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Migration Assistant stop working after Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave

On 4 differents iMac with Mojave, the assistant migration stop working after the installation of Security Update 2020-005. After the launch of assistant migration, the screen go directly to the login screen.


Others have the same problem?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Sep 25, 2020 6:10 PM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2020 2:44 PM

Seem that the Security Update 2020-005 is broken :(


https://mrmacintosh.com/mojave-2020-005-security-update-causing-major-problems-updated/


Definitely broken Migration Assistant.


How Apple left this version out?


Very disappointed


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Sep 26, 2020 1:00 AM in response to Richard Dansereau

I had a similar experience.


I installed the update and immediately my 21.5" (late 2013) iMac became unusable (beach balling on every mouse click; my Time Machine backup disk showed NO backups had been made; EtreCheck showed MAJOR issues; etc., etc.)


I spent several hours running Apple H/W diagnostics, booted into Recovery Mode and ran Disk Utility on both my Macintosh HD and Time Machine backup disks;. No H/W errors or disk errors were reported.


I then used Recovery Mode to reinstall my last Time Machine backup image just before I installed the last Security Update, and now everything is operating normally again.


I have NO third party S/W installed on my iMac -- I have no idea why this particular update "bricked" my system.

Migration Assistant stop working after Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave

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