No thanks, I stay with Catalina which is still beta.
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Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers
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Always fun to see the complaints that come with this, when people don't understand what the word "beta" means. "One of my apps isn't working!!!!! Apple is the worst!"
It appears that the only difference between Developer Beta 4 and Public Beta 1 is simply one letter in the build number (20A5343i vs 20A5343j)
Make sure to install this beta on your oldest external SSD. Enough problems around in the first betas that rendered people’s systems unusable (although Apple warned against that, but a lot of people can’t read these days it seems).
Somebody please check the column view in Finder. Has Apple finally fixed “Right Size All Columns Individually” option, so that columns automatically resize depending on the width of the folder/file name when browsing through various folders?
Right now all this right click feature does is adjusting the width of only one column ones and than that width remain the same for all other columns even if nested folder has very short file names in it.
Browsing files in column view in Finder has been a disaster for years now. ForkLift mostly does the job but at some things it is not good enough to be a full Finder replacement. It is simply time for Apple to fix this completely broken feature.
I have been reporting this throughout the whole beta test period of Mojave and I think once or twice during Catalina. The only hope for this to be addressed is to make some of the big youtubers / tech sites mentioning it and hopefully the right person from Apple sees this.
This issue has been since day one when I started using Macs in 2013 and basically covers:
OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
OS X 10.10 - Yosemite
OS X 10.11 - El Capitan
macOS 10.12 - Sierra
macOS 10.13 - High Sierra
macOS 10.14 - Mojave
macOS 10.15 - Catalina
Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Apple actually does the job on their Macs, you know - like working with tons of files. 🤦♂️
Right now all this right click feature does is adjusting the width of only one column ones and than that width remain the same for all other columns even if nested folder has very short file names in it.
Browsing files in column view in Finder has been a disaster for years now. ForkLift mostly does the job but at some things it is not good enough to be a full Finder replacement. It is simply time for Apple to fix this completely broken feature.
I have been reporting this throughout the whole beta test period of Mojave and I think once or twice during Catalina. The only hope for this to be addressed is to make some of the big youtubers / tech sites mentioning it and hopefully the right person from Apple sees this.
This issue has been since day one when I started using Macs in 2013 and basically covers:
OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
OS X 10.10 - Yosemite
OS X 10.11 - El Capitan
macOS 10.12 - Sierra
macOS 10.13 - High Sierra
macOS 10.14 - Mojave
macOS 10.15 - Catalina
Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Apple actually does the job on their Macs, you know - like working with tons of files. 🤦♂️
I’ve been using it since developer beta, remarkably stable and I only had a few glitches to report. Check the compatible software lists available on various sites, some of your stuff may not be available yet. My biggest one is google drive, they can’t get their act together for some reason, even my Microsoft stuff works for me, so it’s surprising that google is not up to date yet
Sounds like your pet peeve. I use lots of files, love finder. Briefly tried a third party app - it was kindof meh, despite being highly rated
Really? All reviews I’ve seen, including my own, are the opposite. Few bugs - pretty smooth sailing. I would wait anyway if I wasn’t a diligent tester, it just makes sense to know what your issues might be, unless you use a separate startup disk or have multiple computers. Besides google is behind the curve again and drive doesn’t work
Not totally accurate. It has been smooth sailing except for the usual apps that don’t work on betas. But if you beta test, you know that. Biggest one for me is google drive, seems they left out a file, come on google!
My friend you probably have unsupported macs. I know for sure I do and thats why getting this error
This keeps coming up, gonna try again later
Tip for everyone suffering from slow download speed or stuck download: Try to change your DNS Settings. I switched to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 and it's blazingly fast now. Went from 3 days remaining to 25min
That's an issue with your ADSL provider having DNS servers running so poorly.
20A5343j
Literally that is the only difference. The Developer Preview 4 is exactly the same save for that one letter change.
Does anyone know if installing this on a different container still prevents Catalina system updates like previous versions?
Dont install a Beta on your everyday working machine.