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developeralioz

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Original poster
Oct 16, 2020
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Mac has been waiting like this for an hour. I just turned it off and on but it still stays in the same place. The device is Macbook Air M1.

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Is there a way to recover the computer without my files being deleted?
 

developeralioz

macrumors member
Original poster
Oct 16, 2020
66
3
If after following hour no success, then proceed with macOS reinstall
If that won't help either, then creation of bootable macOS installer is a way, but with all Mac data removal (a few files that aren't 1Gb+ possible to recover from Recovery Mode)
It won't load with recovery mode. The user does not appear in the user selection screen.

How do I create a bootable macOS 12 installer file with Windows?
 
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