OCLP is installing on an old iMac. Although I've used OCLP before, I have never backed up an OCLP installation. Honestly, I've never thought about it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and showing me how.
Wow and Thank You! I upgraded my med 2012 15 inch MBP from OCLP/Ventura to Sonoma. Folder permissions locked me out, every application lost its serial number and some, were needing to be reinstalled. I did a fresh Time Machine backup before the OS upgrade and the tutorial was perfect to getting me back to a computer that operates perfectly again.
Mr. Macintosh, this is a great tutorial. I knew I was doing something wrong. My 2013 Mac Pro is restore and running prior to me screwing it up. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you for this video. I attempted to move from Big Sur to Sequoia on my late-2014 iMac six times! While the clean install of Sequoia always worked, the subsequent attempt to restore from TM always failed in some sort of boot loop. Your vid highlighted the need to remove OCLP patches prior to restoring from a TM backup. I had not seen this covered anywhere else. Thank you!
Hey Mr. Macintosh. I wanted to thank you for this detailed video. I recently updated two 2010 Mac Pros to Sequoia, and my wifi and bluetooth stopped working. I have (using your excellent video) downgraded to Sonoma and things are working perfectly. Thanks again, your attention to detail made a laborious process a lot easier to handle.
This worked for me- I took a 5,1 pro to Sequoia, (took a few days to get that to work then another day to get all of my programs and such loaded onto the new OS - migration to Sequoia = bootloop) only to have strange little bugs pop up (mouse cursor floating away and some other small but annoying ones). So I migrated back to a fresh install of Sonoma. From Sonoma to Sequoia = bootloop Sequoia to Sonoma = success Specs: Mac Pro 5,1 - RX580, Titan Ridge, 3.0 USB card, updated BT / WiFi, SSD, not PCIe Proud supporter of Mr Macintosh and OCLP
I didn't see this Video until I had my Time Machine Backup of Ventura 13.7.1 from a 2012 MBP. I then made a USB Install for OCLP and Ventura 13.7.1 for my newer 15" Mid 2015 MBP. I installed a 1 TB HD with Adapter, and booted to install USB. Installed the Ventura, and at the end, where it said "Do you want to restore from a Time Machine?" , I clicked YES. I plugged in my Time Machine back, and migration began, and 6 hrs later, it booted and my desktop was the same. Had to enter a few passwords, and all is fine. Didn't have to Uninstall Root Patches as well documented by this Video. Maybe because I am just going from Ventura 13.7.1 to Ventura 13.7.1, it worked that way. Migration right from the install process.
It’s funny because I ran into the boot loop problem 2 days ago after using the migration assistant… You are a life saver !!! Thanks thanks thank you 🙏🙏🙏👌😎 ( just subscribed)
Mr Macintosh, Once again Thank you so much for your informative and precise teachings! You are a gentleman and scholar Sir! I honestly was expecting a reply or two back regarding the comment I made on your sequoia OCLP 2.0.0 video. This video is above and beyond and thoroughly answered all my reservations regarding this subject. Spot On Brother. Have a fantastic day bud! Keep up the excellent work!!!
Simply, huge thanks for this thorough walkthrough! 👍 Anecdotally, I’ve done this process successfully several macOS versions back, so being able to observe/see the changes (what to expect as of Sonoma) is just gold. (Or whatever we deem “safe” these days…😅)
Hi there. You video is very clear and concise, thanks so much. I've had my head in OCLP for a few weeks now on various old hardware. It's a wonderful project for which I will be donating to for sure. IMHO, the documentation is not all that clear about the importance of removing root patches prior to importing Time Machine backups. I really appreciate you going through the process. It helped me a great deal :-)
Thanks for this great tutorial, nice to know the Migration Assistant method works without the post root patches. I usually don't use Time Machine because I avoid incremental backup systems and use Carbon Copy Cloner instead to backup to external HD's and boot from them the old fashioned way. But this is a great method to downgrade an OS, so thank you very much for your effort in preparing this video. Thank you, dearly appreciated.
Awesome! Thanks so much for the confidence boost upgrading now knowing with detail the restoring from Time Machine Backup process. Haven't needed to do it yet but without this video I don't think I would have done it properly. Can't thank you enough for all your great work!
@Mr.Machintosh thank you for all information, although I would like to know more for the older 2009/2010 Polycarbonate MacBook which have usb keyboard and mouse issues for Ventura and Sonoma, when is the patcher going to cover that part.
Have a question, what if you wanted to use your time machine backup from the last supported Mac OS say Monterey and you was moving to OCLP Sonoma, would the restore process be the same or different?
