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OSX High Sierra is now available via the Mac App Store as a free upgrade
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Chittagong
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Works well on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015). Much, much snappier than before. But filesystem is still Mac OS Extended.
Has anyone who uses Parallels to run Windows upgraded to High Sierra yet? The switch to APFS appears to cause problems with Windows and it's the only thing keeping me from updating at this point. I just upgraded to Parallels 12 a couple months ago, and it looks like I'll have to upgrade again to make it work on HS, which effectively makes this a paid upgrade for me.
sankt-Antonio
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Could someone with a 3rd party SSD verify if the app "SSD Fan Control" is still working?
I can't find anything on the net.
I can't find anything on the net.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Do you mean SMC fan control? SSDs dont typically have fans.
sankt-Antonio
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No, SSD Fan control, a free version of all these fan control apps (with 3rd party SSD's installed on older iMACs the Mac thinks the "HDD" is hot as lava and the fan needs to run 100% - all the time)
KharmaPolice
Member
Ever since upgrading I noticed that opening large files is very slow. I notice this especially with movie files (doesn't matter with which program I open them). The larger the file the longer it takes. For a particularly large file (10GB) it takes a couple seconds, then a small window with progress bar pops up which says Check "filename"... and after a few more seconds the file finally opens.
Anyone else experiencing this? I have filevault deactivated.
Anyone else experiencing this? I have filevault deactivated.
I shall wait for a .2 release on this, methinks. After that, it'll probably be the last upgrade I have on my 2010 Mac Pro, because I'd rather keep 32-bit legacy support and even if my computer is supported next year I doubt any of the new features will improve my SKU's capabilities.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Huh. Have only put SSDs into Minis, Mac Pros, and MacBook Pros and haven't run into this.
Well, heres a fun APFS problem Im having. Deleting files is not freeing up space. Seriously. And now I can just fucking sit here and watch my free space ticking down like a countdown constantly because space isnt being reclaimed when files get deleted or changed. Currently booting into recovery and running first aid to see if that fixes anything.
Zombie James
Banned
I have no idea why macOS starts hitting swap when the memory pressure is so low but seems High Sierra hasn't addressed that.
Answer: it fixed nothing and a reboot fixed nothing, so now its back up and format time. Yay.
opticalmace
Member
I have no idea why macOS starts hitting swap when the memory pressure is so low but seems High Sierra hasn't addressed that.
It's only 2.3MB though? Maybe just some configuration files or something.
I'm guessing yes.
I don't think so. I've made a clean install of High Sierra and I had to download the 12.7 update for iTunes.
Good! Thanks.
Chip N Chance
Member
So how does someone like me benefit from this new hard drive file system? Mine is just a plain old HDD iMac. Because so far i'm struggling to find any new features in this years update.
Yup. There's not a single feature I care about in this update. I haven't even installed it yet and I don't even feel like doing so.
dglavimans
Member
I upgraded but when I lock my screen now with the touch bar it doesn't lock it (like the screen doesn't turn off.) But it instead goes to the login menu. Is this correct behaviour and can this be turned off?
ibitegirls
Member
PLEASE HALP
my mac book mini (2012) downloaded the macos high sierra and during the upgrade process something happened and the mini never upgraded completely. now when i try to boot up it shows "kernel panic" message and gets stuck at the login screen. i am unable to proceed any further. i've tried clearing the NVRAM and SMC and all kinds of other things, but no luck
do i just load the macos package on a usb and use that to boot and re-flash the mini?
my mac book mini (2012) downloaded the macos high sierra and during the upgrade process something happened and the mini never upgraded completely. now when i try to boot up it shows "kernel panic" message and gets stuck at the login screen. i am unable to proceed any further. i've tried clearing the NVRAM and SMC and all kinds of other things, but no luck
do i just load the macos package on a usb and use that to boot and re-flash the mini?
Napoleonthechimp
Member
I don't think it works like that. I had to download it, and then use a special program to prepare the USB stick as a bootable media. But is there anyway to boot to a recovery partition and try and fix it that way?
Leona Lewis
Banned
Same. The "Verifying (filename)" issue is something I've seen reported on other forums too.
