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Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.7 With Fixes for WiFi Bug, 27-Inch iMac Graphics Issues

camelia said:
Why don't you want Safari 14.0?
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Why *do* you? I was highly surprised that Safari 14 resets:

1. Turns open "safe" files back on (why is that option even still THERE, in 2020?)
2. Turns open in tabs back on
3. Changes the homepage back to apple
4. Turns the useless Start Page back on
5. Turns icons on tabs back on

I couldn't care less about people's opinions about whether any of those are useful or not, that's not the point. Whyinhell does *this* update change them, when prior ones have not?
 
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CJ Dorschel said:
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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You nailed everything - Thank You. I would add the GUI where everything is hidden - I have to tell the newbies that is why apple originally only had one button on the mouse. Jobs wanted the designers to do the work and not hide functions under a drop down menu. I think making the iOS on the desktop is also wrong especially if I cannot turn it off.
 
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IceStormNG said:
Speaker popping only occurs with some professional apps like Logic on the internal speakers.
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I really wish this was my experience. Yes, Logic is the worst and others like Guitar Pro are also especially bad. But I get it watching YouTube videos sometimes too, usually if I watch something directly after using Logic. Videos sound like they're purring. €2.5k for this...
 
camelia said:
Why don't you want Safari 14.0?

Camelia
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After updating to Safari 14.0 websites started repeatedly reloading. I finally gave up at switched to Firefox. No problems after that. Finally I erased my hard drive and reinstalled 10.15.7 which still comes with Safari 13.0.
 
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Hi,

I updated this morning and so after I believe I’ve found an issue. Can anyone who has update verify?

In Terminal if you have a directory, say, “~/Downloads” but go into it with “cd downloads”, pwd command shows it as lower case rather than saying the directory isn’t found.
 
CynanX said:
Hi,

I updated this morning and so after I believe I’ve found an issue. Can anyone who has update verify?

In Terminal if you have a directory, say, “~/Downloads” but go into it with “cd downloads”, pwd command shows it as lower case rather than saying the directory isn’t found.
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By default, the AFPS/HFS+ is caseless. You can enable case senstivity when create the filesystem in disk utility.
 
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10.15.7

Mac Mini 's won't Sleep.

White Lite remains on, Monitor dark, unit stays on evident with Banners, can hear audible alerts unit is running.
 
big610 said:
10.15.7

Mac Mini 's won't Sleep.

White Lite remains on, Monitor dark, unit stays on evident with Banners, can hear audible alerts unit is running.
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Try running (from Terminal)
Bash: 
pmset -g assertions
and see what is preventing sleep. The line containing PreventUserIdleSystemSleep indicates idle sleep preventers, and there is a process name and ID in section below.
 
Thanks, I've used the Terminal Command pmset -g assertions , used it many other times.

BackgroundTask 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
NetworkClientActive 1

All of us Mac Mini users have been suffering.
 
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