macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental update is available, get it here.
I described the Combo in a previous thread as a 'belt & braces' method. When you install via software update, only system components which have changed in that update get replaced. If any older components of macOS have somehow become damaged then those damaged files remain and can cause odd problems.Can you explain to me what the difference or advantages to updating via combo vs software update please?
Wondering when the next update comes If I update with the combo it might help.
You could just install it now, it won't harm anything. The 10.15.4 combo is here and it includes the supplemental update. It's very easy to install, you download it, mount the dmg and run the pkg inside it.Aldo Is it easy to install via combo.
I described the Combo in a previous thread as a 'belt & braces' method. When you install via software update, only system components which have changed in that update get replaced. If any older components of macOS have somehow become damaged then those damaged files remain and can cause odd problems.
There's also a chance that the latest update didn’t ‘take’ fully, and some of the updates weren’t installed properly, or simply weren't installed at all. As macOS protects all its files using SIP, you can’t (easily) use a tool like Pacifist to re-install just some components like the Mail app. Worse, many apps like Safari are intimately connected to huge parts of macOS, such as WebKit.
A Combo update replaces all the components which have changed since the initial major release, which is inevitably greater. A Combo update is therefore more likely to fix problems which have arisen because of damage to macOS components. It can also rectify incomplete updates - Although these should never happen, they sometimes do, leaving subsystems in a a bit of a mess.
You could just install it now, it won't harm anything. The 10.15.4 combo is here and it includes the supplemental update. It's very easy to install, you download it, mount the dmg and run the pkg inside it.
My process for updating is always the same:
Download the Combo.
Reboot.
Install the Combo.
Reboot.
I reboot first just in case anything is running in the background which might lock some files and then I reboot afterwards just because I think that a reboot after a major update is always worth doing.
Even if you already have 10.15.4 installed, you can still install the 10.15.4 combo, it won't cause any problems and may solve the issues you have. The only thing you have to lose from installing it is the time taken to download it and install it.I already have 10.15.4 installed
Even if you already have 10.15.4 installed, you can still install the 10.15.4 combo, it won't cause any problems and may solve the issues you have. The only thing you have to lose from installing it is the time taken to download it and install it.
So Catalina is a turd then. I've got the same issue across 3 Catalina installs (watchdog, CPU panic).
Wish I would have stuck to Mojave
I've just about got mine stable now. 16" Pro 10.15.4, 2018 Mac Mini 10.15.4 with Turbo Boost Disabled, iMac Pro on 10.15.5 beta.
Wish I'd have not started on the path at all tbh, everything was just fine on Mojave. Have a separate VM running with Mojave just for my iTunes library that Catalina seems to utterly ruin. Sure I can fix it just haven't had the chance to sort.