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Apple Releases macOS Catalina With Find My, Screen Time, and No More iTunes
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SPACE WARNING - I started installing Catalina over 6 hours ago, i had 165gb free from 2tb drive on MacBook Pro, at about the 3 hour point it slowed down con with the update, with the progress bar stopped. I called Apple and turns out Catalina installs a separate partition for the os, I tried restarting and got into recovery mod. The hard drive had a second drive partition with the original drive only having about 10gb of space. I am letting this run for a few more hours hoping it completes before I do a restore. I would recommend that anyone that is doing a install have at least 25% free space on there hard drive or more.
I have never seen so many problems on a MacRumors form.. I am staying far away from this one.
I'm certainly no power user or a creative/professional type but I've got no complaints yet. Everything is working fine for me. I love that iTunes got broken up; honestly my favorite feature so far.
Installed on my MBP 15" 2015. Adobe Acrobat, Disk Warrior, Paragon NTFS stopped working immediately.
A weird folder on desktop full of directories that "had" to be moved there. All apps asking for permissions like it was their first launch. 10 minutes later, formatted and loaded my SuperDuper! backup. It was fun, thank you Apple for the ride.
*I also ended with 2 partitions on my disk (one labeled "Data"), not clue.
A weird folder on desktop full of directories that "had" to be moved there. All apps asking for permissions like it was their first launch. 10 minutes later, formatted and loaded my SuperDuper! backup. It was fun, thank you Apple for the ride.
*I also ended with 2 partitions on my disk (one labeled "Data"), not clue.
For the first time in my life, I regret upgrading to the new Mac OS. I have a 3 week old, 2019 MBP. The new software appeared to load properly and I patiently waited through all the progress bars then when it finished I entered my password and thought everything was OK. The "Find My" screen came up explaining the new Find My features and at the bottom of the screen was a "Back" button and a "Continue" button. I hit the "Continue" button and my computer has been froze for the past 30 minutes (and counting).
I've never had a problem updating on day 1 before... until today. My 3 week old MBP is frozen solid.
Thank you for the reply and a link as well. I will hold out for now I suppose. I can wait a little longer until thing settle, if I didnt need Citrix I would just go ahead and upgrade. I also have old Rosetta Stone software that will no longer work if I upgrade :/ sad times.
That happened to me. I powered off/on and all is well. I only waited 10 minutes... (Not a patient person at times)
I can’t answer question one as I’m currently reverting back to Mojave using Time Machine.
2: I just drag them in iTunes (in OS12) to my my iPhone. I do this in my iMac. I updated to Catalina on my laptop but having had such a bad experience I’m not updating the iMac.
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Remember that the Spotlight index might be in the middle of rebuilding. That usually causes a noticeable slowdown of the system after OS updates. Is it busy?
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That makes me so sad 😢 to see iMac written like that ("Imac").
“navlibx” will damage your computer. I keep getting this message after upgrading. Seems to be related to Symantec antivirus. Has anyone experienced it too and has any solution? Thanks.
Thanks for the reply but I’m already reverting back to OS12.
The sad thing is I was looking forward to using different apps for music, audiobooks, podcast, etc, but making my files difficult to find and unorganized is taking the piss. why can’t the audiobook files be stored in the same way as music files?!?!
Norton Security was updated this morning. Try checking for an update.
Before installing it will tell you about any apps that are incompatible but ONLY if they were recently opened.
If want you could open all the apps, however opening all the apps at once is a bad idea so don't do that. But if you really want too you can by going to the Application folder, selecting all of them and pressing Command-O.
Some apps of the top of my head are Steam (however Valve has released an updated 64 bit app, just download it and replace the old one at https://store.steampowered.com/about), older Microsoft Office Apps (I think Office 2011 is 32 bit only, and if you have Office 2016 it was initially 32 bit but updated to 64 bit later so update that and you should be good.) Also a little game I used to play is 32 bit only and I don't think that will be updated (RIP Shotgun FunFun Legacy)
If you are really concerned and don't want to upgrade and then find out you have to go back because an app is incompatible, you can install Catalina to a separate APFS volume (See here) and then navigate to the Applications on your main macOS volume and see which apps are incompatible. (Incompatible apps will have a circle symbol with a line running through it on top of the app icon)
I hate to admit this but I had to look up how to power off my laptop. I've only had a MBP with Touch Bar for 3 weeks and it was the first time I had ever needed to actually turn my computer off. After I turned it off and back on everything was fine.
I have updated both my iMac 2017 & MacBook Pro 2017, and no issues whatsoever! I have a lot of software installed, but everything made it. Two caveats that may be of assistance to some:
1) SpamSieve will appear to be broken the first time you launch Mail. However, simply re-enable the plugin and it will be good to go. Not sure why it crashes the first time it launches, but after that, it's fine.
2) Unlike SpamSieve, GPGMail (part of the GPGTools suite) actually is INCOMPATIBLE at this time. So, if you use GPGMail to sign PGP messages in Mail, then please wait until an official release by GPGTools.
Other than these two hiccups, it's a great upgrade. TV, Music, Podcasts apps run SO MUCH FASTER than iTunes. For most people, these are going to be fantastic upgrades (the power users may have some troubles until software is updated to the new SDKs).
1) SpamSieve will appear to be broken the first time you launch Mail. However, simply re-enable the plugin and it will be good to go. Not sure why it crashes the first time it launches, but after that, it's fine.
2) Unlike SpamSieve, GPGMail (part of the GPGTools suite) actually is INCOMPATIBLE at this time. So, if you use GPGMail to sign PGP messages in Mail, then please wait until an official release by GPGTools.
Other than these two hiccups, it's a great upgrade. TV, Music, Podcasts apps run SO MUCH FASTER than iTunes. For most people, these are going to be fantastic upgrades (the power users may have some troubles until software is updated to the new SDKs).
I have a great many reservations about this update, but I can help a little with the above:
* Hover over "Library" in the side bar - an Edit link should show
* You can get Genres back into the sidebar using this (why are such common things like that or iTunes Store hidden, yet Genres and store are up-front and centre in the TV app? Catalina is such an inconsistent mess)
* Now you're back in iTunes basically, since this whole "brand new apps" thing is a total sham; so press Cmd+J and you'll get the view options for Genres, "Sort by Artist" & away you go
Not as good as column browser, for sure. At least you can get somewhere towards your old listening behaviour with this though. Smart playlists might be another approach, but likely to be too much hassle to set up for spur of the moment stuff.
(To be honest I'm kinda glad they didn't pull the whole "rewrote from scratch" thing with these split-up applications, even though I've little doubt that the code under the hood is a creaking mess of historic layers and hackery which is now multiplied across three apps and the Finder; every other "rewrote from scratch" I can recall from Apple has been a horrific train wreck, where it took iWork several years to get to something good and iMovie never really got back its ease of use or feature set even to this day).
The separate partition takes no more space than the old organization, due to APFS and volume sharing.
Could an 8GB USB Pendrive be used or is it too small? With previous versions of macOS until Mojave I have always used 8GB ones without problems.
I tried, but I just can't accept them. I guess I am in denial. I have a meeting with my therapist next week, and will try again then.