I tried to update but my computer says I am already updated on 10.14.4, and there isn't any new release....!!!!
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Apple Releases macOS Mojave 10.14.5 With AirPlay 2 Support
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No problem here either. One iMac and two MacBook Pro units updated, the notebooks pulling the update from the iMac's content caching.
I am forever tickled by the "Safari is snappier!" comments. Safari is garbage. Always has been and likely always will be garbage and it genuinely makes me angry that up until perhaps the last 2 years, Apple was touting Safari as a better browser than the competition when it is anything BUT. Scrolling through FB as a single example is painfully slow. You'd think Apple would get its act together with its "premiere" browser and yet Safari seems to be permanently in beta (or alpha in many ways.)
True, it has a smaller memory and CPU footprint - but it's *awful.* Still, glutton for punishment that I am, I download every single Safari preview release and/or hope that in each incremental release of Mojave, that they finally turned it into that awesome fast browser. It never happens.
It is my ONLY real complaint regarding MacOS, which I otherwise adore. I have to use the Amphetamine app to keep MacOS' internal power saving schemes from ejecting my external drives but at least it's free. I've yet to hear an explanation as to why Apple can't focus on making Safari a respectable browser and generally all I read is, "what's wrong with it? It works for me..."
The Dark Mode extension still doesn't work anywhere near as well as Dark Reader Dynamic mode and I think it's hilarious that Dark Reader is a free Chrome/Vivaldi extension but costs $4.99 in the App Store for Safari and I'm not about to spend $5 to see if it works as well in Safari as it does in Chrome/Vivaldi. "Just wait until websites render dark mode natively!" Yeah - I'll be waiting for the rest of my life.
I adopted Vivaldi last year. Its tiled tabs are amazing. It has its own task manager and runs in a smaller footprint than Chrome does and it's feature-rich. It compliments MacOS extremely well. I probably sound like a shill and I'm certain there Firefox users who feel the same. However, as a MacOS user, I feel I should be using Safari exclusively or most of the time and I just can't justify its use.
True, it has a smaller memory and CPU footprint - but it's *awful.* Still, glutton for punishment that I am, I download every single Safari preview release and/or hope that in each incremental release of Mojave, that they finally turned it into that awesome fast browser. It never happens.
It is my ONLY real complaint regarding MacOS, which I otherwise adore. I have to use the Amphetamine app to keep MacOS' internal power saving schemes from ejecting my external drives but at least it's free. I've yet to hear an explanation as to why Apple can't focus on making Safari a respectable browser and generally all I read is, "what's wrong with it? It works for me..."
The Dark Mode extension still doesn't work anywhere near as well as Dark Reader Dynamic mode and I think it's hilarious that Dark Reader is a free Chrome/Vivaldi extension but costs $4.99 in the App Store for Safari and I'm not about to spend $5 to see if it works as well in Safari as it does in Chrome/Vivaldi. "Just wait until websites render dark mode natively!" Yeah - I'll be waiting for the rest of my life.
I adopted Vivaldi last year. Its tiled tabs are amazing. It has its own task manager and runs in a smaller footprint than Chrome does and it's feature-rich. It compliments MacOS extremely well. I probably sound like a shill and I'm certain there Firefox users who feel the same. However, as a MacOS user, I feel I should be using Safari exclusively or most of the time and I just can't justify its use.
Mail app import scripts are still buggy – Mail gets stuck when importing a POP "Sent" Mailbox from High Sierra Mail libraries, just like it did in the previous release of OS Mojave. (The Mail libraries are not corrupt – import into a fresh copy of the Mail app in High Sierra works just fine.)
Apple, when will you fix this?
Apple, when will you fix this?
Would this clearview app read Apple DRM books? That would be great.
I agree. I do see the other process too in multiple instances. Each is unique to the book you have opened. Also sometimes I see “Books Web Content” as well. No idea what all of these are, I just know it crashes the app.
It did that to me too, but then popped up shortly after the window was loaded.