Restoring my files post-Sequoia install results in continuous restarting as the final outcome or inability to log in to my AppleID. This is so timely as a possible solution. I didn't understand that the title of this vid would have this kind of help. Thanks!
Fantastic video, many thanks - I've fallen into the trap of not reverting the patches and the restore has failed and got itself into a loop - I now know better for next time. Thank you.
I thoroughly appreciate how you guide us through this procedure, but please let me rephrase my question. Not having been successful in attempting to install Sonoma on my iMac 14.1 (late 2013) running Catalina, do you think it would be a good idea for me to make a snapshot of my drive into TimeMachine before I go ahead and attempt to install Sequoia? You mentioned that when reverting to previous OSs, a recent OS would have a better probability, therefore having a clean copy to restore with onto an erased drive might be safer. Your comment will be appreciated, thanks.
Thank you i followed your steps - hope for help migration is completet it is restarting and restarding in a loop the back up disk is not conectet to my mac 11,3, did a new install of sequoia
Still looking for a video to show upgrading my iMac with OCLP Ventura to OCLP Sequoia. Not sure if i can just do the upgrade through Apple settings. Thanks for all the great videos.
I have always had problems with APFS and Time Machine backups - even on supported Macs and even on Apple TimeCapsules. Last time i tried I used a 5TB drive (my M1 MBP is 1TB) and it still stuffed up. I never use APFS on the time machine backup drive anymore and it has worked better.
Thanks for the tutorial. The video explains how to encrypt the backup. Request if you could make a video explaining how to encrypt the Mac (running opencore) as well.
I have a late 2016 macbook pro, I use the latest version of Sonoma, do you recommend switching to the new system or it is not worth it in terms of performance? thanks for your work ❤
After trying this it didn’t work while updating from Sonoma to Sequoia BUT like last year I remembered that with Carbon Copy Cleaner and without having to revert patches I was able to restore flawlessly 🙏
Hi there, short question...It applies if my backup was made on a macbook pro 20219 running clean sequoia? Because i assume that in this video, the backup is made on a patched system running oclp. So if I do as your example, there is any chance of fail during migration? Yesterday I did this and after the restore, my mac pro entered in boot loop and now I have to start over. Thanks in advance and sorry for my rusty english. You have a very useful content here. Cheers!
I want to make a time machine backup from a computer using OCLP computer running Sequioa. Once I have watched your video and created a time machine back up, can I then use that backup I created to transfer all my stuff to a newer 2017 Imac pro that I believe runs Sequioa without the need for OCLP or will it only be any good to transfer to another OLCP computer?
Hi Mr. Macintosh, can you help me as my screen is now blank/dark grey after upgrading to Sequoia using OCLP. How do I get my screen back? Thank you Sir.
I could use some help! I followed your instructions on how to create a macOS Sequoia for my Mac Pro 5,1. I initially created a OCLP USB and then installed it an SSD WD black. I placed the SSD on OWC Accelsior 1M2 and installed it on the Mac Pro 5,1. It booted up great however it gets stock on the login screen (10% of the progress line it hangs up)… I did a PRAM reset, but no change. Any Ideas how to proceed Mr. Macintosh? I have a Time Machine backup from Sonoma which is on another SSD?
I tried multiple ways to restore TM, but every time, after restore, it went to boot loop. System boot to migration assistant and then it will reboot. I ended up setting up new, but I was not able to restore using TM.
Same here. Odd how he only showed it working when downgrading to Sonoma. He didn't actually show it working on Sequoia. Pretty sure that is because it doesn't work with Sequoia.
Same here. Tried everything (migration assistant and time machine, with and without root patches on both sides), but migrating from Sonoma to Sequoia always leads to boot loop.
Hi, Thanks for your excelent work. One question: MacBook pro 15" 2015, does not restart, after klicking on reboot. the proceeding bar stpos, so I have to shut down the MacBook and start again bei pressing the button. What can I do to get rid of this. Thanks
Hi . Does the procedure demonstrated in the video possibly also work with CCC to clone a macOS that runs with OCLP as a bootable operating system? I had once tried with CCC to clone such a bootable macOS under OCLP. Unfortunately, it didn't work so easily.
Wondering this too - can CCC be used instead of Time Machine when migrating to Sequoia - I'm trying to migrate without the boot loop I still get after trying the above workaround for Time Machine
Having big issues, dont use Time Machine on my external boot drive (5TB metal) have successfully did the OCLP on 2014 Mac mini with 1TB internal SSD, first time tried to use Migrate Assistant and encountered boot loop - my bad, did not 'revert'. Did another clean install, did revert after successful OCLP install and still encounter boot loop on Migration Assistant. I did not unplug the external HDD after Migration Assistant finished and requested a Restart for finalise the migration. SO, I take it you must unplug HDD before Restart begins via Migration Assistant?
