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MikeonTV

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I updated my Macbook Air 2014 to Big Sur as the prompts were never ending.

When I did that it stalled after 24 hours and kept restarting in a loop. I learned I could fix this by using the OPTION+COMMAND+R to install it in recovery mode.

This time i worked but all my apps and data are gone.

I see that the in the Disk Utility there are multiple partitions called Macintosh HD - Data and I'm wondering if one of them has my old files. I looked at the drive in locations but it's empty.

Is there any way to go in a recover a few folders/files from this older drive?
 

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Patrice Brousseau

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I updated my Macbook Air 2014 to Big Sur as the prompts were never ending.

When I did that it stalled after 24 hours and kept restarting in a loop. I learned I could fix this by using the OPTION+COMMAND+R to install it in recovery mode.

This time i worked but all my apps and data are gone.

I see that the in the Disk Utility there are multiple partitions called Macintosh HD - Data and I'm wondering if one of them has my old files. I looked at the drive in locations but it's empty.

Is there any way to go in a recover a few folders/files from this older drive?
No TM or CCC backup? If not the case, the answer is unfortunately, no.
 
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