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I just found clever files because I used the "About this Mac" > Storage > Reduce Clutter> Manage ... I did that because my Big Sur TM incremental backups are painfully slow and was trying to learn something about possible fixes. I would like to access some of the mp4 that have strings out...

the restore failed I guess we’ll see when the computer techs get back to me. I am hoping to avoid having to purchase a new 1200 ssd Mac mini which is how much the 1TB is. Yes I’m putting in a lot of time and now a backlog of work because I thought I’d have a simple upgrade. If all goes well I’ll...

Just gets better. 3hrs into the restore, about 70g of 600, i get an error message tThe restore can’t continue, and that I now need to reinstall macOS and then do a migrate assistant. So I assume that when I do this if I can do this, then the migrate assistant will also take at least two days...

thanks. i’m in restore from t.m. hell now. 20 hrs to go… every ten minutes of restore adds another hour of time remaining. Should be up to two days by 3pm And, of course, I don’t even know if it’s going to restore mojave at this point.

Curious. Decided to attempt the T.M. restore. Been going for about an hour and now up to 16 hrs remaining. So, I assume it’s not good should the computer go to sleep? i also read the info re the bootable . I have another computer I can attempt that on for future. But it’s a little technical for...

What is the command, option, r and how does that differ with command, r?

I’m sure the entire problem was the install was accidentally stopped in the beginning. and then started again. I reread the info on bootable using USB and terminal, and it seems that if I can get Big Sur to download to the uSB, I can then use it without having to do the terminal steps. Yes r no?

What happens is it attempts to reinstall the Big Sur that stops. It’s four hours now. that it’s been sitting on installing.. So, just wanted to confirm that the message I get from the T.M is telling me that everything will revert t the last Mohave and data that worked … and that was about 2pm...

It gets to that spot and stops. I’ll let it go overnight. I can do command r and restore from time machine is a choice. I tried To reinstall Big Sur and it started from where it got to at 4pm, then goes to the screen where the white line is halfway. So, the thing about T.M. that is...

Well this was fun. I’m now frozen and no OS. Can’t use computer. So if u can share what to do next that would be great. All my stuff is backed up on time machine but ofif course it’s Mojave and I don’t know how to get to it. I assume I hold something down to start in safe mode or restore or ???

I didn’t want to do this bec it was already in the process and didn’t have any clear directio as to whether I should cancel or not. I got to here about 30 mins ago. How long should I wait? Can I just try to reboit? Do I do command r?

If I’m able to use the computer after this , or if I have to use someone else’s, I’ll do this and reinstall. Hopefully I won’t run into issues as it just restarted again, which is as u know, fairly normal in an upgrade got to here. This was third restart 20 mins so far. Do I give it an hour...

Less than a minute remaining for 10 minutes so far

Yes it’s the fusion drive

According to the Drive there’s 135 GB left but there should be a lot more. Because in theory my files that are downloaded are supposed to be in dropbox, but when I run the internal clean up program, that comes with the OS, it shows there’s a bunch of stuff that’s on the hard drive

Suddenly everything sort of unclogged. A whole bunch of stuff started moving in the log and now I’m staring at the apple with a little bite out of it and 14 now 7 minutes remaining. as I had said, one of my concerns was canceling or stopping and then trying to start again and that’s why I was...

And, now ... this is a late 2014 Mac Mini. Time left: 12 minutes. I feel like I"m in a movie and we're about to run into the death star :-)

Hoops. Just got another retrying after 4 failure ... started download package again ... time changed to 32 minutes remaining ... maybe it's actually doing its thing? But this is the log as well.

I had gone to the app store first. Then I read where I should upgrade thru the system prefs. I found the install xxxx.app when I searched fro install assistant.pkg. I deleted those files. The install apparently was still running in the background, so I didn't stop it. I haven't yet as there...

I (in theory, as it shows it this way) have my Downloads being saved in Dropbox. I have 1Tb of space and have only used about 3.5gb. But, when I ran the Apple "look under the hood" interface, it shows I have 665gb of downloaded stuff. Ah, okay ... but here's the thing. In theory, all that is...