I own an old MacBook Air 2015 and both my USB ports have stopped working but I'd like to make use of my ThunderBolt port but can't seem to find an adapter anywhere for the 2.0 port to USB2 online. All I can find is Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable to USB 2. Can anyone share some ideas of what to do or links of where you found something. Thank you.
MacBook Air 11″
You can theoretically create a Thunderbolt 1 or 2 to USB-A adapter … but I don't remember there ever being any other than USB-A ports built into Thunderbolt 1 and 2 docks.
Other World Computing sells a "Thunderbolt 2 Dock Solution", which as far as I can tell, simply bundles Apple's bidirectional Thunderbolt 3-to-2 adapter and one of OWC's Thunderbolt 3 docks. That dock provides 5 USB-A ports and 1 USB-C (USB protocol only) port, among other things.
Other World Computing – OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock Solution
It seems possible that you could use the same approach to connect other docks that (a) are Thunderbolt docks, which (b) have their own power supplies. (The Thunderbolt 3-to-2 adapter does not convert other protocols or carry any power from one side to the other.)
Such a setup would be bottlenecked by the speed of your Thunderbolt 2 port and by the display support of your MacBook Air (which can support a UHD 4K display, but not a 5K/6K one).
The question would then be how much money you want to sink into keeping an old, partially-broken MacBook Air running – though, presumably, once you did upgrade to an Apple Silicon Mac, you could reuse the Thunderbolt 3 dock with it.
You can theoretically create a Thunderbolt 1 or 2 to USB-A adapter … but I don't remember there ever being any other than USB-A ports built into Thunderbolt 1 and 2 docks.
Other World Computing sells a "Thunderbolt 2 Dock Solution", which as far as I can tell, simply bundles Apple's bidirectional Thunderbolt 3-to-2 adapter and one of OWC's Thunderbolt 3 docks. That dock provides 5 USB-A ports and 1 USB-C (USB protocol only) port, among other things.
Other World Computing – OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock Solution
It seems possible that you could use the same approach to connect other docks that (a) are Thunderbolt docks, which (b) have their own power supplies. (The Thunderbolt 3-to-2 adapter does not convert other protocols or carry any power from one side to the other.)
Such a setup would be bottlenecked by the speed of your Thunderbolt 2 port and by the display support of your MacBook Air (which can support a UHD 4K display, but not a 5K/6K one).
The question would then be how much money you want to sink into keeping an old, partially-broken MacBook Air running – though, presumably, once you did upgrade to an Apple Silicon Mac, you could reuse the Thunderbolt 3 dock with it.
There are some thunderbolt 2 to usb c adapters avaliable but I don't see any thunderbolt 2 to usb a with a quick google I am afraid
Old Thunderbolt 2.0 Cable to USB 2 cable
