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macOS Catalina (10.15) - Bugs and bug fixes

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ErikGrim said:
Here's a sledgehammer approach:

Quit the Mac App Store App and in terminal

open $TMPDIR../C/com.apple.appstore/

open ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore/

open ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstoreagent/

Delete the contents of all the folders.

Open the Activity Monitor and set its view to All Processes. Type in store to search for App Store related processes, and force-quit all of these daemon processes:
  • storeuid
  • Appstoreagent
  • storedownloadd - Handles downloads of apps found in the App Store.
  • storeinstalld - Covers app installation and their updates.
  • storeassetd - Handles all the resources and language files of the App Store.
  • storeaccountd - In charge of authentication, and acts as a bridge with your Apple ID account.

In terminal:

open ~/Library/Preferences

Here, delete the following files:
  • com.apple.appstored.plist
  • com.apple.storeagent.plist
  • com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate.plist

open ~/Library/Cookies

Delete this file:
  • com.apple.appstore.binarycookies

Choose Apple Menu > Restart.

Open App Store, log back in. Your problems should be gone.
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You are my hero! It is a very radical method but it worked :) I'll add your instructions to my Feedback in the hopes this will help Apple engineers.
 
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Anyone else getting errors like this when trying to open or save a file? Kind of a major bug to leave in a public beta...
 

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Gravydog316 said:
FIREFOX SAYS APPLE WILL FIX IT IN THEIR NEXT BETA.
it's an Apple issue, not Firefox, they said.
[doublepost=1565223461][/doublepost]Finder just crashed on me:
in my Downloads folder, I have a .html file called "download.html",
& the Finder app is crashing & restarting whenever i select the file.
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Same. If you turn off preview (View / Hide Preview) then it works. Basically Finder crashes trying to preview a file with a .html extension. I've logged a Feedback but as usual Apple have marked it as "open", "no similar reports". Please log one. At the moment, it seems they can't be bothered to consolidate feedback requests so yours will no doubt stay as the same status, but you never know.

As for Firefox ... yeah, I logged that Bugzilla report and have been waiting patiently (that's a lie, I swear at Safari daily) for the next beta to drop so I can go back to Firefox.
 
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adrianlondon said:
Same. If you turn off preview (View / Hide Preview) then it works. Basically Finder crashes trying to preview a file with a .html extension. I've logged a Feedback but as usual Apple have marked it as "open", "no similar reports". Please log one. At the moment, it seems they can't be bothered to consolidate feedback requests so yours will no doubt stay as the same status, but you never know.

As for Firefox ... yeah, I logged that Bugzilla report and have been waiting patiently (that's a lie, I swear at Safari daily) for the next beta to drop so I can go back to Firefox.
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I can say with confidence that the issue is not limited to HTML extension. I have had crashes with SVG as well.
 
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TimothyR734 said:
So true most likely the reason we have had to iOS 13 beta's since the last Catalina Beta the dev are stumped how to fix this mess
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It's been two weeks since beta 5 came out. If it comes out next week, it would be a three week gap, which is fairly common in the beta cycles.
 
I can't stop Spotlight searching in and finding files in iCloud Drive.

I use it as a backup for certain important files, but Spotlight keeps listing them first despite the fact they're typically older than the ones on my local SSD. It worked (putting iCloud Drive in the privacy tab) in Mojave but not any more. Feedback logged.
 
TonyM42 said:
Is anyone experiencing problems when using System Preferences, like selections not being selectable by mouse click, instead needing to be selected then confirmed by Return button, and sometimes not working at all....also I have several times been forced to close System Preferences by using Force Quit.
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Yes lets hope today's Beta fixes it.

I can't select a new Time Machine Disk because of this bug.

And NO the System Preferences Bug is still not fixed in the new Beta. :(
 
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I still can't quit Messenger (iMessages) if I try to do so only a few seconds after using it. Have to Force Quit. Same as previous beta. I'll update my Feedback thing.

Same with Spotlight always finding files in the iCloud Drive Documents folder, despite me adding iCloud (and the parent directory CloudStorage) to the privacy list. Feedback updated.

Edit: Deleting ~/Library/Preferences/*ichat* (9 files) seems to have fixed my iMessage hanging on quit. Weirdly, I didn't lose any settings either.
 
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I'm happy to note that during the two hours I've been using the latest beta, this is a big improvement. The previous betas rendered my test laptop, a rMB 12" almost unusable with constant beach balls that sometimes led to a complete stall, couldn't even log out or restart, even though the mouse was still moving. It was miserable.

But this time, after the first 30 minutes of housekeeping, it's been very fast. Everything loads instantly, and scrolling/zooming is smooth again. No more beach balls with Safari or Finder. I can approve many password prompts (not all, and it may remain that way) with my Apple Watch. Activity Monitor no longer shows rogue system processes stealing all CPU time.

Liking it so far, now there's light at the end of this rather dark beta period.
 
Hello,

How is PDF rendering in Preview?
Does it still exhibit the issue with text and graphics being irritatingly blurry?
I really hope that they fix this, as opening/viewing PDFs is one of the most enjoyable things about macOS.
For the time being, I have reverted back to Acrobat Reader. Bummer!
Strangely enough, PDF files when viewed in Quick look, are rendered correctly.

Thanks,
Stavros
 
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