Apple Seeds Second Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers

[J InTech82]

Could someone please tell me if contextual folders are still a thing? If you click on a folder name above the toolbar in the Finder (or the document name in most apps) it will show you the hierarchy of folders you are in. With the screenshots I have seen of the folder UI in Big Sur, it does not appear that this is still a feature. Could someone please confirm? Maybe with a screenshot? Thanks!

 

[Populus]

... oh wait, the progress bar IS moving! very very slowly. (I eventually stuck another window over it with its edge just at the point where the progress bar reached and waited. And minutes later there's a few more pixels showing.)

It’s funny, now I know I’m not the only one who does this 😆 🤣

 

[andyngo]

Could someone please tell me if contextual folders are still a thing? If you click on a folder name above the toolbar in the Finder (or the document name in most apps) it will show you the hierarchy of folders you are in. With the screenshots I have seen of the folder UI in Big Sur, it does not appear that this is still a feature. Could someone please confirm? Maybe with a screenshot? Thanks!

Good news, it's still there!

 

[LFC2020]

It’s funny, now I know I’m not the only one who does this 😆 🤣

make that 3. 😂

 

[TommyBoy5]

Everyone be careful. For my MacBook Pro 16 2019, I had major problems. It would boot, then stop during software loading, freeze, fan power surge, and cut off from an endpoint security kernel panic. Tried reinstall, recovery mode install, and safe mode. No kernel panic in safe mode, but any reinstall would result in same situation. Had to go into recovery, erase my hd, and install Catalina. Never had any problems with Beta 1 - 4.

Exact same problem for me. 2019 MBP 15". Did that boot loop all night, woke up this morning to a loading screen and then a 100% Fan puff and a restart. It must have done this all night. Tried everything to get it stable. Safe Mode, Recovery, everything. It was a mess. Just like you the only resolution was a Time Machine Catalina backup with a complete HD erase - and that took THREE ATTEMPTS before it finally worked. Had to redo all my fingerprints, sign-ins, etc. First massive crash from an OS upgrade in 20 years of Macs for me. Never again - I thought I was done but that last Time Machine backup finally worked.

 

[ldenning]

Exact same problem for me. 2019 MBP 15". Did that boot loop all night, woke up this morning to a loading screen and then a 100% Fan puff and a restart. It must have done this all night. Tried everything to get it stable. Safe Mode, Recovery, everything. It was a mess. Just like you the only resolution was a Time Machine Catalina backup with a complete HD erase - and that took THREE ATTEMPTS before it finally worked. Had to redo all my fingerprints, sign-ins, etc. First massive crash from an OS upgrade in 20 years of Macs for me. Never again - I thought I was done but that last Time Machine backup finally worked.

I went to the Apple developer forum and found a whole bunch of testers who also experienced this, only in beta 5. Glad you got yours recovered!

 

[J InTech82]

Good news, it's still there!

Thank you so much for checking! A bit of an ugly implementation but I'll take it lol I don't know why but it's one of my favorite features of the macOS lol

 

[Philip_S]

It's a new feature. The update prepares beforehand like in iOS, so less time not being able to use your device. I'm curious to see how quick it will be.
Search for 'software update' https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/features/

That sounds like what the command line tool has done for quite a long time. It always did seem strange to me that the GUI didn't behave the same way, especially since softwareupdate had that feature back in the spinning rust era, but maybe they've enhanced the preparation even more.

 

[interessiert]

Somebody please check the column view in Finder. Has Apple finally fixed “Right Size All Columns Individually” option, so that columns automatically resize depending on the width of the folder/file name when browsing through various folders?

Right now all this right click feature does is adjusting the width of only one column ones and than that width remain the same for all other columns even if nested folder has very short file names in it.

Browsing files in column view in Finder has been a disaster for years now. ForkLift mostly does the job but at some things it is not good enough to be a full Finder replacement. It is simply time for Apple to fix this completely broken feature.

I have been reporting this throughout the whole beta test period of Mojave and I think once or twice during Catalina. The only hope for this to be addressed is to make some of the big youtubers / tech sites mentioning it and hopefully the right person from Apple sees this.

This issue has been since day one when I started using Macs in 2013 and basically covers:

OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
OS X 10.10 - Yosemite
OS X 10.11 - El Capitan
macOS 10.12 - Sierra
macOS 10.13 - High Sierra
macOS 10.14 - Mojave
macOS 10.15 - Catalina

Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Apple actually does the job on their Macs, you know - like working with tons of files. 🤦‍♂️

The first corruption of FINDER started in between Mountain Lion (10.8) and is the most important:
Failure of successful search abilities – sometimes Finder search even doesn't provide a file in the SAME folder even - big shame on Apple!

Till Snow Leopard (10.7) Finder was so much stronger than File Manager of Microsoft Windows – latest since 10.9 you need EasyFind or other additional app to manage a huge file amount, like mine (88,150 files/folders).

Since years the 2 SOFTWARE DESASTERS are MAIL and FINDER

These yuppie programmers at Cuppertino don't know, what is important for daily work and lost ability to read BUG REPORTS – I'm sure they've got thousands of these complains.

Apple, FEDERIGHI – WAKE UP !

 

[Biglethal69]

Ever since loading this beta I’ve had Safari crashing on me all the time can’t watch a YouTube video inside Safari ends up flickering with a black screen seems to have a rendering problem anyone else having this problem or is it just me.

 

[andyngo]

Ever since loading this beta I’ve had Safari crashing on me all the time can’t watch a YouTube video inside Safari ends up flickering with a black screen seems to have a rendering problem anyone else having this problem or is it just me.

Haven’t had any issues with Safari and YouTube but Notes has been crashing constantly for me.

 

[Realityck]

Haven’t had any issues with Safari and YouTube but Notes has been crashing constantly for me.

I still had Safari when first used crash occasionally, restart app and its good from then on. Auto reports sent to Apple.

 

[petvas]

So far I am pretty happy with the quality of the beta. Some things I noticed though:
* Safari will some times use a lot of CPU and only killing it will help
* Typing text too fast might sometimes cause the keys to get typed more times than actually pressed. Also some delay in key pressing (using Magic Keyboard on an iMac)
* Access to network shares on Big Sur doesn't work at all

Apart from the above I like what I am seeing..The UI is definitely nice but needs refinement..

 

[scott_donald]

So far I am pretty happy with the quality of the beta. Some things I noticed though:
* Safari will some times use a lot of CPU and only killing it will help
* Typing text too fast might sometimes cause the keys to get typed more times than actually pressed. Also some delay in key pressing (using Magic Keyboard on an iMac)
* Access to network shares on Big Sur doesn't work at all

Apart from the above I like what I am seeing..The UI is definitely nice but needs refinement..

I had the same with the keyboard, so frustrating. MacBook Pro one was fine but magic keyboard was all over the place.

Also Certainly my fans are working a lot harder than on Catalina.

 

[RandomDSdevel]

really seems to be taking a loooong time at "Preparing..." No visible signs of progress, nothing obvious about it in console logs...

... oh wait, the progress bar IS moving! very very slowly. (I eventually stuck another window over it with its edge just at the point where the progress bar reached and waited. And minutes later there's a few more pixels showing.)

I often abuse system zoom for checking progress bars; that's another thing you can do. (And inverting colors increases contrast, too.)