Apple Releases macOS Catalina With Find My, Screen Time, and No More iTunes

[BaggieBoy]

Yep. Looking through it now. Thanks for pointing that out.

It's only a shortcut to the actual relocated items folder, the shortcut on the desktop can be safely deleted.

 

[Martyimac]

From the PDF in the folder:

During the last macOS upgrade or file migration, some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations. This folder contains these files.
Files needing new locations
Some of your files had been in a location that is now incompatible with macOS security settings. These files were moved to the Security folder for your review.
If there are any files you want to keep, you can move them to a new location, as long as it is different from their location before the upgrade or migration.
Configuration files
These configuration files were modified or customized by you, by another user, or by an app. The modifications are incompatible with the recent macOS upgrade. The modified files are in the Configuration folder, organized in subfolders named for their original locations.
To restore any of the custom configurations, compare your modifications with the configuration changes made during the macOS upgrade and combine them when possible.

Sure, like I understand what that means.

 

[Javabird]

Where the hell have all my audiobook MP3s gone? They've disappeared!?!!?!?!?

I haven't updated yet because I'm worried about losing my audiobooks (mp3s and m4bs). Please post here if you find the solution.

Update: Nevermind, I see a later post that they are now living in the Books app.

 

[old-school]

Just got a black screen with the Apple logo “estimating time remaining...” for the last 40 minutes. Not hopeful. Anyone else had a similar experience?

 

[AppleTO]

Wow the installer is over 8GB... I was expecting it to be smaller considering the removal of 32-bit frameworks. That seems strange.

Even Windows 10 64-bit comes in a less than 4GB ESD.

 

[Heelpir8]

Working great on my 2012 Mac Mini. Smooth installation. Really like the separate Podcast app.

 

[Martyimac]

On my new iMac running Catalina, I have to highlight EVERY entry individually to see if it's 32 or 64 bit. Mojave listed it in a separate column which Catalina doesn't do.

 

[Ethosik]

Did anyone else get a kernel panic for the first startup? After I let it sit, it booted into Catalina just fine.

 

[Peadogie]

Anyone end up with a “Relocated Items” folder on their desktop? The contents are something that looks very “system”. Not sure why this happened.

There's a What Are Relocated Items?.pdf document in “Relocated Items” folder that will tell you. In my case they appear to be incompatible .plists, security settings ect. brought over by Migration Assistant.

 

[russell_314]

In Music, open Preferences, General, under "Show" check iTunes Store... It's like magic LOL

 

[roland.g]

Remember kids, 32-bit apps are NOT supported on Catalina.

Yup. Because of this my $420 Fujitsu ScanSnap becomes unusable if I upgrade since the ScanSnap software is 32 bit and an upgraded software is not available. There is a 64 bit version of a newer differently named software that is NOT compatible with my scanner. So I can either buy a newer model or more likely I will partition my drive and dual boot into Mojave for Scanner operations. Not looking forward to that!!!

 

[greekappi]

Anyone know how I can sort Music by song, then artist, then album by year? I used to be able to do this in iTunes but I can't find how in Music. Also did they really get rid of the album artwork in the Songs view? Sheesh. So I want to be in the Songs view, then have it sorted by the artist, and then their albums by year released. Help?

 

[russell_314]

There's a What Are Relocated Items?.pdf document in “Relocated Items” folder that will tell you. In my case they appear to be incompatible .plists, security settings ect. brought over by Migration Assistant.

I have this too. From the readme

"During the last macOS upgrade or file migration, some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations. This folder contains these files.
Files needing new locations
Some of your files had been in a location that is now incompatible with macOS security settings. These files were moved to the Security folder for your review.
If there are any files you want to keep, you can move them to a new location, as long as it is different from their location before the upgrade or migration."
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Anyone know how I can sort Music by song, then artist, then album by year? I used to be able to do this in iTunes but I can't find how in Music. Also did they really get rid of the album artwork in the Songs view? Sheesh. So I want to be in the Songs view, then have it sorted by the artist, and then their albums by year released. Help?

