MacOS Sierra installation question.

[OllyW]

I've got a clone of my El Cap install, Backblaze and a Time Machine backup. Juuuuust in case.

So far the upgrade:

- nuked my desktop folders (lost in the iClouds). Restored the files from Backblaze.
- blew up my Photos library thanks to some sort of DB error. It rebuilt it and then regenerated 21,075 thumbnails (the photos were still there).
- broke Safari Extensions including 1Password, Buffer and Ghostery. They look to be deleted, but aren't. I periodically have to drag them back up to the toolbar to get things working again.
- broke SMTP for my work mail. There's some new thing to "manage connections automatically" that doesn't. Fiddled around and overrode that so I could put them in manually and it all works fine now.

That's exactly the type of crap I can't be bothered with anymore.

 

[Crazy Badger]

Main drive of my iMac but there isn't a problem if that doesn't work as I'll just use my MBA. Won't upgrade the MBA until officially released in the comfort that I've already tested everything I needed to on the iMac.

Similar with the iPad and iPhone with iOS10. iPad upgraded but not the phone.

I'm only really being brave with the aTV4 as if that breaks my fall back is an older aTV3 which I'like struggle with now

I've been pleasantly surprised how well they are all working and after a few minor issues (safari and siri) all are working almost as well as the previous versions.

 

[AustinIllini]

Finally have concluded I will be installing macOS Sierra when it is released in October and not a day before. Not worth the hassle.

 

[dBeats]

I've got a clone of my El Cap install, Backblaze and a Time Machine backup. Juuuuust in case.

So far the upgrade:
...
- broke Safari Extensions including 1Password, Buffer and Ghostery. They look to be deleted, but aren't. I periodically have to drag them back up to the toolbar to get things working again.
...

I found just quitting and restarting Safari a few times automagically fixes that. Again, old, wise, and lazy....

 

[S.B.G]

I've been using an older Samsung 830 SSD as the external drive for the public beta's. This time I decided to upgrade the 840 EVO in the MBP to an 850 EVO and did that this afternoon. Then I'll repurpose the 840 EVO to be the external SSD for public beta testing.

I used a StarTech drive duplicator to copy my data from the 840 to the 850 and that took about an hour to do the 500 GB drives.

Bring on the public beta!

 

[Sappharad]

Poll is missing a 4th option. ;-)

I installed it in VMWare Fusion. Two reasons:
1. Upgrading through last year's El Capitan betas put my mac into a weird state where some older 32-bit apps didn't function correctly (windows would open in the background without focus) and USB devices would sometimes but rarely cause a panic / crash. Doing a completely fresh install without restoring Time Machine backups was the only way to everything running perfectly again, so some "bad" files must've snuck into my user profile. Starting fresh has been perfectly stable ever since.
2. I'm running a 2008 Mac Pro. Despite the lack of native support, it downloaded and upgraded a 10.11 VM without any complaints and runs fine. I've been ready to upgrade to a trash can for the past year now, but am stuck waiting for a hardware refresh. Waiting for a refresh became an even better idea now that they're only supporting hardware 6 years old or less, because the current pro is already half way to it's death. Hoping they'll have something to sell me by the time the final comes out, but right now I only need 10.12 for testing stuff anyway.

 

[maflynn]

Poll is missing a 4th option. ;-)

Done, and good suggestion. I've largely foregotton about vmware

 

[VoiceofSF]

I have a 2010 17" mbp i7 but only 4 gigs of ram. This was my test machine. Upgraded El Cap beta first and all was well except for Chrome. I then did an erase & fresh install of Sierra with the same results. Other than Chrome, nothing worth mentioning. So I decided - what the heck. Upgraded my late 2012 mini, i5, 10 gigs of ram single drive and also no issues except Chrome. It's been very stable and caused me to rediscover Firefox, although Safari runs very very efficiently. Holding off on my main mbp retina, however, since it's also my work machine. Give it a week & I'll probably say what the heck again.

 

[idoccurt]

So have you guys (and gals) installed Sierra on your main drive?

I was thinking how many brave souls there are to install it on the main system drive or those who used an external (or other secondary hard/ssd drive).

I just installed on my main drive..no issues