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sribe
That’s thoroughly rare; either you have a buggy 3rd-party kernel extension or failing hardware (RAM would be my first guess).
dimitarvp
I am sorry you got the short straw. I suggest you go ask somebody at an Apple shop for diagnostics. You might get lucky and they can replace the machine with one that doesn’t act like that.
But I understand your patience has been thinned. That’s fine.
AstonJ
Ok my guides are up:
Hope they come in handy for somebody else as well
AstonJ
I think if I ever got to the stage of having to do an internet recovery I would back up all of my files and then do a clean install
Just make sure you have backed up everything you need because obviously once you format the hard drive it will be wiped clean.
I am just tweaking a blog post I made that can help with this
fun2src
It happens to me, too.
Bug : login error with passwords containing ‘[’, ‘]’, ‘{’, ‘}’.
Spanish keyboard: ‘[’ → Option + [ …
mainlymortal
It was the built in internet recovery and I didn’t use the migration assistant. I had a few little issues when I upgraded from Mojave to Catalina (like right clicking an item in the bin caused a kernel panic every time) but the clean install is even worse.
I know I sound a little dramatic but I’ve had so many issues in such a short time that it’s frustrated me.
Since I bought this thing I can’t think of any improvements at all and plenty of things that are worse. Your experience is the one I wanted and quite frankly overpaid for but it’s not the one I’ve had. There are many more people just like me too.
dimitarvp
I’m using the MBP 2015 15" and had zero issues, and still don’t have any. What you posted is very surprising to me.
I’d try disabling and re-enabling iCloud. Also try disable Bluetooth for a bit.
AstonJ
I might have missed it.. but how did you do the fresh install and did you use Migration Assistant at all?
mainlymortal
It’s a 2015 MacBook Pro (their last decent laptop) with a fresh install of Catalina (see my last few posts/rants in this thread). It’s not just that system it’s literally all of my devices.
AstonJ
How old is the system and the files/data/settings on it?
Might be time to do a format and a clean install to start from scratch
What do you use instead?