Still on Mojave. Longest I've ever waited to upgrade the OS. Will probably just skip Catalina altogether.
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Some Users Experiencing System Crashes on macOS 10.15.4, Especially During Large File Transfers
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I haven't seen this yet on my 16 MBP, but hope they can get a fix out soon for those affected.
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A sizeable number of Mac users are experiencing occasional system crashes after updating to macOS Catalina version 10.15.4, released a few weeks ago.
The crashing issue appears to be most prominent when users attempt to make large file transfers. In a forum post, SoftRAID described the issue as a bug and said that it is working with Apple engineers on a fix for macOS 10.15.5, or a workaround.
SoftRAID said the issue extends to Apple-formatted disks:Other users on macOS 10.15.4 have experienced crashes after waking their Mac from sleep, with affected systems suffering a kernel panic and rebooting to the Apple logo, according to comments shared on the Apple Support Communities, MacRumors Forums, Reddit, and Twitter.
After updating to macOS 10.15.4, users may also experience continuous spinning up and spinning down of connected hard drives when a Mac is supposed to be asleep, which could result in damage to the drive, according to Jeremy Horwitz.
We've reached out to Apple for comment and we will provide an update if we hear back.
Article Link: Some Users Experiencing System Crashes on macOS 10.15.4, Especially During Large File Transfers
I've had issues with the browser taking a while to respond. Not a huge deal. Just annoying.
Used to happen to me from time to time, it resolves if you unplug the power cable until the process terminates by itself. Then plug it again. But to be honest its been a while since the last time.
Seriously, I prefer end of Apple abysmal annual desktop OS release…
I waited until 10.15.4 before upgrading from Mojave to Catalina cause i thought everything would be fixed by now. Well, boy was i wrong.
Agree. I think users expect an annual update out of sheer habit but what they want is a well polished OS that doesn’t need five .x updates over the next year to “just work”.
We're probably near the end of macOS... how much more can Apple add to iPadOS before it's a full blown replacement?
After the lackluster iOS 13 experience, I believed the numerous reports on Catalina and didn't bother trying it. It doesnt have anything I care about anyway
So happy I’ve held off from updating to Catalina. What a mess.
My 2014 Mini is solid as a rock on 10.15.4.
(Jinx now in effect, 10.15.4 causes Mini to erupt into flames, burns down house)
(Jinx now in effect, 10.15.4 causes Mini to erupt into flames, burns down house)
In my opinion and has always been the best OS X ever.
Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion and El Capitan. period.
Most stable as a true OS should be. Pathetic what has happened to all macOS last years....
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I’ve experienced finder hang during large file transfers. Had to restart and transfer one file at a time like some kind of ‘90s jerk.
I’ve gone from immediately installing all updates in the 10.0 to 10.2 era, to waiting for the first point release, then the second or third point release, to waiting a few months, and finally with Mojave not installing it until after Catalina was released. (Later than my comfort level was fine with it but I’d gotten lazy and apathetic. A month or two before Catalina would’ve been Ok.)
Decisions based on feedback from everyone here, thank you very much. Consequently I’ve had very little post upgrade regret.
Decisions based on feedback from everyone here, thank you very much. Consequently I’ve had very little post upgrade regret.
I some times have to work with some old Macs/Books that are still running this. It is so fast and responsive that it makes you want to cry...and that's on old Core2s and stuff. It's a shame macOS has become so bloated.
I’ve been having tons of Finder issues since the latest update. Anything with larger files seems to trip it up. It’s become so bad that last night I was running through diagnostics to be sure it wasn’t a hardware issue, but everything is coming up fine, and it seems to have been particularly bad since the latest update. And that’s just one more bullet to use when explaining that Catalina without a doubt has been the worst experience I’ve had with any Apple software.
Snow Leopard wasn't always perfect, though. It had a lot of issues during its .0-.4 (or even .5) version eras. Even 10.6.8 v1.1 had its own quirks.
It's easy to look back on SL as the coveted macOS that was flawless and just worked...but even beloved SL had its own issues, and in some ways, Mountain Lion was better than SL. More stable, faster, and had iCloud support to boot.
Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, and Catalina would be the worst macOS versions for me.
I assumed waking from sleep at the Apple logo was a result of the VPN client or FileVault...good to know!
Happened to me this morning on MacBook Air 2019, in the middle of my shift at work. Also, I had pixelated screen when waking the computer up after being in stand by the whole night and had to hard reset the machine and then it just crashed at one point. Two restarts within an hour, abysmal.
I've been getting a few kernel panics during sleep too, and the crash log said... bad magic. I'm not kidding 🤦
It‘s simple guys: if your hardware supports it, stay on Mojave!
Oh, so basically like any time you try to do a file transfer between drives on the iPad Pro? I've still never had that be stable. It's so bad that it has completely corrupted SD cards full of photos and I've had to reformat them on a Mac to get them to show up again. Fortunately I was using test data that I already had backups.
Glad to see that they're bringing the same great stability of iPadOS to macOS! /s
Glad to see that they're bringing the same great stability of iPadOS to macOS! /s