He should have reset system preferences and users in the Time Machine related settings. I don’t know its name exactly, but I think there is something related.
The key idea as I think is that the first time his. User was created, it was created as not admin user. I will be surprised if it is his personal machine and he is the first user to be created on it and he is not an admin. Anyway, the moment he made the restore from that time machine, the same user settings are restored, which he is not a root user. If he can access his data somehow, he should copy it all to an external storage without time machine, or with it and with ignoring his user’s info. And may be there is an option to restore anything except the user. I don’t know since all user’s files are stored under his name on the file system hierarchy of Mac OS. Then, he should erase the machine, and install Mac OS and create a new admin user. After that, he should transfer the data to his new user. I think that is the source of the issue. Hope it helps, Regards, Mohamed E. Fayed > On 29 Jan 2022, at 1:24 PM, 'Gary Price' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning everyone! > > Please can anyone on here help? > My friend in Australia Chris Graham has bought a Mac book M1 to go along side > his Mac book Pro. > > Now I should say at this point that this was purchased directly from Apple, > so their is only one user account on the machine. > > Every single time he tries to do an operating system update, even though his > account is an administrator one, the following message keeps been displayed. > > Critical alert image. You must be an owner to install updates. OK button. > > So what he had to do the first time this happend was create a time machine > backup of his Mac book Pro configuration, then using the recovery part of the > M1 copy that time machine backup over. > > Everything was working absolutely fine until the second operating system > update, during which he experienced the exact same drama with that owner > message. > > But then, when he tried to do the time machine backup part again using the > recovery, it wanted a restore source. It had somehow got linked to the Mac > book Pro. > > > But now, here's where the real drama starts. > > Following the most recent operating system update, again that stupid owner > message. > But now using the recovery part, he can't even get access to the time machine > backup what so ever! > > When he tries to do this, it says use migration assistant to transfer data to > this mac. > During the install of the operating system, after staying at 100% for > absolutely ages, the following screen keeps been displayed. This is taken > from a photograph. > > Manually Reformatted Disk Detected To protect the security of this Mac, it > must be rebooted to macOS Recovery and have its security policy > re-established. Reboot and recover now to erase all content and settings, and > prepare this Mac to be set up securely. If you have already transferred data > to this Mac, you can shut down now and manually start recovery after you have > transferred your data to another disk. Erase and Recover Shut Down. > > So to try and get round this, he has tried a re-install of the operating > system three times, exactly the same screen. > > So he went to the extreme of completely erasing the SSD drive on the Mac and > installing a brand new copy. > Again absolutely no joy, this exact same screen. > > So he has tried going to the Safari webpage listed in the recovery part. > This is an absolute nightmare, totally unnavigable! 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