Migration Assistant shows a huge library folder that's much larger (60GB) than on the volume it would transfer from (3GB). Is Migration Assistant including all online storage (iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive) in its calculation? Apparently this is a common problem. Will it use all the space from its estimate?
Aren't you supposed to press ctrl during the boot ? I already forgot when you are supposed to do this so that oclp would automatically boot from their efi. Also forgot how to completely remove the EFI boot of OCLP if I want to use the official macOS.
I (retired Apple Certified System Administrator) thought I'd be cool and hang three SSDs off my rugged Airport Extreme to use as Time Machine backups for my 15" M2 MacBook Air, my 13" MaBook Air and my 15" 2015 MacBook Pro. When I decided to wipe and restore my 15" M2, while it could find the Time Machine backup of itself and of the 13", it refused to restore from it. I then grabbed my retired 2015 MAcBook Air and wiped it, and tried to restore from the 15" MacBook Pro disk on the Airport Extreme. Same thing. I also have a data-rpositiory hanging from that Airport Extreme and sync all 4 machines with this repository 1-2 times a day and that works perfectly with the program "Sync Folders Pro+"- But these Time Machine drives ... no go. I've since taken them off the Airport extreme where they done half their job - collecting the data with Time Machine. All with rather large sparse bundles. So now the 13" M2 and the 15" MacBook Pro have dedicated external SSDs I use for Time Machine, directly plugged into the respective laptop. I'd hoped for better ....
I am using the method presented here to migrate Sonoma's data to Sequoia. I tried to clean-install Sequoia on my mac pro 5,1 using OCLP 2.1.2 and I was successful in installing it. I reverted root-patches and restarted it and then migrated data using migration assistant app. Everything went o.k. After the completion of migration, I restarted my mac and it started o.k. but after 1/3 of progress bar, it stopped and restarted and it went on a loop. Do you have any idea how to resolve this issue?
Hi, I am having issues (spent all day trying to) to install sequoia on my 2013 MBA which has a new, non apple SSD. used disk utility to erase machintosh hd and data but now when I go to install sequoia, I get errors about SMART etc. I saw something about having to install to an original apple disk, but that was hours ago and would be surprised if that's correct because many others would have the same options. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
One “bug” I have found is that the exclusions from backup is not working properly my quadra boot Mac 15.1 is backing up over 1.5 TB of data ! On sequoia ie every Mac OS on the computer not just sequoia!
Can you please help me: i moved to a mac mini (late 2012) and updated it to sequoia. i'm trying to restore a time machine backup from my macbook air 2020 m1, but after the migration is complete, it stuck on a boot loop. I did tried removing the drives that open core installs after updating to sequoia, but still having the same issue.
@@manapenguin no, it seems there's no way around. I did a fresh install and later got the folders I needed through Finder. The apps I installed manually, lucky i got most dmg files to install them back
Hallo i have a imac late 2012 and I make a backup frome sonoma mac os and after I backup all and installed a new mac os also mac os sequoia but when a try to restore everything frome time machine every thing going very well but in the end I will get a messages there wrote some files cannot be restored so i have been trying a lot but nothing happened and i try manually but cant restore pictures so my question is do u have any idea what can i do?? Should I downgrade to mac os sonoma or what can I do please help me
Sorry for writing here, but somehow it is related. I bought a second hand iMac 27" mid 2011 for my sister, and just noticed that it's running Catalina with dosdude Catalina patcher. I wanted to reinstall high Sierra from a bootable usb but it's impossible, it looks like there is no recovery partition or i can not reach it. Of course i tried the keyboard shortcuts at boot, but the recovery doesn't come up, not even work the internet recovery. Very strange. So i just thought, maybe i can install a newer macos with OCLP on top of this dosdude Catalina? Is that possible? I already made successful OCLP installation with the Sonoma on my unsupported iMac 27" late 2012 successfully, and it's working good. I would really appreciate some of your advice what to do. Thanks in advance. Edit: problem solved, in the recovery at the erase part had to change/format the file system from apfs to macos extended journal. Because the patch made apfs for Catalina, that's why the bootable usb couldn't find where to install. After this change the high Sierra installation was successful.
