macOS 10.12 Sierra: Post bugs and fixes here

[SirRahikkala]

Anyone else notice change in trackpad behaviour since El Capitan? I have 16A320 and for some reason 2015 retina macbook is registering "right clicks" when touching the right side of the touch pad. This was not present in El Capitan. (disclaimer: I have the right click activated but it has not been like this)

 

[Weaselboy]

Booting into safe mode is fine and it will happily shut down / restart from there.

If it works fine in safe mode, that is pretty much proof it is some launch or startup item you have running, since safe mode stops all those.

There are several places other than login items where these items reside.Try all these folders.

~/Library/LaunchAgents (~ is your users folder)
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/Extensions/

 

[Batt4Christ]

Getting CONSTANT crashing of com.apple.PhotoIngest process... driving me insane - it begins crashing soon after boot, then crashes when apps launch, crashes whens ending email, crashes when I switch between apps... UGH!!!!
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Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but I'm really confused.

Just installed Sierra beta on my spare Macbook to play around with it a bit. The Photos app doesn't have any of the built in albums! Recently Deleted, Screenshots, Selfies, etc... they're all missing! I looked through the menus and configuration and can't find any way to enable them.

Did they move this functionality? I can't find any other threads or posts on this so I'm wondering if it's just me.

Photos app appears pretty "normal" for me, including my albums. No significant changes in how iPhoto looks or works...

I believe there is a core service that is jacked up, though... com.apple.PhotoIngest is constantly crashing..

 

[no_more]

Could anyone check Dictionary.app with custom dictionaries? I try to Edit label for custom dictionaries but the app doesn't save custom labels. When I close and then open Dictionary.app all edited labels are reverted to original ones.

 

[cube]

SUCCESS!

4K@60Hz running on 17" Early 2011 MBP via Gigabyte RX 460 eGPU

All you need to do is define a custom resolution in SwitchResX.

I had bought this years ago to run a Mitsubishi 21" 1600x1200 CRT with my Cube.

It is much easier now with digital. All I had to do was set 60Hz and accept the recalculated values.
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Youtube and Netflix seem to be doing the decoding on the CPU.

This should not be good going through Thunderbolt 1.

Youtube 4K@60Hz seems to be stuttering in full screen sending decoded video through TB1, as expected.

The Netflix CPU load is a lot less than Youtube's. It looks like it is streaming low resolution.

Netflix content available in 4K looks a lot better directly streamed by the TV.

I have it working via DisplayPort with a Club3D HDMI 2.0 converter.

Through the card's HDMI it doesn't work, even if the TV advertises a 4K@60Hz mode in EDID that is exactly what SwitchResX proposes. Applying the CoreDisplay patch does not help.

 

[mikepolinske]

Running macOS Sierra

This morning when I tried to unlock my MacBook Pro Retina (2015) 15" the auto unlock feature didn't work and neither did MacID find my iPhone.

I manually entered my password and noticed that Bluetooth was unavailable, yet System Preferences - Bluetooth showed that Bluetooth was on. The button to turn Bluetooth off was not responsive.

So I restarted my computer through the Apple menu and when the Login screen came up to select the user only a portion of the screen was accessible in that I could only move the pointer in a smaller area than the whole screen. And even though I could mouse over the users they didn't respond when I clicked on them.

I powered down and rebooted in Recovery Mode. Was able to run Disk Utility and that was clean.

I powered down again and tried a normal reboot but had the same problem on the Login screen.

Powered down again and restarted in Recovery Mode. This time I selected Reinstall macOS and it appeared to complete successfully. When I rebooted I was able to select my User, but when I was leaving for work I still had a spinning wheel under my login name.

Hopefully when I get home it will have gotten logged in.

Has anyone else with a Retina MacBook Pro seen this issue?

Any suggestions in how to fix this?

UPDATE: When I got home tonight everything was fine, so apparently reinstalling did the trick. Hopefully it won't pop up again.

 

[cube]

I knew 4k30 text was not great, but I did not realise how terrible it is until I started using 4k60.

 

[Zedeff]

I was trying to send a mail. Suddenly it says all smtp servers are offline. When I edited server list the list of servers was showing in drop down. However in edit mode it was blank. No smtp servers at all. I attempted to add the servers again. After multiple tries have got 2 to save. All the rest disappear every time I press OK on edit window. One of the 2 I saved I had a mistake in username. When I tried to correct it the settings don’t save and revert back again and again.

 

[John Frum]

I posted this in the thread about Sierra-compatible apps. Since many people own and use Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners I'm posting it here as well. It may involve a hardware issue.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/topics/topics20160914.html

 

[MasonW]

Anyone else having issues with alerts from messages? I'm on the GM and my messages aren't previewing anymore. I only see the phone numbers of the individuals messaging me, with "New Message" underneath it. My notifications preferences are set to preview messages whenever they come in so I'm not sure where to go from here...

