macOS (10.15) - the little things

[ErikGrim]

Because that is exactly the same as having to approve access to the Downloads folder for every single website...something we haven't needed for 16 years of Safari.

At least that one you can override:

I need this setting for applications.

 

[morbidkitten]

Is the folder we all stored the music (library) still named "iTunes Music Folder" in Catalina? Since iTunes is gone maybe it's changed?

 

[ErikGrim]

Is the folder we all stored the music (library) still named "iTunes Music Folder" in Catalina? Since iTunes is gone maybe it's changed?

~/Music/Music/media by default

 

[thingstoponder]

Is the folder we all stored the music (library) still named "iTunes Music Folder" in Catalina? Since iTunes is gone maybe it's changed?

It’s called Music but an iTunes folder did pop up on my Mac so maybe it’s a little buggy. I did have to delete my existing iTunes folder to get the Music one to appear tough.

 

[thingstoponder]

In what I replied to you said you want "far less security". That's what I gave you a solution for.

Approving downloads honestly makes good sense. It's relatively rare you need to download something and approving a download is a better way than ending up with websites pushing unwanted downloads at you.

Yup. Downloads are thrown at you all the time if you visit... certain websites. Digging through your downloads folder to find some potentially malicious file to throw aay is far less annoying than tapping “return” at a dialog box. Plus you can just enable all downloads in preferences anyways.

 

[TheralSadurns]

Lemme chime in with this:

Security IS important... but the way Apple handles these requests now (instead of just allowing stuff, like on the iPhone etc. having to go to Sys Prefs...) reminds me of THIS:

 

[vmachiel]

Can you mark podcasts as listened in the podcast app?

 

[Jonnyp33]

Is there any support with Xbox one or PS4 controller by Bluetooth with the new update?

 

[Ritsuka]

macOS already supports those controllers, you don't need 10.15 to use them.

 

[Jonnyp33]

So you can connect Xbox one or PS4 with MacBooks? I want to use it for gforece now.

 

[Planey28]

Grapher is gone in the latest beta build.

 

[BaggieBoy]

Just installed the latest Beta and noticed an "eject" icon on the taskbar. Can't recall seeing this before.

 

[alexprib]

Spotted a new "Legacy Desktops" folder in System Preferences in the latest beta. Are we about to get a whole bunch of old OS X desktop wallpapers added back to macOS in Catalina? What could this mean?

 

[Acidsplat]

Spotted a new "Legacy Desktops" folder in System Preferences in the latest beta. Are we about to get a whole bunch of old OS X desktop wallpapers added back to macOS in Catalina? What could this mean?

Could they be planning to ship Catalina with a ton of dynamic wallpapers, and placing static image wallpapers in that legacy folder?

 

[alexprib]

Could they be planning to ship Catalina with a ton of dynamic wallpapers, and placing static image wallpapers in that legacy folder?

I thought about this. Maybe they will all be HEIF dynamic desktops. Maybe this will encourage end users to stick with "new" dynamic desktops and avoid "legacy" desktops? Who knows. Weird.

EDIT: I just find it strange that still wallpapers would be called "legacy". Are still wallpapers a thing of the past?? "legacy" at Apple always seems to mean deprecated or soon to be...

 

[Acidsplat]

I thought about this. Maybe they will all be HEIF dynamic desktops. Maybe this will encourage end users to stick with "new" dynamic desktops and avoid "legacy" desktops? Who knows. Weird.

EDIT: I just find it strange that still wallpapers would be called "legacy". Are still wallpapers a thing of the past?? "legacy" at Apple always seems to mean deprecated or soon to be...

There are a ton of default wallpapers I would love to have dynamic versions of! It's just unfortunate there's only a couple of dynamic wallpapers shipped by default.

 

[KALLT]

Security IS important... but the way Apple handles these requests now (instead of just allowing stuff, like on the iPhone etc. having to go to Sys Prefs...) reminds me of THIS:

Or this (at 01:34):

 

[adrianlondon]

Just installed the latest Beta and noticed an "eject" icon on the taskbar. Can't recall seeing this before.

I've not installed the latest beta yet (was waiting a day to see how it went for other forumites) but the first beta did that to me. I thought it was some new functionality,but clicking it did nothing and it seemed to be related to some antique version of a laptop that had CD/DVD drives built-in or something. So I just dragged it off my menu.

 

[thebluepotato]

Grapher is gone in the latest beta build.

Grapher is still very much present in beta 4 for me!
[doublepost=1563365653][/doublepost]Photos.app now says thatin order to finish updating the People album you should quit the app and connect the Mac to a power source, like on iOS. In beta 3, it was still the previous "will update when you're not using Photos/is in the backrground" or something.

 

[Diskutant]

Grapher is still very much present in beta 4 for me!

That means you updated from 10.14 to 10.15. It won't get deleted on an update. But a fresh install doesn't install it anymore.

Just installed the latest Beta and noticed an "eject" icon on the taskbar. Can't recall seeing this before.

That exists since maybe 10.0, but 10.3 for sure. Always was a bit hidden to activate it.

 

[JimmyjamesEU]

That means you updated from 10.14 to 10.15. It won't get deleted on an update. But a fresh install doesn't install it anymore.

FWIW, I did a fresh install and I have grapher.

 

[Strategia]

Was this screensaver here before?

 

[TimothyR734]

Was this screensaver here before?

New in Beta $ I think there is a new wallpaper to

 

[rishi.talreja]

Can you mark podcasts as listened in the podcast app?

Yes.

 

[vmachiel]

Yes.

That’s great. Thanks for checking.