Catalina installed in its own partition n won't recognize my old info, wut do

[macnNfapn]

so I "upgraded" or whatever to Catalina and first it was corrupted, whatever, so AppleCare told me to re do and a bunch of other things happened in between but long story short, it made like 2 other partitions on its own and my old info, where it was supposed to update, is stuck in this partition but it won't boot from it cuz it doesn't show it in the startup.

any ideas? I actually found all my info by typing in

/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo"

AppleCare said they'll get back to me soon, in 2 days.

screenshot of where my stuff is

I renamed the "new" partition Macintosh HD 2, or something, hoping it would then default to the one just named Macintosh HD but nope.

 

[macnNfapn]

UPDATE:

Am copying the contents of that drive and merging folders to put in to the time machine "backups" folder on the external and naming it appropriately. That MAY fool the system in to thinking it was the "latest" backup. we'll see.

 

[NoBoMac]

Not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but, this is the new normal with Catalina.

MacOS Catalina has a dedicated system volume now

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[macnNfapn]

Hi, after Catalina installed, every file I had disappeared. No documents, programs, music - nothing. Trying to get it back to normal.

Catalina, initially, had rendered my PC incapable of connecting to the net and quite a few other settings were not working or didn't transfer over my the old OS.

 

[NoBoMac]

Am copying the contents of that drive and merging folders to put in to the time machine "backups" folder on the external and naming it appropriately. That MAY fool the system in to thinking it was the "latest" backup. we'll see.

Hi, after Catalina installed, every file I had disappeared. No documents, programs, music - nothing. Trying to get it back to normal.

Catalina, initially, had rendered my PC incapable of connecting to the net and quite a few other settings were not working or didn't transfer over my the old OS.

Sounds like you have a number of issues going, but loss of data is not one of them, as you are copying files from the new user data partition to TimeMachine. Renaming the data partition might have messed things up even more (have not tried to intentionally do that myself).

And copying files to TimeMachine might make things worse, at least from a TM recovery viewpoint (lots of hardlink messing around going on there).

What model of Mac? And what was the previous version of OS on it?

ADD: and don't forget, a bunch of program will no longer run if they were 32-bit. And if using audio apps, might run into issues there as well.

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[macnNfapn]

I stopped with that "copy" to time machine. Just didn't have a good feeling about it. I could go back and easily rename the drives the way they were.

MBPR 2016 model with Touch Bar

Cant remember which previous version it was but it had been updated every time so maybe the most recent one before Catalina.... Mojave? no idea.

Now running 10.15 Catalina. A Tier 2 tech from Apple is scheduled to call me back today. Said he got an response from an engineer and needs to gather ore information.

Luckily, catalina installed just fine this second go around, but doesn't have the data to go with it.