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Could not validate sizes – Operation not permitted. The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 1.)
I think the "Operation is not permitted" may be caused by Disk Utility lacking the necessary admin privileges.
sudo /usr/sbin/asr restore --source BaseSystem.dmg --target /Volumes/MyVolume --erase
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Will my Google Authenticator codes work if I restore my iPhone from a backup?
You can restore Google Authenticator with all accounts ONLY on the device where you activate this accounts(by scanning QR). Because this accounts tied to your device hardware.
My story:
I bought ...
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Can I store all the content of my previous iPhone in a new iPhone using iTunes?
Yes.
The easiest way to do this is to do a full backup of your iPhone 4s via iTunes.
Then you would connect the new iPhone to iTunes as well and then do a Restore from the iPhone 4s backup to your ...
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How do OS X terminal sessions persist through reboots?
The code to restore Terminal (actually bash sessions) is part of /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal which gets sourced through /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc for each bash session running in Terminal.
# Resume ...
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Will my Google Authenticator codes work if I restore my iPhone from a backup?
Source:
According to this Google Community answer, you should be able to restore from iCloud and it will work.
If you back up your information using iCloud, you can restore your iPhone or iPad ...
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How do OS X terminal sessions persist through reboots?
As far as I can tell, it just saves the text in each window's scrollback buffer. It doesn't actually save the state of what was running in the terminals; it just starts a new shell after the reboot.
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Could not validate sizes – Operation not permitted. The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 1.)
You can do it easily using ASR command
You have to scan your downloaded image via following command
sudo /usr/sbin/asr imagescan --source ~/Downloads/macOSUpdCombo10.15.7.dmg
After scan you have to ...
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How to restore an individual file from Time Machine using CLI (MacOS)
You can browse to the files directly and restore them with the rsync command.
Determine path to Backups
First, list all of your existing backups using tmutil listbackups
user@host ~ % tmutil ...
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Migrate a Time Machine backup in terminal
Apple has fixed Finder in macOS 10.13.4 to preserve hard links so my answer is to use Finder to migrate your TM backup. They did not, however, fix cp. It still does not preserve hard links and doesn't ...
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How to restore Mac OS after installing Linux
To answer the questions asked, yes.
However, have a look at How to reinstall macOS and About macOS Recovery.
That said, personally I'd create a USB macOS Installer and set it aside for when you want ...
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Unable to install an OS on Mac (prohibited sign)
To start with your MacBook Air will not run Mavericks, so you can put that one aside as incompatible.
As for Yosemite, the earliest possible version that will run on your model MacBook Air is ...
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How to install OS using Time Machine backup after hard drive upgrade?
If you haven‘t defined any exclusions in the Time Machine options then your backup drive will contain a full backup including system, apps, and user data.
To restore, you connect the backup drive to ...
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How to make sure apps remain available after upgrading macOS?
Generally, no separate action is required with respect to apps when upgrading macOS. All the installed apps and user data continue to remain available post upgradation.
However, it's important to ...
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Can I store all the content of my previous iPhone in a new iPhone using iTunes?
I would do it through iTunes using the USB cable. iClould is all well and good if you have more storage on there than the paltry 5Gb Apple gives you as standard. I was never able to backup fully ...
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Will my Google Authenticator codes work if I restore my iPhone from a backup?
For me, iOS 11.1 did not brick my phone. It made it unusable in a variety of amusing ways, but it didn't brick it.
The main issue I had was similar to yours - Google Authenticator had been completely ...
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iCloud Backups removed by Apple
iCloud Backup only stores the most recent backup of your device. Every time you take a new backup, the old one is automatically erased.
This is how it is supposed to be, and how it always has been (...
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The iPhone could not be restored because the firmware file was corrupt
For anyone finding this years later, you may not have enough space on your computer's drive. The multi-gig file the restore process downloads has to be extracted, which means you need double the ...
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Issue restoring iPhone from Mac backup using Finder
I was eventually able to get this to work. After updating to the latest macOS and iOS versions and still not having success, I decided to put my phone into recovery mode and choose the "Restore&...
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Simple alternative to time machine that actually allows a full restore without internet connection and OS reinstallation
On Sonoma (and a few earlier versions), the OS is on an entirely separate disk volume from "user data". The OS is considered 'secure', and can only be installed by trusted methods; ...
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Will my Google Authenticator codes work if I restore my iPhone from a backup?
Restoring an encrypted backup from iTunes will NOT restore Google Authenticator settings. The restore will install Google Authenticator but with no settings -- it will be like a freshly installed copy....
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Restoring a Time Machine backup to a machine with a password on the drive
Go back to the screen that lets you see the initial screen if there isn't a Utilities menu where you can access Disk Utility.
At that point, you want to fire up Disk Utility and eject the backup disk ...
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Can i restore a back up of the user folder to a fresh install without issues?
How did you make a backup using Disk Utility? Did you mean you cloned your startup drive? If so, you did not just make a backup of your user folder you made a backup of your entire startup disk.
But ...
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Does Time Machine restore whole system?
No, time machine has several sorts of exclusions so it does not even back up everything, let alone restore everything. The good news, everything that gets backed up will restore to the same or newer ...
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Time Machine backup
Your last question first! Why no Backups.backupdb?
Until the last 15 months, Time machine formatted the destination drive as HFS+ and placed each backup inside the Backups.backupdb folder. Each backup ...
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Time machine restore to new external drive
Update: I have modified the first paragraph and added a section at the end.
This answer was accepted whilst limited to restoring your data, as in the question title. It now also covers associating the ...
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What is the proper way to transfer from an old iPhone to new one?
What do I need to do so it's like I didn't switch phones at all or is this not supported?
What you want to do is not feasible. The reason being is from a security standpoint. Apps that require a ...
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Macbook Pro not detecting bootable USB with Yosemite
After booting with the Option method, plug in the USB drive after the existing disks appear. I think this relates to protecting the system from USB viruses: you're normally only allowed to connect ...
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How to restore system from network drive?
The above answers are a bit too complicated for my taste. I actually tried klanomath's answer and failed, maybe because I have an encrypted backup on the network share. But might also have to do with ...
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How to restore individual app data from iCloud while keeping all the other apps installed and new data created since the last iCloud backup?
I ended up purchasing a third-party piece of software for this... iMazing (https://imazing.com/) was able to back up and restore the application data for an app from one device to another. They have ...
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