I get the same, and then install failed. It will restart download somewhere in the middle, each time it starts further in. I tried unenroll, restart and re-enroll, now downloading again.
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I get the same, and then install failed. It will restart download somewhere in the middle, each time it starts further in. I tried unenroll, restart and re-enroll, now downloading again.
It’s extremely annoying how they put a hard OS check in their apps. I get that they are doing a lot of low level stuff, but come on. The risk isn’t that great.
Exactly. And the risk is all mine to take, so it’s even more annoying that they won’t let me try on my own machine using their software that I paid to use. I get that their ACE audio framework has caused some issues in previous betas, but that is absolutely a risk I am willing to take!
All is working for bar a few utilities;
- Little Snitch
- Dropbox
- Onyx
- TinkerTool
- CCC (reports incompatibility, but seems to work)
- DaisyDisk
I see tht some people are reporting the following not working, but they work fine for me;
- Parallels (Win10 from BootCamp)
- MS 365 Suite
- Little Snitch
- Dropbox
- Onyx
- TinkerTool
- CCC (reports incompatibility, but seems to work)
- DaisyDisk
I see tht some people are reporting the following not working, but they work fine for me;
- Parallels (Win10 from BootCamp)
- MS 365 Suite
Yes - I think so. In fact the only issue I had was with Teams not opening. I deleted and re-downloaded and then it worked. Seems coincidental perhaps, but there is no App Store version of Teams that I could find.
If you need a workaround for Dropbox, you can access all your Dropbox files using Transmit 5 from Panic software (available from their website or on the Mac App Store).
Once installed, connect to your Dropbox account.
When you see your files and double click on a document to edit it, the default action is to download the document to your Downloads folder. Not what you want.
However, if you right-click on the document and choose "Open with..." then it will open directly, not download, you can edit it as normal, and any changes save directly back into Dropbox and get synced to the Dropbox server.
Works very well for me so far until Dropbox provides a beta that works with Big Sur.
Downside: it costs money to buy Transmit, either their yearly subscription (Mac App Store version) or a standalone version (from their own website).
Once installed, connect to your Dropbox account.
When you see your files and double click on a document to edit it, the default action is to download the document to your Downloads folder. Not what you want.
However, if you right-click on the document and choose "Open with..." then it will open directly, not download, you can edit it as normal, and any changes save directly back into Dropbox and get synced to the Dropbox server.
Works very well for me so far until Dropbox provides a beta that works with Big Sur.
Downside: it costs money to buy Transmit, either their yearly subscription (Mac App Store version) or a standalone version (from their own website).
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I don’t know what you mean by App Store versions. I installed the O365 package directly from MS, and it is not the version with only one icon for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.
And all of those apps work ok?
You can now download the individual Office apps from the app store, as well as using the traditional O365 installer from the web (or an enterprise site etc.)
I see others have it working, some with keyboard issues. What issue are you having?
