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Can you summarize what’s changed here compared to Mojave, apart from the desktop background?”. Another made a remark that was as bitter as it was funny: “Sooo… I upgraded. Another was overwhelmed and bewildered by the initial barrage of security-related dialog boxes, to the point that they were afraid they had done something wrong (or something had gone awry) when installing Catalina. An acquaintance of mine was crushed when she realised that not only did Aperture not work under Catalina, but that Apple had stopped developing it some time ago. People asking me “Where the heck is iTunes? Where’s my music?”, or shocked that some of their applications don’t work anymore (32-bit apps, I assume). I chose to publish the email excerpt above because it was one of the most detailed I had received, and it came from what appears to be a rather tech-savvy person.īut some of the feedback from regular folks is just as sad.
To more serious troubles like the partial loss of email archives, unexpected system freezes and applications crashing, preferences that don’t stick, Catalina’s poor handling of external displays connected to MacBooks, inability to access previous Time Machine backups, and so forth. The complaints are varied, and go from minor things like begrudgingly accept the loss of 32-bit apps, or disliking the strictness and user hostility of the added security measures. They’re from people who simply wrote me to let me know they have upgraded to Catalina and ‘survived’, and that they have no issues to report so far. They’re 83 so far and - spoiler alert - 98% of them are complaints. The amount of feedback I’ve received about Catalina in the past few months is staggering, to the point that I have created a dedicated folder in Mail to collect all the messages that keep coming on a fairly regular basis. The only part I’ve left out is this person’s criticisms regarding the new first-party apps (Music, TV, Podcasts), their UI, and the splitting of iTunes into different apps. This is a good chunk of one of the latest emails I have received from people (some I know from the Internet, some are friends, some - like this example - are strangers) complaining about Mac OS 10.15 Catalina. Maybe it’ll recognize my TM backups again and I can go back to before this nightmare went down. I’m tempted to wipe the mini again and downgrade to Mojave.
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It has a fresh install of Catalina, it’s like starting from scratch again, and I’m already tired of clicking on dialog boxes asking me permission for so much stuff like accessing folders that OBVIOUSLY I want the OS to access. And honestly I don’t know what to do with the mini. Now obviously I’m not going to touch the MacBook.
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But I didn’t expect this ordeal when I went to update to Catalina. Never had a problem with my Macs, hardware or software. I’ve always trusted Apple not to screw things up, and honestly everything up to now has always worked for me. I’ve always been a “TM is enough” sort of guy. Does my backup strat suck? Yeah it probably does. At the moment I have no way to access the most updated files of the past two weeks. I manually copied my Mail archives and tried having Mail on the mini to import them, but no joy. Luckily I also have an older MacBook, and while I don’t keep everything in sync, I was able to access most of my stuff and transfer files and everything to the mini.
This time Catalina installed properly but then TM didn’t even recognize the backups from my external drive. I thought I could restore the important stuff from a TM backup. So I just switched off the mini and reinstalled Catalina from scratch, a fresh install. It just hung for hours, and I mean hours as I left the mini at that all night and the morning after there was no progress whatsoever. First, when I went on and updated my Mac mini from Mojave to Catalina, the installation didn’t complete. I don’t know if mine was just sheer bad luck, but since installing 10.15 I’ve run into so many issues.
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I read your post and thought, “Well, he doesn’t want to upgrade his machines and he has his reasons, but I don’t share his concerns, I’m gonna be fine.” Hoo boy, was I mistaken. I thought your critique was too subjective to be taken as ‘advice for everybody’ if you get my drift.
When I read your post Mac OS Catalina: More Trouble Than It’s Worth I honestly thought you were just bashing Apple for the sake of bashing.
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