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The latest beta of SuperDuper backup software is now able create bootable Big Sur backups
(M1 users need to be on Big Sur 11.4 beta for that to work):
Read more or get SuperDuper v3.5 B1 from ShirtPocket’s blog.
(M1 users need to be on Big Sur 11.4 beta for that to work):
Read more or get SuperDuper v3.5 B1 from ShirtPocket’s blog.
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This is not Facebook and not twitter. If every user would comment on any application he started to download we would have a tenfold of useless posts here.
I asked you before to stop this and if you cannot or will not I will press the ignore button an will not see your posts. Pretty easy.
About your other question:
Spotlight is surprisingly able to index all your disks, partitions and containers and will find data and apps there. This is not sharing, this is mounting. To avoid this you could have asked the bigger search machine just to find out that it is a spotlight privacy setting.
You are still struggling with basic macOS system administration tasks. There are other forums to get you up to speed.
Little public poll about (potential) problems with Big Sur 11.3
Good morning! We know from the MacPro5,1 owners and at least from @jacob_pro that there exist (rareley?) problems with the OTA update to Big Sur 11.3 or the new installation using an USB installer.
I got single reports of iMac11,1 and iMac11,3 users unable to boot the system after the update process stuck for hours. Had myself such a situation (iMac11,1) were I could happily proceed with the installation after phase one did not end (10 minutes to go for hours). Had to switch off the iMac manually and reboot it.
To get a better overview I ask everybody having problems to enable verbose boot adding the
Please report back here in case you have the same problems sharing your complete hardware and software config.
Thanks in advance!
Good morning! We know from the MacPro5,1 owners and at least from @jacob_pro that there exist (rareley?) problems with the OTA update to Big Sur 11.3 or the new installation using an USB installer.
I got single reports of iMac11,1 and iMac11,3 users unable to boot the system after the update process stuck for hours. Had myself such a situation (iMac11,1) were I could happily proceed with the installation after phase one did not end (10 minutes to go for hours). Had to switch off the iMac manually and reboot it.
To get a better overview I ask everybody having problems to enable verbose boot adding the
-v to the boot-args or by creating a new EFI folder using OCLP with verbose boot selected.Please report back here in case you have the same problems sharing your complete hardware and software config.
Thanks in advance!
ok thx for ur attention
i use BarryKN's micropatcher v. 0.5.1 on my
macbookpro retina 15" mid 2012 - Os Big sur 11.3(20E232)
as u said, i reinstall from usb.
still its not working(location services)
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slightly off-topic, but how would one go about installing windows? I have Big Sur installed with OCLP, Open Core installed on my main ssd's EFI(so i'm not using an SD card). Ideally i would want to install windows on my second SSD. I haven't tried it yet, but looks like the Boot Camp Assistant is working. Should i try that maybe?
Successfully updated from 11.2.3 to 11.3 without any issue. Using only OCLP.
i split my ssd in 2 partition 1st macOS 2nd Windows and OCLP on EFI Partition. u could try Bootcamp but i think its untested. i Installed windows just via EFI boot
Can you confirm to fix verbose boot area and where can I find list of boot arg keys with full details
and from patch sitting
i want to test but software update jump to BigSur 11.3 so I wait for beta update or I can’t?
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Thanks, makes sense. I created an installer with BootCamp utilicy and installed it on my second SSD. The install went through, but sadly on boot its stuck on the windows logo. I will look around in the forums, maybe someone else had this issue already.
We have a page for that here. Don't use BootCamp Assistant, it'll think you're on the spoofed model.
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hello everyone for those who don't remember me. I am the one who was working on radeon 6x support for iMac and MacBook Pros Produced in 2011. A few months ago I announced working kexts for these systems and was asking the community to beta test well Unfortunately like many others out there I was infected with covid and spent the last month in the hospital. Its been a crazy rollercoaster of a year. But now I am back 60 pounds lighter and feeling good to be alive. I am looking for beta testers effective today. Barrykn is in and out of the patcher scene now. As a developer I am going to be honest with all of you......and before I say this to all patch developers and everyone who has been burning the midnight oil....THANK YOU......getting Big Sur would not have been possible and your patches work show.....with that being said I can no longer stand behind barrykns patcher or even patched sir.....Opencore is the future on unsupported Macs.....with native ota updates and working FileVault. I must insist users read up and take a dive into opencore......so if you decide to beta test officially I will not be supporting barrykn/forks of his patcher(unofficially they work) and I will not be support Bensovas Patcher(not tested with his patcher).....offical support for radeon 6x on these 2011 systems will be officially only supported by opencore! Good to be back everyone 
Thanks! The link is missing .html at the end
. I used the assistant to create the bootable usb only. Formatted my drive to Fat32 and just selected that during install. I'm now in Windows. I had to delete the igdkmd64.sys file, it now boots up fine. When Windows Update was running, graphic drivers were updated and i had acceleration on both internal and external screen. However, after a restart i only have picture on the external screen. On the internal, i just have some random gray graphic glitch, vertical lines. If i disable the RX560 in the device manager, i have image on both screens(without acceleration). I guess its a driver issue, i will try to figure this out.
