I'm trying to set up a new Arduino Uno Rev3 and am having trouble even uploading sketches. The IDE is defaulting to send sketches to the board on COM1, and when I go to Tools > Port > to try and select my board, I see only the various bluetooth ports that my system has set up. The Uno is not being recognized as a device connected to a port.
I'm running OS X Catalina 10.15.6 and connecting the board via a USB -> USB-C adapter and I see various forum posts upon research that talk about how recent versions of OS X have made drivers and device connections more difficult (for the sake of security). The only forum thread I'm seeing that provides a solution to this issue is one on the Arduino Pro IDE forums, and their solution is to switch to the Pro IDE and not use the regular Arduino IDE. I'd rather not do this - is there a way to get current Mac operating systems to recognize an Uno and show it in the IDE ports list?
I've gone into Terminal to manually check the list of available ports and none of them are relevant - I see only the list of bluetooth ports shown in the IDE dropdown.