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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1893084" data-attributes="member: 38864">I know. I was addressing his concern that bootable backups were no longer possible.EDIT: Allow me to point out the scenario I faced that led me to make my latest backup. I had installed USB Overdrive on my M1 MBA in an attempt to customize the buttons of a gamepad for use with a couple games that didn't have native gamepad support. Well it didn't do the job I needed it to do, so I deleted it. But I started having issues with the cursor moving around and activating the Dock on the side while in a full screen game, which should not have been happening. I dug around and found a .dext file installed by USB-O in /Library that I figured was the culprit. But i had no way to delete it. Not using the Terminal and sudo rm -rf. Not by enabling and logging in as root. Nothing worked. Nothing. I had to boot off of my external backup in order to delete that file from the internal drive. And yes, that fixed the problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1893084, member: 38864"] I know. I was addressing his concern that bootable backups were no longer possible. EDIT: Allow me to point out the scenario I faced that led me to make my latest backup. I had installed USB Overdrive on my M1 MBA in an attempt to customize the buttons of a gamepad for use with a couple games that didn't have native gamepad support. Well it didn't do the job I needed it to do, so I deleted it. But I started having issues with the cursor moving around and activating the Dock on the side while in a full screen game, which should not have been happening. I dug around and found a .dext file installed by USB-O in /Library that I figured was the culprit. But i had no way to delete it. Not using the Terminal and [I]sudo rm -rf. [/I]Not by enabling and logging in as root. Nothing worked. Nothing. I had to boot off of my external backup in order to delete that file from the internal drive. And yes, that fixed the problem. [/QUOTE]

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