First, I've probed around a bit and didn't find my particular scenario. Although, I will admit I don't know much about the forum world and this is the first time I've ever posted in one. I've used this site looking for information in the past but it was usually from a Google search leading me here. I decided to join because this seems like the best place to gain the knowledge I seek.
I'll try to keep this brief but want to make sure I cover everything.
I bought a factory refurbished M1 Ultra, 1TB storage, 64GB memory not quite a year ago and migrated (I believe, can't be 100% sure it's been too long) from a 2015 iMac. I had issues on the old mac of different variants; kernel panics, permission errors, can't remember everything. A lot of it was probably my fault for not understanding what I was doing and playing with Terminal using my admin account and I broke a lot of s#@!. Just to be clear I have only a small amount of knowledge that I learned from the internet on using Terminal and programming. I know enough to f$#$ s#%! up and that's it.
The mac hadn't been used much until here recently because of moving, etc. I use it for music production, image-editng, lightweight video editing. One major problem is when using a DAW my audio output is garbled, glitched, noise and general problems of high CPU usage, kernel panics, 3rd party kexts, apps crashing including Console, UTI issues (opens with, under Finder Get Info is not default), System/Library/Extensions/ contains 604 files mainly kext, this goes on and on. My main fear, concern, whatever, is that I'm pretty sure the issues I'm currently having are from how I brought my data in from my iMac and I don't want to re-introduce this $%$##$ again.
I've researched online and found a lot of information so much in fact, its difficult to process it all.
I gave up on trying to "fix" my mac and just reinstall the damn OS. I will be using Carbon Copy Cloner (I be hatin' Time Machine), still a bit confused about the CCC process, nothing can be simple, at least for me. I'm seeking guidance on the best approach, are my concerns legitimate, suggested CCC settings.
I have already installed CCC and made a "standard" backup on an external drive (it's just a USB 3.0) that was just erased and formatted to APFS, GUID Partition Map with snapshot support enabled (not sure if this was right decision), and I disabled the SafeNet feature "SafetyNet Off" from the SafetyNet submenu. I don't plan on using it as a bootable drive, I believe it's way to slow for that anway. CCC is currently verifying all my files.
ANY help, suggestions, comments, anything would GREATLY appreciated!!! Please and Thank you.
I'll try to keep this brief but want to make sure I cover everything.
I bought a factory refurbished M1 Ultra, 1TB storage, 64GB memory not quite a year ago and migrated (I believe, can't be 100% sure it's been too long) from a 2015 iMac. I had issues on the old mac of different variants; kernel panics, permission errors, can't remember everything. A lot of it was probably my fault for not understanding what I was doing and playing with Terminal using my admin account and I broke a lot of s#@!. Just to be clear I have only a small amount of knowledge that I learned from the internet on using Terminal and programming. I know enough to f$#$ s#%! up and that's it.
The mac hadn't been used much until here recently because of moving, etc. I use it for music production, image-editng, lightweight video editing. One major problem is when using a DAW my audio output is garbled, glitched, noise and general problems of high CPU usage, kernel panics, 3rd party kexts, apps crashing including Console, UTI issues (opens with, under Finder Get Info is not default), System/Library/Extensions/ contains 604 files mainly kext, this goes on and on. My main fear, concern, whatever, is that I'm pretty sure the issues I'm currently having are from how I brought my data in from my iMac and I don't want to re-introduce this $%$##$ again.
I've researched online and found a lot of information so much in fact, its difficult to process it all.
I gave up on trying to "fix" my mac and just reinstall the damn OS. I will be using Carbon Copy Cloner (I be hatin' Time Machine), still a bit confused about the CCC process, nothing can be simple, at least for me. I'm seeking guidance on the best approach, are my concerns legitimate, suggested CCC settings.
I have already installed CCC and made a "standard" backup on an external drive (it's just a USB 3.0) that was just erased and formatted to APFS, GUID Partition Map with snapshot support enabled (not sure if this was right decision), and I disabled the SafeNet feature "SafetyNet Off" from the SafetyNet submenu. I don't plan on using it as a bootable drive, I believe it's way to slow for that anway. CCC is currently verifying all my files.
ANY help, suggestions, comments, anything would GREATLY appreciated!!! Please and Thank you.