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If anyone has an idea why this is happening I'd love to hear what you think
While I do not have any RAW files to test with I experienced those issues with jpg files. Following a tipp by @ASentientBot on reddit @Rastafabi led me to this tool, which I used to force the colordepth to be 8bit, rather than 10bit, which solved my issues.
Slice released a new Clover build, saying it was probably a bug already discovered. We shall see if the corruption appears again.
Thanks for reminding us of this ResXtreme tool.
Also on MBP5,2 17", when purposely setting 10 bits/sample with ResXtreme, the display looked bad (wrong colours but still readable). Fine again after going back to the original 8 bits/sample.
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Did you try with Switchresx or similar to reduce color from 32 to 24 bit?
This basically is the same thing, only using another tool to accomplish it. 8/10 Bits refer to the bits per color channel (red/blue/green) while 24/30bits refer to the entire color signal (3x8bit=24bit vs 3x10bit=30bit).
Thanks very much.
It works, though I am not sure if this version may have security vulnerabilities.
It's usable anyway!
Here is another app for that is similar to Night Owl that works in Catalina https://github.com/TimothyRLaMora734/Dynamic-Dark-Mode
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Hi can someone help with enabling airdrop?
The following are the information that was required for the commands
My mac is MacBook Pro mid 2009. 5:5
<"Mac-F2268AC8">
| "IOName" = "pci14e4,432b"
2020-03-21 15:53:10.688 system_profiler[722:17795] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
2020-03-21 15:53:10.689 system_profiler[722:17795] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
thanks in advanced
The following are the information that was required for the commands
My mac is MacBook Pro mid 2009. 5:5
<"Mac-F2268AC8">
| "IOName" = "pci14e4,432b"
2020-03-21 15:53:10.688 system_profiler[722:17795] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
2020-03-21 15:53:10.689 system_profiler[722:17795] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
thanks in advanced
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Hi everybody! I just wanted to share a trick with you all. I installed Catalina on my MacBook Pro Mid 2009 and beside everything runs well, I was very annoyed that during idle times the fan was running at max.
After some research I unloaded "photoanalysisd" and "mediaanalysisd" via the terminal and since then (also after several restarts) the fan is quite most of the time and my MacBook seems also a little bit faster.
Here is the command:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist && launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mediaanalysisd.plist
I hope this will help some of you!
PS: Try this at your own risk!!!
PPS: Unloading "photolibraryd" resulted in a non working photos app.
PPPS: You can load them again by the changing "unload" to "load".
After some research I unloaded "photoanalysisd" and "mediaanalysisd" via the terminal and since then (also after several restarts) the fan is quite most of the time and my MacBook seems also a little bit faster.
Here is the command:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist && launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mediaanalysisd.plist
I hope this will help some of you!
PS: Try this at your own risk!!!
PPS: Unloading "photolibraryd" resulted in a non working photos app.
PPPS: You can load them again by the changing "unload" to "load".
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I also have a mid 2009 machine (MBP5,2) and after first installing Catalina on it, the two demons you mentioned, plus warmd I think, really had a lot of work to do to convert the photos and music libraries to the new format.
But after several hours, things calmed down. It didn‘t repeat when going to new Catalina versions.
Good evening! I successfully brought my good old Mac Pro 3.1 to Catalina today. I cannot thank @dosdude1 often enough for this wonderful and very helpful option.
Unfortunately, one thing doesn't work: AirDrop! I'm using an installed Atheros card which previously worked regarding AirDrop in Mojave. I had seen in the thread that there is a fix for Broadcom cards. Does anyone know of a solution for Atheros cards? Thanks in advance for helpful tips ...
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I have to add that there's just an AirDrop icon in the sidebar of a Finder window, without the word "AirDrop" next to it. What does/could it mean?
AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x8F)
Firmware-Version: Atheros 9280: 4.0.74.0-P2P
Unfortunately, one thing doesn't work: AirDrop! I'm using an installed Atheros card which previously worked regarding AirDrop in Mojave. I had seen in the thread that there is a fix for Broadcom cards. Does anyone know of a solution for Atheros cards? Thanks in advance for helpful tips ...
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I have to add that there's just an AirDrop icon in the sidebar of a Finder window, without the word "AirDrop" next to it. What does/could it mean?
AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x8F)
Firmware-Version: Atheros 9280: 4.0.74.0-P2P
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Hello! In desperate need of help. I went to install Catalina onto the new APFS drive (RAID0), restarted and said it wasn’t able to be installed, so I unplugged the bootable drive and restarted as the directions said, after restating it would load 5% then restart again. PLEASE HELP!!
Hi everyone and again thanks for all you do here. I've usually had good luck with my 2009 early iMac. Lately, though I have had constant problems with apps freezing or not opening at all. Using 10.15.3. When they do work they are extremely slow. A couple days ago I started fresh with a new installation. Within hours, the same problems arose. I remembered in the past that the System Integrity Protection could be an issue. I checked and found the following messages in Terminal. I restarted from the USB drive, disabled SIP and restarted. I continued to get the same 2 messages. Thanks in advance for any advice. And BTW, is there a recovery disk in Catalina?
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Hi. I was wondering how the Music app has been doing for you guys on Catalina because I might use it instead of iTunes ( I installed it with Retrospective).
That is normal in the first screenshot that means SIP is disabled. How much memory is installed in your Mac you need at least 4GB to run Catalina decently
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The music app runs fine for me but I still prefer iTunes
I am able to get iTunes on Catalina with this.... https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...perture-itunes-back-to-life-in-macos-catalina 😀 works great...
What's the process of installing the .4 seed 6 beta over 10.15.3? Seems like some patch may be needed in that I've had failures trying to install previous seeds.
There is no Catalina AirDrop Broadcom 4360 patch for (0x14E4, 0x8*) , minimum "supported" cards are 0x9* and higher: 0xA* , 0xB*, 0xC*, 0xD*, 0xE*, 0xF* and so on.
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Till Mojave apple allowed some kind of "AirDrop legacy" that worked also on Atheros wifi cards, from Catalina they merged all the continuity features with a kind of AirDrop enhanced, and only certain recent Broadcom Wifi cards patching the AirPort Brcm4360 Wifi driver can work.
Finally got my 2012 Macbook Pro running Catalina with a Raid0 configuration . Running into a few issues like every application seems to be extra laggy, I cannot use migration assistant, my photo library on my Time Machine won't allow me to drag and drop into my new photos library. The biggest issue is my external outputs are messing everything up. When I plug in the thunderbolt to HDMI the main display goes to a grey screen and restarts. It also won't allow me to use two external outputs anymore. If these are easy fixes let me know! If not will be returning to Mojave 