Mac OS High Sierra available from 25/9

The_Abyss · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:27

I'm sure most here are already aware, but just a heads up that High Sierra is available for download from 6 pm BST tonight.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/macos-high-sierra-release-date-new-features-3647580/

There's a note on there for beta users to exercise caution on upgrading, if they have a Fusion drive. If you haven't installed the beta then apparently you're good to go.

The_Abyss · 25 Sep 2017 at 19:46

rMBP just finishing, iMac still downloading

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2017 at 08:24

All running fine here, both machines upgraded. I haven't tried out many of the new features yet though.

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2017 at 17:26

I've worked a full day, on and off, on the MacBook Pro. Mostly web and email, and there's no noticeable change in performance or battery life. Safari auto-play blocking seems to work pretty well.

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2017 at 21:48

Mine's the same as it was before - I'm just copying some 150 files of 3.5gb over to mine now and it is ok. I run mine just as a shared network drive, over wifi rather than wired, if that makes any difference. The only clunkiness is that the drive will disconnect every now and then, but it didn't lose anything after this update.

The_Abyss · 29 Sep 2017 at 13:48

Is there possibly a memory leak in Safari now? Last night I was watching a few YouTube videos while working, and it was fine, but then put BBC iPlayer on and it crashed the browser after 20 minutes and would then crash again every 5 minutes or so before I gave up. I kept working on the iMac and put iPlayer on the MacBook next to it instead to carry on watching, and then that crashed too after around 10 minutes.

The_Abyss · 30 Sep 2017 at 06:46

Yes, that's the same problem for me. Other tabs were fine. Perhaps it is just iPlayer related.

The_Abyss · 3 Oct 2017 at 21:22

No problems for that here - transferred a 14 gb file just fine recently

The_Abyss · 24 Oct 2017 at 21:11

No issues for me, but I really only use it to back up

The_Abyss · 28 Nov 2017 at 23:01

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/temporarily-fix-macos-high-sierra-root-bug/

Oh dear, Apple.