macOS 10.12 Sierra: All The Little Things!

[grahamperrin]

EfiLoginUI, FileVault 2

Until recently, there was poor contrast. For example, from Yosemite:

– Insufficient contrast where texts are white on the very pale grey backgrounds.​

vaguely recall some improvement at or around the early boot process. Maybe to the cosmetics of boot≠root.

Now, with golden master candidate 16A319 of Sierra, the background to EfiLoginUI is an Apple-provided blurred photograph of mountains, and the photograph is dark enough to allow easy reading of the texts.

In simple terms: for two years, the released interface was only half-baked.

 

[noxtos]

FINALLY if Mail.app's junk filter produces a false positive, and I hit the "Not junk" button, Mail automatically moves the message back to its inbox. This was driving me mad.

 

[acosmichippo]

Disk Utility can be resized and Raid creation is back

That's just great. El Capitan removed it from my 2009 Mac Pro. Now my Mac Pro isn't supported for Sierra. So now I'm stuck without Raid creation in disk utility. sometimes apple really pisses me off.

 

[Morpheo]

Sorry if this has already been adressed, but after installing Sierra earlier today, when I look at San Fransisco in the Finder or Mail it looks like they changed it a bit - am I seeing things?

 

[SandboxGeneral]

I had a -1 new messages in my email just now. I've never seen that before; turns out it was spam in the junk mail folder.

 

[Dj64Mk7]

Are notifications supposed to resemble iOS 10? The notification popups appear just as they did in El Capitan for me. I restored from a Time Machine backup.

 

[netsped]

EfiLoginUI, FileVault 2

Until recently, there was poor contrast. For example, from Yosemite:

– Insufficient contrast where texts are white on the very pale grey backgrounds.​

Now, with golden master candidate 16A319 of Sierra, the background to EfiLoginUI is an Apple-provided blurred photograph of mountains, and the photograph is dark enough to allow easy reading of the texts.

In simple terms: for two years, the released interface was only half-baked.

Unfortunately, now it won't remember any other resolution than default. I have my rMBP set at 1440x900 and every time I restart it it will load with the default 1280x800 and it will make a not so cool transition to the scaled resolution when it's loading.

On El Capitan and earlier, it would not work with 1680x1050 but it would for 1440x900. A real bummer.

 

[cool11]

Md sum of Sierra?

 

[grahamperrin]

Md sum of Sierra?

https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/blob/master/InstallESD_Hashes.csv

 

[cool11]

https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/blob/master/InstallESD_Hashes.csv

Thank you, so useful!
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Can somebody tell me a mac application to check the checksum of an image?

 

[Weaselboy]

Thank you, so useful!
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Can somebody tell me a mac application to check the checksum of an image?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201259

You can do it in Terminal following the instructions at this link.

 

[photoj2754]

Had a quick question and wondered if anyone has seen that in Safari Privacy preference their used to be an exact number of cookies that had been allowed but now that number seems to have disappeared. You can only click on manage cookies and go one by one if you want to delete. No way of knowing how many actual cookies have been set on my iMac. Thanks for the info.

 

[aepictures]

Siri on MBA suggests using the ringer switch...

 

[cool11]

It's been many years since I have made any setups related to 'Dictionary', but all the last years I had even in offline use, a lot of available dictionaries.
Now that I have gone to sierra(upgrade) I see almost none!
What has happened?
Can I re-download from somewhere and add them again?

 

[nelly22]

Any idea when 10.11.1 is released?

 

[ButteryScrollin]

Any idea when 10.11.1 is released?

Wednesday October 21 2015.

 

[tgara]

Sorry if this has already been adressed, but after installing Sierra earlier today, when I look at San Fransisco in the Finder or Mail it looks like they changed it a bit - am I seeing things?

What looks different? Have Fisherman's Wharf or the Golden Gate Bridge been relocated?

 

[PurrBall]

Sorry if this has already been adressed, but after installing Sierra earlier today, when I look at San Fransisco in the Finder or Mail it looks like they changed it a bit - am I seeing things?

Agreed, the hinting seems to have changed in Sierra.

 

[mbfanos]

In previous mac OS, if I type like the photo attached, safari will suggest something. Most of the time, it would be a website I visited. To open that suggested website, I can simply press Enter.
Now, in Sierra, if I type "macru", then macrumors.com pops up. If I press enter, Safari opens Google and search for "macru" instead of opening macrumors.com. If I want to open macrumors.com in the old fashion, I have to press the down-arrow button, then press Enter.

Is there any way that I can make Safari work like the old days? Is there any setting to change? I've tried Preferences in Safari and Accessibility, Keyboard in System Preferences but I found no way to do so.
Please help me.

 

[ErikGrim]

In previous mac OS, if I type like the photo attached, safari will suggest something. Most of the time, it would be a website I visited. To open that suggested website, I can simply press Enter.
Now, in Sierra, if I type "macru", then macrumors.com pops up. If I press enter, Safari opens Google and search for "macru" instead of opening macrumors.com. If I want to open macrumors.com in the old fashion, I have to press the down-arrow button, then press Enter.

Is there any way that I can make Safari work like the old days? Is there any setting to change? I've tried Preferences in Safari and Accessibility, Keyboard in System Preferences but I found no way to do so.
Please help me.

Huh. Still works exactly the same for me:

 

[tgara]

Has anyone had issues with the ordering of the widgets in the Today View section of the Notification Center? Mine seem to re-order themselves randomly, and this has been going on since I think Yosemite. One day, I set the World Clock at the top, followed by the Weather. The next day, on a fresh restart, the order is different: Calendar at the top for example, followed by Calculator, followed by .... It's driving me nuts. The order stays the same in the System Preferences checkboxes, but the display of the widgets constantly changes. Any ideas on this?

 

[mbfanos]

Huh. Still works exactly the same for me:
View attachment 659841 View attachment 659842

Did you upgrade or do a clean install? I did a clean install and I kinda regret it now. This is quite annoying to me

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

EfiLoginUI, FileVault 2

Until recently, there was poor contrast. For example, from Yosemite:

– Insufficient contrast where texts are white on the very pale grey backgrounds.​

Now, with golden master candidate 16A319 of Sierra, the background to EfiLoginUI is an Apple-provided blurred photograph of mountains, and the photograph is dark enough to allow easy reading of the texts.

In simple terms: for two years, the released interface was only half-baked.

I don't see the blurred default Sierra background when getting that screen. I just get the standard white background. Am I missing something?
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Sorry if this has already been adressed, but after installing Sierra earlier today, when I look at San Fransisco in the Finder or Mail it looks like they changed it a bit - am I seeing things?

Yeah, the font seems a bit different. It was hard to read at first on a non-Retina screen, but I've gotten used to it.

 

[grahamperrin]

Am I missing something?

Sooner or later, Sierra will probably silently, invisibly mount the volume that's used for Recovery OS and for the early part of FileVault 2. Routine stuff. Whilst it's mounted there'll probably be addition of what's required for the image to appear. Then an automated unmount of the volume after which, your next start of the Mac should show the image.

 

[ErikGrim]

Did you upgrade or do a clean install? I did a clean install and I kinda regret it now. This is quite annoying to me

Upgrade on top of the betas.