

At this point, I think a reformat, clean install and manually install each app I actively use be the easiest. I caved and did the migration, which I knew would bite me, but thought I was overthinking it. When I installed my new SSD, I did a clean Catalina install and debated doing a migration. When your Mac has crashed, and you are using Recovery, your backup drive, if initialized with a manufacturer's Utility, will be inaccessible.
2013 MAC PRO SSD UPGRADE KIT DRIVER
The tragic flaw is that these drives REQUIRE that the manufacturer's Driver be loaded, and otherwise, they are inaccessible. When you use the drive-makers Utility, they often simulate a Mac Volume structure on your drive "to save you the trouble of re-formatting" which takes all of one minute. You also appear to have drive-maker's Utilities loaded. you should remove that as well, suing the manufacturers removal process in all cases. Such programs merely guess at that sounds like the right stuff to be removed, and you would be better at guessing g that they are. There is no need for such stuff on your already well protected Mac, and third-party Utilities tend to be of questionable quality (believe me I am pulling my punches here).ĭo NOT use your automated App remover to remove this. In this case, that is likely to be the Avira anti-Virus you have added. When your top CPU process is unidentifiable, that means it is likely caused by a kernel extension. Thank you so very much for all help and have a great day! If anyone has any good practices to use, it would be most appreciated. Note that I still have my original 1TB Apple SSD in a holder and can startup from that at any time. I did find other posts about these topics but no solutions that have worked for me. I only had one photo app opened and it was jumping up over 150% CPU usage with CalendarAgent & kernel_task competing for the top spot. Today, my Finder locked up and I was unable to relaunch and had to force a shut down.

My primary apps are for web development and photo processing, so they are CPU hogs on their own. I am still only using 40-60% but other apps seem to be slowed down by this. The first is that I am getting very high CPU usage by CalandarAgent & kernel_task, higher than before I upgraded.

I am hoping to get some tips on a couple of things I purchased the Aura 2TB kit from OWC along with the RAM. I have recently upgraded my 2013 12-core/16 RAM 1TB Mac Pro to 2TB with 64 RAM (meant to get 32, but clicked wrong button🤷🏻♀️).
