Hello, I am a long time Mac user but not so geeky. I usually just use my Macs as-is.
I ran across an article about how to upgrade an unsupported Mac mine being a 2012 iMac that I recently replaced the solid state hd.
After reading the how to, i figured I would give it a go. I found a splendid YT video by Mr. McIntosh showing clear steps to do the patcher.
I had nothing to lose as my iMac was long for replacement.
Ok, enough about that now my issue.
I have been using Time Machine ever since it was offered way back and planned to restore using it. The video instructions never mentioned when best to start the back up so I did do the restore when asked upon set up. It took a while as expected. Continuing through the set up and continuing to follow Mr. McIntosh's video, when it came to the last stages of rebooting, it got stuck would not continue so I had to power off and start another boot process by holding down the option key. I forget which disc I chose but what ever I tried using only showed me a gray screen with a circle with a slanted slash in the center. I took this as nothing there. I researched this on line and it was suggested wiping the hard drive and starting over which I did. This time I bypassed the restore by Time Machine and all went well.
Then I tried restoring from TM once again and the same damn thing happened. I was disappointed to say the least. So once again I did the wiping and went through the process another time.
It well well and right now feeling like I have a new computer! I was running Catalina and could have went straight to Sequoia but decided not be greedy and settled on Monterey which was labeled as being very stable with no glitches. It's great but my files and stuff are still in my external hd.
So my question is, will restoring clash with what I did with the patcher or should it have nothing to do with restoring? If it should work, what am I doing wrong? Is there another way to restore that will work?
I would appreciate any advice offered.
I ran across an article about how to upgrade an unsupported Mac mine being a 2012 iMac that I recently replaced the solid state hd.
After reading the how to, i figured I would give it a go. I found a splendid YT video by Mr. McIntosh showing clear steps to do the patcher.
I had nothing to lose as my iMac was long for replacement.
Ok, enough about that now my issue.
I have been using Time Machine ever since it was offered way back and planned to restore using it. The video instructions never mentioned when best to start the back up so I did do the restore when asked upon set up. It took a while as expected. Continuing through the set up and continuing to follow Mr. McIntosh's video, when it came to the last stages of rebooting, it got stuck would not continue so I had to power off and start another boot process by holding down the option key. I forget which disc I chose but what ever I tried using only showed me a gray screen with a circle with a slanted slash in the center. I took this as nothing there. I researched this on line and it was suggested wiping the hard drive and starting over which I did. This time I bypassed the restore by Time Machine and all went well.
Then I tried restoring from TM once again and the same damn thing happened. I was disappointed to say the least. So once again I did the wiping and went through the process another time.
It well well and right now feeling like I have a new computer! I was running Catalina and could have went straight to Sequoia but decided not be greedy and settled on Monterey which was labeled as being very stable with no glitches. It's great but my files and stuff are still in my external hd.
So my question is, will restoring clash with what I did with the patcher or should it have nothing to do with restoring? If it should work, what am I doing wrong? Is there another way to restore that will work?
I would appreciate any advice offered.