[Bram Participant 2 December 2022 Bram Participant]

Did you try booting up your Mac in Safe mode? Safe mode will prevent loading 3rd party drivers & extensions and will clear a huge chunk of cached data. Logging in safe mode is a troubleshooting method to fix any unexpected software behavior.

How to use safe mode on your Mac – Apple Support

[Luuk Participant 5 December 2022 Luuk Participant]

Had the same issue on a couple of my Macs as well. However, it automatically gets fixed after a couple of restarts. Or if it doesn’t, booting up in safe mode fixes it.Not sure about the what the issue is really. As I recall from a subreddit I read, updating the NVRAM/PRAM also seems to help.

[Schyler Participant 6 December 2022 Schyler Participant]

@Bram @Luuk Appreciate your inputs. On testing a bit further, it seems like some of the ‘dscl’ commands have issues with latest macOS versions. Not really sure though.

An alternative script given in Hexnode’s script repo which executes the ‘sysadminctl’ command worked all right!