Catalina issues?

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi folks,

why do you want to upgrade to catalina?
Is there any benefit?
For my work i can see none, except of running into troubles with a lot of 32bit applications i use.
So stick to Mojave and wait till the next os comes out.
We still run a mac Pro with snow leapard sucessfully.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Eric Santiago]

[Rainer Wirth] “why do you want to upgrade to catalina?
Is there any benefit?”

Some of us have no choice due to the current Mac purchased.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Eric Santiago] “[Rainer Wirth] “why do you want to upgrade to catalina?
Is there any benefit?”

Some of us have no choice due to the current Mac purchased.
“

Precisely. If you get a new Mac, you are pretty much stuck with Catalina.

[Rainer Wirth]

sorry for you,

then apple has got a problem – a huge one,

theers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Eric Santiago]

[Rainer Wirth] “then apple has got a problem – a huge one,
“

No major problems with a few 2019 Mac Pros here.
Except for the recent Adobe Media Encoder bug that’s pissing a lot of Adobe users off.

[Joe Marler]

[Oliver Peters] “Catalina, what are your general experiences thus far? I’ve seen a number of issues posted lately, like frequent reboots.

If you’ve had bad experiences, are these fresh installs on new machines or migrations/updates from earlier OS versions?”

I have seen this problem on a few Catalina machines, but not all of them:

In the FCPX inspector if I do Storage Locations>Modify Settings, then for media or cache pick a location and create a new folder, the FCPX process will hang on that dialog and require force quit.

Only known workaround is create the new folder first in Finder, then do CMD+I and under Sharing and Permissions, grant read & write to Everyone. After that, designating that existing folder in FCPX for media or cache works. Happens on all disk locations, inc’l Desktop, Documents, Movies, internal drive, external drive, etc. All drives are locally-attached, either Thunderbolt or USB-C, formatted APFS for internal and HFS+ for external. As a test I de-installed Paragon NTFS and SoftRAID but it made no difference.

It is apparently a Catalina-specific permissions problem. I ran Disk Utility First Aid and also granted FCPX full disk access in System Preferences>Security & Privacy, but it made no difference. Also reset FCPX prefs, then totally removed FCPX and re-installed – no difference. The workaround is simple, and it doesn’t happen on every machine, but I never saw that on Mojave.