Just learned how to perform a block level copy of a volume. My OS couldn't care less what's on Volume A, it is copying it verbatim to Volume B as fast as possible and I can sort out the rest when it's done.
Current soundtrack: 📻🔊
Ahh, shit. ⏳
Every tweet, article and discussion post throughout the Internet tells you this stuff takes hours, but they don't tell you it'll take hours and then it'll take *more* hours.
Psychologically, there's a big difference between sitting through one progress bar with no displayed ETA and sitting through several. This isn't even the main event.
At least there's comfort in knowing this is the fastest method for doing it right.
The plan, originally, was to okay Myst. They remade it once again, and I bought it and sat through the 10GB download.
It turns out it requires macOS 11+, so I decided to put Mojave in a VM for my 32-bit applications, which was another few GB. And then I downloaded macOS 12, which is another fifteen.
It won't install, because of a disk problem. The fruit company suggests backing up and then a fresh install.
My backup drive is full. 😑
@furiousgreencloud The return window has probably long since closed, but meanwhile, so much of my time, money and disk capacity are tied up in this that pushing through it makes the most sense.
Followup fun fact: a block-level copy of a Time Machine drive may still cause problems if it's formatted any differently from the source volume 🤦
@furiousgreencloud Almost out of the woods!