Click on the top where it says "Artist" or whatever you want to sort it by in the Songs view

 

[baryon]

is there any way to check if there are 32bit apps on the system?

About This Mac > System Report > Applications > Sort by 64 bit

My list is alarmingly huge and contains all my Adobe applications... This isn't going to be fun...

 

[greekappi]

I have this too. From the readme

"During the last macOS upgrade or file migration, some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations. This folder contains these files.
Files needing new locations
Some of your files had been in a location that is now incompatible with macOS security settings. These files were moved to the Security folder for your review.
If there are any files you want to keep, you can move them to a new location, as long as it is different from their location before the upgrade or migration."
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Click on the top where it says "Artist" or whatever you want to sort it by in the Songs view

Right, I did that to sort it by Artist, but I want to have the albums of that artist sorted by year released, not alphabetically in the list. iTunes used to let this happen, it was something called, sort by album by year, then you could select sort by artist at the top among those columns and it would sort the whole library by artist, but then the artist's albums would be sorted by year.

Edit: Ah, figured it out, disregard! You just have to keep clicking on the "Album" heading at the top while in song view. You keep clicking until it sorts it as "Album by Artist/Year".

 

[Waughy]

2014 13" MBP. Clean install of Mojave when I got the laptop last October. Would I best off doing a clean install of Catalina, or should an update over the current setup be ok? Just found out Sidecar won't run with our iPad Air 2 as well, bit of a letdown, but no surprise given it's age. At least it can run iPadOS.

 

[Ethosik]

Does anyone know how to check the cause of a kernel panic? Nobody else has reported this issue and I find it a bit concerning I received one.

Edit: In case anyone is curious - Terraria, Factorio and Stardew Valley open up just fine.

 

[russell_314]

Right, I did that to sort it by Artist, but I want to have the albums of that artist sorted by year released, not alphabetically in the list. iTunes used to let this happen, it was something called, sort by album by year, then you could select sort by artist at the top among those columns and it would sort the whole library by artist, but then the artist's albums would be sorted by year.

Ah I've never done this in iTunes either so not sure. Sorry.

 

[Fried Chicken]

No 32-bit apps, no dashboard. I won’t be installing this update. I probably won’t be installing any update from apple until I get a new Mac. Looks like my 2012 iMac is going to be sticking with Mojave for the time being.

 

[Martyimac]

About This Mac > System Report > Applications > Sort by 64 bit

My list is alarmingly huge and contains all my Adobe applications... This isn't going to be fun...

Where do I tell it to sort my 64 bit, I don't see that option anywhere?

 

[magicschoolbus]

Not sure if I want to touch this update yet.

 

[patent10021]

Did anyone else get a kernel panic for the first startup? After I let it sit, it booted into Catalina just fine.

I did.

"Your Mac has restarted because of a....."

 

[Peadogie]

2014 13" MBP. Clean install of Mojave when I got the laptop last October. Would I best off doing a clean install of Catalina, or should an update over the current setup be ok?

IMO its always best to do a clean install if possible. Cleans out all the accumulated crud. YMMV

 

[Ethosik]

I did.

"Your Mac has restarted because of a....."

Thats good I was not the only one!

Other than that, I am liking the changes and have no further issues. Album artwork is downloading in the background.

 

[NMBob]

Yup. Because of this my $420 Fujitsu ScanSnap becomes unusable if I upgrade since the ScanSnap software is 32 bit and an upgraded software is not available. There is a 64 bit version of a newer differently named software that is NOT compatible with my scanner. So I can either buy a newer model or more likely I will partition my drive and dual boot into Mojave for Scanner operations. Not looking forward to that!!!

That stinks. They make nice stuff, but that's Fujitsu! I just finished (minutes ago) moving to the ScanSnap Home program for my S1300i on my High Sierra laptop. Will probably do the same with my 2012 mini before upgrading it. Staying with HS on the laptop for now. Can't say I'm thrilled with SSH, but I only scanned one page to test. Couldn't right off figure out how to get it to pass things off to Preview after the scan... It has its own large Preview-like display now.