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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS High Sierra to Public Beta Testers
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Did anyone else’s Mac experience a Kernel Panic like mine, after installing this Beta?
After working in Silicon Valley for almost 40 years, with just about all the major players there (directly and indirectly) I can tell you that they really don't have secret meeting to enforce "planed obsolescence" to make money. Its the nature of technology to need to grow it, improve it and expand its capabilities. In all the meetings I attended, from the hardware/ software design engineers, marketing gurus legal department all the way up tp the CEOs, no one ever thinks of planned obsolescence as a strategy. They do talk about focusing on specific areas they believe that consumers will want in the future. Its that constant consumer demand that causes the changes to happen. Think about it, do you still want to use a computer with an 8086 processor? or floppies? or a huge CRT that can only display 13" of viewable area? or 20MB hard disk drives that spin as fast as my washing machine? I don't and there are millions of consumers that spend billions each year to upgrade to newer, better, faster features. Its all about voting with your wallet and consumers have voted for ongoing process.
I'm seeing the intermittent YouTube video freezes as well, running Safari on my 2012 MacBook Pro. I haven't found a workaround for this issue yet.
The search function in Mail does not appear to be working yet in public beta - for me at least. No other issues yet - and Office including Outlook appear to work (fast track updates).
If you just installed it, maybe Spotlight hasn't finished indexing your drive. Mail searches rely on the Spotlight index.
Yep I had the same issue, I just ended up booting into recovery, reformatted the drive and reinstalled the Beta. All working great now. You should backup your machine before installing this beta, its even more important when the when entire file system is changing like it is with High Sierra.
Thanks - resolved. I tried shutting down the Mac completely after upgrade - and when it rebooted it worked fine. Thanks again.
I definitely use Time Capsule. I’ve since went back to Sierra until I can get my data back on from my backup.
Having an issue.... I installed the Public Beta over Sierra... then when it was about finished my mouse and keyboard were unresponsive (iMac)... so I restarted... When checking About this Mac etc... I see the file system is the old one. I re-intalled over again.. same thing... Things are running quite slow.... Any recommendations such as formatting drive to new file system then installing Beta? Problem with that is that all of my apps saved on Time Machine dont think I can drag them over ...... I think I saw somewhere where I can change the format of the file system from HSF+ to APFS without having to format the whole drive?
Thanks!
Thanks!
I experienced a similar error message so I forced it to power down and tried again, after the fourth crash/message the installer worked just fine.
Late 2016 ntbMBP -
Yes, Time Machine doesn't work.
Keyboard backlight timeout setting gets unticked in every reboot.
Yes, Time Machine doesn't work.
Keyboard backlight timeout setting gets unticked in every reboot.
I did not get past my error which came when trying to login after the upgrade was supposedly finished. Tried quite many reboots with and without peripherals. Took one night to restore TM backup. Will wait for at least beta2 before I try another upgrade. I was upgrading from Sierra 10.12.6 Public Beta 3 so I will continue that path for now.
I'm having multiple issues with my brand new iMac (i5, Radeon 580, 2 TB Fusion drive, using the new APFS) including my mail index getting repeatedly corrupted, my photo library needing to be repaired due to corruption, flashing question mark folder on a black screen after my mac wakes from sleep (this happened twice. On forced restart - without repairing, it worked normally), Chrome giving me corrupted data messages and losing all login and history information after being force quit.
Most of these issues are exacerbated when I force quit or force restart my mac (Chrome had a lot of windows open and totally froze my computer for an hour, necessitating the restart).
Most of these issues are exacerbated when I force quit or force restart my mac (Chrome had a lot of windows open and totally froze my computer for an hour, necessitating the restart).
Did you submit a bug report (Feedback Assistant) to Apple?
I have no issues with APFS on an SSD, but on spinners, which is what a Fusion drive is (part SSD/part disk), I had nothing but headaches during conversion. I decided to revert back to standard fie system.
I've been getting this issue on Sierra. Was hoping High Sierra would fix it. Looks like its not the case!
Thank for your feedback I upgraded and converted to new file system format and my Parallels working fine.
One interesting side effect of High Sierra: Many of us are looking forward to APFS, but there are key 3rd Party services that could be negatively impacted.
Case in point: Carbonite. In an email to me last week they stated that they have zero intention of supporting it. I pointed out that High Sierra will easily enable it, but they didn't seem to care.
Any others?
Case in point: Carbonite. In an email to me last week they stated that they have zero intention of supporting it. I pointed out that High Sierra will easily enable it, but they didn't seem to care.
Any others?
this isn't a side effect of high sierra, it's a decision by a developer to end development. it's something we've seen since the dawn of software, and we will see again, at 10.14, 10.15, ad infinitum. so it goes.
To me when Apple gives users a choice to either use HFS+ (extended) or AFS this indicates to me Apple is thinking ahead and if a 3rd party application maker wants to alienate users by being stubborn and sticking to the old system, they don't deserve support and will lose money. Alternatively they could have two versions which each support either the previous or new file system. I personally believe no more apps should be 32 bit and should all be natively 64 bit as well.