So I made a copy of one of my external SSD's (Samsung) to another external SSD (OWC) with Carbon Copy. I chose this method because downloading a fresh copy of Catalina kept getting hung up at the booting stage. To me it looks like it doubling up on System - Volume OWC back to Applications. Easier for me to show below. Is this correct?
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15
Something is wrong, possibly the destination you chose???
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
It is something new in Catalina. Please see this Apple support article:
About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina - Apple Support
I'm not sure why there were two OWC SSD's. I erased the OWC and cloned a copy from the Samsung and now it seems to be ok. No more double drives. Hope this works. Thanks for the assistance.
@BDAqua, thanks for the reply. I don't see any duplicate files with a 1 or 2, it looks exactly like the photo I posted above. When I try to unmount or delete the second OWC from the Volumes file, it won't do anything. I might just erase the OWC drive and make another copy with Carbon Copy from the Samsung SSD?
I think that's a good idea, but in Locations above why are there two OWC SSD?
Thanks for the link. Got it.
Carbon Copy Clone on external SSD on iMac
