So, I am eking out another few months of the MBP, and I bit the bullet and put Monterey 12.7.4 on via OpenCore LP as I was under the impression it was the most stable. Tell that to the constantly running fans when I'm doing nothing.
The lure of the dark mode was too much....
And if you can recommend replacements for my Photoshop and MS Word that don't work as they're 32 bit, that would be nice too.
Couple of things….
My main problem is emails, all my emails in inbox, if I reply, the whole body of the email goes blank as soon as I hit reply? The body of the email I’ve replied to disappears and is a blank email? Inbox and Sent emails. I thought it may have been the protect mail activity, hide IP, settings but they’re off. If anyone has any fixes for that, It’ll save me going back to High Sierra, but I can’t use Monterey if this happens every time I send emails. For context, they’re all still on my iPad and iPhone and it never did this on High Sierra so I know it’s not the host/server.
Only other stand out on my first day using Monterey, it takes far longer to start up than I’ve seen it do on the YouTube OCLP instruction videos on the same laptop. Is this because my hard drive icon now shows up briefly before the Apple logo on start up, since install, and I’ve installed it wrong? I’ve not seen any new OS since High Sierra, so maybe seeing your hard drive icon pre loading, on start up, is normal these days? I expected a bit longer than Sierra, but not this long. SSD and 16GB RAM. Thanks for any help
Should I be seeing this disk on every start up?
The lure of the dark mode was too much....
And if you can recommend replacements for my Photoshop and MS Word that don't work as they're 32 bit, that would be nice too.
Couple of things….
My main problem is emails, all my emails in inbox, if I reply, the whole body of the email goes blank as soon as I hit reply? The body of the email I’ve replied to disappears and is a blank email? Inbox and Sent emails. I thought it may have been the protect mail activity, hide IP, settings but they’re off. If anyone has any fixes for that, It’ll save me going back to High Sierra, but I can’t use Monterey if this happens every time I send emails. For context, they’re all still on my iPad and iPhone and it never did this on High Sierra so I know it’s not the host/server.
Only other stand out on my first day using Monterey, it takes far longer to start up than I’ve seen it do on the YouTube OCLP instruction videos on the same laptop. Is this because my hard drive icon now shows up briefly before the Apple logo on start up, since install, and I’ve installed it wrong? I’ve not seen any new OS since High Sierra, so maybe seeing your hard drive icon pre loading, on start up, is normal these days? I expected a bit longer than Sierra, but not this long. SSD and 16GB RAM. Thanks for any help
Should I be seeing this disk on every start up?
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