I have an issue I need to resolve and I hope someone here might know a resolution
I have an M1 mac, the worst buy even. The display has died. I was working on a file when all of a sudden lines appeared on the screen making it really difficult to see. I thought it may be something in the display profile so I clicked Settings and Display and changed to another display profile. Bad choice...the screen went black and I cannot see to change it to another profile. On the black screen, you can an area top right which look odd. The iCare shop here in Thailand says the display needs to be replaced but said they need to format the hard drive when they replace the display...no idea why; it's a display and unrelated to the OS. I have my HDD partitioned, so all the data is in separate partitions to the OS, but am too worried by them formatting the drive. Problem is I got slack and have about 3 weeks of important work not yet backed up....yeah, I know
I am unable to see the display at all to do a backup as it is all black, but when I hold the power button on bootup, I tried Safe Boot, thinking it would bypass any display profile, but still black. I can get to some options, though, one of which is Share Disk via the Utilities menu. It says to use a Thunderbolt or USB cable. We have an old 2012 27" iMac in another room, so I purchased a high quality USB C to USB A cable from the Mac store and hooked both Macs together. I then booted the M1, holding down the power button until I could select the option to Share Disk.
The problem is, the older iMac doesn't see anything in Finder when I start to share the disk from the M1. Is there anything else I can do to enable me to grab some data from the M1 with the dead screen? Why won't the older Mac see the shared M1 disk?
thanks in advance
I have an M1 mac, the worst buy even. The display has died. I was working on a file when all of a sudden lines appeared on the screen making it really difficult to see. I thought it may be something in the display profile so I clicked Settings and Display and changed to another display profile. Bad choice...the screen went black and I cannot see to change it to another profile. On the black screen, you can an area top right which look odd. The iCare shop here in Thailand says the display needs to be replaced but said they need to format the hard drive when they replace the display...no idea why; it's a display and unrelated to the OS. I have my HDD partitioned, so all the data is in separate partitions to the OS, but am too worried by them formatting the drive. Problem is I got slack and have about 3 weeks of important work not yet backed up....yeah, I know
I am unable to see the display at all to do a backup as it is all black, but when I hold the power button on bootup, I tried Safe Boot, thinking it would bypass any display profile, but still black. I can get to some options, though, one of which is Share Disk via the Utilities menu. It says to use a Thunderbolt or USB cable. We have an old 2012 27" iMac in another room, so I purchased a high quality USB C to USB A cable from the Mac store and hooked both Macs together. I then booted the M1, holding down the power button until I could select the option to Share Disk.
The problem is, the older iMac doesn't see anything in Finder when I start to share the disk from the M1. Is there anything else I can do to enable me to grab some data from the M1 with the dead screen? Why won't the older Mac see the shared M1 disk?
thanks in advance
