Reloading macOS Sequoia

[transmaster]

My Mac Studio was hanging up real bad after the update. Called Apple Support and after an evaluation I was advised to reload macOS 15. This was a real learning experience for a relatively new Mac user. I now know how to go into safe mode on the Mac and what I can do from there. The setup is so much better than how it works on a PC. I noticed the value of the 4TB SSD that I formatted to APFS it was displayed as an internal drive.

15 hours and 9 minutes to go.

 

[transmaster]

I have alway said that computers are evil demons from hell. My Mac and company demonstrated that. I reloaded macOS 15. I had a status window of it download process. The screen when blank and I just let is do its thing. The next morning still a blank screen. Called apple support the patient lady was a help. What I discovered was my monitor had shut its self down. I don't know why it does not have a time-out setting, and looking at the settings on the Mac I don't have anything set there either. I notice when I restart the Mac it is shutting it self off so I must be time for a new monitor this one is about 5 years old. Oh and when I tried to sigh back in my Keychron wouldn't work, switched to my totally manual Keychron and fixed that. Grrrrrr!!!

At least iPadOS 18 didn't brick my M4 iPad

 

[themacguy631]

I just wiped and reloaded my M3 MBP today because of random issues. Seems to be working much better now.

 

[transmaster]

I finally have everything up and running. I suppose I could call this a SpaceX moment. Elon Musk's philosophy is you do not learn if you don't blow up stuff. I my case, it was the apparently failing monitor, then it was my iPad snatching the Keychron Q1, so I pulled out the wired Q12 and stopped that. finally there was problem with the thing hanging up. Finally I did the tried an true Windows fix, physically it turn off. That fixed the hanging up part. Next I went into the iPads setting and told it to forget the Q1. I still have the problem with the the Mac, the iPad, and the iPhone fighting over the Airpods I don't use them much so I have not taken the time to deal with this. This has been a real learning experience now I know how to deal with this in the future.

Thank God for my iPad.

 

[transmaster]

How does one do a clean install of a Mac? Right now I am waiting on the update that is sure to come in the next couple of days. The trouble I am having is sluggish YouTube, and apps that take forever to open and than when they do they do not respond. These same apps on the iPad work just fine.

 

[transmaster]

Slowly, and I have no idea why, things are starting to work. SDRConnect started working after restart 432 after update. jRiver Media 31 started to work, etc.