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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra With Apple File System, Safari Autoplay Blocking and Privacy Tools, Metal 2, and More
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Is there any way to download the installer without installing; I want to make a USB stick installer.
Not trying to downplay the seriousness of this issue, but it requires one to download and run the app.
I did and it didn't at the time. I used a link someone sent that made it appear for me.
This Apple support document claims a 8.8 GB requirement for macOS High Sierra.
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Sure, just download the installer from the Mac App Store, then quit out of the installation process. The installer file is still in the Applications folder.
Just follow the instructions for building a bootable USB installation drive, the instructions have been basically the same for years. Just search for "macOS High Sierra bootable USB." There's at least one article on doing this for the High Sierra beta and I'm sure a number of articles will be published in the next 24 hours on how to do this with the official released software.
Disclaimer: I've been doing this for years.
Not odd. This is the firmware update that allows the older Mac Pros to boot from APFS disks. It will work on Mac Pro 4,1s that have been flashed to 5,1. There are extensive threads on this here on the forum.
High Sierra may be out of beta but there always seems to be a program or two that needs fixing over the following weeks to make it work properly.
No rush here to get the latest and greates.
Just finished a clean install of High Sierra on my MBP 15 2016 TB - this is going to be the new snow leopard!
No more UI lag when only using intel HD graphics due to metal 2. Love it so far
No more UI lag when only using intel HD graphics due to metal 2. Love it so far
Contrary to MacRumors post -- you CAN format and install on a boot drive. I'm doing it -- I have an external boot HDD (a LaCie 2TB Thunderbolt 2 drive). I formatted a 500 GB partition to APFS using High Sierra's Disk Utility, and then installed High Sierra. Works great. (Note this is on a 2015 Retina 27" iMac with 16GB ram)
wtf is these reports that third party apps can access your keychain? I was just about to update but that sounds like the worst bug of all time. WTF
Close configuration. I have a 2011 iMac with thunderbolt SSD. No issues with the update, automatically converted my external SSD boot drive to APFS. One noticeable thing is the loss of the boot chime, but since the new 2017 computers don't have it, I think the change was intentional on apple's part.
Do you use Apple RAM's or 3rd party? When I was updating from El Capitan to Sierra, 3rd party RAMs were causing freezing issues so had to swap with Apple RAMs to upgrade and then swapped the RAMs with the 3rd party again.
Couldn't agree more. But Apple has always had issues with their .0 OS releases. Always. Anyone who's been around for awhile will recommend waiting that long as general, best practice. This advice is even more important now that 10.13 changes the file system. (I might even follow it this time!)
I worked as lead tech at an independent Apple repair shop when El Capitan came out, and I didn't let anyone install 10.11 as a default OS on customer machines until 10.11.3.
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Can you guarantee the rogue code will not be "accidentally" present in an innocent app you downloaded at a given point of time?
