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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.2 Update

CanadianGuy said:
I hope "Catalina" will be usable...
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You're not missing anything if you don't install Catalina. In all honesty, Catalina was a DOWNGRADE, not an upgrade. You lose the compatibility with 32-bit software, and you get literally NOTHING back in return -- except for those annoying ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS pop up windows for EVERY application on your system and the SIGN UP FOR APPLE MUSIC reminder pages when you launch the mp3 player with the same name.

Catalina made it completely obvious that the folks at Apple now have completely lost whatever little interest they might still have had in the Mac.

When it was still called OS X, macOS used to be a vibrant, trendsetting platform that was a pleasure to use. Now it has become an advertisement front page for Apple Music and TV+ and it's an appalling mess to use.
 
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Morod said:
Stupid to even think this, but any chance it fixes the random opening of the Mail app?
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The “random opening of the Mail app” occurs when communication with the mail server fails, with any of your configured accounts. Perhaps opening it when it fails multiple times in a row would be a better approach than opening it for an instant failure it is able to recover in under a second or two.
 
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lJoSquaredl said:
Continued updates and support for eGPUs would be nice, or at least let me use AMD in bootcamp?
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I can already use a 5800XT card in an external eGPU case. Which includes a fully working Red Dead Redemption 2 on boot camp.
 
Abacab said:
I hope they Fix the BLACK SECOND MONITOR OF DEATH ISSUE! Upgraded late 2012 MBP and have a 24" LED Cinema Display. It worked fine until the laptop went to sleep. The temp fix of unplugging the power from the monitor worked for about a day. Spent the next two days downgrading to Mojave.
I SHOULD OF KNOWN BETTER! lol

( And if anyone has and advice you know it's part of THE MAC BROTHERHOOD to share and GREATLY APPRECIATED!)
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Interesting. Thanks for that hint. I've a 49'' Samsung here and am using Picture-by-Picture. Normally it just messes up the desktop arrangement (I've a set of background images that fit nicely together to form one big image, and of course, apple in all it's user friendliness is very much spot on each time to have them change sides, so that I have to re-arrange them all). So far, I only had to re-plug in my two Display-Port cables to get both "monitors" (halfs) to work. This morning though I spent like 1 hour having one side consistently black. I first thought, well, one of the cables are probably broken, but after plugging and praying for a while, I desperately just unplugged the monitor from power.

Problem solved, just as you wrote.
 
ichavis said:
I have never posted anything here before but 10.15.1 causes my new 2019 iMac Core i9 to do random reboots while in sleep mode. Apples suggestion was to stay at 10.15.0 with incremental fixes and not go to 10.15.1. Something in the block storage driver causing me kernel panics. I would take the leap of faith for a new beta knowing that i'll know if it is fixed in a few hours since that is when the random kernel panic reboots happen. Heck, i've downgraded so many times it does not bother me :)
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I've been seeing a TON of kernel panics for literally the first time in years. It seemed correlated to Alfred.app's latest releases, and Catalina, together.

Did you upgrade to .2, any update? I need to make a new backup before taking the plunge, so not tonight.
 
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10.15.2 beta doesn't fix the Music, TV and Podcast sign in issues, which I think are a server side issue, but I still can't access my content on my MBP but I can on my phone and iPad.
 
fdolbec123 said:
Release notes from Apple states that the 10.15.2 beta is bringing a network new feature:



(See this link for full infos...)

Nothing about fixes or anything else...
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True but there were indeed plenty of undocumented changes. I’m afraid, however, these undocumented ones were targeted to a different audience other than “Mac hardware” owners (if you know what I mean)...
 
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HQuest said:
True but there were indeed plenty of undocumented changes. I’m afraid, however, these undocumented ones were targeted to a different audience other than “Mac hardware” owners (if you know what I mean)...
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Sounds like it should have 10.15.1.1. :rolleyes:
 
Macula said:
So far all I've seen, already since Mojave, is iCloud Folder Disappearance. Escalated calls to Apple Support were fruitless. iCloud Drive is a thing of the past for me.
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Same here. Still can't access the iCloud Drive > Pages directory that I can see on Mojave and iOS 13.3. I have been re-reporting this bug since mid-July.
 
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