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Is Catalina as bad as it looks on this board?
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I usually love Apple but they've ruined everything. I have my music stored on a network disk so it's all ****ed up with the chopping up of iTunes and where things are stored. I am absolutely lost at what to do now.
Yeah its really bad. SO many things are messed up for me
I have successfully installed Catalina on a 2017 12" MacBook and a 2018 15" MBP, and in both situations the process went smoothly and painlessly. It is unfortunate that this has not been the case for everyone.
Disappointed Sidecar doesn't work with my 5th generation iPad. Only 6th generation or later, as well as Pro models. The reasoning is weird to me. Apple says they wanted only iPads that use the Apple Pencil to be able to connect.
Upgrading to Catalina has been a total disaster for me. Nothing worked, no internet connection despite it appearing to be connected.I downgraded to Mojave using Time machine but now have 198 GB stuck in "other volumes in container", also have three instances of Macintosh HD -Data as well as Macintosh HD. I tried this morning upgrading again but the problems persist (except I now have internet connection).
Load into Recovery and delete those partitions, that's what I had to do. Restart your Mac and hold down CMD R to do this.
Just make sure there's nothing valuable on there before doing so!!!
I'm kinda bummed practically my entire Steam library doesn't work on my Mac anymore, but I never liked gaming on the thing very much in the first place.
I will miss the occasional TF2 match though.
I will miss the occasional TF2 match though.
I'm calling it MacOS Crapolina from now on.
It's very bad for me - running it on Mac mini it made it almost useless. Can't use my eGPU, can't use my main 4k Screen, I was able to plug old 1080p directly to Mini via HDMI and it's the only way I can see anything. And now I even can't downgrade to Mojave which was working very well.
So just be careful, maybe upgrade first on your secondary machine, cus if you do on your main like I did, you may find yourself in a pretty mess.
So just be careful, maybe upgrade first on your secondary machine, cus if you do on your main like I did, you may find yourself in a pretty mess.
Same with the Canon Pro-100 drivers and utilities. Looks like my printer is screwed as Canon has no plans to release a 64bit driver/utilities. I am not upgrading my work iMac until that happens. Although I don't blame Apple for this. This was coming sooner or later....
I have decided to wait one month. My iPhone is doing crazy things and hasn’t been fixed, I don’t want anything weird on my iMac so I rather wait.
I'd take that with a pinch of salt.
At least one of the "clean install" posters above is having issues after disabling SIP and messing with the system. I suspect those who do a clean install are more technical users who are more likely to have messed with the system both before reinstalling and after the clean install.
If you have to disable SIP to do something on this brand new OS release, i suspect you'll have issues. Because the lengths apple is going to, to protect the base OS are getting ever more extensive.
This is a good thing for security.
But if you're a tweaker, then think hard before you do anything that requires disabling security features, because chances are those sorts of things are going to be more and more likely to break macOS moving forward.
The big thing many may run into is 32 bit applications being dropped (finally - 64 bit went fully supported in 2009 with Snow Leopard. Any developer who hasn't ported to 64 bit, or at least released a 64 bit variant of their application by now is totally asleep at the wheel).
You may need to
- upgrade applications to a 64 bit version
- reinstall applications
- change to a different application
I, for one, ran through my list of installed applications in System Report before going ahead with the upgrade and removed or upgraded anything that was 32 bit. Also, i deliberately don't tweak macOS much.
The defaults are for me, "good enough" and if 25 years messing with computers as a job has taught me anything, it is that tweaking stuff un-necessarily (especially if, for example - you need to bypass security controls) just isn't worth it (most of the time). It just creates work to tweak and then more work to fix when your tweaks break something in future.
Do i wish some things were different in macOS? Sure. Do i know i can tweak a lot of those things (with third party software or unsupported hacks)? Sure. But i choose not to because my machine has to work properly, and i've been down that path many times before and created work for myself to fix it
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It's rough with many obvious bugs. When someone says 'I see no issues' they are a simpler kind of user who has less or no hardware upgrades and less demanding third party software. We must be aware of how people use computers when we read these opinions.
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You can downgrade in Recovery Mode using Shift-Option-⌘-R
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You can downgrade in Recovery Mode using Shift-Option-⌘-R
How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
You can use macOS Recovery, your computer's built-in recovery system, to reinstall the Mac operating system. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove your personal data.
No problems here on my 2016 tb mbp but i'm hardly a power user. I lost uTorrent which sucks cos im forced to use the uTorrent web thing which i cant get used to.