Does this apply only to downgrades uninstalling root patches? I'm loading up the 2015 MBP again with OCLP2.1.2/Sequoia15.1 and currently doing the Migration assistant restoring my Monterey stock TM backup.. I'm confused..
After the sequia update in my macbook pro 13inch 2016. Microsoft office is just loading and can't type anything. Even though i have to subscription of Microsoft office. Please help me to fix this issue.
Hello! I am making the Time machine backup for a formatted HD just to be in safe . I have around 800Gig, and the backup process is in progress around 3 days now .Why is it so slowly? Also many times the harddrive unexpectedly disconnected for seemengly no reason. The backup process usualy was maximum an overnight with this amont of data before.
I'm at the state, that the external hard drive is not even mountable anymore, i cannot erase it either. I used the password protection option, of course i remember it, never had this kind of story before. The disk utility can see the drive, after around ten minutes when i plugged in, but can not mount it, even the information is not readable. Is there a way to save or to erase the hd or is it became a brick ..?
When doing this on my iMac I get a weird problem. Everything works well until I put the ego from the usb to the internal SSD. Suddenly I get the no entrance sign followed by a bunch of lines telling me this is is not allowed. When I boot back with usb and once again up and running. I then transferred the OC inside the USB ego manually ( with Auxiliary Oc Tool) onto the the internal and the. It works. Why does the automatic method gives me this problem? I have this since OCP 1.5.0! Any idea?
Weird, I hit the boot loop problem on 2013 Mac Pro on a clean install of Sequoia, and on a whim decided to restore docs/programs from my last TM backup...boooooot loooooop. Start all over and just ignore that prompt. :D
After updating to OCLP 2.0.2 everything seemed fine. Then I logged out of AppleID to wipe the iMac 2015 to install from scratch. Now upon boot I have the firmware padlock. I did not set a firmware password, but the computer is secondhand. Now it won't boot.
I don't understand why one has to revert the root patches prior to restoration. That is, the partches are on the EFI partition while the destination for the restoration is another partition altogether.
Root patches are not in the EFI partition. As told by the name already, they are on-disk (root volume) patches that add or downgrade drivers and frameworks, the modified system volume conflicts with Time Machine when the seal has to be broken on purpose to patch on-disk files. This typically leads to kernel panic after a restore. EFI partition only has patches that can be injected into memory by OpenCore, not everything can be such as GPU or WiFi drivers. That's why building OpenCore and Root Patches are separate sections in OCLP.
Somehow this isn’t working for me. I made a Time Machine of Big Sur and now reverted back but the migration assistant finds an insane amount of files (30k or something) and after finishing, basically nothing works. Nothing in the doc, all apps starting like the first time, no settings copied, safari crashes, Firefox crashes….
If you rely on an external monitor being connected and want to watch Apple purchased movies with one connected, don't go OCLP...at least not Sonoma or Sequoia on 2015 MBP...
OCLP is installing on an old iMac. Although I've used OCLP before, I have never backed up an OCLP installation. Honestly, I've never thought about it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and showing me how.
Wow and Thank You! I upgraded my med 2012 15 inch MBP from OCLP/Ventura to Sonoma. Folder permissions locked me out, every application lost its serial number and some, were needing to be reinstalled. I did a fresh Time Machine backup before the OS upgrade and the tutorial was perfect to getting me back to a computer that operates perfectly again.
Mr. Macintosh, this is a great tutorial. I knew I was doing something wrong. My 2013 Mac Pro is restore and running prior to me screwing it up. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you for this video. I attempted to move from Big Sur to Sequoia on my late-2014 iMac six times! While the clean install of Sequoia always worked, the subsequent attempt to restore from TM always failed in some sort of boot loop. Your vid highlighted the need to remove OCLP patches prior to restoring from a TM backup. I had not seen this covered anywhere else. Thank you!
I LOVE your videos!! Clear and concise information without the added (and unnecessary) baggage of so many other You tubers. Thanks again!!!
You’re a genius! I really appreciate how clearly you explain things. Thank you so much!
Thank you @DanyGlezer-yi5es 😀
Hey Mr. Macintosh. I wanted to thank you for this detailed video. I recently updated two 2010 Mac Pros to Sequoia, and my wifi and bluetooth stopped working. I have (using your excellent video) downgraded to Sonoma and things are working perfectly. Thanks again, your attention to detail made a laborious process a lot easier to handle.
This worked for me- I took a 5,1 pro to Sequoia, (took a few days to get that to work then another day to get all of my programs and such loaded onto the new OS - migration to Sequoia = bootloop) only to have strange little bugs pop up (mouse cursor floating away and some other small but annoying ones). So I migrated back to a fresh install of Sonoma.