Apparently the update is automatically quarantining files and messing up the read/write permissions. Amateur hour over at Apple with this release.
KharmaPolice
Member
That's annoying. Anything we can do on our end? Or do we have to wait for apple to (hopefully) fix it?
Chip N Chance
Member
Maybe thats why they named basically the same as last years update, but "High". Its more of a half step. Oh well its free.
badcrumble
Member
Yeah - it's definitely something I'm going to install for the basic security fixes and APFS performance improvements, but there's very little reason not to wait for the x.0.1 update.
Pretty sure the issues are to do with Boot Camp. Parallels works just fine.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Fucking hell, Safari 11 took away Shared Links. I used that as a ghetto RSS feed, was really nice
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Just downloaded it, the only thing I noticed messed up is a web browser game I play on chrome. Some of the CG artwork doesnt load or take awhile to load.
Right, its an issue if you want to do a VM of your Boot Camp partition. Its the best feature of Parallels.
Chip N Chance
Member
Mine got stuck for almost all day on the "Were setting up your mac" screen. Its after the full install, and you can see the wallpaper in the background. I eventually turned my mac off, and it took me to the desktop like normal. I hope everything is fine lol.
IonicSnake
Banned
Installed it on my 2011 MacBook Pro, seems to be working fine.
After using it for a few days, it works fine on my MacBook 2015. It's nice to be able to view and edit the HEIC pics of my phone (new editor features are cool!) and new Safari is also neat. However, I noticed some visual glitches (like a black flicker for a split second) on Finder windows sometimes.
LordOfChaos
Member
Fusion drive or pure rust drive?
Fusion Drives will get updated at a later date, probably found a bug they couldn't fix for release. HDDs are unknown at this point, might hurt performance on them.
Yeah that's only a thing with the iMacs, they added a custom extra cable to the SATA controller and without it, the iMac doesn't know the temperature of the SSD, so makes the worst case assumption and ramps up fans to 100%.
There were cables you could get for like 30 dollars to remedy that, massive upcharge but a niche market unfortunately.
stargateheaven
Member
The update isn't even there for me. What gives?
Kill Your Masters
Member
It's not under updates, you have to get it from the App Store separately.
stargateheaven
Member
Doh. Thanks. lol
Captain Skeleton
Member
Anyone else getting a brief flash of a wierd green tinted flipped desktop when awakening the screen?
opticalmace
Member
It definitely seems more speedy in animations and whatnot on the desktop. I like this update! Even at the highest 'scaled' resolution it's relatively smooth on my 2013 rMBP. Nicely done Apple.
Though, sucks to hear about the problems that some people have been having (in this thread).
Though, sucks to hear about the problems that some people have been having (in this thread).
Wowfunhappy
Member
Hmm, I wonder if this will still work for me given that I have bootcamp on an entirely separate drive.
I thought there was a terminal command for this? I know there's a terminal command to turn it *on* on newer Macbook Pros where it's off by default. I would have assumed the opposite was also a thing. Maybe it's just built into the hardware?
LordOfChaos
Member
Why the crap is there no native layer for using an iPad + Pencil as a graphics tablet attached to a Mac yet?
I think Craig mentioned this in passing in the last year, making them work better together with the mac instead of making macs touchscreen, but I don't see it yet. There are apps that do it ok.
Astropad does it quite well, and they're coming out with a USB device next year that should improve it even more. However I like using Intuos since my hand doesn't have to cover the screen.
formasymphonic
Member
I backed Luna because it seemed interesting but tbh i really don't want to be paying a subscription for something Apple should have baked into the OS.
Installing High Sierra made my iMac freak out which had me scared for a bit there. It started glitching out when it was installing. Screen switching off and on. Green glitch blobs across the screen. And when it was done installing it opened my Mac with 3/4 of the screen just black. And eventually added all kinds of visual glitches.
Had to do a hard reset and everything seems to be fine now. But that was freaky as fuck and now I'm slightly worried about my pretty new iMac...
Had to do a hard reset and everything seems to be fine now. But that was freaky as fuck and now I'm slightly worried about my pretty new iMac...
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