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Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another d... by submeta on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:03AM (#42415231)
I only was offered to select top level folders. Nothing below them.
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Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another d... by hmottestad on Saturday December 14, 2024 @05:10AM (#42415984)
Did you try to reinstall the mac and use migration assistant to restore from the Time Machine backup?
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Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another d... by submeta on Saturday December 14, 2024 @06:02AM (#42416235)
Yes I did. But the time machine backup was way larger than my macbook‘s ssd. The reason was this:

I had only 600-700 gb of data on my Mac. Installed OneDrive, did not know that I had configured my NAS to do 800gb of cloud backups to OneDrive. And Time Machine downloaded that data into its backup. Although I had configured OneDrive not to download that folder to my Mac. So time Machine screwed up.

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