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macOS 11: All the little things!

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dumiku said:
The windows are not too uniform at least for me, I do like that tinting with some wallpapers so, my choice of wallpapers is very specific because it's awful with other wallpapers. To have the option to disable it is a good thing especially for those who have no use for it, Dark Mode without tinting becomes boring after a while.
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I guess it all comes down to the use-case. I work with graphics and photography, so I prefer the more classic look as that way any windows near documents are clear and obvious with regards to their origin.

I recently downloaded a new app called One Switch that has completely changed how I use my Mac this way. It consolidates many System Preferences functions (such as Dark/Light Mode, Night Mode, True Tone etc into a single Menu Bar pane with toggles. One of the best Mac apps ever.
 
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miniroll32 said:
I guess it all comes down to the use-case. I work with graphics and photography, so I prefer the more classic look as that way any windows near documents are clear and obvious with regards to their origin.
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Yep!

miniroll32 said:
I recently downloaded a new app called One Switch that has completely changed how I use my Mac this way. It consolidates many System Preferences functions (such as Dark/Light Mode, Night Mode, True Tone etc into a single Menu Bar pane with toggles. One of the best Mac apps ever.
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I tried the app in past very useful but since I rarely change those settings I had to remove it, I use f.lux for Night Mode instead of the built-in one and it automatically switches Dark/Light Mode for me at nightfall/dawn, plus you can disable night mode for specific apps or apps in fullscreen and the movie mode.
 
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Vertical spacing between items in the side bars have been reduced quite significantly and now look similar to previous MacOS versions.

This is in all apps apart from Podcasts for some reason.
 
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miniroll32 said:
I recently downloaded a new app called One Switch that has completely changed how I use my Mac this way. It consolidates many System Preferences functions (such as Dark/Light Mode, Night Mode, True Tone etc into a single Menu Bar pane with toggles. One of the best Mac apps ever.
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And Big Sur just "Sherlocked" it, to some extent. Many of those features (though not all) are now available in the Control Center drop-down in the menubar.
 
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I thought some might be interested in APFS Time Machine measurements. I'm backing up 1.4 TB into a Raspberry Pi over 1 GB Ethernet, into a sparsebundle that's formatted as an encrypted APSF by Big Sur PB1. External USB3 disk connected to the Pi, formatted as ext3. The initial backup took about 30 hours. About the same as with Catalina.

The do-nothing update cycle with 0...100 MB is 5...7 minutes. 180 seconds of "looking for disk, preparing backup" and maybe 5 seconds of "cleaning up". The rest is "copying". It takes long breaks between copying files, maybe organizing something or looking for more changes.

Restoring seems smooth. The whole few-hours timeline appears instantly, GUI is responsive, restoring a file takes a second or two.

The same backup under Catalina took about 10...20 minutes to house-keep, if there were little or no changes. Big Sur appears 2-3x faster in this scenario, at least initially. Time will tell, how responsive it becomes with more history to organize. The Catalina comparison had many months of version history. Might do another test in a week or few to see if the update time remains constant/predicable.
 
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Is there any way to have Finder's Column View resize automatically?
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I'd be happy if the Finder column width would save. As it stands, resizing a column does not persist. The columns in Big Sur seem narrower than in prior releases.

It also appears that they have removed the ability to expand folders in Finder list view. :(
 
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verdi1987 said:
I'd be happy if the Finder column width would save. As it stands, resizing a column does not persist. The columns in Big Sur seem narrower than in prior releases.

It also appears that they have removed the ability to expand folders in Finder list view. :(
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Still works for me - I’d file a big report if its not working for you...
 
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FNH15 said:
Still works for me - I’d file a big report if its not working for you...
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I figured out what's happening. Any paths you access directly from Favorites do not have the chevron to expand the folder. However, subfolders do, as do any paths you access under Locations.

I don't know if that's a bug or intentional.

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verdi1987 said:
I figured out what's happening. Any paths you access directly from Favorites do not have the chevron to expand the folder. However, subfolders do, as do any paths you access under Locations.

I don't know if that's a bug or intentional.

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Are you sure? It seems that you don't get the expandable folders because you have "Arranged by" enabled in your current view. Try turning it off (you can still use the "Sort by" option). This has been the default Finder behaviour since I remember.
 
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DanielDD said:
Are you sure? It seems that you don't get the expandable folders because you have "Arranged by" enabled in your current view. Try turning it off (you can still use the "Sort by" option). This has been the default Finder behaviour since I remember.
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You're right! Thanks.
 
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petterihiisila said:
I thought some might be interested in APFS Time Machine measurements. I'm backing up 1.4 TB into a Raspberry Pi over 1 GB Ethernet, into a sparsebundle that's formatted as an encrypted APSF by Big Sur PB1. External USB3 disk connected to the Pi, formatted as ext3. The initial backup took about 30 hours. About the same as with Catalina.

The do-nothing update cycle with 0...100 MB is 5...7 minutes. 180 seconds of "looking for disk, preparing backup" and maybe 5 seconds of "cleaning up". The rest is "copying". It takes long breaks between copying files, maybe organizing something or looking for more changes.

Restoring seems smooth. The whole few-hours timeline appears instantly, GUI is responsive, restoring a file takes a second or two.

The same backup under Catalina took about 10...20 minutes to house-keep, if there were little or no changes. Big Sur appears 2-3x faster in this scenario, at least initially. Time will tell, how responsive it becomes with more history to organize. The Catalina comparison had many months of version history. Might do another test in a week or few to see if the update time remains constant/predicable.
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Update on this. It appears that APSF backup performance under the normal twice-a-day cycle that I have, is similar to what I had with HFS+. It's not magically faster when it has some actual work to do. My backup starts at 3:30 AM and it's done at about 3:45...3:50 AM. No major difference compared to what I had under Catalina and HFS+ backups.

Background: I've set the backup with TimeMachineEditor.app to start every 12 hours. Hourly backups are nice, but if I want to detach the MacBook Pro during the day, I don't want to wait for the backup to complete, or accidentally detach the NAS before it's done, potentially leading to a corrupted backup. It's still doing hourly APFS snapshots into the local drive though, so I do have hourly backups for the same-day work.
 
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With the probable delay of iPhone 12 until Oct, and the likely release of the new iOS around that time, when do people thing that macOS Big Sur will be released.
 
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Are there any AdBlockers that utilize the new "features" in Safari, ie. work as adblockers like in the old days.
 
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jiiikoo said:
Are there any AdBlockers that utilize the new "features" in Safari, ie. work as adblockers like in the old days.
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Does "in the old days" mean before Apple nerfed Safari extensions? If so, Adguard is the best ad blocker I've used on the Mac by leaps and bounds. It runs as a kext and can block ads system wide. It also blocks at the DNS level for some of the tricker stuff, which also saves bandwidth since your computer will terminate connections to known ad domains at the earliest stages of a web request.

This is getting off-topic, however.
 
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