Hey guys, i have recently tried to restore my 15" 2015 macbook pro after i upgraded to Monterey. Turns out half my apps dont work on it so i thought id just restore it from time machine.
I booted the macbook up in recoverey mode and started the recoverey process however it has not moved from "preparing to restore" for the last 24hours. I checked the log and the last entry is:
Macbook-pro OSInstaller[488] : [RESTORE] Erasing disk 'Mac' to filesystem type 'KSKDiskFileSystemAFPS', Case sensitive: No
I am currently using a seagate one touch 5TB to restore from and i was just wondering is it usual to have to wait so long or has it frozen? And what am i doing wrong?
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TomW123
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TomW123
Add a CommentI'm having the same issue right now, running on a MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD. About 7 ½ hours into attempting to erase the SSD. On the phone with AppleCare senior tech, who said to let it go awhile longer. The system Log is actually reporting contained other activity, but no progress on the disk erase. For example, the process Time Machine System Restore is still running with result System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp.
What did you finally do?
And after 8 hours, Time Machine Restore crashed, with the log entry "ClientDied".
I tried erasing the hard drive from within Disk Utility, but that did not prevent Time Machine Restore from spending hours trying to do the same thing again:
Erasing disk 'Macintosh HD' to filesystem type 'kSKDiskFileSystemAPFS', case sensitive: NO-TomW123