My trusty 2010 MBP has been getting really sluggish and a bit buggy even after upgrading to a SSD and more RAM several years ago. A couple of nights ago I created a Time Machine backup and tried a restore, which failed.
"An Error occurred while restoring from backup"
>Choose Startup Disk (this is empty)
>Install macOS (more below)
>Choose Other Backup (have tried 3, none work)
The Restore process requires erasing the HD, so the logical next step was to try to reinstall High Sierra from recovery mode and migrate. It starts out fine and goes through a reboot process and then hits a snag every time.
"Operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.osinstall error -3)"
I have run First Aid on the HD and TM Backups and they end with Operation Successful.
I tried Apple Support chat and no help. Apparently even the Genius Bar will not support a computer this old. This thing is basically just my couch computer, and the plan was to upgrade anyway but thought I would try to keep this one running as an iTunes machine or whatever for a bit. Any advice appreciated.
"An Error occurred while restoring from backup"
>Choose Startup Disk (this is empty)
>Install macOS (more below)
>Choose Other Backup (have tried 3, none work)
The Restore process requires erasing the HD, so the logical next step was to try to reinstall High Sierra from recovery mode and migrate. It starts out fine and goes through a reboot process and then hits a snag every time.
"Operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.osinstall error -3)"
I have run First Aid on the HD and TM Backups and they end with Operation Successful.
I tried Apple Support chat and no help. Apparently even the Genius Bar will not support a computer this old. This thing is basically just my couch computer, and the plan was to upgrade anyway but thought I would try to keep this one running as an iTunes machine or whatever for a bit. Any advice appreciated.