated to Catalina, because it arrived with Mojave. After that, I continued to use it normally, until next update arrived. I restarted Mac to update it, and after loading screen I got “An error occured while generating the kernel cache”. Okay, panicked a bit, but restored my time machine and haven’t tried it again. Now when Big Sur arrived, I was excited to finally get it on my Mac. Same thing happend just minutes ago, and while I am typing this on my iPhone, another time machine restoring is happening.

I want to be clear about one thing, I already googled (Yes, I looked even the second page), and haven’t found any useful info about why this happends. I use this Mac every day from Monday to Friday, for around 9-11 hours a day. It’s my only machine and I use it for programming, so I have a lot of tools installed, and reinstalling the system IS NOT SOMETHING I AM WILLING TO DO. That’s also the reason why friday night and saturday is the only time when I can comfortably experiment with these things, because I need working Mac on monday morning. I tried booting into safe mode by the way, and trying the update right after that, I got the same message.

Can anyone explain why is this message showing, or what does it represent? As someone who is quite familiar with computers and Linux in general, I couldn’t believe that from all OSs MacOS will be the one to give me headaches with updates. No modification in system were made, from day one it was used the same way, turned on in the morning, full day in visual studio code and other apps, turned off at night.

Thanks for any info in advance,
Vuk
 
so you have a back up? it's a time machine back up? then trash the Mac reset the disk and install Big Sur. when you're finished and your setting it up it will ask if you want to restore from backup. the restoration will involve data / account / installation stuff not the OS. that's what happens when you buy a new Mac and it invariably involves an OS switch.
 
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