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macOS Big Sur Features: Everything New in Today's Release
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Yup.
Just started the machine and its unable to even begin the download due to this error. Fails immediately.
Same with me. Just checked Twitter - nearly everybody has the same issue. Must be an Apple server issue.
Failure on both my Macs. That, combined with repeated failures of my Apple watch while out running, has me wondering what Apple is spending their billions on. I think they need to get their act together in a big way. Too many niggling problems for such a rich company.
Same experience as everyone else with failed downloads -- on all three of my Macs. It seems that someone at Apple didn't anticipate the demand for downloads, as they should have. That someone should be fired.
I must be misunderstanding you... Apple hasn't ditched Spaces. I'm using 11 spaces over two monitors right now on Catalina.
Why not? When I'm troubleshooting and have to hit buttons at certain times to load up Safe Mode, or Verbose Mode, or whatever, having that Startup Chime is very helpful. I've missed it a ton.
someone asked this question that was answered a few comments back. Apple changed how spaces worked years ago and the new implementation is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Check out totalspaces to learn more as you did misunderstand.
Carbon Copy Cloner does work very well. I've used in conjunction with Time Machine for years; one going all the time, the other once a week for a full, bootable backup. BUT, with Big Sur the CCC folks have warned that you need a workaround to boot up from the clone with Big Sur, at least at first. Because of course there is.
I also use Dropbox for yet another backup of my files, which, while still in the cloud, for me is also local as I have my laptop sitting on a nearby desk while I am using my main iMac Pro at my work desk. So it's almost a real-time, local backup for vital files.
Okay, thanks!someone asked this question that was answered a few comments back. Apple changed how spaces worked years ago and the new implementation is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Check out totalspaces to learn more as you did misunderstand.
What a joke! Apple System Status says downloads "fixed": https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
No, Apple it's NOT FIXED. Stop lying.
No, Apple it's NOT FIXED. Stop lying.
I have server racks with 3000+ movies all ripped in lossless format with a McIntosh system and B&W speaks and another set of servers for streaming. I maintain copies on both and have copies on one of my Mac Pro Thunderbolt arrays. Time Machine has been my main goto since its inception as you can easily restore everything from a backup and you can make it bootable, just need the right tools. I have CCC, think I’ll definitely check it out and make use of it. I got free from a friend who works with the company as part of a promo. I never bothered as I liked the seamless integration of Time Machine and being able to restore deleted emails, contacts, files, etc. Unless I move back to Mojave, Time Machine will have lost me esp as I’m constantly traveling for work (or used to now) and don’t always have WiFi and when I do I need to proxy in via gov systems. Knowing that my Mac’s and files in Berlin and NY are being backed up locally while I’m away puts my mind at ease. I’ve had too many cloud issues to depend solely on cloud services. Seems I’ll have to find a new backup routine 🤷🏼♂️
Should I download & install on my 2018 MacBook Air running Catalina or wait? TIA for the opnions.
This Time Machine dumbing down is disconcerting. Time Machine is a major reason why I use Mac.
Wonder how risky it would be to update. Previous apps that were working on Catalina and others.
Luckily Apple STILL offers Intel Macs so they have to guarantee proper OS behavior but I kinda see it going downhill the day (if) everything becomes M-chips, which I guess it would be time to go Apple Silicon anyways.
Big Sur comes with new drivers, new features and new libraries that other softwares need: Redshift renderer for C4D on Mac is coming with BigSur and so is MotionVFX magically looking one click perspective footage tracking.
I guess I’ll wait for a “stable” state following months after a few of “Apple seeds 11.x.x update” articles.
May I know why? I don't use it and I feel happy 100%. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make perfect bootable copies of my Mac.
CCC seems like a decent alternative, albeit paid, and I don’t have much experience with it, but I’d say I like TM’s file retrieval interface which I think is unique. I think it makes finding and retrieving older files as intuitive as possible. Also being built-in, I think it makes full restores and migrations as simple as can be. Overall I like that it’s free, built-in, intuitive, and dead-simple.
CCC is good too for other reasons. I recently bought it so that I could keep certain folders synced on a portable hard drive. I also made a bootable backup of my work Mac, just in case. But a bootable backup is not really needed on my home Mac.
The reason you want bootable copies is that if your Mac dies, has to go to service, you can just stick in this bootable copy and start off right where you left. This is not possible with TimeMachine. I think you have to connect TimeMachine backup drive into a Mac, and transfer everything over... I think!