Welcome to #Checkin for Friday, June 27, 2024!
Why howdy there #Checkin people, it’s me, Rod again. It’s FRIDAY!
(Not that it matters much to me, unless I forgot to put the wheelie bins out for yesterday’s pickup.)
So here’s the skinny on my computer problems. I was running my 2013 Intel i7 21.5” iMac in macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 on the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. All was going swimmingly, until, that is, the macOS Sonoma 14.5 update.
macOS Sonoma 14.5 included improvements and bug fixes like the one for Quartiles, which is a daily word game available in Apple News+. Like I'd care. It also fixed the bug in Scoreboard in News+ Puzzles. (YAWN) Now it gives access to new player data for Crossword, Mini Crossword, and Quartiles, including stats, streaks, and other things I've never looked at or even cared enough to know about.
Of course the update came with a proviso:
"Some features may not be available for all regions, or on all Apple devices."
And there begins my Tale of Woe...
At first it was just some page sections blanking out, and then the desktop images weren't loading. Then came the fateful day when the whole thing went kerbloowie. Of course I did all the things.
Rest the P-RAM and ran the repair function is Disk Utility. Fine for a day and the next startup: Kerbloowie.
Ran the through the rescue cycle twice, with no dice. Wound up reinstalling the whole patcher thing.
On my third fail, I erased the hard drive and reverted to the DosDude's Catalina Pathcher, which was the only OS install I had handy. Worked. So then I did the OpenCore Legacy Patcher Sonoma upgrade, I made sure to only do the 14.4.1 version. Ran it in Admin for a day and it was back to normal.
Then I imported my files from a Time Machine backup. Whoopsie!
Kerbloowie. Rescue cycle again, only this time showed 4 distinct drives (there’s only the HD and the SSD) each partitioned at 2 1TB sections for 2TB, which is odd as the HD only has 1TB and the SSD is only 128GB. (Wait, where did those… ?!)
So I decided to start from scratch. Did the internet repair, got the Fusion Drive working as a Fusion Drive again (1TB +128GB combo). I’m currently erasing the entire HD (zeroing out) and plan to reinstall and import my files again again only this time remembering to uncheck the System selection, or maybe even skip the script and do it all in Terminal like a grownup this time. DUH.
Queue the Neil Young & Crazyhorse Song
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