Popular Post Musicophile Posted November 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2020 I'm somewhat stupid. I love upgrades. I love being on the latest version of things. I know the risks I'm taking. So in spite of 3 different companies of software that I'm routinely using (Audirvana among others) strongly recommended against updating to Big Sur from the start, given the major overhaul of the OS and supposedly lots of remaining bugs, I just went ahead and installed it on my 2017 MacBook Pro which is my major private computer and my one and only music server. And you know what, so far everything is working perfectly fine. I'll probably end up regretting it at some point, but so far nothing to report, except for that I actually kind of like the new UI look. Has anybody else been upgrading already? AnotherSpin and PYP 1 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, 992Sam said: Honestly, unless there has been a massive change to the Kernel, I can't see how this Mac OS is a new OS... it's just an evolution of the OS X (BSD Unix) based Mac OS.. right? It's the first new version number in quite a while. It looks a lot like IOS. But I don't think it changed the kernel. It appears to have a new file system, CarbonCopyCloner currently can't do bootable backups. 992Sam 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 9 hours ago, JoeWhip said: Considering I use CCC for backups, I will pass on this update. CCC works on Big Sur, but because of file format changes just isn't able to create independently bootable volumes just yet as they used to on previous versions. They claim they'll be able to address that in a soon to come update. https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/frequently-asked-questions-about-ccc-and-macos-11 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted November 14, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2020 One quick recommendation regarding Big Sur: If you, like me, are still using Time Machine for the regular backups (I use CCC on top), I'd recommend starting a new Time Machine volume on Big Sur. The reason being is that Big Sur's time machine uses the new APFS file format, but only if you create a new backup from scratch. If you keep your existing backups, it will stick with HFS. And I must admit I found TM's performance really getting worse over time. The backup sizes it calculated (because of the recent "improvements" of the backup algorithm) and the time it took were just a mess. It seems that Apple was able to fix this in the new version. I'm backing up my entire main disc now from scratch on a newly APFS formatted volume, and for the first time the backup size makes any sense, and it progresses at a much faster speed than previously. ecwl and PYP 2 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted November 15, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2020 12 hours ago, vmartell22 said: Yowsa... Dude, I am still on High Sierra... I a admire your "Damn The Torpedos" attitude - that's how things get fixed for the rest of us! :D v So far, still nothing to fix. I never really liked Catalina, this, if you can live with the iOS look, is actually subjectively better. vmartell22 and Bill Brown 2 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
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