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Glad to know you know everything that goes on inside of Apple on a daily basis...

I think I know Apple pretty well. I have been a developer since the developer program cost $1500/yr and MPW came in 3-ring binders. I worked for an Apple dealer (long before Apple Stores came about) and I have exhibited at MacWorld. Steve was deeply connected to almost every significant decision in the company.
 
Indeed, there has not been a 10.x.7 release since Snow Leopard in 2011.

God I miss those years. Bertrand Serlet was the head OS X engineer for 10.4 - 10.6 and also headed the Intel transition. Snow Leopard will always be the holy grail of OS X releases.

Apple should return to two year cycles. I remember having to wipe my Mac Pro with each biweekly development release and install each fresh. It allowed for proper debugging by eliminating possible third party apps and plugins from interfering in properly ironing out OS bugs while allowing developers plenty of time to work on their apps. Then Cook wanted to cash in on the Mac App Store by aligning OS X releases to iOS annual cycles to entice more developers and cash in on a new revenue stream with the Mac App Store.

Unfortunately, rushing release cycles lead to more bugs and less polish. I’d rather spend $129 for a proper OS release than free annual system updates that need more time for a proper release, especially as Apple began developing more variants of MacBooks and iMacs and Macbook Air’s and Mac mini’s and Mac Pro’s.

the genius of Jobs was his ability to see simplicity and make it work. When he returned to Apple in the late 90’s he slashed Scully era projects and created the now infamous Quadrant focusing on core products:

Consumer Professional

Laptop iBook/MacBook PowerBook

Desktop eMac/iMac PowerMac/Mac
Pro

simple. No product fragmentation. Reasonably priced systems that balanced form and function perfectly. Jony Ive made his visions come to life and Cook ran the financials. It was the perfect trio.

Now we have three iPhone sizes and each have different features, iPad/iPad mini/iPad Air/iPad Pro 11 and 12, MacBoo Air, MacBook Pro 13/16, mac minis, but only one 27” iMac and a $6000 Mac Pro. Then Apple Watches with endless bands, HomePods, AppleTV and AppleTV 4K, iPod Touch, etc etc etc

I miss the three dedicated displays that ranged from 20”, 23”, and the award winning 30” ACD professionals used that didn’t cost $5999 without a stand.

Then they ditch their airport line instead of moving to mesh systems while pushing harder into streaming services. If 90% of your product line and services depend on wireless networking, why ditch a stellar network product line? Update it or buy out a company producing next gen mesh systems and bring them in house. Add mesh networking into HomePods and AppleTV’s as they’re already HomeKit hubs. Don’t wipe a central product line and sell third party systems that are hit or miss in working with the very products that depend on them to function. I knew Cook had to have made that decision as it‘s very typical of CFO’s to see only what may be and not what can be, thinking primarily about cutting divisions shortterm while not understanding the longterm consequences. Ever since they ditched their AirPort line consumers have had to fend for themselves in finding systems that work with Apple products.

I feared Cook would run Apple like Scully and he is only focused on one thing: stocks and marketshare. Jobs knew to create stellar products first and everything else would follow. He brought Apple out of bankruptcy and paved the way in reshaping numerous markets. Before the iPhone, cellular companies would not allow mobile device manufacturers to run their own software. It had to be Verizons or Sprints. AT&T was the only carrier who agreed to Jobs’ insistence on running iPhoneOS on Apple’s first iphones. After the success, Verizon agreed followed by other carriers and soon Android came out and the days of mobile phones running carrier OS’s became a distant memory.

Jobs was difficult but he knew exactly how to make it work.

How I miss those days.
 
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If you're still having that issue then it's definitely your setup. My 2018 MBP and my 2019 16" (both with the T2) have never experienced a single kp.

Speculation that T2 responsible for mutex lock causing these insanely widespread issues:


I have 3 new (19/20) MBPs with the issue. One with logic board replaced and still it occurs.
 
Does it solve issue where macOS would not automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks? Really? That's a great news!
 
the accountsd process is using all cpu resources(400%+),again,the cpu fan is crazy
Resetting SMC doesn't work on Mac Pro 2019. OTOH I don't ever hear any fans, because that's one of the reasons I got a new Cheesegrater.

What makes accountsd tank 4 cores and eat 9GB of RAM on system = IMAP gmail. I have roughly 15 different email accounts, if I take offline or block with a kernel blocker google's constant attempts to SpY oN yOu and keep in touch with the mothership; no problems. I let accountsd connect to gmail, and over a few days it climbs back up there.

It's super-annoying when I think about it ... but OTOH I don't think about it that often 'cuz it's a MP with 28 cores and 384GB of RAM and accountsd and Catalina's various idiosyncrasies are drops in the bucket in comparison to the splat of awful crap that Adobe bombs the process table with.

TL;DR: In my experience, the problem with accountsd is entirely related to IMAP gmail.
 
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Just complete Mac Pro 5,1 RX5700 Mac OS 15.6 Cinema 30" Display installation yesterday ....

Would IT Fxxx UP ....
 
