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On Jan 19, 2025, at 10:19, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
?Randy B. Singer wrote:
UPDATE!
David Nanian of Shirt Pocket Software says that SuperDuper! can once again create bootable clone backups under Beta 2 of macOS 15.3. So, one can presume that once the final verison of macOS 15.3 is released, folks will be back in business for creating bootable clones.
However, you can create a bootable clone in any case by first using Apple's OS Installer program to install a copy of the macOS on your external drive, and then using something like SuperDuper! to do data-only clone backups to the drive.
I have been making bootable clones using SuperDuper! for years; I have not tried to do so since Dave Nanian’s warning about macOS 15.2.
However, since I *HAVE* a bootable clone of 15.1, I can boot from it and then update its macOS version to the latest, then reboot to my internal drive, and use SD! to update the data partition.
That what makes this what I call a “problem in thinking”, not a real problem.
You can still get the same results, you just have to take a different path to get there, as both Randy and Jim S have explained work arounds for this temporary glitch. Unfortunately, you may have to think for 2 seconds.
Or to look at it another way, they run the headline, “The sky is falling!”, to sell more newspapers.
Must have been a slow news day.
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