R3 Problems On Macbook Air

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Hello, I just received an Arduino R3 kit for Christmas and have run into some issues with it on my MacBook air. To preface I have a 2017 MacBook Air running Monterey 12.7.6.

  1. After going onto the website to download the IDE 2.3.4, I tried to download the most recent one (11. "Big Sur"). When I went to download it to my applications, the icon showed the Arduino logo with a slash through it. Upon downloading, whenever I tried to open it it said "this application is not supported on this mac". After deleting it, I tried downloading the earlier IDE 2.3.4 (10.15 "Catalina") and didn't have any problems.
    Is this ok that I am running the older version, or is there something I need to do to run the newer one?
  2. After launching the older IDE and plugging the R3 in for the first time, the green On LED lit up, I went to tools in the IDE and selected Arduino Uno. When I went to select the port, the only ones that were showing were bluetooth ones. After looking online, I checked my USB device tree on the Mac and the Arduino's name was popping up as "ATmega16u2 DFU". Some of the things I saw online said that I needed to download an external driver, the set up book from the kit says there are no drivers needed. I am very new to all of this so any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!
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It sounds like you downloaded the Silicone Mac, you have an X86 Mac.

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Yep, you were right, makes sense why that wasn't working, it is an Intel. Any idea about the other issue?

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Is there any way to tell if it is a data-capable usb? It is just the one that came in the kit from Arduino.

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If it is a proper kit, the cable should definitely be data capable!

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Ok, i've tried updating the ATmega16u2 firmware using this guide

https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/hacking/software/DFUProgramming8U2/

It is still not working, I can get to the updated firmware on github as well as the Aruino15 folder on my Mac, is there any certain way I need it to be downloaded? Right now it is TextEdit. When running the codes from the guide, it says the chip is already blank when i go to erase it, as well as saying the bootloader and code overlap.
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I have never done that and would not until I had at least 3 experts give me identical instructions. My first computer was 1959 and I closed my computer company 2004, been mostly retired since.