The Apple notes should have read:
"Now supports Navi rDNA video cards in your Hackintosh build."
Cowards.
"Now supports Navi rDNA video cards in your Hackintosh build."
Cowards.
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Apple Seeds Second Beta of Upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update to Developers
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Yeah, it’s annoying. When did this start becoming a prevalent issue? I’ve been dealing with this since High Sierra but I’ve notice people on Apple Support Communities having this occurring As far back as Mavericks
I am running the release Catalina on a "Not Supported" Mac Pro 4,1. I have had near zero issues. It would not drive my 34" wide screen second monitor via DisplayPort. But works with DVI-D. Mojave did not have this issue.
Despite all the moving around of prefs and Mail.app settings, I am pleased.
Good luck to all you Catalina beta testers. I'm not touching this until 10.17 comes out. I always go 2 software updates behind because I want 6 sigma reliability in my software. I expect zero bugs and absolute perfection. /s
What’s the difference between an update like this that carries a version number change and the supplemental version I installed last night? Said differently, what would cause Apple to decide to release a supplemental update change versus this type of change? I don’t understand the criteria for one versus another but I’m certainly not well versed in this area.
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It comes back every beta, which is weird as you'd assume clearing out the read-only root drive of user stuff would be a once-only task. However, it seems to find something each time. No doubt something the previous beta sneaked in there
I delete the shortcut from my desktop, and the actual folder in /users/shared each time. I'm a rebel.
Attempts to make sure you know the update is available is not forcing anyone, except the extremely week willed, to update.
No, it isn’t
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FWIW, Catalina has been running pretty smoothly on my 2012 13’’ MacBook Pro.
That was, until I tried to use an Apple Mini-DP-to-VGA dongle with a projector and never got a signal to display, even though the projector was detected and appeared in System Preferences. And yes, the projector and VGA cable worked fine with an iPad Air and an Apple Lightning-to-VGA dongle, and with my own Mac and a third party Mini-DP-to-HDMI dongle.
I’ve still yet to test my VGA dongle with another Mac, but I’m extremely careful with it and clearly the projector, the VGA cable and the Mini-DP circuitry on my Mac are fine. And I also reset my PRAM and NVRAM, which leaves us… yes, probably a Catalina bug.
That was, until I tried to use an Apple Mini-DP-to-VGA dongle with a projector and never got a signal to display, even though the projector was detected and appeared in System Preferences. And yes, the projector and VGA cable worked fine with an iPad Air and an Apple Lightning-to-VGA dongle, and with my own Mac and a third party Mini-DP-to-HDMI dongle.
I’ve still yet to test my VGA dongle with another Mac, but I’m extremely careful with it and clearly the projector, the VGA cable and the Mini-DP circuitry on my Mac are fine. And I also reset my PRAM and NVRAM, which leaves us… yes, probably a Catalina bug.
My only hope is that they fix the syncing issues of iOS devices and older iPods, in particular in regards to Podcasts;
Syncing:
No progress bar, only a nondescript tiny progress wheel that doesn’t tell you at what part of the sync it’s at
The device contents bar at the bottom only represents how full the device currently is, not how full it will be if I try adding more media to it.
Podcasts:
Where is Get info to edit metadata?
Where is the date released for episodes?
Downloading menu? How do I know how much is downloading? There’s no longer one big download menu.
How to download all instead of one click at a time?
Drag to select podcasts and episodes is missing? I can drag to select multiple things in Music, why not Podcasts?
Where is a compact list view?
Why are played podcasts hidden with no option to not hide them?
Why doesn’t album art get synced to devices? It’s no longer stored in the meta data of the podcast file and thus isn’t transferred. Who thought this was a good idea?
Difference between saved podcast and downloaded? Why do I have to save some podcasts shows before downloading them?
And for heavens sake why are Podcasts now stored in my ~/Library folder? I prefer to store all media on an external drive; I don’t have 30GB of internal storage to give to podcasts. Why can I choose where my Music, AppleTV, and Photos library goes but not Podcasts?
I really like the new UI of Podcasts and the syncing utility of using Finder, but both are missing so many basic features, it’s ridiculous...
Syncing:
No progress bar, only a nondescript tiny progress wheel that doesn’t tell you at what part of the sync it’s at
The device contents bar at the bottom only represents how full the device currently is, not how full it will be if I try adding more media to it.
Podcasts:
Where is Get info to edit metadata?
Where is the date released for episodes?
Downloading menu? How do I know how much is downloading? There’s no longer one big download menu.
How to download all instead of one click at a time?
Drag to select podcasts and episodes is missing? I can drag to select multiple things in Music, why not Podcasts?
Where is a compact list view?
Why are played podcasts hidden with no option to not hide them?
Why doesn’t album art get synced to devices? It’s no longer stored in the meta data of the podcast file and thus isn’t transferred. Who thought this was a good idea?
Difference between saved podcast and downloaded? Why do I have to save some podcasts shows before downloading them?
And for heavens sake why are Podcasts now stored in my ~/Library folder? I prefer to store all media on an external drive; I don’t have 30GB of internal storage to give to podcasts. Why can I choose where my Music, AppleTV, and Photos library goes but not Podcasts?
I really like the new UI of Podcasts and the syncing utility of using Finder, but both are missing so many basic features, it’s ridiculous...
All I know is there was a PSA about it on MR last week. As someone who had a family member lose 7 years of email when Apple imap servers cut over and mismapped the account. Mail started over at zero. Could not be recovered because while the mail existed on a iPhone, iPad and two Macs, the data loss propagated down to the machines erasing all data.
I find it’s tied to my gmail account. When the window pops Gmail is “offline” for a second but it reconnects right away.
For me it started with High Sierra
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It's an old bug started with High Sierra
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I have a good eGPU
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It's about time for Apple to fix it.
I wish Apple would just go back to releasing software when it was good and ready, instead of releasing it like clockwork every single year, whether it’s a dumpster fire or not. With that said, I am most likely not touching Catalina until 10.16 comes out, or I’ll just skip it completely.
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Don't feel lonely - they turned the Books app into the same pile of crap. Someone thought it was hilarious to move all user data into a folder buried deep in the Libraries folder, which for most people doesn't even show in Finder by default. And then they removed all options to edit metadata.
It's all done by some grumpy iTunes developer who is just getting revenge after reading years of "iTunes is bloated crap, they should re-write it" by making all the individual apps worse so people miss iTunes.
"Let's remove the column browser from Music and then trash all the album artwork so everything just looks like some Fisher Price toy. That'll teach them!"
Thats not Apples fault but the App vendors fault, they have known for years 32bit app support would end. Apple have made it easy in xcode to move to 64bit. So dont blame Catalina blame the software vendor, if it wasnt for companies like Apple pushing forward and removing old tech we would all still have VGA ports and CD drives.