We didn't want to create our own control here, since we'd constantly be chasing Apple's visual updates. When inactive, though, it's quite visible.which I often joke is a subtle hint to not watch the pot boil. When the window is active, that means there's minimal contrast. Over the years, Apple has changed both the size and color of their progress bar control so that it's become closer and closer to our color. Status ReportĪs I'm sure you've noticed, the status bar in an active phase is, well, blue-on-blue.
We've also improved performance, especially when cleaning up folders with fewer files in them during Smart Update updated our handling of "Cloud" files on Monterey fixed a crash with new-style serial numbers on macOS versions before 10.14 worked around some security prompts when running from non-Admin accounts.a list of all the updates is in the release notes, as usual. We've changed SuperDuper! to work around this problem, and as long as you've updated to v3.6, things should work fine. (At this point, everything's been copied, and no data will be lost, but a scary red bar appears, often followed by a change of underwear, a support email, and a request for dry cleaning reimbursement.) On macOS 12.3, a change in bless breaks asr, and it returns an error, which causes SuperDuper! v3.5 to fail the copy. Under Big Sur and later, however, that's not sufficient: the copy has to be authorized for boot, which is done either with the Startup Disk Preference Pane (if it appears there, which it sometimes doesn't) or via the "boot choice" menu at start (which is accessed during startup via Option on Intel Macs, or by holding down Power on Apple Silicon Macs). That basically means it does the final steps necessary to set the drive up for boot. We can update everything but the OS with Smart Update, but if the OS needs to be copied, we need to use asr to do it.Īs part of its operation, asr blesses the copy.
On Big Sur and later, as I've written before, asr must be used to produce a bootable copy.
macOS 12.3 will break SuperDuper! v3.5 due to problems with asr (Apple Software Restore), the tool that must be used to copy the OS, and we've worked around that issue in our new update.
This release is especially important for Apple silicon users.
Rather, we've been working on a series of fixes that we're releasing today as SuperDuper v3.6. There’s no running catalog of your files, like Time Machine offers, meaning you can’t dig up old versions of things you’ve overwritten.Things have been relatively quiet here at the blog, but not because I've just been enjoying listening to records.
RELATED: What You Need to Know About Creating System Image BackupsĪgain, these full system backups probably shouldn’t be your primary backup. It may be possible to run it on a different Mac of the same model, or even some other Macs, but we haven’t tested this and your mileage may vary. You’ll have the best results running this on the same Mac it was cloned from (like if that Mac’s hard drive dies, but all its other hardware is okay). Your Mac will start up as normal, but everything will be loaded from you external drive instead of your internal one. To boot from your external drive, simply click on it and click the arrow below it. You’ll eventually see a few booting options. To boot from your cloned backup, simply plug your drive into your Mac, press the Power button, and hold the Option key right when the system turns on. When you’re ready, we can test the drive out. Feel free to eject the drive when the process is complete.