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Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers

soyazul said:
Dont install a Beta on your everyday working machine.
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I know they say because most don't plan for the worst (always make bootable backups beforehand), but overall the public beta releases have been fairly stable. Yeah they have issues on occasion like Safari quitting, but most part it at worse it was usually something not compatible or slow (not optimized) for its usage. :)
 
LFC2020 said:
Anyone else have a relocated items folder on desktop after installing the beta?

Can we delete it?

How do we get the battery percentage back on the menu bar?
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Same happened when installing Catalina. It generally means the folder you had “x” amount of items in is not present. Open the folder. If it’s empty, delete it. If items are present, copy them into the place of your choice.

i haven’t completed download, but usually you just right click on the battery icon and toggle on percentage.
 
Realityck said:
I know they say because most don't plan for the worst (always make bootable backups beforehand), but overall the public beta releases have been fairly stable. Yeah they have issues on occasion like Safari quitting, but most part it at worse it was usually something not compatible or slow (not optimized) for its usage. :)
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Anybody installing on a daily driver should install on a separate holder/partition or external hard drive.
 
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imnotthewalrus said:
Anybody installing on a daily driver should install on a separate holder/partition or external hard drive.
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I have two backups not worried on separate HDD's. Plus I have this installed already and so far so good, nothing unusual except Relocated Items folder debris. New Logitech (G-Hub) v 2020.6.58918 is working ok. I encounter more pain and anguish with 10.15.6 kernel fails then I care to discuss. That necessitated a total clean redo with porting back everything to get it stable without bluetooth on. Hence why I moved to Big Sur.

This is nice, gradually testing everything out.
 
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imnotthewalrus said:
Same happened when installing Catalina. It generally means the folder you had “x” amount of items in is not present. Open the folder. If it’s empty, delete it. If items are present, copy them into the place of your choice.

i haven’t completed download, but usually you just right click on the battery icon and toggle on percentage.
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Opps to late, deleted the folder.

Figured it out, settings dock and menu bar, battery, show percentage.
 
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I add that I am looking at Safari Version 14.0 (16610.1.23.1.3) playing a VP9 Youtube video correctly in 4K on by iMac 17,1 late 2015 BTW.
 
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Probably too late but before you install this read the working/not working app list:

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Please click EDIT below to add your working or NOT working app. Please try to add it alphabetically. Feel free to also comment in a reply any additional details you would like to share. Working 1Blocker 1Password 3D Slicer 4K Video Downloader 4th Dimension (4D) 18.4 (LTS) and 18r5 A Better...
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If you install this beta, can you upgrade to further beta's from the previous one and then finally the GM release? Or do you need to install further beta's and the GM separately?
 
Followup to this "20 minutes to download after a VERY slow start. On a 300Mbps D/L link."
Still installing.
Full install took another 39 minutes to the desktop appearing.
Different looking but not extreme.
 
ivan_k said:
Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Apple actually does the job on their Macs, you know - like working with tons of files. 🤦‍♂️
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Despite making a 6K resolution monitor, Apple engineers only seem to test MacOS on a 12 inch MacBook screen running at low resolution. Or they think that everyone should position their monitors so they are always looking directly at the bottom left corner of the screen. After taking my MBP outside and working on some files, I really don't feel like connecting my external monitor and reopening the files when I come home because this is what happens. The situation is even worse if you connect to an ultrawide monitor. I have never seen an operating system handle window positioning as STUPIDLY as MacOS.

Note: That is not me in the picture.

Keynote-2after.jpegOmnigraffle-2after.jpegPixelmator-2after.jpegVmware-2after.jpegDMG-FixThisStupidSh1t.jpgUltrawide-WhatTheFsck.jpg
 
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MauiPa said:
Hey children can you say BETA? It’s a good day in the neighborhood. M Rogers
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This is pretty disrespectful. In context of the post he was responding to, OP was likely referencing the weeks following the final release of the OS, not the beta phase.
 
Is there a way to download the installer directly, or does it have to be done with the beta profile and Software Update? I want to install this on an external hard drive via a USB stick. (I know I can create a USB stick from the download through Software Update too, but would prefer to avoid dealing with the beta profile and Software Update if possible.)
 
iStorm said:
Is there a way to download the installer directly, or does it have to be done with the beta profile and Software Update? I want to install this on an external hard drive via a USB stick. (I know I can create a USB stick from the download through Software Update too, but would prefer to avoid dealing with the beta profile and Software Update if possible.)
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gibmacos
 
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Jarrodbcall said:
Does anyone know if installing this on a different container still prevents Catalina system updates like previous versions?
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This have been fixed since Beta 4 I believe!

  • If macOS Big Sur 11 beta is installed into the same APFS container as previous versions of macOS Catalina 10.15, system software updates can no longer be installed on the previous versions of macOS. (64411484)
    Workaround: Update the previous version of macOS Catalina to 10.15.6.
 
LFC2020 said:
Anyone else have a relocated items folder on desktop after installing the beta?

Can we delete it?

How do we get the battery percentage back on the menu bar?
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The desktop folder is just a shortcut/link; you can delete it. You can even delete the actual underlying contents as there's a bug whereby it picks up the same couple of files it thinks need recovering each time you install a beta. Catalina did the same. If you disabled SIP and have amended files in the root volume, then check in case it's picked up and "recovered" some of your changes.

In settings for the dock and menubar, go to battery and tick show percentage.
 
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