With the update to macOS Catalina 10.15, you may find that a supported device suddenly stops communicating after the update to Catalina. Here's how you can remove the existing drivers and reinstall: Navigate to the folders below. These are the places where third-party drivers are stored. Microsoft Office on Mac after complete reinstall of MAC OS Catalina Long story, but Apple did not tell me that there was a good chance I would lose MS Office applications if I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled from a back up (lots of issues with Music Library in Mac OS Catalina).

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Hi – I have been having some issues on my late 2013 Imac since upgrading to Catalina. A lot of library messages in the logs for example. Best movie download software for windows 7. Sometimes if I go to shutdown I get a black screen for a while then it reboots, other times it’s fine. Sometimes when emptying the bin it just sits there on the screen and other odd behaviours. Have run Malwarebytes and nothing untoward there.

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It’s got very frustrating so I thought I might try and download Catalina again and refresh it. Using the Recovery, Installed OS option, does this download a new copy of the OS to the Macintosh HD partition while keeping Macintosh HD-Data partition separate? I have a Time Machine backup and also other separate copies of the three users Photos library from the iMac but wanted to know if I can re-install the OS without specifically doing anything else to keep my data. Sorry if this is basic question but in Mac terms I am not that experienced.
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Reinstall Mac Os Catalina

When Disk Utility has finished erasing the disk, quit it to return to the macOS Utilities screen. Choose Install macOS. Press Continue and choose the drive you just erased and re-formatted as the destination. MacOS Catalina will start to install. When it’s finished, your Mac will restart and it will look like a brand new Mac. At least once (!) I was successful in using this image to reinstall my Office suite without using up another site license for a reinstallation. Time Machine Backups DO NOT work for this. What with the advent of MacOS Catalina, and the Macintosh HD + Macintosh HD, this approach no longer works.