I've posted here in the past about various problems I've had with Sequoia since its introduction. At the time I was using a 2019 iMac 5K, but since Apple and a lot of people thought at least one of the problems was with that machine, I traded it to Apple for $385 and bought a iMac M4. I miss the larger screen but not by much.
FWIW, I'm running Sequoia 15.4.1 but the problems have been with all the versions.
The first problem is what led to the purchase of the new machine. When I run Disk Utility on the internal disk I get messages that the Time Machine snapshots are missing resource fork xattr, then a get a message that disk with UUID blah, blah is corrupt and needs to be repaired and Disk Utility will fix it. It doesn't, and I get the same message the next time I run Disk Utility--or I don't! Sometimes I run Disk Utility and get no error messages.
I set the power settings not to turn the drives off, but the iMac does anyway and doesn't wake, so when I wake the computer in the morning, it will tell me Time Machine couldn't run. OTOH, sometimes Time Machine does run in the middle of the night without a hitch.
The screen size of this iMac is 4480 X 2520. I bought some wallpaper that's 6016 X 3900. And I setup a screen saver of these wallpapers. When they run about an inch and a half is cut off either side, so they don't fill the screen. Why?
This may have happened before Sequoia and I just didn't notice, but screen prints are at least twice the display size as they were with Ventura. Is there any way to make them smaller at creation time. I know you can do it later with Preview but that's a pain when you have 600 to do.
My AirPods Maxes, AirPods 2 and AirPod 3 are unusable with this iMac. One cannot listen to more than about 30 seconds of any song before there's a drop out. To be fair, I had this problem with the 2019 iMac and previous OSs. I'm just mentioning it in case someone has a fix. I should have jumped on Apple when the AirPods Maxes were new and didn't since 99.9% of my listening is either through my iPhone with AirPod Maxes or my iMac through a HomePod stereo pair. My bad.
The other day I imported 15 wallpaper images from three different folders into Photos. The wallpapers are all the same images, but they are sized for iPhone, iPads and Macs. When I open Photos and go to the top and click Library, then go to the end of my photos, I only see the five wallpapers for the iPhone. Yet if I click Recently Saved I see the wallpaper for iPhone and iPad but not the Mac, yet I know the Mac wallpaper is in there somewhere or I could not do the screen saver mentioned above since it's pointing to Photos\basicappleguy\iMac and the photos in that folder are all 6016 X 3900. I almost think my Photos library is corrupt. Is there any way to fix it?
And while this is not an Apple problem exactly, iStat Menus 7 shows this on my iMac M4:
And this on my Mini M1 also running Sequoia 15.4.1:
And while these screen shots look the same size to me as I type this message, they are not. The first one is at least twice the size of the second one when they are open on my desktop.
If anyone can help on any of these I sure would appreciate it, of if someone knows which Apple forum I can post this to that would also be nice, and finally I'd like to know how one can get past the first couple of levels of AppleCare without having to give one's life story to the first two. I'm not some old man who just got a computer. I bought my first home computer in 1982, so I've been doing this for awhile. Many thanks!
FWIW, I'm running Sequoia 15.4.1 but the problems have been with all the versions.
The first problem is what led to the purchase of the new machine. When I run Disk Utility on the internal disk I get messages that the Time Machine snapshots are missing resource fork xattr, then a get a message that disk with UUID blah, blah is corrupt and needs to be repaired and Disk Utility will fix it. It doesn't, and I get the same message the next time I run Disk Utility--or I don't! Sometimes I run Disk Utility and get no error messages.
I set the power settings not to turn the drives off, but the iMac does anyway and doesn't wake, so when I wake the computer in the morning, it will tell me Time Machine couldn't run. OTOH, sometimes Time Machine does run in the middle of the night without a hitch.
The screen size of this iMac is 4480 X 2520. I bought some wallpaper that's 6016 X 3900. And I setup a screen saver of these wallpapers. When they run about an inch and a half is cut off either side, so they don't fill the screen. Why?
This may have happened before Sequoia and I just didn't notice, but screen prints are at least twice the display size as they were with Ventura. Is there any way to make them smaller at creation time. I know you can do it later with Preview but that's a pain when you have 600 to do.
My AirPods Maxes, AirPods 2 and AirPod 3 are unusable with this iMac. One cannot listen to more than about 30 seconds of any song before there's a drop out. To be fair, I had this problem with the 2019 iMac and previous OSs. I'm just mentioning it in case someone has a fix. I should have jumped on Apple when the AirPods Maxes were new and didn't since 99.9% of my listening is either through my iPhone with AirPod Maxes or my iMac through a HomePod stereo pair. My bad.
The other day I imported 15 wallpaper images from three different folders into Photos. The wallpapers are all the same images, but they are sized for iPhone, iPads and Macs. When I open Photos and go to the top and click Library, then go to the end of my photos, I only see the five wallpapers for the iPhone. Yet if I click Recently Saved I see the wallpaper for iPhone and iPad but not the Mac, yet I know the Mac wallpaper is in there somewhere or I could not do the screen saver mentioned above since it's pointing to Photos\basicappleguy\iMac and the photos in that folder are all 6016 X 3900. I almost think my Photos library is corrupt. Is there any way to fix it?
And while this is not an Apple problem exactly, iStat Menus 7 shows this on my iMac M4:
And this on my Mini M1 also running Sequoia 15.4.1:
And while these screen shots look the same size to me as I type this message, they are not. The first one is at least twice the size of the second one when they are open on my desktop.
If anyone can help on any of these I sure would appreciate it, of if someone knows which Apple forum I can post this to that would also be nice, and finally I'd like to know how one can get past the first couple of levels of AppleCare without having to give one's life story to the first two. I'm not some old man who just got a computer. I bought my first home computer in 1982, so I've been doing this for awhile. Many thanks!
