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Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1
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It would be nice to just be able to work. After the updat to Mojave Finder is totally unresponsive. I have to keep force crashing my computer and restarting in the hopes it will work. This is a pain.
I'd like to be able to answer this, but the wonderful new update mechanism fails repeatedly making installing beta 1 impossible. (same happened during public beta before release). Personally going to revert to High Sierra. Bored.
I installed on my 2017 MacBook Pro (no Touch Bar) and it seems fine. I did do Time Machine backups to both a Time Capsule and a USB drive before upgrading just in case, but I have found very little to complain about, pretty much everything that worked before, works now.
Dark mode I found sort of unexpectedly shocking when I turned it on. I like it a lot and Apple’s implementation is comprehensive but it takes getting used to. Using it, for me, is a lot different that just seeing the screen shots. And some third party apps don’t take advantage of it yet.
The ported iOS apps are also a bit weird. For example, you can’t adjust the sidebar column size on the Stocks or News apps, and scrolling felt a little off compared to native Mac apps.
But overall, Mojave seems pretty good and stable even on the first version.
That's not the only thing they brought back. Remember the "Stacks" functionality that existed in a previous version of OS X? With that implementation you could create a stack of any arbitrary group of files. You weren't limited to one type of file per stack.
It seems odd to call a resurrected function a new feature but Apple seems to be masters of disguising recycling as wizardry.
[doublepost=1538321833][/doublepost]Does this fix these glaring Finder bugs:
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update to its public beta testing group, two days after seeding the first beta to developers and three days after releasing the macOS Mojave update.
macOS Mojave introduces a new method of installing software updates, so after the initial beta has been installed using the appropriate profile from Apple, additional betas can be downloaded through opening up System Preferences and choosing the "Software Update" option.
The 10.14.1 update re-introduces support for Group FaceTime, a feature that was removed during the beta testing period. Group FaceTime, which lets you chat with up to 32 people at once, is also present in the iOS 12.1 beta.
It's not clear what other improvements the first update to macOS Mojave will bring, but it likely includes performance improvements and bug fixes for issues that weren't addressed in the first release of macOS Mojave.
macOS Mojave is a major update that brings features like a systemwide Dark Mode, stacks for organizing messy desktops, new Finder capabilities, new tools for taking screenshots, a Continuity Camera option for easily transferring photo scans and documents from iPhone to Mac, and more. For more on macOS Mojave, make sure to check out our roundup.
Article Link: Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1
The sidebar is occasionally black and illegible (this is the UI not the Finder though)
The highlight color is so saturated that the black text is not legible
Using the rename files feature in a Finder window doesn't cause the Finder window to display the filenames or rearrange the icons (if only a subset of the files is renamed and the result would result in reordering the files)
White text can still appear on a white background (as in icon labels on white areas of desktop backgrounds
[doublepost=1538321897][/doublepost]Does this update prevent applications from unexpectedly terminating?
Does this update prevent Finder from unexpectedly crashing?
Well I update my phone so immediately I do wait for the first update before I upgrade my computers