


Reporting success and failing is reprehensible. We’ve seen 5 major updates to Catalina now, we should expect to see higher quality than this from an operating system Ĭould this simply be a security fix – maybe Apple doesn’t want third-parties to create firmlinks? If that’s the case – if this is not actually a bug and is actually an intentional change by Apple, then I would argue that this is far worse than a bug Suffice it to say, though, I’m extremely disappointed that Apple would introduce this kind of bug in a dot-release OS update. It’s hard to find kind words to express my feelings towards Apple right now. That’s either a horrible bug or a deliberate measure by Apple. The problem, he says, is that creating the bootable backup will appear to have succeeded while actually failing. It’s therefore a trivial bug once you know it exists.

The technical details of the bug are laid out below, but the short version is that we’re no longer able to use our own file copier to establish an initial bootable backup of a macOS Catalina System volume.

Mike Bombich described the problem in a blog post. The developer of popular Mac utility Carbon Copy Cloner says that either macOS 10.15.5 has a bug that prevents the creation of bootable backups, or Apple has made a ‘reprehensible’ security decision …
