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I was hit by this bug, my entire unit was fucked and I had to use Recovery over the Internet to reinstall a fresh OS on my 2019 MacBook Pro. Nearly everything o

I was hit by this bug, my entire unit was fucked and I had to use Recovery over the Internet to reinstall a fresh OS on my 2019 MacBook Pro. Nearly everything on my Mac was dot sourced, on Git or using my local NAS' TimeMachine share. All the same, all my data on the Mac was still lost and had to be restored using backup.

saagarjha 7y ago
Reinstalling the OS shouldn't wipe your data partition…
- harikb 7y ago
  At least in the default install, it is all one partition. Moreover, if you had disk encryption or something, getting the recovery keys would be a risk even you had followed all the right steps. Granted, none of these are good excuses for not doing TM backups since those are so easy. But just saying people could lose data and not have an easy way to recover it.
  - diebeforei485 7y ago
    This is not true in Catalina. 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210650 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210650
    - harikb 7y ago
      Thanks for the pointer. I hadn’t heard about this at all!
      - LilBytes 7y ago
        Well, I lost all my data. I have an empty relocated items dir on my desktop. Edit: there's a Configuration dir in Recovered Items which has two other dirs, a private dir which contains another etc dir which contains a shells default file. Nothing else. Unsure why this didn't help me at all.