I hope so soon as SfB is awful on Catalina, however I was told MS are winding up SfB dev as they want people to move to Teams
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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Catalina to Developers
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So there is a new Dev beta and a Public beta build as well?
Yes, there is! I just opened my Sys Prefs to check, and voila! There it sat.
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People still use Skype? Jk!
I've seen this and it is really dumb. Very, very confusing to any experienced Mac user. It looks like something went awfully awry, it doesn't look like anything Apple did intentionally.
We do not need this level of security on personal computers. This is beyond stupid.
"Terminal wants to access your Downloads" folder. GTFO.
Is it me or are this year's betas a lot rougher than last year's?
This doesn't bode well for a trouble-free release later this year. I do hope they can get all the problems worked out, but I may end up waiting a bit before upgrading this time around.
This doesn't bode well for a trouble-free release later this year. I do hope they can get all the problems worked out, but I may end up waiting a bit before upgrading this time around.
Oh god.. Here we go!
I can't imagine iCloud stuff is going to get any worse.. So fingers crossed.
I can't imagine iCloud stuff is going to get any worse.. So fingers crossed.
Not just you. Same thing as iOS 13. I feel like they are trying to rewrite lots of core stuff with bad engineering.
Very true! I just did the update… still waiting to see comments on people re-activating their iCloud Drive to see how it goes before trying it out myself.
Let us know how it goes on your side!
Nope, I had issues and still have with Time Machine, buggy like hell, also, if you're fairly low on space it's hard to install the betas, I had major headaches going from the first beta to the second, then third and can't Update to beta 4, says I need 10.54 GB, system reports I have 16.93 GB, still refuses to update, like the other times before this one.
Yes my update is taking forever. It restarted itself after maybe 30 minutes on Estimated but now has spent another 20 minutes with the bar very slowly moving, no estimate on screen and it’s still only up to left side of Apple logo.
So is this safe to install the public beta? That warning "Macintosh HD contains files on the root of the volume. If you continue installation, these files will be deleted" is alarming. Has anyone installed it?
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I see you have the 128GB machine, I remember those days when I had the 2015 Retina 13inch base model, and damn I hated the 128GB storage, that was one of the biggest mistakes I made... always struggling with storage and trying to find ways to free some space. ARGHHH!!!!! Never again have I touched the base 128GB storage models, its a complete waste of money imo.
Anyways, good luck with your beta, I hope you find a way to install it
It's always safe if you are sensible, have at least one backup, you should always have a recent backup, hardware will always fail, the question is, how soon.
I did a new TimeMachine backup then I installed it (I didn't get that "alarming notice" — I supposed it's because I simply never store any files in the root of my HD?), everything went well, nothing was deleted, in fact I can already see that some bugs were corrected.
I installed the SSD myself, I should just delete a lot of apps which I never use, I already cleaned last time, going from beta 2 to 3 I managed to have 27 GB free space, seems like something is going on, might be crappy Timemachine making local backups, even though I switched it off.
My Mac Mini actually has 2 disks, one 500 HDD and a 128 GB after market SSD, yup, this one was capable of having 2 disks inside.
Weird things going on, just after a restart the system (Command-I on SSD) reports about 8 GB, it will go up steadily in a few minutes, I have no clue why, never seen this behaviour before, must be something to do with Catalina.
Is anyone else being asked to authorize notifications for each app when it starts for the first time after the update finishes.
