I was going to reinstall macOS Monterey anyway, as I've had other strange things happen from time to time: Rarely the tabs or header of Finder or the main Mail window would turn red! Often the Time Machine panel suddenly hides itself under everything else.
I had seen this before and thought it was from Final Cut Pro 10.6.8.
The ball often froze and stuttered as it was 'trying' to spin. The beach ball came on and first spun only over FF, but then spun over everything. Never ever got red in the memory pressure graph. I had dozens of tabs open! I suppose that doesn't help things. Doesn't sound good!Īnd about the kernel panic. I click on the HD one, and it says, 'The volume cannot be downgraded.' Say what? So I can't reinstall macOS if I've done macOS updates? And what about the Preboot volume? What is that? It said 0 KB available. I get a screen that shows two volumes: Macintosh HD and Preboot.
