I have a MacBook Pro (M3 - Sonoma 14.2.1) and connect to a Espressif Feather ESP32-S3. I update the Espressif via Arduino IDE 2 and I have the CH34x VCP drivers installed. This was working fine but has now stopped working all of a sudden but not sure exactly when. The problem is that the IDE says t…

try the following has worked on some ESP32 modules Holding down Boot and then pressing EN initiates Firmware Download mode for downloading firmware through the serial port.

Brilliant. Thank you both so much. I don't remember having to initiate a download mode before but that has certainly worked. I was warming up to reinstall the Mac software as I thought something had changed there. Thanks again. Tony

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