Public Beta of macOS Sierra Now Available

[Roadking714]

And my MacBook takes forever to load from Apple screen

 

[BrooklynAl]

Programs that are not working with macOS Sierra: Onyx, DiskWarrior 5.0, LiteIcon, iTweax, EtreCheck, and Bartender......though, CC Cloner works with Beta....but with a warning about not being fully tested. I use Bartender simply to arrange the icons in the menubar......so I no longer need this program given that feature has been added to Sierra by simply using the CMD key

 

[Roadking714]

Anybodys hard drive via usb working? How do I revert back to El capitan? Can't use my time machine back

 

[Klaatu63]

Anybodys hard drive via usb working? How do I revert back to El capitan? Can't use my time machine back

Same problem here. The good news is that I have a bootable backup copy (Carbon Copy Cloner) on my Western Digital USB attached drive. The bad news is that macOOS Sierra does not see my USB attached devices. Grrrr

 

[Les Kern]

Apple will not allow a late 2009 Mac Pro to even download it, let alone run the installer.

Surely someone with such a Mac Pro has installed this already. Any ideas?

Yep. Worked as advertised.

http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html

 

[Roadking714]

Same problem here. The good news is that I have a bootable backup copy (Carbon Copy Cloner) on my Western Digital USB attached drive. The bad news is that macOOS Sierra does not see my USB attached devices. Grrrr

I just fixed mine by reverted back to my back up... Restart computer hold command and R select backup time machine make sure HD is connected and just hit next

 

[BrooklynAl]

Hard drive froze once and had to do a hard restart....as well as multiple crashes of Safari. RAM usage high ~ 8GB (active) and 2 GB (inactive). Though, when the stable release is here I will use it on my main hard drive and skip over El Capitan.

 

[s15119]

Anyone else finding no ability to edit in Photos?

 

[BrooklynAl]

I can edit in Photos........

 

[hawaiiken]

Installed macOS Sierra on an external USB drive connected to my iMac to test. First thing I noticed when rebooting to Sierra was that my internal fusion drive appeared to be broken. It didn't mount and Sierra's Disk Utility listed my internal fusion drive as an Unformatted Internal Physical Disk. SSD portion undetectable. Sierra's Startup Disk System preference didn't list my fusion drive to reboot to. Luckily I have multiple external hard drives here, so I rebooted to a drive with OS X 10.11.5. From there my fusion drive reappeared and I could selected it to reboot from. Thankfully no data loss. I did do a complete Time Machine backup prior to my experiment.

Anyone else try macOS Sierra from an external drive and their internal fusion drive wasn't mountable like this?

I figured out what happened . .. for some reason my SSD unmounted during the Sierra installation process. A complete shutdown then reboot remounted the SSD portion of my fusion drive. Testing from my external Sierra partition I keep "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" OFF in Energy Saver System Preferences then my fusion drive remains mounted when inactive.

 

[Klaatu63]

I just fixed mine by reverted back to my back up... Restart computer hold command and R select backup time machine make sure HD is connected and just hit next

Unfortunately I cannot recover via TimeMachine or Carbon Copy Cloner because my USB drive will not mount. I guess the only foolproof backup would be an internal hard drive.
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Unfortunately I cannot recover via TimeMachine or Carbon Copy Cloner because my USB drive will not mount. I guess the only foolproof backup would be an internal hard drive.

RoadKing - you were right. The "control R" recovery option did give me access to my drive. Four hours from now I will be a happy camper.

 

[neuzdotcom]

Wow. Download and upgrade went fine on my 2012 MacBook Air. Have noticed some moments where the video gets a bit wonky, and have had to restart wifi a couple of times, but I am likin' it! Snappy. VERY cool how window edges are sticky - even between apps. BIG improvement... and I have how much extra drive now? . and I can do screen recordings HOW long now? Kick Ass!

 

[Samuel Bradshaw]

Installing this on my company's mission critical computers. Wish me luck!

We heard that macOS Sierra was more secure, so we installed it on all our bank's corporate and financial processing computers! Siri really makes it a breeze to look up a customer's financial information. When someone comes up to the front desk at one of our 100,000 locations, we just say something like, "Hey, Siri, what's John's account number and pin?" or "Hey, Siri, what financial transactions did Sally have in the past month?" and it reads everything off to us.

We also have recently started having a lot of people come in to use the free wifi in our lobby, which is right next to our front desk. I think people like to hear Siri in action. We love using the newest technology, so you should consider banking with us!