MacBook air crashing when plugging a USB device

[white7561]

So Im on a MacBook air 2014 . Upgraded from Catalina beta. And well, other than some apps not working. It seems like when I plug in my usb it is fine for a second or two. And then it crashes with the text thingy. That shows you in different language. Like basically BSOD on Mac . If the device is plugged in before powering up the laptop, it works just fine. But when you eject and unplug then replug, it will crash again. Well since I need to use USBs I'm currently doing a full time machine restore right now.

Apparently, the new recovery is still kinda buggy? The dark mode style is nice tho. Although it is slow like on formatting the internal SSD. Quitting the disk utility just reboots the computer rather than going to back menu. And well. The only reason I need to format my internal rather than straight restore from time machine backup, is that the recovery won't let me restore it. It just says unlock rather than restore even tho the disk is unlocked. Anyways I ended up using my Catalina recovery (from Bootable USB installer) and choose the restore from time machine right there.

 

[tywebb13]

So Im on a MacBook air 2014 . Upgraded from Catalina beta. And well, other than some apps not working. It seems like when I plug in my usb it is fine for a second or two. And then it crashes with the text thingy. That shows you in different language. Like basically BSOD on Mac . If the device is plugged in before powering up the laptop, it works just fine. But when you eject and unplug then replug, it will crash again. Well since I need to use USBs I'm currently doing a full time machine restore right now.

Apparently, the new recovery is still kinda buggy? The dark mode style is nice tho. Although it is slow like on formatting the internal SSD. Quitting the disk utility just reboots the computer rather than going to back menu. And well. The only reason I need to format my internal rather than straight restore from time machine backup, is that the recovery won't let me restore it. It just says unlock rather than restore even tho the disk is unlocked. Anyways I ended up using my Catalina recovery (from Bootable USB installer) and choose the restore from time machine right there.

I had the same thing on my 2014 mba but it wasn’t big sur causing the crashes.

If you look at activity monitor to see what is taking up all the processing power, just delete the stuff causing it and the crashes will go away.

In my case the 2014 mba was on mojave and had agmservice taking up all the processing power. That is an adobe thing. So I deleted all the stuff from adobe, not just the apps, but all the other adobe bits and pieces scattered in various places on the mac.

Haven’t had a crash since.

I also have a 2015 mba with big sur but no adobe stuff - and no crashes.

So I reckon you may have something else on the computer causing the crashes.

If you have adobe stuff I would look there first before blaming big sur.

If not it could be something else on your computer hogging the processing power.

Activity monitor should be able to identify it - whether it is an adobe thing - or anything else.

 

[white7561]

I had the same thing on my 2014 mba but it wasn’t big sur causing the crashes.

If you look at activity monitor to see what is taking up all the processing power, just delete the stuff causing it and the crashes will go away.

In my case the 2014 mba was on mojave and had agmservice taking up all the processing power. That is an adobe thing. So I deleted all the stuff from adobe, not just the apps, but all the other adobe bits and pieces scattered in various places on the mac.

Haven’t had a crash since.

I also have a 2015 mba with big sur but no adobe stuff - and no crashes.

So I reckon you may have something else on the computer causing the crashes.

If you have adobe stuff I would look there first before blaming big sur.

If not it could be something else on your computer hogging the processing power.

Activity monitor should be able to identify it - whether it is an adobe thing - or anything else.

No cpu hogging apps. The problem is , it crashes the whole Mac when I plugged a USB device haha. That's not nice🤣