From Sonoma to Sequoia = bootloop
Sequoia to Sonoma = success
Specs: Mac Pro 5,1 - RX580, Titan Ridge, 3.0 USB card, updated BT / WiFi, SSD, not PCIe
Proud supporter of Mr Macintosh and OCLP
I didn't see this Video until I had my Time Machine Backup of Ventura 13.7.1 from a 2012 MBP. I then made a USB Install for OCLP and Ventura 13.7.1 for my newer 15" Mid 2015 MBP. I installed a 1 TB HD with Adapter, and booted to install USB. Installed the Ventura, and at the end, where it said "Do you want to restore from a Time Machine?" , I clicked YES. I plugged in my Time Machine back, and migration began, and 6 hrs later, it booted and my desktop was the same. Had to enter a few passwords, and all is fine. Didn't have to Uninstall Root Patches as well documented by this Video. Maybe because I am just going from Ventura 13.7.1 to Ventura 13.7.1, it worked that way. Migration right from the install process.
It’s funny because I ran into the boot loop problem 2 days ago after using the migration assistant… You are a life saver !!! Thanks thanks thank you 🙏🙏🙏👌😎 ( just subscribed)
I just up updated an 2015 MacBook Pro and a 2012 iMac to macOS Sequoia. All running smoothly. Thank you!!
Mr Macintosh, Once again Thank you so much for your informative and precise teachings! You are a gentleman and scholar Sir! I honestly was expecting a reply or two back regarding the comment I made on your sequoia OCLP 2.0.0 video. This video is above and beyond and thoroughly answered all my reservations regarding this subject. Spot On Brother. Have a fantastic day bud! Keep up the excellent work!!!
Simply, huge thanks for this thorough walkthrough! 👍
Anecdotally, I’ve done this process successfully several macOS versions back, so being able to observe/see the changes (what to expect as of Sonoma) is just gold. (Or whatever we deem “safe” these days…😅)
After following instructions and using an installer from thumb drive, all good on 2011 mid year 27” non metal graphics I mac. No issues, works fine.
Waiting for your video on whether to upgrade to mac os sequoia or not.
My iMac was better after it.
@@ryanzmuda3167 hmm
Hi there. You video is very clear and concise, thanks so much. I've had my head in OCLP for a few weeks now on various old hardware. It's a wonderful project for which I will be donating to for sure. IMHO, the documentation is not all that clear about the importance of removing root patches prior to importing Time Machine backups. I really appreciate you going through the process. It helped me a great deal :-)
Thanks for this great tutorial, nice to know the Migration Assistant method works without the post root patches. I usually don't use Time Machine because I avoid incremental backup systems and use Carbon Copy Cloner instead to backup to external HD's and boot from them the old fashioned way. But this is a great method to downgrade an OS, so thank you very much for your effort in preparing this video. Thank you, dearly appreciated.
Awesome! Thanks so much for the confidence boost upgrading now knowing with detail the restoring from Time Machine Backup process. Haven't needed to do it yet but without this video I don't think I would have done it properly. Can't thank you enough for all your great work!
@Mr.Machintosh thank you for all information, although I would like to know more for the older 2009/2010 Polycarbonate MacBook which have usb keyboard and mouse issues for Ventura and Sonoma, when is the patcher going to cover that part.
Have a question, what if you wanted to use your time machine backup from the last supported Mac OS say Monterey and you was moving to OCLP Sonoma, would the restore process be the same or different?
Restoring my files post-Sequoia install results in continuous restarting as the final outcome or inability to log in to my AppleID. This is so timely as a possible solution. I didn't understand that the title of this vid would have this kind of help. Thanks!
@Mr.Macintosh. Excellent! your guides are always very informative. this one is very, very...useful. Thank You.
Fantastic video, many thanks - I've fallen into the trap of not reverting the patches and the restore has failed and got itself into a loop - I now know better for next time. Thank you.
Thank You Mr Mac, great easy to follow video as always. Keep up the great work. Mike 👌🍻
I thoroughly appreciate how you guide us through this procedure, but please let me rephrase my question. Not having been successful in attempting to install Sonoma on my iMac 14.1 (late 2013) running Catalina, do you think it would be a good idea for me to make a snapshot of my drive into TimeMachine before I go ahead and attempt to install Sequoia? You mentioned that when reverting to previous OSs, a recent OS would have a better probability, therefore having a clean copy to restore with onto an erased drive might be safer. Your comment will be appreciated, thanks.
