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I'm trying to prep hundreds of laptops with the latest macOS and this is a huge pain in my butt. You might want to consider putting yourself in others' shoes.

I've had to do the same, it's just part of the job so I'm not changing my stance over someone doing their job. I assume you don't mind the patch tuesdays which are much more frequent?
 
Which one of these will fully reinstall MacOS without losing data and erasing settings?
You can use the InstallAssistant.pkg

I have used the ventura rc ones to update my ventura vm many times as the betas won’t update on vms ota unless it is sequoia. Nevertheless the full installers do work for vms.

As this is a public release however I actually didn’t use the full installer to update the vm this time. It was one rare time when ota actually worked for the vm.

It is still good to get the full installers however to make bootable usb - a very useful tool when things go awry - and much faster than internet recovery.
 
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I'm trying to prep hundreds of laptops with the latest macOS and this is a huge pain in my butt. You might want to consider putting yourself in others' shoes.
sounds like that literally is your job, not a hobby. So why complain about it? You're getting paid to wear those shoes
 
I'm running an old 4tb hgst external hdd just itching to stop working and on 14.6 it ran just fine. Surprisingly fast. I updated to 14.6.1 and became friends with molasses or my 2019 mbp 64 gb ram did. I thought it was an indexing issue so I left the mbp on to let the drive do its thing, but to no avail. My iCloud Drive isn't. uploading currently. Prob just need to reboot. I keep the mbp next to a portable ac and when it gets the spin ball I aim the ac onto the computer and the external drive. Still sluggish. Ive had to walk away from it a few times now out of irritation. Granted I'm running an old waiting to die spin drive externally, but the performance change has been distinct and annoying.
 
It seems that a bad Screen Sharing bug from 14.6.0 is gone.

Going to give it a day or two before I rest easy though.

I'm calling this fixed, thank goodness.

I don't like the fact that it was a regression; regression bugs make me worry about what developers and testers are doing.
 
Anyone who's now gone to 14.6, and 14.6.1 specifically, found performance issues occurring that severely degrade their x86 computers? I updated two otherwise fine iMac's, that are dated, but high end configs for the time (3.6ghz 8-core 64gb) and the past few days have been horrid. Everything gives me the rainbow spinning disc from time to time, and software that I'm used to how it should behave, Adobe Lightroom editing images for example, is dramatically slower than it used to be even if not producing obvious rainbow wheel GUI pauses; things like merging HDR images, exports, etc. Disk performance seems impacted too; VM's I run in Fusion are incredibly sluggish now.

I'm at the point of wanting to back up and fresh install a pre-14.6, which will be a massive time waste, but my computer is wasting my time by the minute now.
 
sounds like that literally is your job, not a hobby. So why complain about it? You're getting paid to wear those shoes
I definitely don't need more "job security", I don't need more to do, there is plenty. It's causes extra work and inefficiencies when they release another update just a week later because they screwed something up.
 
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