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Apple Releases macOS Catalina With Find My, Screen Time, and No More iTunes
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Weird. I freaked-out when I saw that it WAS checked! Unchecked that bad-boy immediately, and then went to the iCloud website to make sure it hadn't uploaded anything! 😂
Tested Catalina today on MacBook Pro on the road. Mail drains power when off-line. One charge will last me 2 hours instead of 8. This is a mess. Last time I install an upgrade so quickly. We used to be able to trust apple, but these times seem to be over.
Wow, how good was Snow Leopard. When all the features in Leopard came out I couldn't believe it, then they did a quality and speed update with SL. So freaking good. My next favourite after that has been Mojave - for me it was a pretty stellar experience compared with other versions.
I'll still take all of them over a Windows OS!
After being and still am being annoyed by iOS13 and some of the things I’ve read about this new Mac OS in a few minutes, I’ll be waiting till the new year before updating.
I installed on my 2019 15” MBP this evening. Downloaded and installed around 35 minutes. Had to enter my Apple ID more times than I would have liked, but seems to be working well for the short time I’ve used it. Need my reminders app back.
Got a call with Apple support tonight because as of now Music app is unusable with my large library on a NAS.So for lots of users the new music app has a memory leak whilst uploading artwork , mine has crashed about 12 times due to it using all the RAM
Hopefully it will stay up long enough for me to actually use the new app!
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If you start it the App it starts the uploading artwork which you can't stop and then memory goes down till it crashes the system. Now on my 30+ restart of Mac and the Music app in the hope it might actually finish the artwork task.
They knew about artwork issues since early beta releases and still did nothing and released it.
I noticed that during the beta's, so I took all my music/Movies/TV off my NAS and put them on a Samsung X5 and now I have no issues.
"But starting Ubuntu 19.10, there will be no support for 32-bit anymore. There is no 32-bit libraries, software and tools. If you are using a 32-bit Ubuntu 19.04, you cannot upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10. There will be no 32-bit option for network install or minimalCD." (Taken directly from the Ubuntu website by me.)
No, Apple are right with their direction. You'll just be left behind with your quirky ancient software that hasn't been updated in god knows how long. Doesn't security mean anything to you?
Okay I also felt like you. So I installed 10.15 on a 2TB external SSD and used Migration Assistant to transfer all the stuff to the external drive. Took a while but it has worked and everything seems to be just fine and works as before. It does seem as stable as 10.14.6. At the moment I'm running this iMac from the external...will give it a few days, and if all remains well will install 10.15 on the internal SSD. Catalina seems faster and the sound seems better....I have external speakers USBed to an integrated amp.
There was over a year advance warning this was coming, just like for iOS (11 I think it was).
Who said it was quirky ? And since when software needs to be upgraded every time a company decides it wants to go on with its obsolescence plan ? 64bit x86 CPUs can run 32bit software for a reason. Not everything is a Facebook.app to require updates/upgrades/new features every day as much as not everyone fancies new games/movies/songs/books over old ones. Many things work fine or they do not have alternatives (and they might never get). Don't talk to me about security.
Ok, but by that same logic you don't need to upgrade to Catalina. You can stay on Mojave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That would be correct, as I found out that despite my last Time Machine backup having been 10.14.6, the Photos library itself was upgraded.
After upgrading that restore to Catalina then nuking my Photo library and redownloading it, things seem to be working as intended now.
Yee gads! Let's put it this way - it is crap. Catalina is a disaster and i dont even have it loaded yet...I tried however... YESTERDAY and all night. Hey listen folks. I am not new at this stuff so when it came time to upgrade I adopted it. Yessiree. and I waited, and I waited and I waited and then this morning it STILL wasn't loaded. So, bingo bango, back to Mojave. At least now I have an OS that actually works. Hey Apple pukes. Call me once you get your collective heads out of your asses and have something I don't have to fight with.
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS:
No more clean 32-bit version of Ubuntu, something which Apple stopped doing eight years ago (2011) with MacOS Lion. App compatibility is not the issue here.
Sorry you couldn't update. Don't know what your problem was, but my update was successfully finished in about 45 minutes.
Just a quick update on this: I just upgraded my mac to macOS Catalina and I see what you are saying here. macOS Catalina seems to assume you’re no longer running any 32 bit apps, so the column labeled “64-bit” is no longer shown as part of the ‘applications’ table under software. I guess Apple expected everyone to check for 32 bit apps while still on Mojave and before updating to Catalina.
