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Thunderbolt 3 Adapter Guide How To Connect Your Devices
Cannot use thunderbolt accessory macbook. Using a thunderbolt device without its own power cord can cause the battery on your portable mac to become depleted faster. Verify that your thunderbolt 3 device is unsupported by macos. Unplug the accessory using too much power to re enable usb devices. Connect your thunderbolt 3 enabled device to your macbook pro with a. If i plug it into a certain one of my four usb c ports i get the cannot use thunderbolt accessory notification. Check the manufacturers website for the latest software.
How to enable unsupported thunderbolt 3 devices on the macbook pro. If you plan to use such a device for an extended period its a good idea to connect your portable mac or your thunderbolt device to a power source. Unplug the accessory using too much power to re enable usb devices. To run this script successfully youll. The message pops up. Today my mac no longer connects even charges with the dock using the belkin supplied cable with the dock.
I have a 2017 macbook pro connected via an apple usb c to thunderbolt adaptor to a thunderbolt hub caldigit thunderbolt 2 compatible. Cannot use the thunderbolt 3 accessory please connect the accessory to a thunderbolt port on this mac this error message is triggered because the cable is not a thunderbolt 3 cable but its plugged into a thunderbolt 3 port. This message implies that i have connected the accessory imac using a non thunderbolt port on the macbook pro. I have disabled the system integrity protection. Copied and pasted the code that goalque has provided. Hot plug in the akitio nodevia apple tb3 cable.
Its able to see the cable is plugged in but its not quite sure whats going wrong. If the device is in a chain of connected thunderbolt devices each connected to another with only one connected directly to the thunderbolt port disconnect the device from the chain and verify that it works see check the device above. Disable system integrity protection. Cannot use thunderbolt accessory i have a new 5k imac and an out of the box macbook pro and am trying to migrate data to the macbook pro and my imac reports cannot use thunderbolt accessory.
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