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Is my 2015 MacOS dying or what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1872285" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>My solution remains the same as as post #29 but more complicated. </p><p></p><p>Until you can erase your HD completely and instal a "clean" copy of the macOS you will not know if your problem is hardware or software related.</p><p>A process of elimination to find the source of your problem may be difficult when your device is not functioning well. As Jake suggests give the system time to reindex and see what you have then.</p><p></p><p>The problem with erasing your device is that you need a bootable source to do that, something that can startup the device independent of the internal drive. Previously on your old operating system you could have done that by cloning your hard drive with say Carbon Copy Cloner (free) which would produce a <em>bootable</em> clone, sadly with Big Sur that is not so easy.</p><p>Currently you would need to either create a bootable installer for Big Sur on a USB thumb drive or create a clone of your HD and instal Big Sur on that. In both cases you would need to download the Big Sur Installer again from the App Store (unless you kept a copy of it).</p><p></p><p>Lastly you still need to preserve the data (your files and folders) somewhere to do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1872285, member: 204485"] My solution remains the same as as post #29 but more complicated. Until you can erase your HD completely and instal a "clean" copy of the macOS you will not know if your problem is hardware or software related. A process of elimination to find the source of your problem may be difficult when your device is not functioning well. As Jake suggests give the system time to reindex and see what you have then. The problem with erasing your device is that you need a bootable source to do that, something that can startup the device independent of the internal drive. Previously on your old operating system you could have done that by cloning your hard drive with say Carbon Copy Cloner (free) which would produce a [I]bootable[/I] clone, sadly with Big Sur that is not so easy. Currently you would need to either create a bootable installer for Big Sur on a USB thumb drive or create a clone of your HD and instal Big Sur on that. In both cases you would need to download the Big Sur Installer again from the App Store (unless you kept a copy of it). Lastly you still need to preserve the data (your files and folders) somewhere to do this. [/QUOTE]
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