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Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another d... by eviks on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:49AM (#42415175)
The reason is the opposite - he was doing the standard thing of using the substandard Time Machine for backups, which has been poorly engineered not to allow restoring without pre-pruning

> If you let Time Machine doing it's thing

Then you can corrupt your whole backup, and then fully restoring becomes impossible instead of long and painless, but possible

> It makes me wonder what he was doing

He was doing the restore recently, not many years ago

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Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another d... by thowawatp302 on Saturday December 14, 2024 @04:34AM (#42415800)
> substandard Time Machine for backups

Compared to what?

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