Mine's fine but I'm not rolling APFS because that's where the problem lies.
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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers
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Mine's fine but I'm not rolling APFS because that's where the problem lies.
I installed on an external USB3 SSD on top of Sierra 10.12.6 beta 4 (I think), and DP1 went smooth as butter. But, then I noticed it didn't update the SSD to APFS. It *did* put it in an APFS container, but the volume was still HFS+. So, I tried to use Disk Utility in Restore 10.13 restore mode, and selected "Update to APFS" and viola... it refused to boot. In fact, if I have the USB drive connected, my Mac refuses to boot no matter what. The only recourse was to blow away the volume, destroy the APFS container, blah blah blah. I then used command line to create APFS container and volume, but can't install directly to the APFS volume. Weird. Will see if DP2 exhibits the same results.
MacOS High Sierra Beta 1 installed on a MBP with Tb. When I plugged in an external monitor both the external and laptop monitor turned red/green. Heres hoping they fixed that with beta 2.
I couldn't get the Developer Beta Access Utility to download with my Developer account. It would stall out and I would just get "Could Not Connect."
However the Customer Beta Access Utility did download under my AppleSeed account...
Whatever works I guess, it should be the same build according to AppleSeed.
However the Customer Beta Access Utility did download under my AppleSeed account...
Whatever works I guess, it should be the same build according to AppleSeed.
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Unfortunately posting a DMG or any information on how to obtain beta software, outside of using a developer account, is against forum rules.
Better still wait for the Public Beta release which will be available very soon.
I was a little sad earlier just because I've been experiencing quite a few bugs across the machines and apps I'm testing and I was at work - checking and checking the MAS for an update and nothing.
So I had to head home to pack and then to the airport. Sit down open the laptop and BAM laptop and phone update. I then cringed a little because - airport wifi - but the MacBook and iPhone both downloaded their respective update in less than 5 minutes each.
I am in an area of the airport under construction so there aren't as many people around to be sucking down the bandwidth.
So I had to head home to pack and then to the airport. Sit down open the laptop and BAM laptop and phone update. I then cringed a little because - airport wifi - but the MacBook and iPhone both downloaded their respective update in less than 5 minutes each.
I am in an area of the airport under construction so there aren't as many people around to be sucking down the bandwidth.
"Edit in" functionality, at least for me, isn't really there yet. You can absolutely open up an image in a variety of tools (I have Affinity, Pixelmator, Luminar, Piccure, among others). It's the saving and getting back into Photos that's not there yet and I think maybe there's some work needed on the vendor side (I could be wrong). They all allow save functionality, none auto-show-up in Photos with this current release. Pixelmator is the most descriptive in its save workflow and looks like it saves back into the Photos library as a TIFF but doesn't show up in the Photos browser when you close out.
I had converted the HDD of my MacBook Pro 2010 to APF with the first version of High Sierra, and it totally hosed down the whole system. Did a clean install without formatting to APFS, and it still lagged. With the version 2 of High Sierra, it seems to be running like it had with Sierra previously.
Anyone else with a 2010 MacBook Pro who upgraded or converted to APFS with version 2 of High Sierra had any problems?
Anyone else with a 2010 MacBook Pro who upgraded or converted to APFS with version 2 of High Sierra had any problems?
Does the new Photos app have a decent image organisation structure yet? I am still using Aperture/iPhoto ~46K images) along with PS and NIK collection for my workflows - I simply do not like the lack of ability the organise photos the way I want them.
Also what version of PS are you running - another pet hate is the CC subscription so am still using CS6 (though am missing some of the newer features...) Thanks
It won't auto convert them no, only the boot drive, others need to be converted in Disk Utility.
macOS 10.12 Sierra has already been updated to read APFS drives.
Which is funny because you'd think with a "high" Sierra....it'd be slower.
apple is moving fast, so we will have high sierra ready between September or October, it took microsoft 2 years and 20 millions betas to release the buggy version 10240 then another few years because they release an unfinished product to the public and believe it or not they still on beta, what more can they copy from mac os, they copied just about everything, it always takes apple like 4 months to release the next os after WWDC. i really wish they would have call it mac os 11 instead of 10.13 but is all good anyway
high sierra has many interesting new features coming up
high sierra has many interesting new features coming up
I don't have an iMac.
Don't know if this is any help to you, but the following is from the release notes.
- Some iMacs with 3TB Fusion drives and BootCamp may be unsupported for use with APFS.
- APFS support for Mid 2012 Mac Pro will be included in an upcoming seed.
- An APFS container on a Fusion drive can have only 1 macOS 10.13 volume.
- The encryption policy used for unencrypted APFS volumes that are converted to FileVault can cause the system to select the wrong block offset during the encryption process. This issue will be resolved in an upcoming beta, and will require the affected volumes to be re- encrypted. Encrypted HFS+ volumes that have are converted to APFS are unaffected.
I partitioned my 1T Fusion drive and use the volume to store files. Am I correct in assuming since I have only one volume that would be bootable, I can install 10.13 with APFS?
Currently, I'm running on an external SSD drive. A friend installed Dev 1 build on his Fusion iMac and it totally messed up his iMac with the APFS conversion. I'm in no hurry to trash my drive with the conversion.