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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers
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I went back to Apple's site and tried to download the beta 2 from there. It downloads a small package which you can run and then close and reopen System Preferences. Mine sees the update now.
For people with issues updating, the Feedback app shows this as a known issue for beta one:
- If you updated to macOS Big Sur 11 beta from a previous version of macOS, Software Update might show "Unable to check for updates - Failed to download the documentation for the minor update. Please try again later". (63158434)
Workaround:- Start up from macOS Recovery.
- If your data volume is encrypted, use Disk Utility to mount it.
- In Terminal type rm -rf "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000y800007k".
- Restart your Mac.
Follow the herd, or maybe you could get updates on here? Just a thought.
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Absolutely no chance.
Yes, only one person in the world should download the beta and they should exclusively test and give feedback.
Let us know if they changed that terrible battery icon in system preferences once it updates
I did, do I need a restart, the same shows up after reinstalling the dev profile, but no dice.
I've got it installed on my 16" MBP. Messages still doesn't want to fully close w/o a Force Quit.
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No dice.
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The battery icon for example?
No dice.
My machine went through the whole download, preparing update, I rebooted, but it didn't update! It's now downloading the update again!
I have a feeling this beta cycle is going to be more "fun" than usual.
I have a feeling this beta cycle is going to be more "fun" than usual.
I saw this as well in the notes but unfortunately this did not fix it. Initially the Software Update screen looked normal upon restart but then it said no new updates available. So I closed out and opened again, and it went back to saying "Unable to check for updates"
I've not had any issues with messages not closing, to be honest it's been pretty stable
Can't see what's different in this release though, and the build number is only one higher - never understood what the letters mean after the build number though, if anybody knows please help me sleep at night...
Can't see what's different in this release though, and the build number is only one higher - never understood what the letters mean after the build number though, if anybody knows please help me sleep at night...
Battery icon is still the same, unfortunately..The battery icon for example?
Are you going to come to every Big Sur thread to try and scare people about the 'locked' state? I develop software all day long and have been doing my daily development on Big Sur without issue. Brew, terraform, java, golang, etc... all work just fine. If you're upset that Big Sur prevents your pet kernel extension by default, then unlock the SIP and move on. Repeating it's locked over and over is trying to make an issue out of something that is a non-issue for the very large majority, and an improvement security wise.
I reinstalled the profile and it kicked into action for me.