Miscellaneous Mac OSX update to 'Big Sur' - caution

[DavidUK]

"The all-new Safari. It’s love at first site.​

Whether you’re streaming, searching, or just browsing, Safari is the best way to surf the web on all your Apple devices. And its biggest update ever brings brand-new customization options, improves on industry-leading performance and battery life, and introduces powerful features designed to protect your privacy."

Source: macOS Big Sur

 

[Pete Thomas]

The all-new Safari. It’s love don't know what all the fuss is about at first site.​

I stopped using safari (except for testing) when it dropped support for one password (non subscription version)

Sorry Ivan, your thread is now officially hijacked into yet another moan about Apple thread.

 

[DavidUK]

Not sure why I use Safari as I could just as easily use Chrome as I do in Parallels on my MacBook.
I guess it's what came up 6 years ago and I just went with it then.

Some more info on "new" TM here:

macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica review

Yes, you read that right—Mac OS X (or macOS 10?) is no more.

arstechnica.com

macOS Big Sur Features: Everything New in Today's Release

Apple is set to release macOS Big Sur in a few hours based on past macOS release timelines, and it's a major update with a whole slew of new features. Ahead of the launch, we've highlighted the biggest changes so you can get a quick overview of what to expect when downloading it later today...

www.macrumors.com

See "comments" at this 2nd link.

 

[Sue]

I stopped using Safari in favour of Opera on mac Opera Touch on IOS a while ago. It's a great browser imho and I've always found it reliable. I still haven't upgraded to Big Sur

 

[DavidUK]

I'm still on Mojave... should I go to Catalina or is that impossible now?
I'll leave Big Sur a while I think.

PS. My TM backup is to an external drive ONLY for that purpose.

 

[6441]

Just as there is no perfect combination of saxophone, mouthpiece, reed, ligature, there's no perfect hardware, software combination. Every one has a tradeoff and the whole thing is subjective. Two factors that will change Apple forever are their new chip and moving to IOS. They've mostly lost interest in the computer end and for a while now, build quality has been down. My two older Apple products are from 2011 and can"t be updated beyond High Sierra. Everything still founctions just fine. The desktop has a SSD added which makes a huge difference in performance. Nine years is a pretty good life cycle for a desktop. My main music computer now is a Mac Mini and while it could be updated, I'm in absolutely no hurry to do that. Stuff always gets broken for weeks, sometimes months, when these major updates come out.

 

[Jimmymack]

I’m also still on Mojave, and slowly sinking into the west, as too much other software will need replacing, Catalina kills them as well. There are alternatives to all of them but it gets boring having to keep adjusting to new programs that don’t offer anything better. I expect I’ll eventually be forced to give in.

One thing I (haven’t) loved about Apple for a long time is the way they like to pretend that the whole world lives wirelessly and you can just grab what you need out of the ether. I like wires.

 

[buddy lee]

I'm 100% getting a new Mac Book Pro this weekend (which will be my first), based on the fact that I need a new laptop and the benchmarks I saw on the Air with the new chip were off the charts...

I do plan on using it to record, and my interface (Audient ID22) apparently is "working on" getting it ready to work with the new OS.

Here's hoping.

 

[jazzdoh]

What I absolutely hate about Apple is when there is new software programs that will only work with newer versions of OSX and iOS so that you have to buy a new iPad/iPhone to load that software, this mainly occurs with iPad and iPhone.
I have used iMac's for around 10 years and use bootcamp to load Windows to get the best of both worlds.
My first iMac lasted 7 years and I used to have Windows 7 loaded on it, when I bought my 2nd iMac 3 years ago Windows 7 wasn't supported so had to spend more money on Windows 10, very annoying because I was happy with 7, it just annoying that Apple do this but I suppose they have to make money somewhere.

 

[Jimmymack]

it’s just annoying that Apple do this but I suppose they have to make money somewhere.

I think Apple are getting by.

 

[Tenor Viol]

How did it go?

NB: I just installed Big Sur on a spare external clone - best thing is that the chime is back!

Not good. Apple are insistent on rewinding back to Catalina. Problem with that is I can't see what's in Time Machine. This is partly because Western Digital seem to have messed up and it's not working with Big Sur... I had multiple sessions on chat with WD yesterday and didn't really get anywhere.

 

[jazzdoh]

I think Apple are getting by.

Yeah, I said that but meant it sarcastically implying the same as you.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Not good. Apple are insistent on rewinding back to Catalina.

Can you try cloning your TM drive to the new external drive?

Open disk utility, choose yuor TM drive on the left, click on restore and choose your new drive

Read very carefully the message before you click on restore again.

Assuming your new drive is named something like New 4TB It will say something like:

“New 4TB” will be erased and replaced with the data from the volume selected below:

(Name of your current TM drive)

As the clone will not be neamed in Time Machine Preferences, I believe it should be readable in Finder.

Worth a try IMO

 

[Tenor Viol]

Can you try cloning your TM drive to the new external drive?

Open disk utility, choose yuor TM drive on the left, click on restore and choose your new drive

Read very carefully the message before you click on restore again.

Assuming your new drive is named something like New 4TB It will say something like:

“New 4TB” will be erased and replaced with the data from the volume selected below:

(Name of your current TM drive)

As the clone will not be neamed in Time Machine Preferences, I believe it should be readable in Finder.

Worth a try IMO

Hi Pete

It's visible in Finder but not in Disk Utilities....

 

[Jimmymack]

Not good. Apple are insistent on rewinding back to Catalina. Problem with that is I can't see what's in Time Machine. This is partly because Western Digital seem to have messed up and it's not working with Big Sur... I had multiple sessions on chat with WD yesterday and didn't really get anywhere.

Did you rewind back to Catalina?

 

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