Thank you i followed your steps - hope for help migration is completet it is restarting and restarding in a loop the back up disk is not conectet to my mac 11,3, did a new install of sequoia
Still looking for a video to show upgrading my iMac with OCLP Ventura to OCLP Sequoia. Not sure if i can just do the upgrade through Apple settings. Thanks for all the great videos.
I have always had problems with APFS and Time Machine backups - even on supported Macs and even on Apple TimeCapsules. Last time i tried I used a 5TB drive (my M1 MBP is 1TB) and it still stuffed up. I never use APFS on the time machine backup drive anymore and it has worked better.
Excellent tutorial.
Many thanks!
Thanks for the tutorial. The video explains how to encrypt the backup.
Request if you could make a video explaining how to encrypt the Mac (running opencore) as well.
An excellent and really helpful video, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I have a late 2016 macbook pro, I use the latest version of Sonoma, do you recommend switching to the new system or it is not worth it in terms of performance? thanks for your work ❤
Definitely going to watch this later. TM not working was why I walked away from OCLP
After trying this it didn’t work while updating from Sonoma to Sequoia BUT like last year I remembered that with Carbon Copy Cleaner and without having to revert patches I was able to restore flawlessly 🙏
Informative as always! Wasn’t AFPS introduced as default w/ High Sierra?
Hi there, short question...It applies if my backup was made on a macbook pro 20219 running clean sequoia? Because i assume that in this video, the backup is made on a patched system running oclp. So if I do as your example, there is any chance of fail during migration? Yesterday I did this and after the restore, my mac pro entered in boot loop and now I have to start over. Thanks in advance and sorry for my rusty english. You have a very useful content here. Cheers!
I want to make a time machine backup from a computer using OCLP computer running Sequioa. Once I have watched your video and created a time machine back up, can I then use that backup I created to transfer all my stuff to a newer 2017 Imac pro that I believe runs Sequioa without the need for OCLP or will it only be any good to transfer to another OLCP computer?
Hi Mr. Macintosh, can you help me as my screen is now blank/dark grey after upgrading to Sequoia using OCLP. How do I get my screen back? Thank you Sir.
I could use some help! I followed your instructions on how to create a macOS Sequoia for my Mac Pro 5,1. I initially created a OCLP USB and then installed it an SSD WD black. I placed the SSD on OWC Accelsior 1M2 and installed it on the Mac Pro 5,1. It booted up great however it gets stock on the login screen (10% of the progress line it hangs up)… I did a PRAM reset, but no change. Any Ideas how to proceed Mr. Macintosh? I have a Time Machine backup from Sonoma which is on another SSD?
I tried multiple ways to restore TM, but every time, after restore, it went to boot loop. System boot to migration assistant and then it will reboot. I ended up setting up new, but I was not able to restore using TM.
Same here. Odd how he only showed it working when downgrading to Sonoma. He didn't actually show it working on Sequoia. Pretty sure that is because it doesn't work with Sequoia.
Same I’m boot looping too. Mid 2012 mbp
Same here. Tried everything (migration assistant and time machine, with and without root patches on both sides), but migrating from Sonoma to Sequoia always leads to boot loop.
Same Pro 5,1 on Sequoia. Ugh. It took me 2 days to get the OS working and now I have to do it again.
Thanks for this great video. The USB drive is not displayed on my boot picker 7:35 - What could be the reason?
Hi, Thanks for your excelent work. One question: MacBook pro 15" 2015, does not restart, after klicking on reboot. the proceeding bar stpos, so I have to shut down the MacBook and start again bei pressing the button. What can I do to get rid of this. Thanks
Hi .
Does the procedure demonstrated in the video possibly also work with CCC to clone a macOS that runs with OCLP as a bootable operating system? I had once tried with CCC to clone such a bootable macOS under OCLP. Unfortunately, it didn't work so easily.
Wondering this too - can CCC be used instead of Time Machine when migrating to Sequoia - I'm trying to migrate without the boot loop I still get after trying the above workaround for Time Machine
Having big issues, dont use Time Machine on my external boot drive (5TB metal) have successfully did the OCLP on 2014 Mac mini with 1TB internal SSD, first time tried to use Migrate Assistant and encountered boot loop - my bad, did not 'revert'. Did another clean install, did revert after successful OCLP install and still encounter boot loop on Migration Assistant. I did not unplug the external HDD after Migration Assistant finished and requested a Restart for finalise the migration. SO, I take it you must unplug HDD before Restart begins via Migration Assistant?
Migration Assistant shows a huge library folder that's much larger (60GB) than on the volume it would transfer from (3GB). Is Migration Assistant including all online storage (iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive) in its calculation? Apparently this is a common problem. Will it use all the space from its estimate?
