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I asked this on the Sequoia thread as well, but no one has answered there yet. After watching the latest update on OCLP, and Tahoe support status from Mr. Macintosh, he said a lot of people were reporting issues with Safari 26.1, and suggested unchecking it from updates, and not to install it. My question is, what kind of problems are people having? I have 15.7.2 on this iMac 17,1, with Safari 26.1, and while I don't use Safari as my default browser, when I have used it, I haven't noticed any issues with it. Are the issues only related to non metal, or AVX2 Macs, and can be disregarded since this iMac supports both? Is it something different. Was just curious, Thanks.
 
Greetings everyone

I'm a bit surprised — I just clean installed Sonoma OCLP on my daughter's 13" MBP Late 2013 (16GB). I put a few simple apps (Paintbrush, SuperDuper, App Cleaner and The Unarchiver) and installed MS Office 2021.

In my testing it ran beautifully. Sure, launching Sys Prefs took longer as did switching between settings pages, but there was no UI sluggishness at all. Menus dropped down as they normally do and I could move windows without jagged movement. Safari scrolled normally. Even Microsoft apps (once loaded which did take longer) ran well.

Today, two days after the upgrade and without any further changes to the computer since the clean install, it's as if the computer is running on molasses. Safari scrolling is choppy, moving windows is choppy, menu animations are positively awful. The whole interface has become basically impossible to use.

Has anyone encountered this? I have installed a number of macOS versions with OCLP, including on this machine, and have never seen anything like it. In case anyone has a suggestion what could be the problem I'd be most grateful for your help.

Thanks in advance
Philip
 
pullman said:
Has anyone encountered this? I have installed a number of macOS versions with OCLP, including on this machine, and have never seen anything like it. In case anyone has a suggestion what could be the problem I'd be most grateful for your help.
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Make sure you have everything disabled for macOS automatic updates in System Settings. Then open OCLP app, uninstall root patches, and reinstall root patches.
 
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Yet another glitch in the update sequence for macOS Sonoma 14.8.2. First I upgraded to OCLP 2.4.1 and then I went to update OTA to macOS 14.8.2.

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Anyone a hint how to resolve this issue?
 
Bigwaff said:
Make sure you have everything disabled for macOS automatic updates in System Settings. Then open OCLP app, uninstall root patches, and reinstall root patches.
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Thank you very much for your reply. I was actually unable to reinstall root patches because I got the systemversion.plist error, but your reply helped me find Mr Macintosh's video about this which says that one should delete the downloaded macOS upgrade files and then commence the update and abort it.

Because of the missing patches wifi didn't work on my machine, however, and I also couldn't connect it to my phone via cable as an update needed to be installed for that to happen. In the end I followed the comments under that video and decided to commence the Tahoe upgrade and cancel it by clicking the X next to the download progress bar (which weirdly progressed even though I had neither wifi nor iPhone hotspot...). I then clicked the OCLP app's root patch button and was asked to reboot. After the reboot the system runs as it should.
 
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Any news on revised KDK's for the 14.8.x builds? I am still running on KDK_14.7.6_23H626, working fine on iMac 14,1.
Seems like a while for a release.
 
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