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Apple Seeds New Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers
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This appears to be fixed in this beta - at least for me. It was some bug in the route calculations for favorite items.
Do you know if it's (and how) possible to find the build number inside the Beta app. somehow?
This is purely a comment about your Epson printer. I have an Epson Workforce Pro WF-4730 that has been a hassle practically since the day we bought it. Way to many paper choices in the driver and if your print project doesn't exactly match paperwise to what you told the printer the type of paper is installed, it will stop until that is rectified. Then, about 3 months ago, the wifi module in the printer died. It was flaky before occasionally not printing but I could usually get it back on wifi. Now, the only way it prints is hooked up via cable to the router, no more wifi printing for us.
One thing I would suggest, delete the printer, then reinstall the printer and choose Airprint as the driver, NOT the Epson drivers.
I guess what I'm really saying is I would trust this Beta over the Epson. YMMV.
iCloud Drive not working at all for me. Shows each app usage, but no files and no “option” button where I would select cloud desktop and documents folders
Are you saying the SMB issues are fixed? Definitely not here. I have Mac mini 2018 + MBP 2014. In the last beta I had to fix SMB manually. This beta broke it again. There's some improvement as the Macs now see eachother on the network, screen sharing works, but when I try to connect to shares, the password dialog on both Macs gives me the nuh-uh shake for both login options (username+password or Apple ID) even though they are each connected to the same ID and share the same local login user+pass.
Yup. Looks like they took it down a notch with the drop shadows on FaceTime + Messages, too - but they also either added a gradient, or the toned down drop shadow made the gradient look more pronounced. Not sure why they're hell bent on creating a little 3D world inside the 2D icons - stop flirting with Aqua, guys, we don't want the pendulum to swing back that way. 🤢
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I had the exact same problem between my iMac on Catalina and my mini on Big Sur. I turned off file sharing on both, rebooted them both, then turned file sharing back on on both. Now everything "just" works.
Thanks, it was worth a shot but it didn't do the trick... Both Macs still shake their head at both their common Apple ID as well as their common username+password that work just fine for screen sharing.
In fact, Beta 9 is the worst yet in this regard because the "sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext" workaround no longer works now. 😑
