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I have had no trouble on my iMac 15,1 at all with Sonoma installed on the internal SSD, and bootable Ventura and Monterey both connected via USB (separate Volumes on a Crucial MX500 512GB SSD). Having two identical systems (with both connected, one internal and one external) seems to be the problem nowadays. It is a very quick process actually.Ĭlick to expand.I can only tell you what my experience has been. Once you have a CCC backup, if something gets out of whack, simple wipe the affected disk, reinstall and use MIgration Assistant to revert to your formed install. It seems the days of having a clone are essentially over. I once tried having 2 Ventura installs (a clone) on the internal and the external disk, but both systems got messed up quickly and I had to punt on 2nd down!

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I have an iMac 15,1 with Sonoma running as the main system on the internal Apple blade SSD and Ventura, Monterey and Mojave (for 32 bit apps) on an external Crucial MX500 SSD. It is quite possible to have an internal Sonoma Volume and separate Volumes for, Ventura, Monterey and even Mojave if you will, on either the internal disk or an external disk. To sum it all up, having two identical systems, a clone per se, for example 2 Sonoma systems, can be troublesome. That is the CarbonCopy Cloner site and the owner and main programmer is well versed in Apple's somewhat demented changes to the OS over the last few years.

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One thing though: with two 3000/2800 MB/s drives on either end of the install and migration I've never done an OS install so quickly, it was all done in about 20mins.Ĭlick to expand.I suggest you both read the blog at. Maybe the OS knows too much about what's on the main internal disk to allow an identically IDed clone to be mounted? But that would probably be a syncing disaster. Some of this might have been my fault because I wasn't really concentrating, I just thought I was doing my 500+th OS install, as I've been doing this since 1994.ĭoing the migration from a SuperDuper backup is definitely a good start.īut I have a nagging doubt as to whether what you want might only work if you have two Macs - one for each version. So with my (very) limited tryout of this method nothing broke - that I'm aware of, but it was probably a case of my Apple ID and the M1 mini enduring it, rather than being happy.

So I didn't have any problems with app function, and ordinary iCloud functions - Keychain etc worked with no problem.īut I don't use iCloud backup or syncing (except for Safari Bookmarks/History etc with my iPhone). Only when I disconnected the TB SSD was I able to able to get the long PWR press (old option) boot chooser to work, and revert to the internal SSD. Everything worked, and both user accounts worked as expected, and I was able to test drive Ventura.īut when I tried to revert to the internal SSD it wasn't available (maybe of course?).Ĥ.

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Then it insisted on a 2 factor verification - which I was able to do with my phone - but I didn't know which account I was authenticating because passwords were identical.ģ. I tried to create an identical user account to my Monterey one, but the Ventura install insisted on making a second identical suffix(2) user account, whilst allowing the creation of what I wanted.Ģ. I did a direct install of Ventura to a TB 3 drive, and used Migration Assistant straight from my internal Macintosh HD.ġ.

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I have been running Monterey on my M1 mini, but wanted to try out Ventura before it disappeared from Software Update (when Sonoma shipped). I did something similar recently, and whilst it sort of worked there was certainly some funkiness resulting.

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