TINU dreht sich im Kreis! Hilfe!

WIe ist denn die aktuelle Formatierung des Sticks?

Und steckt der Stick auf einem USB2.0 oder 3.0 Port ?

Zitat von HackiForTheMusic

Hatte ihn auf Mac OS Extended Journal (laut disk utility).

Habe jetzt einfach mal APFS draus gemacht um zu sehen ob sich was ändert.

EDIT:

den Stick in ein anderes Datei Format zu formatieren (bei mir APFS) hat wohl geholfen TINU aus dem Loop zu holen - aber das ganze hat so lange gedauert, dass der Akku von meinem MBP am Ende ist, und ich Honk habe natürlich das Ladekabel zuhause vergessen!

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Can you describe the problem in english? I am the developer of tinu so i am the guy to ask for help in case of problems with it.

EDIT: take also a look at the help menu in the menu bar of the app

Der Stick wird zuerst GUID mit Fat formatiert.

Zitat von HackiForTheMusic

Hi, great to have such a direct contact!

I am sorry for the delay, we did not have internet in our region for days due to "a problem in the backbone"...

I experienced the problem that TINU was caught in a loop. It kept prompting that I should confirm the Mojave install app on my mac and the USB stick, and to acknowledge that the USB drive will be deleted and formatted.

I agreed, inserted my password a couple of times, it said formatting is finished and it would start installing the Mojave app, and after a couple of seconds it all started over again from confirming and acknowledging...

I checked the USB drive in disk utility and noted that it seemingly was already in the Mac OS Extended Journal (from an earlier use of the stick).

I changed the format to APFS and TINU worked like a charm!

Tried that with two USB drives - both behaved the same... others seem not to have experienced the same - no idea what happened.

Love the program now.

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This is strange, maybe your machine has some particular disk drives configuration that i didn't thought when designing tinu, that should be investigated further (so send me a copy of tinu's log if you manage to recreate the issue, please) for the apfs, the format process works slightly differently than the other file systems so that seems to help in this particular case, but i have to investigate the precise cause of the issue

For drives already in GUID TINU itself doesn't apply any format operation, which is instead just done by the apple's "createinstallmedia" utility which is what effectively creates the usb installer, in fact tinu is a better, managed way to use this utility.

So i think that the problem could be that apple's utility has some problems with your drive such that it needed a complete format operation before being used with the utility, because drives which are already in GUID are not formatted by default as i said, so the only format operations made are what by default is performed by apple's utility (which consists in basically formatting the choosen partition to make it an HFS+ partition), in fact with apfs worked because apfs volumes are always forced to be formatted and then TINU gathers back information from the drive after formatting.

For now if it happens again use the "Format the entire usb drive option" in the advanced settings of tinu at the confirmation screen and try to disconnect all the other storage devices you have attached to the computer, except for your mac's boot drive and the usb drive (so put the app store installer in the mac's boot drive) and see if this fixes it

To give you more info i usually test TINU with usb drives formatted with GUID and HFS+ on my macbook pro and on my mac mini and i do more in depth testing with different combinations before releasing and i have a beta testing group for that, so if it was a common error with HFS+ drives i should aready find it, it seems more a problem of your specific case.

I need to do more tests with unformatted usb drives then, but the next version will bring improovements to the table for this kind of issues