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I have done several upgrades to this workhorse machine, all using iFixit manuals and this forum. Last night there was a `wine incident’ which I was able to contain and my system was OK until this morning I went to plug in a USB mouse and got a power related error message that told me to disconnect ASAP etc. After that, the (last remaining) USB port is now dead, so now I basically want to see if I can get a Thunderbolt adapter that provides me a USB 2.0 port to do a final Carbon Copy backup before I go and buy a replacement machine! If I am completely out to lunch on this, let me know. Replacing the logic board or replacing the ports are too expensive and out of my comfort zone respectively. Thanks in advance!
Hi I’m not sure if you can get a adapter but I do know that thunderbolt drives do exist ( for getting your data) It’s basically a hdd or a ssd with a thunderbolt cable connected You should be able to use one of them but have you tried cleaning the wine inside? If it’s still turning on and working minus the USB ports you might be able to save it before it’s too late! If you need any help or advice with the liquid damage please let me know Hopefully this helps Any questions please ask Thanks:-)
Sorry, there is no means to connect a mouse via a Thunderbolt-1 or 2 port as these don’t offer a USB connection. A Thunderbolt-3 connection is different! Fixing the port may not be that expensive. This is still good work horse! I’m still banging on mine right now answering Q’s.
I believe you can, although Thunderbolt 2 to USB adapters may be hard to come by since the need for them would have been considerably less than other adapters. More than likely a device with Thunderbolt would have also had USB. EDIT: Even though I have seen these adapters, further research has revealed them to be mostly junk, or need some level of software meddling to get them to work since thunderbolt is based on the PCI spec, which does not natively support USB. If you cannot get your ports to work though, and you want the data, you can still get an adapter for the removable SSD and clone or migrate it that way.
