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Hope this fixes my MacBook Pro freezing on login after rebooting...

Can you describe it? Where does it stall? Have you tried to boot from external disk with just macOS and not third-party applications?
 
At a minimum you should consider updating to High Sierra, which after some false starts has gotten Sierra to a point where it is pretty solid.

Disclaimer: I had all my computer on El Capitan until Mojave came out, at which point El Capitan fell off the Apple-supported list. Now they are all on High Sierra and will likely remain there until that OS falls off support.

I had tried in the past, even after a few updates to HS, and I recall it running poorly, graphically at least. Lots of stutters in Expose as well as switching between desktops.
 
Do a good backup first. Mojave is unable to complete a backup for me. The amount remaining to back up constantly increases until my backup disk is full, then it crashes. I have had no backup complete now since updating to Mojave. And...as it screwed up my backups, i cant downgrade either.

Oddly, I remember having that problem, too after I upgraded my 2012 Mini to HS.
I was working very hard, for days on indexing my iPhoto-Library and all the mails (around a million).
I could never finish a backup. I believe it was running an fsck on the backup-disk.

I let it run for days (disabled all power-saving) until it finally finished at some point.

Ah, I remember, it was Mail that was killing it. It would literally lock up the computer. I think I stopped using Mail.app for a while until everything settled down.
Eventually, everything started to work again. I believe it actually took another macOS minor update.

Very annoying.

I'll certainly give it some more time. Sometime next year. HS is super-stable for me at this point and I still get security-updates as it looks like.
 
Has anyone else had the problem that when you restore any Mojave backup to a Mac using an external backup drive (like a Time Capsule), all your emails in Apple Mail are showing up out of date order in the inbox and in your locally stored mail folders??

This is maddening problem I have been having every time I restore my new MacBook Pro using a Mojave Time Machine backup. Yet when I restore the new laptop with a High Sierra backup, the emails come out looking totally normal. This has gone all the way up to Apple engineering and they want me to turn over my Time Capsule to them for research.
 
I hope it fixes the Metal 2 GUI issues I'm having on my 2013 MBP... 12.0 worked perfectly, and then 12.1 updated f-ed everything up. I REALLY hope 12.2 fixes everything again.
 
I’ve noticed the spinning ball when opening finder is still an intermittent issue.
 
Smooth upgrade from 10.14.1 for me via system prefs, took about 15 minutes.

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They did? Fair enough – guess I'm wrong then. I always considered those animations a bit frivolous. They arguably took an inappropriately long time and forced you to wait for just a moment too long to see the immediate result of your action. They didn't (imo) really help you better understand the action you took, either.
Not sure I follow. It's not like the rest of the window would freeze over in the meantime. The animation finished almost as fast as blinking your eyes and didn't interfere with other window operations. So if you managed to click other checkboxes while the animation of the first checkbox was still in progress, you could. I thought the effect was a nice touch and never ever felt the need to wait it out when quickly clicking multiple checkboxes in a row.
 
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The update from 10.14.1 to 10.14.2 went smooth on my 13" Early 2015 MPB.

However, with the update my screensaver was reset from "Classic" to "Message" and I had to reconfigure the album for the screensaver images.
 
Not sure I follow. It's not like the rest of the window would freeze over in the meantime. The animation finished almost as fast as blinking your eyes and didn't interfere with other window operations. So if you managed to click other checkboxes while the animation of the first checkbox was still in progress, you could. I thought the effect was a nice touch and never ever felt the need to wait it out when quickly clicking multiple checkboxes in a row.

You are right in that they are far from the worst (although the search fields with a centered 'Search' label that would move to the left after being selected were pretty awful). I do think that they make the UI feel a bit laggy though. Like using an old TFT display with a low pixel response time that would result in ghosting artifacts. Technically nothing that would necessarily slow you down, but it can get on your nerves eventually and leave you with a feeling of slightly less control .

To provide another example, Windows used to (possibly still does?) make the background color for highlighted menu items slowly fade in and out as you move the cursor between items. Makes you feel like either the computer or the display can’t keep up with what you’re doing – or, worse, thinks you could use some distraction.

The fact that a check mark appears without any delay after you've checked the box seems like an advantage to me. I don’t perceive any ambiguity that the animation helps to remove, nor does the transition feel startling to me. Or would you also expect individual letters to fade in when you enter some text? That’s just going a step too far, imo, and conveys absolutely no new information to the user about where the letters came from. Another example is the arguably superfluous window opening animation that was added in Lion – although that can be turned off.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

This all seems very different from helpful animations that are used, for example, when entering Mission Control. If you’ve ever turned that one off, you’ll notice it can be slightly disorienting, because you’re losing important information about where each window came from. What’s great is that you, as a user, are in complete control of the speed of the animation because it progresses according to the movement of your fingers. Apple does excellent work on these kinds of interactive, interruptible animations that feel completely natural without getting in the way.
 
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First impressions are that it fixed the battery drain during sleep issue. I just closed the lid of my MB last night instead of turning it off completely (just as I used to before I noticed the drain issue, and that's when I started shutting it off completely overnight). I let it sleep last night and upon opening it this morning, saw only a 2% battery drain from the night. Looks like they took care of it!
 
First impressions are that it fixed the battery drain during sleep issue. I just closed the lid of my MB last night instead of turning it off completely (just as I used to before I noticed the drain issue, and that's when I started shutting it off completely overnight). I let it sleep last night and upon opening it this morning, saw only a 2% battery drain from the night. Looks like they took care of it!


Fingers crossed!
 
[UPDATE] nevermind! it's fixed!

hello, after updating this morning, I can't seem to connect my late 2013 MacBook Pro 15 to my external monitor anymore. I've been using minidisplay/thunderbolt to HDMI connect. it worked fine before the update though, anyone else having this issue with any of their laptops?
 
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Does it fix the immobile FaceTime status bar on the upper right of the screen?
 
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