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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra With Apple File System, Safari Autoplay Blocking and Privacy Tools, Metal 2, and More

The GM Candidate and Public Release felt like a huge jump to me. The Public Release seemed to have some insane optimisation when compared to the GM Candidate. Interesting.
 
I seem to have "lost" quite a bit of disk space after the HS upgrade. I have 512GB SSD in the MBP and prior to the upgrade had about 380 GB free. Now after the upgrade (and after a successful TM backup, and a reboot) only 198 GB is shown free.
 
Well, as was previously announced, the release installer is balking at installing over the GM because of an APFS Fusion drive.

The big question in my mind now is, do I downgrade APFS to HFS+ now and upgrade the OS, or do I wait for a potential next release that has the APFS fixes and avoid having to transition the FS twice for no net gain.
 
Ok I’ve waited a few hours. Now I’m worried the Apple logo will burn into the screen. Not sure what to do
 
BornAgainMac said:
How does Apple convert and encrypt the volume so fast? Normally encrypting the drive takes forever by itself.
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(Snipped from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/)

As Apple discussed at WWDC this year when it talked about the conversion process in iOS 10.3, the installer doesn’t actually touch user data on the disk. Instead, HFS+ metadata is copied to free space on the disk, converted to APFS metadata, and checked for errors. If everything checks out, the HFS+ superblock is replaced with an APFS superblock, and the conversion is done with minimal risk of data corruption.
 
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Tested FCP X, a bit buggy, but usable. Seeing faster speeds. Seems most of my plugins work so far. Neat video noise removal plugin speed improved.
 
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i'm glad it's a new version and not the same as GM candidate. hopefully this runs a bit smoother...
 
Killerbob said:
Hi,

Before updating, can someone please please let me know if you can still get rid of iTunes 12.7, and put in 12.6.2 instead?

Thanks!
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It installs 12.6.2 not 12.7. Or at least it does not install 12.7 over 12.6.2 if 12.6.2 is already installed.
What I did was install it on an external HD on which I had previously installed the GM for testing (the GM installer had installed 12.6.2). I can't tell you how relieved I am, finding 12.6.2 still here.I was afraid I would have to stay forever on Sierra (or at least until they bring back the iTunes functionality they took away).
 
macpanzer said:
I seem to have "lost" quite a bit of disk space after the HS upgrade. I have 512GB SSD in the MBP and prior to the upgrade had about 380 GB free. Now after the upgrade (and after a successful TM backup, and a reboot) only 198 GB is shown free.
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Well, that's interesting, the macOS volume seems to be just 300GB's...
wth?!

Code: 
xyz:~ xyz$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         499.4 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.4 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume macOS                   307.2 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                520.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
 
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I'm no longer able to clean out all the /System/Library/Caches/ folder.
Even in single user or super user.

Also watching mds running in the background. I'll let it run for a while to see if it finishes whatever it's doing.
Booting time is now awful.
 
Downloading the update to macOS- about 7 minutes.
I hope this does good on my Late 2012 iMac.
I’ve been lucky with day one updates in the past.
 
ruchern said:
Would love to have a link for Combo Update but it seemed like Apple has not released that yet.
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Not going to happen until 10.13.2 is released......but I guess you have now figured that out. Running 17A365.... download was easy and it seems to be running just fine: 27" iMac i7, late 2012, 750 SSD, 32 gig RAM.
 
Ok, so that was freaky. The update has 4 minutes left to install, and it suddenly starts playing the audio from a YouTube video I was watching a few days ago. It hadn't even got to the login screen yet.
 
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