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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 With Compatibility Improvements for Third-Party USB Audio Devices
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You should always be updated to very latest software your system will support. People come up with numerous reasons they can’t or won’t update but none of them hold water. If nothing else security and stability fixes make your system more reliable. But the biggest thing you need to do is start ignoring all the negativity and naysayers who scream and holler in forums like this one. Public forums on the Internet greatly magnify and falsely inflate problems. The old analogy applies. If you walk into a hospital and only see sick people would you assume the entire population is also sick? No you would not. So if you read posts in a public forum and see a number of users reporting similar issues can you jump to the conclusion that everybody has those issues? No, you cannot? Millions of users are running High Sierra without any major issues. Also realize that public forums like this one are anonymous and you don’t have any way of knowing the competence, the situation, and the motives for what someone has posted about software updates.
Certainly the Very Large Corp I work for does not follow this suggestion. They vet this stuff, making sure security, interoperability and productivity don't suffer, then give the all clear. And for my personal Mac, keeping up with "the latest" has an impact on both productivity and, as it happened, security.
Hopefully this lets me use an external display without having to restart my computer half the time. Hoping it also lets my TB2 external HD stay connected without randomly ejecting itself.
If you have a compatible SSD (and they promised forthcoming Fusion support), APFS is the biggie.
This is horrible advice.
They haven't fixed any of the MAIL program bugs and I'm sure this update will scramble all my server settings once again like always.
MAIL notifications come sometimes 5 minutes after you've already read the email and deleted it! UGH!
Command-B in MAIL is BOLD if you type Command-B TWICE. Apparently, they can't figure out how to get the first keystroke to work properly.
I have reported these bugs and unlike in previous Mac OS testing, I've gotten no response from Apple or even acknowledgement. I used to previously testing Yosemite and El Capitan, but no more. It's like they just don't ***** care.
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I think you're onto something. One of my drives kept getting ejected until it no longer works. I guess that's a feature?
I have a problem with mail, were it only collects from an exchange server once. Either a full shutdown of mail or a reboot fixes it. Other mail apps work fine.
On the first update try my MacBook screen turned teal green during restart.
How can I check if the firmware update passed? And why was the 2nd download smaller??? HELP!!!
EDIT: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201518 this support site is obsolete.
I had a similar experience, first attempt was something like a 1.66gb download and second attempt was around 1.18gb.
I am having lots of crashes on 10.13.1 too with two 5k LGs someone said they think it is Touch ID related...
I am about to upgrade to find out...
Just need 10.4 FCP also to solve more of the crashing problems....
10.13.2 has fixed some long-standing bugs on a 2012 MBP, well done Apple
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Thank you for the heads up on problems you had updating to 10.13.2 on unsupported hardware with patched OS.
In my case, the security patch 2017-001 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331 released for 10.13.1 on my mid 2009 MacBook Pro applied OK until a reboot... Scanning HT208331 - it appears that all of the 10.13.2 security patches are "available" in this 10.13.1 security patch.
After I rebooted my unsupported MacBookPro5,5 High Sierra 10.13.1 with security patch 2017-001, I had to re-install the High Sierra Patcher post installation patches and then reboot with a cache rebuild. The security patch now seems to be installed and OK.
My pre-edited post was before I rebooted and went down the road of an El Capitan supported system patched to run +- under High Sierra. Running High Sierra on this hardware requires turning OFF SIP which allows several attacks.
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hmmm... not sure what was happen. after successfully installed the 10.3.2 update, iMac does not respond to reboot, just turned out to black screen for 15 minutes or more... so i manually reboot the machine and installation initiated from there, got an hour of installation and after, boom. Mail, Safari and some portion at my System Preferences are not responding. Either error or it will quit immediately.
Anyone experienced this?
~ iMac 2011
Anyone experienced this?
~ iMac 2011
They haven't fixed any of the MAIL program bugs and I'm sure this update will scramble all my server settings once again like always.
MAIL notifications come sometimes 5 minutes after you've already read the email and deleted it! UGH!
Command-B in MAIL is BOLD if you type Command-B TWICE. Apparently, they can't figure out how to get the first keystroke to work properly.
I have reported these bugs and unlike in previous Mac OS testing, I've gotten no response from Apple or even acknowledgement. I used to previously testing Yosemite and El Capitan, but no more. It's like they just don't ***** care.
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I think you're onto something. One of my drives kept getting ejected until it no longer works. I guess that's a feature?
On a whim, I decided to test your assertion of a bug in Mail that requires you type command+B twice. It worked on the very first press.
10.13.2 installed a couple of hours ago. No scrambled mail settings at all, across my 4 email accounts.
This! 27" 2017 iMac, calculating time remaining now for about 25 minutes....fingers crossed it isn't FUBARED, MB Pro updated in about 5 minutes...
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A little over 2GB here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1946?locale=en_US
...cuz, ya' know, bigger is better
I hope the USB thing is fixed. Measured USB audio performance from various Macs differs greatly where it should not. I've noted this in various reviews over at Headfonia as well as my site. Specifically, ALO's CDM, Chord's MOJO, and even COS Engineering's USB performance between an iMac and a MacBook Pro differ by as much as 20dB in SNR, noise, or stereo separation. The iPhone's USB (if the output device requires little wattage to run) matches the MacBook Pro's in all cases.
After updating to High Sierra, my Lynx Studio Technologies HILO stopped working. It's back up and running fine, but recent updates have been a bugger.
After updating to High Sierra, my Lynx Studio Technologies HILO stopped working. It's back up and running fine, but recent updates have been a bugger.
I hoe this helps. My RME UFX has been flaky ever since I got my new Mac. It works but goes funky way to frequently, especially on intense sessions. Its like it loses sync.
Now Finder unresponsive. Force quit it. Nothing. Launched activity monitor got the menu and selected restart. Now it’s just the pinwheel for the last 10 min. Ridiculous Apple. Can you focus on your OS instead of Emoji and trying to be a Hollywood kissarse.
has anyone actually downloaded 10.13.2 and can give an objective review of performance and stability compared to 10.13.1? thx