The GMAIL problem I had fixed somehow by using the Authenticator with the 2 step google security feature so that is on googles part as a lot of my apps weren’t picking up my gmail account and you have to specifically make a 2 step password just for each app as it’s extra security so I don’t know if someone has mentioned the fix because I can send screenshots of what to do exactly
That stinks. I've been just making the books into PDFs as a work around; time consuming but it works.
URGENT HELP: I was on 10.14.4 and doing this update and I seem to be stuck on “Installing Software Update: About a minute.”
Mouse moves but I haven’t moved past this screen in over 30 minutes. Is that normal for this update?
Update: it looks like my internet went out in the middle of the update process.
Very weird update. I hit power and restarted then ran through the update again. After several screens going in and out I’m back up.
Mouse moves but I haven’t moved past this screen in over 30 minutes. Is that normal for this update?
Update: it looks like my internet went out in the middle of the update process.
Very weird update. I hit power and restarted then ran through the update again. After several screens going in and out I’m back up.
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Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why having 4 or 5 macs is odd. I have 6 that are used on a regular basis. 2 aren't software upgradeable anymore, but still are quite useful.
Actually, the real number of Macs would be around 25 or so, but I have a graveyard that I keep of old macs. Still have my II and IIcx.
My space bar hasn't been responding all the time (wired Apple keyboard). Are other people having 10.14.4 keyboard issues? This is the first I've heard of it.
I was having this issue, and since 10.14.5 Mail has been working fine with Gmail. It's only been 20 hours or so but that's still way more time than 10.14.4 ever lasted without auth failures.
(I really hope I won't have to edit this
)Why is the update taking so long, is this normal? I started over 30m ago and it is estimating 33 more minutes!
I have a 2017 iMac w/ 40 gB RAM. Each of the last three times I've upgraded Mojave I've had problems w/ the iMac, particularly Bluetooth. In my case I cannot successfully turn bluetooth ON or OFF from the menu and other aspects of Bluetooth are also non-operational insofar as it cannot find my Mac BT keyboard or a BT mouse which I use.
I've noticed the fan running on my Late 2013 MacBookPro 15" much more since the update. Just me?.
I was having this issue, and since 10.14.5 Mail has been working fine with Gmail. It's only been 20 hours or so but that's still way more time than 10.14.4 ever lasted without auth failures.
(I really hope I won't have to edit this
Same here. I'm happy. The many suggestions offered for 10.14.4 never worked for me and many others. More annoying were people not affected proclaiming the problem could not possibly exist since they personally did not experience it. They had a weird religious fervor driving them to deny something they had no involvement with over and over again anytime one of the afflicted reported problems.
Like you, I'm crossing my fingers it will not pop up again.
So what do you think of this, https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...f-macos-mojave-10-14-6-to-developers.2181465/
Got any more predictions that you could comfortably ignore.
Lots of trouble updating a brand new 2019 MBP 13” last night. Soon after launching the update and hitting restart it dumped me at the login screen still showing multiple users logged in, with one of the user icons missing part of the image. Logged in with my admin account and got a sequence of dialogs about different services needing access to keychain. After entering my password and saying ‘all ‘ about 20 times I finally dismissed them all, and the software update window was still open offering the update, so I hit restart again. Then I went through about 20 minutes where the screen would turn off, appear to start loading the update, then drop back to the login screen again (still with icons and background corrupted). I would try to login, but it would drop back to the login screen before I could hit enter. Or it would appear to start logging in only for the screen to go dark again and start over. Finally it logged in, still displaying the update as available, but I shut the machine down instead. Did a hard restart with the power button and then it wouldn’t do anything. On the third or fourth go it popped up an error during startup that the startup disk was corrupted and the let me restart from the encrypted startup partition Eventually it came back up and then let me do the update. Second worst (mac) update experience ever for me, and I’ve been using macs since system 7!
What were you updating to? A 2019 MacBook Pro should have already shipped with 10.14.5.