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Apple Seeds Ninth Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers

Chris The Bipolarbear said:
could be iOS up dates are in the megabit range macOs is in the 3 gigabit range
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Could be, though if you skip one beta and jump on the next one, it's a full download of usually 2 gigs, and that also shows up immediately for me.

Anyway, I tried reinstalling the beta utility and of course that did nothing. High Sierra Beta 8 didn't show for me until Tuesday. Hope that's not the case today but oh well.

Running it with APFS on my late 2011 MacBook Pro i5 with 8 gigs Ram and a Crucial M4 SSD and it's smooth. The Photo Agent and Photo Analysis still run quite a bit even on battery but I had that on Sierra as well. Safari Tech Preview has been very fast.

Edit: Just showed up.
 
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I'm getting a lot of forced logins... not sure if my macbook or the beta but it's rather annoying and happens when utilizing browsers (Chrome & Safari). Otherwise, seems pretty solid although I don't really see much that's different.
 
I also used the full installer until I downgraded because the last updates never show up. But this time it seems not to be updated from the last version.


Some links you could try, but I am not sure what to install first and if all of those are necessary. Had been easier with El Capitan Betas. Firmware update (for the case there is even one for your Mac) and then OS update always worked for me back then, but it changed to this mess with Sierra.



http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...yy8isytvvr6id0orx6dj9r/macOSUpd10.13Patch.pkg

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...d0orx6dj9r/macOSUpd10.13.RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...qj5cjyy8isytvvr6id0orx6dj9r/macOSUpd10.13.pkg

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...j5cjyy8isytvvr6id0orx6dj9r/FirmwareUpdate.pkg

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...yy8isytvvr6id0orx6dj9r/EmbeddedOSFirmware.pkg
 
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Is anyone else finding that the 'Recents' option in the Finder sidebar (previously 'All My Files' in Sierra) is only showing certain file types - PDFs, MS Word files, iWork files, image files etc - and not files from some third party apps? Also, if you right-click on Recents, there is an 'Add to Dock' option which doesn't work.
 
BWhaler said:
I've heard this is really buggy and people are speculating it won't ship in September. Odd, for a "catch-up" on the fundamentals release.

Any views from people who have used the betas?
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I did a fresh install of the seventh or eighth beta on my 2012 MacBook Pro 13 inch, because I wanted a clean partitioning with the new file system. I haven't encountered any major bugs, and things do feel snappier if I may say so. Fewer beach balls. Some third-party apps still need upgrading, particularly Resilio Sync. The new file system is pretty cool – all free space on all partitions is pooled, and drawn for each partition as required. Therefore partitions are not of fixed size, but report the size occupied in terminal diskutil.
 
I haven't installed any of the betas since I don't develop much Mac software. But I am curious are you guys seeing any significant gains with Metal 2? Either with games or just UI?
 
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mox358 said:
I haven't installed any of the betas since I don't develop much Mac software. But I am curious are you guys seeing any significant gains with Metal 2? Either with games or just UI?
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I have certainly noticed that multitasking and mission control along with app opening closing animations are super fast and fluid on my 2011 mb pro.
 
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I have an older cheese-grater mac pro (2010 maybe) with the beta installed. Unfortunately, since I chose to use a non-Mac efi-firmware-patched graphics card in it at some point the first couple betas were crash-city with the graphics changes in the OS. All seems to have smoothed out now, even without an updated nVidia driver for the Mac.
 
Does high sierra handle MKV files better? How about lossless audio and formats such as Dolby atmos? Can't brag about HEVC and be stuck with Dolby digital forever.
 
justperry said:
There is really no need to reboot, it does not make a bit of difference, just luck if it shows up after a reboot.
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I always wonder about this. Sometimes when I click the update tab, it doesn't show, then says no updates almost instantly. Then I click the update tab and it'll pop up and say it's available. Sometimes when clicking it, it'll say No update available almost instantly on click, other times it'll say searching for update for 10-20 seconds. Seems really strange. Never seen any other apps\OS work like this.
 
For those of you not seeing beta 9, download and re-install the Beta Access utility application from the Developer Portal, it will show up then.

Just did it on two machines to confirm.

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