macOS Catalina (10.15) - Bugs and bug fixes

[TTTedP]

i have a bug: Messages app is empty and not downloading chats from icloud

how can i fix this?

be sure you have 'enable messages in iCloud checked' under iMessage preferences. Mine became unchecked on it's own after the install.
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I am running into so many scenarios where I cannot click on things - it's like a window or a button becomes non functional - even within native apps. This is happening to me across 3 different machines - MBPro, MB Air, and MB.

I get this in iOS 13 as well.

 

[FiftyTwoSouth]

Two things for me.

1: Every time I reboot, Catalina reverifies my apps. Some I'm not even running. Some that can't even run. Like iPhoto. Every time.

2: Preview now gives me an error when I try to print to PDF.

 

[loekf]

AW4 doesn't unlock my iMac anymore it seems. This Mac can't communicate with the Apple Watch. Well don't want to go through the iCloud, keychain hell. Already had plenty of issues with WatchOS 6.x and iOS 13.x forcing me to unpair/pair the AW4 several times, before all complications on the watch face returned.

Also spotted an iMessage warning "could not send this message", when I logged in this morning but no idea where it came from.

 

[macguru9999]

Just an install question .... if you have an imac, say, with a fusion drive and update it to catalina then it converts the fusion drive to apfs, right ? What are the chances of this actually working ? I came across a client who had upgraded a fusion drive from 10.10 to 10.15 in one step and it appeared that it broke the fusion drive.

 

[josduc]

Bug: I find my Samba shares unmounted very often after I wake my iMac from sleep. This wasn't the case before Catalina.

 

[Blue Hawk]

Another issue: Just downloaded an app from the App Store. It says again that I have to login first, but I was already logged in. The login wasn't for the download, or the message would say "Login to Download" or something.

Wrong since the last versions:
About my Mac still shows the free storage wrong. It does count "documents" and "photos" in "documents" together. And still "photos" seperately. At least they have fixed the problem with the system size. It does show me the system data size now.

 

[chris4565]

Anyone's TV app also bugged? The "Up Next" section only displays 1 show for me (it's not even the most recent one).

 

[loekf]

Bug: I find my Samba shares unmounted very often after I wake my iMac from sleep. This wasn't the case before Catalina.

On a remote NAS ?

Since High Sierra when (I think) they changed the mounting points, I'm using Automounter (see Appstore, costs some money), which automatically looks for shares and mounts them. Works great.
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Just an install question .... if you have an imac, say, with a fusion drive and update it to catalina then it converts the fusion drive to apfs, right ? What are the chances of this actually working ? I came across a client who had upgraded a fusion drive from 10.10 to 10.15 in one step and it appeared that it broke the fusion drive.

Should work. On my previous Mac with a fusion drive Mojave did the update. On High Sierra it was not mature enough.

Think best thing is to re-install Mojave: receovery mode, wipe drive, reformat drive as APFS and try again.

 

[drdaz]

It seems they screwed up UI compositor and other GUI-related subsystems. I'm using an external display (MacBook Pro 2015 13") and sometimes prefer to use it exclusively while totally dimming the built in retina screen so I can put the laptop aside and that's when I set it up to mirror the displays. Once it's being mirrored, GUI becomes significantly slower and all animations are excessively sluggish.

I hope this gets fixed in a .1 update since it's frustrating as hell.

Lots of stuff went wrong here indeed. I found with 2 external monitors attached, it reliably KPs within 10 minutes of inactivity. Not with 1 or 0 attached though.

Restored to my last Mojave backup 👍🏼

 

[Menujusenja]

This is a Bug? Have a lot drive partition, my desktop show 4 hdd. Make me confused!

 

[cool11]

This should be a classical bug....
how can I make finder, to always keep the size/dimensions I want?
I want it almost full screen (until the boundaries of the dock), but every time I boot my mac and I open it, it opens in a tiny window.
How can I make it remember to always open in big size?

 

[chris4565]

How can I make it remember to always open in big size?

Also encountering this issue. One tip (in case you don’t know): To make a window full-screen very fast (the Windows full-screen style, not the „Apple green dot way style“ there’s a trick: Hold down “Option“ and then double-click a corner of the window (where there is the diagonal arrow).

 

[leventozler]

Also encountering this issue. One tip (in case you don’t know): To make a window full-screen very fast (the Windows full-screen style, not the „Apple green dot way style“ there’s a trick: Hold down “Option“ and then double-click a corner of the window (where there is the diagonal arrow).

You can also hold Option and click the green dot.

 

[Boardiesboi]

My AirPods will not stay connected with my MacBook on Catalina.

It connects for 5 seconds then automatically reverts to being connected to my iPhone.

Anyone else with a similar issue?

 

[chris4565]

You can also hold Option and click the green dot.

But that doesn't expand the window in all 4 directions.

 

[leventozler]

But that doesn't expand the window in all 4 directions.

Sorry, you're right it expands to full screen only on same apps, like Mail.

 

[AjTee]

Hello, I notified that when I connect HDMI cable and enable video on F1 TV or Youtube or somewhere then when I finish watching first video sound dissapear in second video watching. I need to unplug and plug HDMI again. Anyone notified same thing?

 

[mspman]

I mean, I don't know where to start. I have three Mail accounts, they're all screwed up with MIME errors and password problems. Then, I can't mount my NFS shares (which is a huge problem). My Airpods constantly disconnect. Windows go dead - I click and click and nothing happens until I shut the lid and wake it back up again.

I was so frustrated that I pulled up my "Bang Head Here" image so I could put it on my office wall. I went to print it.. AND IT WON'T PRINT EITHER!!!!

BANG HEAD HERE!!!!

 

[cool11]

Also encountering this issue. One tip (in case you don’t know): To make a window full-screen very fast (the Windows full-screen style, not the „Apple green dot way style“ there’s a trick: Hold down “Option“ and then double-click a corner of the window (where there is the diagonal arrow).

So there is no way to make finder remember the size I want to use always as user?

 

[petercw2]

while .mail is working for me, it does NOT produce any search results or will it even begin to make suggestions as I type in the search window. any suggestions?

 

[AjTee]

What a strange bug/glitch...when I turn off screen or close the lid and then turn on it again, Apple logo with progress bar show for a while...

Very very strange...

Someone with same issue? Tried to reset NVRAM and SMC but it still appear. Please take look at the video below.

 

[Autokon]

Bug: 50/50 chance that after I restart or turn my Macbook Pro back on, it ignores that I have unchecked "Reopen windows when logging back in" so I'll have a pile of apps re-opening on boot/restart even though I ALWAYS have that option unchecked. Anyone else encounter this? Ugh, so annoying, but minimal I suppose. Note: clean install here.

 

[no_more]

AW4 no longer unlocks Macbook Pro 2018. It worked perfectly. But now doesn't work.
I've seen that people suggest to logout from iCloud account, for me it didn't help. I've tried to logout on mac, and no results.

 

[AjTee]

AW4 no longer unlocks Macbook Pro 2018. It worked perfectly. But now doesn't work.
I've seen that people suggest to logout from iCloud account, for me it didn't help. I've tried to logout on mac, and no results.

Have you tried to re-enable this function?

 

[Super Spartan]

Bug: 50/50 chance that after I restart or turn my Macbook Pro back on, it ignores that I have unchecked "Reopen windows when logging back in" so I'll have a pile of apps re-opening on boot/restart even though I ALWAYS have that option unchecked. Anyone else encounter this? Ugh, so annoying, but minimal I suppose. Note: clean install here.

Same here, this is the first time I am using macOS and find this really annoying.