Good to see you healthy back.hello everyone for those who don't remember me. I am the one who was working on radeon 6x support for iMac and MacBook Pros Produced in 2011. A few months ago I announced working kexts for these systems and was asking the community to beta test well Unfortunately like many others out there I was infected with covid and spent the last month in the hospital. Its been a crazy rollercoaster of a year. But now I am back 60 pounds lighter and feeling good to be alive. I am looking for beta testers effective today. Barrykn is in and out of the patcher scene now. As a developer I am going to be honest with all of you......and before I say this to all patch developers and everyone who has been burning the midnight oil....THANK YOU......getting Big Sur would not have been possible and your patches work show.....with that being said I can no longer stand behind barrykns patcher or even patched sir.....Opencore is the future on unsupported Macs.....with native ota updates and working FileVault. I must insist users read up and take a dive into opencore......so if you decide to beta test officially I will not be supporting barrykn/forks of his patcher(unofficially they work) and I will not be support Bensovas Patcher(not tested with his patcher).....offical support for radeon 6x on these 2011 systems will be officially only supported by opencore! Good to be back everyone
My advice would be to join the Discord server @khronokernel announced lately here and publish your work in the internal alpha test group. These guys have the tools and development power to get it to the public.
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Enroll macOS Beta Seed without profile installation
Enroll macOS Beta Seed without profile installation - seedutil.md
gist.github.com
I will warn those who do try updating to 11.4......radeon 6x kexts currently not compatible with 11.4 as I have not tested them yet. IM just getting back home from the hospital and I need time to catch up......four major updates and Im shell shocked like being in a coma.....will do my best to update my iMac 2011 tonight and trying the existing kexts to see if they will work ill post tomorrow...those on 11.2.1 or 11.3 message me and ill send kexts zip and install instructions!
like being in a coma.....will do my best to update my iMac 2011 tonight and trying the existing kexts to see if they will work ill post tomorrow...those on 11.2.1 or 11.3 message me and ill send kexts zip and install instructions!Why oh why after install do I KEEP getting the prohibited sign?? Using BarryKN's micropatcher v. 0.5.1, BS 11.3.. Mac Pro 5,1... installing to a NVMe drive that I've been running BS 11.0.1 flawlessly!! I've spent almost the entire day screwing with this damn thing!
Using BarryKN's micropatcher v. 0.5.1, BS 11.3.. Mac Pro 5,1... installing to a NVMe drive that I've been running BS 11.0.1 flawlessly!! I've spent almost the entire day screwing with this damn thing!
Why oh why after install do I KEEP getting the prohibited sign??
Mac OS 11.3 has broken support for older Mac Pros
macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta 3 has broken Mac Pro's early-2009 to mid-2012 ability to boot reliably into macOS. It's still possible to boot 11.3/11.4, but the process requires multiple restarts and a connection has been made between PCIe devices, especially storage related devices and USB controller...
forums.macrumors.com
So.... I can either install BS 11.2.3 on the VNMe..... OR..... install BS 11.3 on the SSD connected via SATA controller. Ugh! I have Catalina on the SSD.
I would give the very active development some time and why hurry to get to 11.3? A proper update management would never install on the main working platform the latest version
As you can see you can become a beta tester really fast and surprisingly.I have problems with Catalina 10.15.7 finder not responding not recover until restart
do you have info to refresh finder or recover it also take long time to gitup start
other prob.
Spotlight ,I install xcode in BigSur and I found it in Catalina application
my pc become freeze
do you have info to refresh finder or recover it also take long time to gitup start
other prob.
Spotlight ,I install xcode in BigSur and I found it in Catalina application
my pc become freeze
Like @Ausdauersportler said no need to upgrade to 11.3....it was released four days ago the downside with being on an unsupported system is it takes us time time to iron out kinks. Thats the beauty of forks over on GitHub is being like him are maintaining the current release...Like I've advocated before opencore is the way to go...if your on a patcher don't update unless you know things will go smoothly its not like a native opencore install. it takes time....some people the patchers are ok because of how easy it is and I'm cool with that but like he said chill out and wait it out for further updates!