Flashing any of my NRF52480 Feather Express Boards, crashes my MacBook

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Flashing any of my NRF52480 Feather Express Boards, crashes my MacBook

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Hey there,
It has now happened with every Feather NRF52480 Express that I bought this year (approx. 7 Boards), and it's really frustrating. Whenever I upload new firmware to the board, it gets halfway there, uploads it, and when it tries to read back, the MacBook freezes and crashes. It doesn't matter what the code is. It always does it.
Has anyone experienced something similar or knows how to tackle this?
Thanks!

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Re: Flashing any of my NRF52480 Feather Express Boards, crashes my MacBook

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What are you using to program the board and what program are you dowloading?

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Re: Flashing any of my NRF52480 Feather Express Boards, crashes my MacBook

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From what I tried, it doesn't matter with what I program the board. I have been attempting platformio as well as Arduino IDE.

It always gets to the point where the output is:

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Flow control is disabled, Single bank, Touch disabled
Sometimes I even see:

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Activating new firmware
In Arduino IDE, it sometimes says "reading back."

But it always freezes right after. I never get the message that confirms "Device programmed."

Sorry if I wasn't precise with my first question. With download, I was referring to the read-back/firmware activation step.

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