Hi, can you do a video with Apple Silicon? I mean the same one but with any apple silicon mac. Thank you
Disk utility can make a system image. I would think that would be quicker.
Thanks a lot! Does CCC work with OCLP?
Aren't you supposed to press ctrl during the boot ? I already forgot when you are supposed to do this so that oclp would automatically boot from their efi. Also forgot how to completely remove the EFI boot of OCLP if I want to use the official macOS.
I (retired Apple Certified System Administrator) thought I'd be cool and hang three SSDs off my rugged Airport Extreme to use as Time Machine backups for my 15" M2 MacBook Air, my 13" MaBook Air and my 15" 2015 MacBook Pro. When I decided to wipe and restore my 15" M2, while it could find the Time Machine backup of itself and of the 13", it refused to restore from it. I then grabbed my retired 2015 MAcBook Air and wiped it, and tried to restore from the 15" MacBook Pro disk on the Airport Extreme. Same thing. I also have a data-rpositiory hanging from that Airport Extreme and sync all 4 machines with this repository 1-2 times a day and that works perfectly with the program "Sync Folders Pro+"- But these Time Machine drives ... no go. I've since taken them off the Airport extreme where they done half their job - collecting the data with Time Machine. All with rather large sparse bundles. So now the 13" M2 and the 15" MacBook Pro have dedicated external SSDs I use for Time Machine, directly plugged into the respective laptop. I'd hoped for better ....
I am using the method presented here to migrate Sonoma's data to Sequoia. I tried to clean-install Sequoia on my mac pro 5,1 using OCLP 2.1.2 and I was successful in installing it. I reverted root-patches and restarted it and then migrated data using migration assistant app. Everything went o.k. After the completion of migration, I restarted my mac and it started o.k. but after 1/3 of progress bar, it stopped and restarted and it went on a loop. Do you have any idea how to resolve this issue?
When went try it. I got the Migration Assistant’s showing my disk but it said conflicts detected so I didn’t go any further.
Should I Upgrade my mscbook Air from early 2014 to sequoia?
Can I use the same steps to install sonoma and put ventura time machine backup??
Hi, I am having issues (spent all day trying to) to install sequoia on my 2013 MBA which has a new, non apple SSD. used disk utility to erase machintosh hd and data but now when I go to install sequoia, I get errors about SMART etc.
I saw something about having to install to an original apple disk, but that was hours ago and would be surprised if that's correct because many others would have the same options.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
how to return to natively supported catalina (mbp 2012), from big sur, if there is a backup of it in time machine? recover em from Option-Command-R?
One “bug” I have found is that the exclusions from backup is not working properly my quadra boot Mac 15.1 is backing up over 1.5 TB of data ! On sequoia ie every Mac OS on the computer not just sequoia!
Can you please help me: i moved to a mac mini (late 2012) and updated it to sequoia. i'm trying to restore a time machine backup from my macbook air 2020 m1, but after the migration is complete, it stuck on a boot loop. I did tried removing the drives that open core installs after updating to sequoia, but still having the same issue.
Did you resolve the migration assistant boot loop? I’m stuck in this situation too.
@@manapenguin no, it seems there's no way around. I did a fresh install and later got the folders I needed through Finder. The apps I installed manually, lucky i got most dmg files to install them back
Hallo i have a imac late 2012 and I make a backup frome sonoma mac os and after I backup all and installed a new mac os also mac os sequoia but when a try to restore everything frome time machine every thing going very well but in the end I will get a messages there wrote some files cannot be restored so i have been trying a lot but nothing happened and i try manually but cant restore pictures so my question is do u have any idea what can i do?? Should I downgrade to mac os sonoma or what can I do please help me
Would this be a good thing to do before you decide to try to upgrade your unsupported Mac to a newer OS?
Sorry for writing here, but somehow it is related. I bought a second hand iMac 27" mid 2011 for my sister, and just noticed that it's running Catalina with dosdude Catalina patcher. I wanted to reinstall high Sierra from a bootable usb but it's impossible, it looks like there is no recovery partition or i can not reach it. Of course i tried the keyboard shortcuts at boot, but the recovery doesn't come up, not even work the internet recovery. Very strange. So i just thought, maybe i can install a newer macos with OCLP on top of this dosdude Catalina? Is that possible? I already made successful OCLP installation with the Sonoma on my unsupported iMac 27" late 2012 successfully, and it's working good. I would really appreciate some of your advice what to do. Thanks in advance.
