Tahoe update is a disaster on my Intel Macbook Pro

champi wrote:

Am I unluncky ?

That seems certain.

Or did they never ever test this update on this computer ?

Did you participate in any beta programs? If not, then yea, verily, the update was not tested on that computer.

It sounds like you've lost your home directory, or at least the hidden "Library" folder within it. If you erase the hard drive, reinstall the operating system, and restore from backup, then you might get it all restored properly.

Hi,

I had the same problem with 26.0.0 then with 26.0.1, I contacted support and it's a bug referenced by Apple on Intel MACs... All the elements (Applications, configuration files,...) are moved to the /Users/Shared/Relocated Items folder, you have to manually move everything and reinstall some applications. Hoping that this will be corrected in version 26.1, I don't want to put everything back in place a 3rd time...

champi wrote:

The migration just went wrong.

What type of "migration" did you do? Can you describe the specific steps?

Also, what was your previous version of MacOS?

For some years now, the OS is stored in a separate, sealed volume (snapshot, actually) that is readonly for all users and is separate from the volume with user files. Hence, the OS update activity is focused on the OS volume, there is much lower likelihood that user files will be impacted. Clearly something happened here, however, hence my questions above.

no issue from Sequoia to Tahoe on my Intel.

May be insightful / helpful to know upgraded to Tahoe from what exact macOS previously...(?)

From Finder>Go>Go to Folder, copy and paste:

 /Users/Shared/Relocated 

I do know older macOS there was some heads up about relocation—but it goes aways back...

ref: About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina - Apple ...

About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina or later - Apple Support

Note: Before Catalina any the folder was on the root level of your startup drive, see /Users/Shared/Relocated Items/

Move it to your home/user folder. You can not save anything to the root level of your startup drive post macOS Catalina

That sounds like it created a new user account, or at least ran through t startup sequence to replace everything with a new account. See etresoft's advice.

I wouldn't advise running Tahoe on that old of a Mac. The only macOS optimized for that hardware was the one that shipped on it. Each year, Apple creates a new OS optimized for the hardware they are currently selling or expect to sell in that year. The further you are from the OS that was created for that hardware, the more issues you can expect.

Same issue for me with mac bookpro 2019 intel.

and again with 26.1 update.

even xcode is removed after update…ridiculous