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ItsASine (Kayla)

I had an oddly specific issue that my coworkers still claim is my hard drive crapping out and not Mohave's fault...

The post-update file restore got mucked up and corrupted some apps and permissions such that things like Dropbox and 1Password wouldn't run at all, Chrome lost extensions and couldn't install new ones, etc etc.

Disk Utility just kind of gave up on first aid for the drive, so I did a Time Machine backup and then immediately restored from it and that magically fixed everything. Time Machine restore wipes the drive and puts the backup on top of it, so the turn it off and on again approach fixed it.

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Ted Hagos

must really be the HDD then. I said earlier I'd wait; but I probably just suck at the marshmallow test, I pulled the trigger last night. Everything went well, without a hitch. Thankfully

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Enjoy your new, working OS :)

I'm going to stubbornly hold out on my drive since it's AppleCare just ran out, so it's in that weird middle of being too new to have easily fixed parts but not new enough to not pay an arm and a leg to fix it. I've had this wishlisted for a while, though...