Edit: problem solved, in the recovery at the erase part had to change/format the file system from apfs to macos extended journal. Because the patch made apfs for Catalina, that's why the bootable usb couldn't find where to install. After this change the high Sierra installation was successful.
Does this apply only to downgrades uninstalling root patches? I'm loading up the 2015 MBP again with OCLP2.1.2/Sequoia15.1 and currently doing the Migration assistant restoring my Monterey stock TM backup.. I'm confused..
Is that true for a T2 apple silicon or just for T1?
Where can I buy a reasonably priced thunderbolt 2 drive or dock?
So is my AirPort Extreme / Time Capsule completely useless now as it formats it’s HDD in HFS+ ??
I have installed Sequoia on my late 2012 iMac successfully, however iCloud will not sync, any ideas? Thanks
it´s not possible to deactivate the boot picker anymore?
After the sequia update in my macbook pro 13inch 2016. Microsoft office is just loading and can't type anything. Even though i have to subscription of Microsoft office. Please help me to fix this issue.
great video
Can you write to the EFI partition with OCLP? Having issues
I went through the whole process successfully but at the end it didn’t restore or display my apps and backups.
Hello! I am making the Time machine backup for a formatted HD just to be in safe . I have around 800Gig, and the backup process is in progress around 3 days now .Why is it so slowly? Also many times the harddrive unexpectedly disconnected for seemengly no reason. The backup process usualy was maximum an overnight with this amont of data before.
I'm at the state, that the external hard drive is not even mountable anymore, i cannot erase it either. I used the password protection option, of course i remember it, never had this kind of story before. The disk utility can see the drive, after around ten minutes when i plugged in, but can not mount it, even the information is not readable. Is there a way to save or to erase the hd or is it became a brick ..?
Hello, Where should I buy these computer accessories?
I live in Switzerland
When doing this on my iMac I get a weird problem. Everything works well until I put the ego from the usb to the internal SSD. Suddenly I get the no entrance sign followed by a bunch of lines telling me this is is not allowed. When I boot back with usb and once again up and running. I then transferred the OC inside the USB ego manually ( with Auxiliary Oc Tool) onto the the internal and the. It works. Why does the automatic method gives me this problem? I have this since OCP 1.5.0! Any idea?
Not Ego. of course EFI!
Weird, I hit the boot loop problem on 2013 Mac Pro on a clean install of Sequoia, and on a whim decided to restore docs/programs from my last TM backup...boooooot loooooop. Start all over and just ignore that prompt. :D
After updating to OCLP 2.0.2 everything seemed fine. Then I logged out of AppleID to wipe the iMac 2015 to install from scratch. Now upon boot I have the firmware padlock. I did not set a firmware password, but the computer is secondhand. Now it won't boot.
10:22 important time stamp reference
I don't understand why one has to revert the root patches prior to restoration. That is, the partches are on the EFI partition while the destination for the restoration is another partition altogether.
Root patches are not in the EFI partition. As told by the name already, they are on-disk (root volume) patches that add or downgrade drivers and frameworks, the modified system volume conflicts with Time Machine when the seal has to be broken on purpose to patch on-disk files. This typically leads to kernel panic after a restore.
EFI partition only has patches that can be injected into memory by OpenCore, not everything can be such as GPU or WiFi drivers. That's why building OpenCore and Root Patches are separate sections in OCLP.
@@MaxdecMusic I see now. Thank you.
One question. Does this procedure work if your backup source is a time capsule?
It does I always backup mine from TC
Somehow this isn’t working for me. I made a Time Machine of Big Sur and now reverted back but the migration assistant finds an insane amount of files (30k or something) and after finishing, basically nothing works. Nothing in the doc, all apps starting like the first time, no settings copied, safari crashes, Firefox crashes….
macos macbook air 2010 can i update
One-sentence summarization for those who are already familiar with OPLC: To restore from your time machine back up, revert the root patch first.
Sequoia eats the battery of my 2014 MB Pro. I also lost 10% capacity in one day since installing Sequoia.
Awesome
What happen when ur OCLP USB have a forbidden sign and you cannot boot?
Reset NVRAM/PRAM and try again
Why don't just use the Migration Assistant
He is using Migration Assistant.. maybe watch before comment.
I never use TimeMachine, Carbon Copy Cloner is much better for your data. I would rather install the system fresh and get the data via CCC
If you rely on an external monitor being connected and want to watch Apple purchased movies with one connected, don't go OCLP...at least not Sonoma or Sequoia on 2015 MBP...
Nice try, Mr. Mac, but the hands are just a creepy distraction.