** macOS Sierra / OS X 10.12 **

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Is anyone running the GM for macOS Sierra? How are you finding it?

I've updated my rMBP but I want to reformat and install clean however, it keeps giving me the white no-entry symbol when I boot from USB. Just isn't playing ball at all

 

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Released on 20th, but I can't seem to get it to install. Frustrating.

Downloaded the GM through the Apple website and made the bootable USB using Terminal. Any ideas?

 

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Hmm appears to be installing from the Install macOS Sierra.app in Applications now, but I wanted to do a fresh format using the USB stick. It boots from the USB but it displays the white no-entry, which is frustrating.

 

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Yeah I shall wait for this to update then boot to Disk Utility

 

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I suppose it will help for those who save everything to desktop.. not so much if you transfer 30GB of wedding photography there

 

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I did a recovery boot (Command + R) and had an option to "Perform clean install of macOS Sierra" but didn't want to risk anything going wrong and bricking my only Mac.

Will re-download and create a fresh bootable USB. For those interested I'll be using the following video guide (I only used Terminal first time.. no dragging and dropping). I don't think I messed up but I'll see anyway.

 

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So EVH you well on your way to having it installed? It took me around 25 minuets to install properly.

Got it installed, finally!

Bit of a drama though because I downloaded the OS from the App Store but the download was corrupt so it wouldn't let me re-download the file but equally it wasn't available in /Applications which meant I couldn't manually remove the installer.

Anyway, I booted in to recovery mode, wiped the main boot drive using disk utility then chose "install clean macOS Sierra" which forced it to download a new copy OTA.

One bug I've noticed. Perhaps someone can confirm... installed Audacity but when you launch it a duplicate dock icon appears. If you right click "keep in dock" then drag one of them off, you cannot launch the app. It's no big deal but it means whenever the app is open there's 2 icons on the dock.

 

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Were you able to confirm? I may remove Audacity anyway (it's updated so slowly), but I'd have to find a suitable alternative and I'm not sure if I can be bothered

Apart from Siri, I'm not noticing very many real-world changes. The "show folders at the top" when sorting by name is handy though.

 

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Something that is bugging me to the point where I might downgrade: Finder pops up a dialog complaining it can't find my FreeNAS server despite it being on 24/7 with a static IP and no other OS having issues. I need to go Cmd + K or browse the network for it to show up. Even then it logs me in as guest, despite me "save details to keychain".

Anyone else have an issue with NAS storage, not saving credentials?

 

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Anyway to perminantly force the mac to allow install software from anywhere on this ? It's really annoying I can't just select allow software from anywhere when I have lots to install.

Also it says all my DMG's are corrupt...and they are not at all - I tried to google the fix there is no 'allow from anywhere' option - uggh

Here's the Terminal code to disable the check. Use "enable" to turn it back on.

sudo spctl --master-disable

 

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There seems to be some sort of mission control feature in Safari that i've triggered a few times unknowingly, it displays all the open tabs but in a mission control type way. Does anyone here know what the gesture is for that? It's useful, i'm just not sure how i'm triggering it. Can't seem to find the correct terminology to find it on Google either.

You're using Exposé to open the application windows. Have a look at the keyboard and you'll see the 3 squares on one of the function keys... there's an option in System Settings to change that to application windows only or the easier way is to look in the multi-touch gesture settings on the trackpad (two fingered pinch to zoom out).