Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS High Sierra to Public Beta Testers

[TheMactrix]

I remain eager to see what is going to happen with the new flash optimized file system. I am interested in updating my NAS hard drives to the new format but wonder if the older Mac's on my home network will be able to access them. I hope that when High Sierra comes out, that for "El Capitan" at least, there will be an update that will allow it to access disks with the new format. Also, I wonder what is going to happen with the new pic and video formats change to the high capacity ones... will there be some updates for some of the older versions of the OS to allow them to consume them? I mean, we have sharing of photos and things through iCloud and Photos... but what if things synch up... and older versions can no longer access them? Maybe it will be just a bitter pill to swallow...when older Mac's cannot run the software ...and our shared libraries of videos and pics can no longer be referenced. Have not heard anybody address either of these two issues.

 

[justperry]

I remain eager to see what is going to happen with the new flash optimized file system. I am interested in updating my NAS hard drives to the new format but wonder if the older Mac's on my home network will be able to access them. I hope that when High Sierra comes out, that for "El Capitan" at least, there will be an update that will allow it to access disks with the new format. Also, I wonder what is going to happen with the new pic and video formats change to the high capacity ones... will there be some updates for some of the older versions of the OS to allow them to consume them? I mean, we have sharing of photos and things through iCloud and Photos... but what if things synch up... and older versions can no longer access them? Maybe it will be just a bitter pill to swallow...when older Mac's cannot run the software ...and our shared libraries of videos and pics can no longer be referenced. Have not heard anybody address either of these two issues.

There are no NAS systems capable of having APFS disks internally, if Apple really didn't abandon the Airport TimeMachine then it will have APFS eventually, don't expect it on anything else.

 

[jhaze]

Quick Question:

I've updated to 17A330h and continue to have no sound. I believe it may be due to a program that is installed called Airfoil, that allows me to stream sound from the laptop to multiple other devices. Upon a restart of my macbook air, I do get the chime and my volume speaker icon loads, but, just as my Wifi icon shows, the sound icon greys out and I can't find a way to get any sound on my MBA. Any thoughts on how to get my sound back? Thank you.

 

[jrob]

I've tried four times to install this latest build; the install will begin and the time countdown will advance, and somewhere around the "10 minutes remaining" mark, it'll dump to the login screen and I'll get the "some updates could not be installed automatically" prompt. Is anybody else experiencing this?

 

[techiebug]

I installed the last public beta on my iPhone 6S Plus and there was a significant delay when I pressed an app icon. Anyone knows if this has been fixed in this beta? Thanks!

 

[Jungo]

I've tried four times to install this latest build; the install will begin and the time countdown will advance, and somewhere around the "10 minutes remaining" mark, it'll dump to the login screen and I'll get the "some updates could not be installed automatically" prompt. Is anybody else experiencing this?

same problem - AND it does show it was updated in recent updates - YET it continues to think that it's NEEDS to update to public 4

 

[Jacoblee23]

Several days later and the newest public beta still hasn't showed up on my 2017 MacBook after multiple restarts and reloads. It showed up the first day on my MBP 2017 w/touchbar. Any ideas?

 

[iamtheonlyone4ever]

I installed the last public beta on my iPhone 6S Plus and there was a significant delay when I pressed an app icon. Anyone knows if this has been fixed in this beta? Thanks!

dude this is the mac os section of the forum "High Sierra" you need to post on the iOS section "iOS 11"

 

[franzdib]

Several days later and the newest public beta still hasn't showed up on my 2017 MacBook after multiple restarts and reloads. It showed up the first day on my MBP 2017 w/touchbar. Any ideas?

I have the same problem and feel your pain. Have you tried quitting the beta program and rejoining? I did try that without success but remember that some people had success using that technique.

 

[avksom]

My Mac was setup clean with macOS Sierra few weeks ago. I installed PB3 immediately after.

Updating to PB4 is a disaster, with fatal black screen of death with about 5% remaining. Rebooted and it seemingly recovered and finished updating.

I rebooted into single user mode to run fsck, which didn't find any issue.

Rebooted again and it tries to resume update, with "Completing Installation: About 2 minutes remaining." The update is seemingly complete 2 minutes later, but every subsequent update triggers this "completing installation" process.

I had the same problem.. got it to work by a complete clean install of the beta.. I had previously updated from Sierra to the beta and that seems to have been the reason why.

 

[franzdib]

I had the same problem.. got it to work by a complete clean install of the beta.. I had previously updated from Sierra to the beta and that seems to have been the reason why.

Welp... I threw in the towel and rolled back to sierra. Our university recently imposed a bunch of security guidelines resulting in me using filevault on my previous high sierra beta. But for some reason after this my phone would charge but not synch. I blew away the APFS partition on HS beta 3 and reinstalled, it seemed to really struggle with this. After re-installing got the blinking folder. Disk utility did not even show my SSD, which was really strange since the bootcamp win7 worked. Turns out that you cannot simply use disk utility to erase a filevault encrypted drive. Had to go into terminal and find the APSF container and delete it. So a white hot moment (lots of them actually) but I'm back on Sierra and my phone synchs now.