 

[TJCooperGB]

A large amount of my HDD seems to be categorised as "Purgeable" - what exactly is this?

The issue i'm having is that this entire block of data is being held hostage - when creating new partitions or attempting to setup bootcamp, i'm restricted to using only the data-block in pure white ("Free") - despite Purgeable being totally empty.

 

[allan.nyholm]

Still present is the download indicator in the Dock problem. Solution is to reset the Dock by either logging out or use 'killall Dock'

 

[576316]

For some reason my iCloud Photo Library and Photo Sharing have been turned off and they won't re-enable. I tick the box and it says 'Checking Library...' then that goes away and it remains disabled. What do?

 

[fischersd]

For some reason my iCloud Photo Library and Photo Sharing have been turned off and they won't re-enable. I tick the box and it says 'Checking Library...' then that goes away and it remains disabled. What do?

Is it actually disabled, or is it just the UI? Which build are you on? (as there were 4 GM builds).
Try adding & deleting photos in the cloud from your various devices and see if it's kept in sync on your Mac. I suspect it's likely the UI issue we saw previously and it's enabled on your Mac. (if it's the same issue, you actually can't disable it either).

 

[576316]

Is it actually disabled, or is it just the UI? Which build are you on? (as there were 4 GM builds).
Try adding & deleting photos in the cloud from your various devices and see if it's kept in sync on your Mac. I suspect it's likely the UI issue we saw previously and it's enabled on your Mac. (if it's the same issue, you actually can't disable it either).

It's not enabled in System Preferences. It won't let me enable it. Weird.

 

[fischersd]

It's not enabled in System Preferences. It won't let me enable it. Weird.

Just closing the loop (in case you were expecting a response) - that was the behaviour with the bug that was reported with the beta builds. (iCloud library is on, despite UI showing unchecked) As I suggested, you should verify if it is in fact on or not. If it's off and can't be enabled, that's a new issue.

 

[576316]

Just closing the loop (in case you were expecting a response) - that was the behaviour with the bug that was reported with the beta builds. (iCloud library is on, despite UI showing unchecked) As I suggested, you should verify if it is in fact on or not. If it's off and can't be enabled, that's a new issue.

Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. System Preferences>iCloud>Photos is showing all iCloud Photo Library features to be disabled. It will not allow me to enable them. The Photos app is not updating and he's been for almost a week. I was thinking I'd leave it until Sierra drops as I always do a fresh install when the new OS comes out, thinking a fresh install would fix it anyway.

 

[chrfr]

Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. System Preferences>iCloud>Photos is showing all iCloud Photo Library features to be disabled. It will not allow me to enable them. The Photos app is not updating and he's been for almost a week. I was thinking I'd leave it until Sierra drops as I always do a fresh install when the new OS comes out, thinking a fresh install would fix it anyway.

This was a problem with one of the earlier betas, now fixed. Are you on one of the GM candidates? What is the build number of Sierra that you're running?

 

[576316]

This was a problem with one of the earlier betas, now fixed. Are you on one of the GM candidates? What is the build number of Sierra that you're running?

I'm on the latest Public Beta. The App Store is showing no updates available with the last update applied being Version 7 on August 29th. That doesn't sound right. Beta profile is still installed and enabled.

 

[chrfr]

I'm on the latest Public Beta.

What build number? As someone who does tech support for a living, I see a lot of people say "latest" but aren't actually using the latest. Build 16A323 is current as of Sept. 19.

 

[576316]

What build number? As someone who does tech support for a living, I see a lot of people say "latest" but aren't actually using the latest. Build 16A323 is current as of Sept. 19.

Running 16A313a. No updates available.

 

[chrfr]

Running 16A313a

That is several builds old, and yes, you have the bug that's since been fixed. At this point, I'd just wait until tomorrow and download the release version.

 

[576316]

That is several builds old, and yes, you have the bug that's since been fixed. At this point, I'd just wait until tomorrow and download the release version.

Yeah that was my plan anyway. Seems odd it would suddenly stop showing updates.

 

[grahamperrin]

@JarScott in a few hours there'll be release, we should expect the full installer to be promoted at the front page of App Store.

In the meantime: if you're enrolled for the public beta, you might still find (in the private area for public beta testers) direction on how to download a pre-release full installer. Whether it will be worth it for a few hours: you can decide.

 

[chrfr]

Yeah that was my plan anyway. Seems odd it would suddenly stop showing updates.

The GM candidates, which is what's being offered now, are separate installer downloads, so you'd need to have gone to the public beta page to get a new redemption code for the GM candidate installer.