How to restore SSD from Time Machine? "Error 49245"
I'm trying to restore my MacBook's internal SSD from a Time Machine external drive. I have two backups onto two external drives (to be safe). My steps are:
- Open Disc Utilty.
- Select "Macintosh HD" (my MacBook's internal SSD).
- Click "Restore."
- Select one of the Time Machine external drives from the dropdown menu.
- Click "Restore."
- Disc Utility says "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 49245.)"
This happens with both Time Machine external drives.
Disc Utility shows two internal SSDs:
- Macintosh HD (APFS)
- Macintosh HD - Data (APFS Case-sensitive)
Both images show 181GB (out of 256GB) used.
I get the same error restoring to either Macintosh HD or Macintosh HD - Data.
I ran First Aid on both Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data.
I'd like to reformat the internal SSD as APFS (not case-sensitive).
When I erase "Macintosh HD" the operation completes successfully.
When I erase "Macintosh HD - Data" I get this error:
"The volume “Macintosh HD - Data” on disk1s5 couldn’t be unmounted because it is in use by process 69 (fseventsd)
Couldn’t unmount disk. : (-69888)"
Maybe process 69 is what's stopping the restore as well as the erase? What is process 69 and how do I stop it?
