SUMMARY:
Stuck with Catalina Beta 6, have not found a way to upgrade to latest release.
Key app for my work crashes regularly on Catalina Beta 6. Works fine on Mojave.
System crashes on Spaces in Catalina. No problem on Mojave.
Working on figuring out how to upgade Catalina to latest version.
Contingency plan: Surrender, admit defeat, be sad, use mojave and forget about Catalina.
ISSUES
Primary Issue 1: Unable to upgrade from Catalina Beta 6 to the public release of Catalina.
Cause: have not found a way to get a copy of the Catalina more recent than macOS 15.0.31. When I use the Catalina Patcher to download the most recent version of macOS, I get macOS 15.0.31.
Trying to download Catalina via the App Store:
Primary Issue 2: Running Catalina Beta 6, two crashes happen every day or two, sometimes more.
crash 1: Navigating among desktop spaces freezes the system, forcing a power off either with the switch on the front of the machine (holding down 4 seconds) or pulling the plug. Not exactly graceful.
crash 2: one app, Atom, and ide, crashes with a shutdown. Rest of system unaffected. Workaround is to restart Atom. Agony.
Crash 2 is not as agonizing as crash 1, but it is much more frequent and I use Atom all the time.
PLAN FOR RESOLUTION
Taking another shot at figuring out how to upgrade to the the most recent release of Catalina. Rolling back to Mojave. I have a mojave bootable partition. The main downside is the time put into attempting the upgrade to Catalina basically is a loss.
If you have any suggestions for how I might be able to upgrade the version of Catalina on my machine, I would be very interested and grateful.
Stuck with Catalina Beta 6, have not found a way to upgrade to latest release.
Key app for my work crashes regularly on Catalina Beta 6. Works fine on Mojave.
System crashes on Spaces in Catalina. No problem on Mojave.
Working on figuring out how to upgade Catalina to latest version.
Contingency plan: Surrender, admit defeat, be sad, use mojave and forget about Catalina.
ISSUES
Primary Issue 1: Unable to upgrade from Catalina Beta 6 to the public release of Catalina.
Cause: have not found a way to get a copy of the Catalina more recent than macOS 15.0.31. When I use the Catalina Patcher to download the most recent version of macOS, I get macOS 15.0.31.
Trying to download Catalina via the App Store:
Primary Issue 2: Running Catalina Beta 6, two crashes happen every day or two, sometimes more.
crash 1: Navigating among desktop spaces freezes the system, forcing a power off either with the switch on the front of the machine (holding down 4 seconds) or pulling the plug. Not exactly graceful.
crash 2: one app, Atom, and ide, crashes with a shutdown. Rest of system unaffected. Workaround is to restart Atom. Agony.
Crash 2 is not as agonizing as crash 1, but it is much more frequent and I use Atom all the time.
PLAN FOR RESOLUTION
Taking another shot at figuring out how to upgrade to the the most recent release of Catalina. Rolling back to Mojave. I have a mojave bootable partition. The main downside is the time put into attempting the upgrade to Catalina basically is a loss.
If you have any suggestions for how I might be able to upgrade the version of Catalina on my machine, I would be very interested and grateful.