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That wifi bug was super annoying, glad it's addressed.

I've experienced the Wi-Fi bug a few times this week and is super annoying. When I'm at my home office I connect via the USB->Ethernet adapter but as soon as I leave the room to work somewhere else it is a mess, glad they finally solved!
 
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I've searched this thread and seen other posts regarding Mail app but nobody mentioned bug that I have. Does Mail app still open on its own accord? It was supposedly bug affecting only Gmail accounts.
 
Just updated my iMac (5700XT GPU) to 10.15.7 and still GPU memory is always full. Also sometimes I noticed the Finder window corners have a glitch.
 

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Still the popping speakers issue on the MBP 16, which their support has always claimed was a software issue and clearly isn't. Disgraceful.
Wait. That bug is still there? That and the "Works as designed" jet engine fans when connecting an external display (and kernel panics). The 16" seems quite a bit haunted.
 
Wait. That bug is still there? That and the "Works as designed" jet engine fans when connecting an external display (and kernel panics). The 16" seems quite a bit haunted.
I haven't tried connecting displays, but owning 16" for two months now, I haven't had single kernel panic or speakers popping. I guess I'm lucky.
 
I haven't tried connecting displays, but owning 16" for two months now, I haven't had single kernel panic or speakers popping. I guess I'm lucky.
Speaker popping only occurs with some professional apps like Logic on the internal speakers.
My machine kernel panics when I connect or disconnect external displays. It's always the GPU driver that crashed.

But I gave up hoping this will ever be fixed.
 
When I move to a new major OS I just have all my e-mail re-download from the mail server. I have multiple e-mail accounts, no issues so far with re-downloading directly from the e-mail servers on more then one Mac.
There was apparently a migration bug early on, but while that apparently got fixed the one that has persisted can't be solved by just re-downloading messages--it deletes messages from the IMAP server, so you can't just re-download them. The only option is to restore from a local backup.

It's good you haven't been affected by, but it's at least common enough that three people who've replied to this thread so far have, meaning it's not ultra-rare. My understanding (maybe others can speak to this) is that it's triggered by moving IMAP mail in some particular configuration(s), so it could be simply that you haven't done what triggers is, or that your particular mail servers aren't triggering it.

Mine might not either! I'm just not willing to risk my work mail archive to find out.
 
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At least Mojave gives me the most software app options and stability.
I'm not going to Catalina until Tim Cook solves Natalie Wood's murder. :D

That's fine... if you have that option. People who bought newer Macs cannot use Mojave. I would really like to use Mojave on my 16". Catalina is a mess. It feels pretty much like Windows Vista in its early state.
 
I have Catalina as the main internal install on this iMac, and I have an external drive connected with Mojave installed as a backup, and for 32-bit support. I actually thought I would be using it more, but I find that Catalina has been solid, and my important apps run fine. Mostly what I lost when upgrading were some of my games that are DOS based, that haven't been upgraded to a 64-bit runtime. Many have been, but I still have a few who haven't.

Since I have upgraded to VMWare Fusion 12 Pro, now I have to keep Catalina as the minimal OS to run it.
 
Why would one use this instead of the updater?
1. My OpenCore Mac Pro didn't update OTA (although it should). Combo updater did the job properly.
2. Even with content caching on my server, it's faster to use a flash drive to propagate the update to my 5 other computers instead of downloading the OTA 5 times over the local network.
 
Many thanks Watakoola

It worked a treat! Previously I had tried sudo rm -r then dragging in the offending filenames. Hadn’t occurred to turn off SIP.

Thanks to you I now have a fresh, empty-looking Trash can in my dock for the first time in a while.

Problem solved!

Oh! Oh! I can help on this one!
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Using ⁤aaplCore’s suggestion was the ONLY way I could get rid of those items in my trash. I hope this works for you.
 
The most recent might have been 10.6.8, but the last time was with Tiger with 10.4.11. Or is last time meant as recent. I apologize for intruding on that for all the UK and US people, it might be regional differences in wording across the planet. Don't think anything of it.
The thread "Post your last purchase" always has me near nuclear. So, your last purchase wasn't really the last?! 😆

I'm downloading the combo updater for this macOS 10.15.7 and of course System Preferences told me that the update was ready for installation - Go home System Preferences. You're drunk!
 
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Yup. Apple figured it out with System 6.0.3, Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and Mojave (10.14.6).
I'm not actually disagreeing with you, but my 2018 MBP running Mojave is, by a huge margin, the crashiest Mac I have ever dealt with going back to System 6. As in it panics at least once a week, if not once a day.

Now admittedly, there are also erratic charge problems and it always crashes while asleep, so I highly suspect this is a hardware problem. Which I've lived with for months because I can't afford to be without my computer while I mail it in for repair, and the last time I tried to get it dealt with Apple Support was very polite but also seemed convinced that it was a software problem (they first tried to blame it on my employer's VPN software). "Fortunately" the battery is now telling me it's toast, so I assume they'll take it for repair without asking as soon as I can find a couple of weeks to be laptopless.
 
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