Big Sur - Working / Not Working Apps

[mgymnop]

Has somebody the problem in Microsoft Teams that you cannot select a background? I have only a big blank window where you normally choose the background images. Have a MBP 2020 M1 on Big Sur 11.1
This is an intermittent issue sometimes it works and sometimes not.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I was annoyed to find that you can no longer use the diskutil coreStorage create ... command to create a Fusion Drive. Apparently the command has been changed and I can't, for the life of me, work out how to do it now.

Fortunately, I was able run a copy of Mojave in VMware, mount the volumes I needed, and create the Fusion Drive there.

 

[Weaselboy]

I was annoyed to find that you can no longer use the diskutil coreStorage create ... command to create a Fusion Drive. Apparently the command has been changed and I can't, for the life of me, work out how to do it now.

Fortunately, I was able run a copy of Mojave in VMware, mount the volumes I needed, and create the Fusion Drive there.

"diskutil resetFusion" without the quotes is what you want.

How to fix a split Fusion Drive - Apple Support

If your Fusion Drive appears as two drives instead of one in the Finder, it's no longer working as a Fusion Drive. Here's how to fix it.

support.apple.com

 

[Partron22]

Yojimbo and FastScripts are working well under Big Sur.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

"diskutil resetFusion" without the quotes is what you want.

How to fix a split Fusion Drive - Apple Support

If your Fusion Drive appears as two drives instead of one in the Finder, it's no longer working as a Fusion Drive. Here's how to fix it.

support.apple.com

No, that only resets the internal Fusion drive. I was trying to create an external Fusion drive from HDD and SSD.

 

[gilby101]

I was trying to create an external Fusion drive from HDD and SSD.

Arguably, that is a wrong move. If either drive disconnects suddenly you are likely to have a corrupt Fusion drive. An external Fusion is fragile.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Arguably, that is a wrong move. If either drive disconnects suddenly you are likely to have a corrupt Fusion drive. An external Fusion is fragile.

This is true, however, I only use an external Fusion drive for a play drive, such as testing a new beta version of Big Sur.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Ok, so
Final Release 11.2 Build 20D64 is now out. Downloaded and installed the 3 Gb update onto my main OS (yes, I know, living dangerously, but I have multiple backups) and all seems well.
Went back into Preferences to turn Time Machine back on, and now it is locked. You have to enter your password to make changes to Time Machine.
What other little surprises await?

 

[jonahlee]

So the company I am working at uses Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects 2019. Has anyone tried them on Big Sur? I am thinking no, but guess I will have to stick to Catalina to run those.

No one had tried it out?

 

[MrTSolar]

Has anyone tested the Ibi photo manager desktop app, LBRY desktop app, Battery Monitor (https://apps.apple.com/app/id836505650?mt=12), or OpenEMU on Big Sur?

Also, it looks like Waterfox patched Big Sur crashes. Has anyone re-tested Waterfox lately?

I promised my friend that if he updated his MacBook, I would too and share in his pain.

Ended up just doing the update. For mainstream Big Sur, Ibi Photo Manager, LBRY Desktop app, Battery Monitor, Waterfox, and OpenEMU all work.

Wiki has been updated.

 

[NoLoginUser]

Flume app does not work

 

[jlbrown]

Some has:

• PDFPen (Launches but won't display PDF content)

in the 'Not Working' section.

Is this still correct? I use PDFPenPro and it works fine.

 

[guitarguy316]

Someone tell me, I want to have the trackpad and mouse settings different on scrolling direction...meaning natural vs. reverse. It seems to me you can only choose to set them both to the same settings?

 

[gilby101]

Some has:

• PDFPen (Launches but won't display PDF content)

in the 'Not Working' section.

Is this still correct? I use PDFPenPro and it works fine.

PDFPen has always worked for me. Someone added PDFPenPro to working and I didn't see the need to add PDFPen.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I don't know if anybody is interested, but the full Big Sur Beta 11.3 (Build 20E5172i) is currently available.

I installed Install macOS Big Sur Beta 11.1 (20C5061b) onto my play SSD drive, and then went to update it to 11.3. I expected to get the small 3 Gb update but instead it sent me to the Apple Store to download the full 12.2 Gb Installer application.

This is only visible if your system is installed in the Developer Beta Access, not the Public Beta Access.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

LibreOffice 7.1

Finally, finally, with this normal release (i.e. not Pre-release or Nightly Build) the problem with fonts not appearing sharp on my iMac has been fixed. This is with macOS 11.2.1 (20D74) and LibreOffice 7.1.0.3

 

[sduck]

Unison is reported as not working, but I just installed version 11.2 of Big Sur, and Unison seems to be working fine. I can't find a way to edit the OP, I'll leave it to someone else.

Edit: I saw moongravy's post above about unison, and am checking things out - and yes, there seem to be a few things that aren't working right. Hmmmm. Basic functionality seems to be there though.

 

[Martyimac]

Both machines "lost" the connection to my Brother printer. I had to go in and re-add them to the installed printers. All okay now but very weird. This was after updating to the 11.2.1 version.

 

[RossH51]

Eye TV 4 is working fine on BS 11.2.1 for me although still showing not working in Wiki.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

VirtualBox 6.1.18, released 19 Jan, now working.

However, if you update your install of Big Sur you need to re-install VB 6.1.18. Dunno why.

It also works in BS 11.3 ßeta (20E5172i).

 

[jlbrown]

As Vuze doesn't work on Big Sur, anyone have a good replacement that does? Have tried Folx, but I'm not having much luck getting it to work through my Sophos UTM (firewall). I think I've opened all the necessary ports, but it just says "looking for peers".

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

As Vuze doesn't work on Big Sur, anyone have a good replacement that does? Have tried Folx, but I'm not having much luck getting it to work through my Sophos UTM (firewall). I think I've opened all the necessary ports, but it just says "looking for peers".

I have been using qBittorrent with good success. If you want to be able to search for torrents (i.e. ubuntu iso) you will also need to install python

 

[gilby101]

As Vuze doesn't work on Big Sur, anyone have a good replacement that does?

Transmission is probably the most widely used Mac client. 'Best' depends on what you want in a BitTorrent app.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Big Sur Beta 11.3.2 (Build 20E5186d) is now out.

No problems noticed yet, but I haven't tried everything I have installed yet.

It is only available as a Combo Update from Software Update (about 3.2Gb download).

 

[Rus_Knights]

Big Sur Beta 11.3.2 (Build 20E5186d)
I noticed some problems:
1. Adguard 2.5.2 (246) not working.
2. Google Drive - Backup and Sync. App not opening.

Any options?