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Apple Seeds macOS Catalina Golden Master to Developers

If I decide to download the GM, how do I return to the non-beta path? Do I simply uninstall the profile and wait for the next . release?
 
rtrueman said:
If I decide to download the GM, how do I return to the non-beta path? Do I simply uninstall the profile and wait for the next . release?
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As I said back on page 3, a GM can update to point releases, unlike previous betas.

So yes, just install the GM, disable betas and it should allow you to update to subsequent point releases.
 
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Victor Mortimer said:
And what's worse, I've got it running on a test machine, have had it for months now. It doesn't add anything useful. Other than broken software and the inexplicable System Preferences rearrange, it's almost indistinguishable from 10.14.
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EXACTLY. For the past year, across all OS's, the new 'features' have mostly been subscription services.
 
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Reading from macOS Sierra 10.12.6. What does this mean? Well, it likely means I won't be upgrading. If my apps like Microsoft Office require I upgrade, then I will upgrade to High Sierra. But, Catalina is looking like a significant break from previous releases and I am just not ready yet.
 
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Bye bye. I never understood what you were good for. At least you are not permanently doing nothing anymore on my machines!!
 
konqerror said:
People like this confuse me. There's a platform that offers 34 years of ABI compatibility: Windows. It's a more popular platform and cheaper too. A platform that guarantees you can stay on the same OS version for 10 years while remaining secure and supported.

I don't know why people go out of their way to choose a platform that has removed technical cruft, at the expense of breaking legacy software, for literally it's entire existence. A platform that has major API deprecations and removals yearly. Then go complain about it.
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Because all those 32-bit Mac apps that these people have relied on for years will run fine in Windows, so just change platforms. Couldn't be simpler, right? ;)
 
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Reaktor5 said:
Good majority of album artwork shows as the generic music note. No rhyme or reason. Both purchased and imported.
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Even after adding artwork and syncing to a non-beta iOS 13 device... annoying. Photos seems to be in its final stages, though, I don't see the "duplicate library" notice in the release notes anymore.
 
Victor Mortimer said:
This may well be at least that bad. Apple is intentionally breaking software that millions of people rely on.

Dropping 32 bit support is inexcusable. I'm anticipating my phone ringing off the hook in the weeks after release with people needing me to remove 10.15 and reinstall 10.14.

I'm disabling automatic macOS updates on every machine I touch. Almost nobody in the real world is ready for this.

And what's worse, I've got it running on a test machine, have had it for months now. It doesn't add anything useful. Other than broken software and the inexplicable System Preferences rearrange, it's almost indistinguishable from 10.14.
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That’s WHY it’s called Catalina. Same thing happened with processor switch from PowerPC.

You could skip a year, and jump in with MacOS Thousand Island next year. By year THREE, we should be at MacOS Ranch. It’ll run the crap out of Microsoft Broccoli, sorry, Office.
 
I guess I am waiting on Adobe to update Acrobat DC before I upgrade to this. Still shows several components that are 32-bit and Adobe's site says summer 2019. Perhaps I need to ask adobe.
 
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