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macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions in iCloud Drive'
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Another bug.....my plugins for Vienna Symphonic Library do not work now since this crazy update, so I have had to switch back to Rosetta in order that I can do my work. Ugh!!!
Well, they now have a new operating system, visionOS, to develop along with macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and homeOS.
Let’s hope they really prioritize macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and then visionOS, as those are the most complex and used systems.
Nah. This is crazy. Forget iOS 18. They need to refine MacOS some more. I use iCloud Drive basically every day. This is cooked
14.4 totally hosed my printing from Acrobat Pro AND the Reader. Pro won't print at all, and Reader prints very lightly. When I print a PDF from Preview, though, it's perfect.
256GB base is no problem, everyone has cloud storage right? *poof*
Thanks for sharing this, I don't really know what to do because the last time I turned off optimise Mac storage on my 256 GB MacBook Pro, it began behaving so strange, so slow and I didn't know if I would be able to fix it. It wanted me to turn optimise storage back on, that's what it took to fix it.
I just turned off iCloud sync for my MacBook, I hope they release a fix quickly.
I just turned off iCloud sync for my MacBook, I hope they release a fix quickly.
Because it didn't operate this way in 14.3.1 and started in 14.4 with no announcement.
That's where I am right now. I surely wanted more storage but it was out of my price range. This is why they need to increase the base storage, we don't want our data to be a mercy of a server.
MacRumors should straight up ban this trope at this point. Regardless of the buggy mess, it's the unicode consortium who sets the emoji standard, and Apple's software engineers are not sitting there doing graphic design.
I had no idea previous versions were kept anyway, and I wouldn’t have expected this. When I delete a file, I’d assume that it was fully deleted. If I wanted previous versions, I’d have named and saved them as such separately.
I still say Apple can't run a reliable cloud service to save its life. MobileMe/iCloud always seemed rather kludgey and hokey compared to things like DropBox, Google, Sync.Com, or even plain old ftp and rsync -- just like their borked account name/ID consolidation (not!) and the confusion it creates, to me it has always felt like Apple cloud services are held together w/duct-tape and a prayer. I don't trust any of Apple's clouds for anything critical, and use alternative secure and more trustworthy cloud 'drives' instead.
But I agree their QA has gone waaaaaay downhill in the recent decade-plus....
But I agree their QA has gone waaaaaay downhill in the recent decade-plus....
Unicode Consortium set the standard, but don’t create the emojis. It’s just to say these emoji should exist so all systems can handle them.
The design itself is still down to each platform, so yes Apple are doing graphic design for the Apple systems, Google do theirs for theirs etc.
It’s why the emoji deisgns aren’t the same on android and sometimes android has missing emojis, been times I’ve sent a new emoji to android users and they’ve just seen a box.
However, yes the trope is annoying and it’s not like it’s all one person doing everything!
Sadly it seems the order right now is iPad (frameworks not actual apps and interface) -> VisionOS (as extension of iPad and why iPad is first) -> iOS (business model not bug fixes and features) -> Other.
Their Mac strategy seems to be to stick iOS on top of it. And to settle on iPad as lowest common denominator target.
Don't forget that in Cupertino, Emojis Come First. *grumble*
You can thank the Unicode committee for that one. They ran out of useful work to do a long time ago and are now just trying to get attention.
Yeah I already know all that. What you saw was "Apple isn't doing graphic design." What I said was that Apple's SOFTWARE engineers aren't doing graphic design. Apple's graphic designers are doing graphic design, and have nothing to do with the stability of Apple's operating systems.
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Thank goodness I use OneDrive on my Mac's (and PC's). 1TB for practically free. 
so glad my Uni gives me one drive storage, maybe time for windows....