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    How to create ISO for High Sierra beta in Virtualbox?

    Instructions for creating Sierra .ISO wont work with High Sierra, I was wondering if someone has figured it out? It seems the location of the BaseSystem.dmg has changed but I don't know where is it located currently. Even official VirtualBox forum didn't have a solution which is surprising. I...
  2. dianeoforegon

    Time Machine works in PB2 (17A306f)

    Time Machine ran successfully today after updating to PB2 10.13 Beta (17A306f). CCC has been running as well. Have not tried yet to boot from a clone backup yet to verify.
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    Will High Sierra run a VM faster with a 2013 Macbook Air?

    I run a Macbook mid 2013 1.7 with 8Gb ram and I'm holding off on getting a new Macbook Pro with Kabby Lake because I upgraded to Windows 10 and the newest version of VMWare Fusion and Windows runs pretty good and Visual Studio (latest) runs pretty good as well inside the VM. With all previous...
  4. Mach Disc

    NVMe Problems in High Sierra

    I’m attempting to install a Samsung 960 Pro into Slot 3 of a Mac Pro 5 1 that’s running High Sierra. I've seen claims that there’s native support for NVMe drives such as the 960 Pro, and I have gotten the Mac to see the drive in disk utility in both safe mode and recovery mode. I’ve formatted...
  5. K

    HEIF, iPhone 7 vs iPad Pro 9.7

    Hello all. I'm currently running iOS public beta on an iPhone 7 and an iPad Pro 9.7. Wanted to test out the new HEIF/HEVC formats. A couple of observations and maybe you can help me out here in discovering what I'm missing: a) In iOS settings, camera, camera formats, while the iPhone has two...
  6. Vadimac

    Upgrade from macOS Sierra on MacBook Air (late2015) : facing issues

    hey fellows, I am having trouble in upgrading my MacBook Air to high sierra. Signed up as public beta tester and trying to upgrade. When the installer runs, it does take lot of time and when it reboots into desktop it gets hung none of the application work and the mouse keeps spinning with...
  7. Skeptical.me

    Have I ruined my iMac?

    Hi, I installed mac OS High Sierra on my iMac Late 2015 27” i5 5K. Something I completely regret doing. It was a disaster. So I decided to re-install macOS Sierra. Firstly, I erased the Macintosh HD. I booted up into Recovery (Command R) and erased the Macintosh HD in my iMac using disk...
  8. itdk92

    Mac Pro 5.1 + 10.13 + nvidia Max/Pascal = H265 hardware acceleration?

    Hi there I am just wondering if anybody tested whether an Nvidia 9XX series or 10XX series provide hardware HEVC H265 acceleration on the Mac Pro 5.1 under MacOS 10.13 High Sierra (beta)? These cards should have hardware accelerated transcoding.. Or is this hardware acceleration Apple talks...
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    NVME PCIE M.2 SSD + High Sierra + Macbook Pro 2015 13"

    With the introduction of High Sierra I am noticing NVME being supported out of the box. So my question is now this. Has anyone yet to try and buy a standard NVME PCIE M.2 SSD and install it with an adapter like so...
  10. X

    High Sierra Beta - the installer information on the recovery sever is damaged

    Hi, I'm trying to install the beta, but get this message, can anyone help? thanks:)
  11. ZapNZs

    VMWare Fusion 8.5.8 + APFS VMs

    If you have Fusion, they just released 8.5.8 a few days ago, although it appears they are yet to publish official documentation as the release notes are blank. I just tried upgrading a Sierra VM to High Sierra with APFS as it looked like some non-English site said 8.5.8 supports it. Where as...
  12. EddieK420

    Vega Frontier Edition on 4,1 5,1 Classic Mac Pro

    Hey guys. I wanted to start this thread to get information together on running the newly announced Vega Frontier Edition on our beloved classic Mac Pros. I currently have an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti on my 2009 4,1 (upgraded to 5,1 & 12-core) Mac Pro running Sierra 10.12.5. While the GTX 1080 Ti is...
  13. D

    Does APFS Mean a Bigger SSD?

    Well, just as I was about to order a new 27" iMac (replacing my geriatric 2009 Mac Pro), I saw some stuff on the Apple Developers Forum that gave me pause about my configuration. I was going for a top flight configuration except I thought a 512 GB SSD would be big enough. My current MP has the...
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    MacOS High Sierra Beta 2 Stuck Login

    I was running Macbook Pro with High Sierra beta 1 and upgraded to beta 2. After complete install and attempting to login with my user the progress bar gets to 100% but it never loads to my desktop. I have attempted to restart and log in with the dis user and have the same issue. I was however...
  15. upintheclouds

    Does anyone know the specifics of the enhanced security?

    I am curious to know, the technical security enhancements put in simple terms, that have been made in High Sierra. I am aware of the new "don't track me" feature in Safari. Other than that, I couldn't find many specifics. Thanks!
  16. grahamperrin

    FileVault 2 reportedly on after completely turned off

    Cosmetic bug in 17A264c. With the FileVault page of the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences open during during reversion (converting (backward)) from Core Storage, after reversion completed, the pane stated: Workaround Unlock the pane. Environment MacBookPro8,2 /dev/disk1 on USB...
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    Is this annoying Dock bug fixed?

    OS X El Capitan broke the Recent Items menu in the Dock. For example: Open a pdf or image in Preview. Right click the Preview icon in the Dock to access the Recent Items list. Is the file that is currently open in Preview available in the Recent Items list? In El Capitan and Sierra this list...
  18. Lunder89

    Fixed iTunes scroll lag??

    Just wondering. There was a little bit of talk about metal talking over few things with GUI of macOS during the WWDC keynote. Anyone with the beta, who have tried scrolling through albums in iTunes?? does it still lag badly??