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Freefilesync running vey slow on mac11/25/2023 I’m hating some Catalina product manager (because I cant reset my password) and dev team (because of the migration bug that corrupted my login password) right now. The solution from Apple support is to take my machine into the Genius Bar. So: can’t login because Catalina messed up a migration, and I’m not using iCloud and don’t have the recovery code. I can’t even do another clean install because Catalina asks you for your account password in Recovery mode. When Catalina provides the recovery code it never said that this was the on my way to reset your password if you lose your login pass (or if it locks you out). And the recovery code I threw in 1Password just. Guessing the partial copy somehow messed up my ability to log in.Įver worse: I wasn’t using iCloud to reset my password. I would have expected cancelling to not move ANY data over. Migration assistant migrated some of my data over since my profile picture changed from a stock Catalina tennis ball photo to the custom one I used on Mojave. The migration hung (no progress after 3h) so I hit the cancel button. I did a clean install of Catalina and migrated from a Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant. Painfully I just ran into a serious restore bug with Catalina. But when I tried to backup the new system, it seemed to ignore the existing backup I had just restored from, proceeding to write 300+ GB all over again and not showing the older snapshots in the UI.Ĭatalina + Time Machine may have bricked my mac. I love the 16" MBP though, and restoring it to the exact state as my previous 15" MBP from a Time Machine backup was smooth and effortless. Apple is no longer the clear best, just the least worst. Core features like keyboard input, text selection, AirDrop, photo picker, iCloud Drive etc. Someone could write a daily blog about this. I run into at least one bug literally every day. Operating systems, software, services, built-in apps, even their developer tools and even in their frameworks and the Swift language itself. I ditched Microsoft about 10 years ago and have been a fervent proponent of Apple ever since, but since WWDC 2019, I cannot honestly recommend Apple to a new user anymore. Effectively choking out the Hackintosh community silently. The best approach would be to begin integrating these chips in the lineup and soon enough after some generations of new hardware and software, Mac's without these chips won't be supported by macOS. see their war on iPhone app sideloading & iPhone jailbreaking). (This behavior is not out of line with them. It would work but it'd be feeding more into the cat and mouse games we see. they definitely wouldn't just start pushing software updates hunting for Hackintosh systems. To approach what you said about sabotaging the Hackintosh systems with minimal effort. I agree with you that Apple hasn't been actively going against the community but its definitely begun. Sometime back we did not have these incredible tools (new bootloaders like Clover/Open Core, vastly improved audio/storage/graphics kexts, advanced SSDT/DSDT tools & patching) that now in its current state make Hackintosh much easier and straightforward. I've been involved in that community for a little over 10 years now. I think the reason you've been having a good Hackintosh experience is solely because of the amazing Hackintosh community and the advancements that have been made within these past few years. I've never had an issue with Time Machine (touch wood) and have found the ability to easily revert to previous versions a godsend sometimes. But it doesn't seem to me like anyone has proved that there are replicable serious bugs with Time Machine - although of course just because it's unproved doesn't mean it's not the case, and two backup methods are clearly better than one. At least one of these has been reported to Apple as a bug in Time Machine, and has apparently joined several previous reports of the same problem." (My emphasis)Ĭlearly there are people who have what I'd call serious bugs, including people in the comments here. "Several users have reported to me that they too have experienced serious problems with Time Machine in 10.15.3, both in making first full backups and in trying to restore from existing backups. I'd call silently corrupted backups a serious bug. That was my experience too, but I wouldn't call that a "serious bug" in the context of backups. The article is mostly about the fact that the first backup is slow.
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