I simply stumbled upon this identical error, by no means seen it earlier than! Study one thing new every single day.
So, apparently, from what I’ve learn, the FIRST account created on the pc is the ‘proprietor’, and any new accounts created BY THAT FIRST ACCOUNT will also be ‘homeowners’. That’s the solely reply I’ve discovered to date.
I had a model new Ventura OS iMac, I created a brand new person “Take a look at”, then used knowledge migration app to import from Time Machine backup disk. I had 2 person accounts imported by way of the info migration app into the brand new system, and one grew to become an ‘proprietor’ as listed by the terminal command:
sudo diskutil apfs listUsers /
However for some purpose, the opposite imported person did NOT develop into an proprietor, and thus acquired this error message when trying to put in a macOS replace. Fortunately, I used to be in a position to make use of the “Take a look at” person account to put in the macOS replace.
So, throughout a knowledge migration, it is just a little unclear as to why some accounts get possession whereas others don’t.
Studying on this Apple web page defined it just a little, however not find out how to manually make a non-owner into an proprietor, however solely find out how to add a brand new person account from an current ‘proprietor’, and that may get the rights of possession.
See Apple web page:
https://assist.apple.com/en-om/information/deployment/dep24dbdcf9e/net
particularly this little bit of textual content:
” As an alternative, quantity possession can loosely be outlined because the person who first claimed a Mac by configuring it for their very own use, together with any further customers. You should be a quantity proprietor to make adjustments to the startup safety coverage for a selected set up of macOS, authorize the set up of macOS software program updates and upgrades, provoke an Erase All Content material and Settings, and extra. The startup safety coverage defines the restrictions round which variations of macOS can boot, in addition to how and if third-party kernel extensions might be loaded or managed.”
Oh, and for what it is value, prior to now, if something ever interrupted a knowledge migration, I might virtually at all times discover it higher to erase the disk and begin over from scratch, even when it is huge quantity of information and takes a very long time, additionally, I would not work about ‘an excessive amount of put on’ because the SSD disks are going for use WAY extra every day, and trigger WAY MORE put on of SSD than any knowledge migration would, so, I might presume it might NOT trigger any noticeable put on even to re-migrate a number of TB of information.
Cheers,
Daniel
