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Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:36 am
by cuttime
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:16 pm
by MIDI Life Crisis
Thanks.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:26 am
by mikehalloran
No problems on any of my machines. It did a firmware update on my 2011 and 2010 iMacs.
On restart, my 2010 went into Recovery mode and I had to re-select my boot drive—don't recall seeing that before.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:32 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
And "Sierrous" improvements to the OS that make it worth the risk
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:56 am
by mikehalloran
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:And "Sierrous" improvements to the OS that make it worth the risk
None that I can tell. Security upgrades, of course, and preparations for the next version of iOS, fixes for some .pdf issues in Preview—no idea what the issues were. Also, Night Shift for the Mac is here.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/03/m ... much-else/
I see that MainStage has been updated to 3.3 with a number of interesting features including true stereo, side-chain and plugin support.
https://441k.io/whats-new-in-mainstage-3-3-5b3df8f12a73
iWork gets updates but I doubt that
doesn't suck is among them.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:11 am
by stubbsonic
mikehalloran wrote:
iWork gets updates but I doubt that doesn't suck is among them.

Thanks for that. Will be adding that to my phrase vocabulary.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:53 pm
by bayswater
mikehalloran wrote:MIDI Life Crisis wrote:And "Sierrous" improvements to the OS that make it worth the risk
None that I can tell. Security upgrades, of course, and preparations for the next version of iOS, fixes for some .pdf issues in Preview—no idea what the issues were. Also, Night Shift for the Mac is here.
This update seems pretty light. Maybe there were a load of security improvements they don't want to talk about. I'm trying to imagine the meeting where they discussed the release notes. One of the short list features is cricket scores from India -- they must have been scraping hard on this one.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:59 pm
by daniel.sneed
So far, so good with 10.12.4.
Keep on testing...
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:35 pm
by MIDI Life Crisis
Mid-project. I don't dare! Early June for sure.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 7:24 pm
by mikehalloran
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Mid-project. I don't dare! Early June for sure.
If you don't have the .pdf issues—and I've never seen them—I wouldn't recommend it mid-project.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:11 am
by mikehalloran
BTW, it appears that the latest Sierra 10.12.4 update fixed the unzip bug that affected the PSP license files and a few others. I just downloaded a couple and they unzipped correctly without the keka.app freeware.
The issue with that 10.12.0–10.12.3 bug was that files would unzip and look good. In PSP's case, you'd get an error when trying to run the license file; with others, the installers wouldn't work correctly. I upgraded to Masterwriter 3 because I thought that v.2 would no longer run in Sierra when it was really a corrupt installer—expanding it in keka made it work.
It was Eventide support that told me about keka. PSP didn't know there was a problem till I told them.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:20 pm
by mikehalloran
iOS 10.3 is released today with Apple's new Apple File System (APF)
http://www.cultofmac.com/435718/apfs-ne ... le-system/
I have no intention of updating for a few days till we see if something mysterious goes wrong as has happened with iOS updates in the past.
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:51 pm
by bayswater
mikehalloran wrote:iOS 10.3 is released today with Apple's new Apple File System (APF)
http://www.cultofmac.com/435718/apfs-ne ... le-system/
I have no intention of updating for a few days till we see if something mysterious goes wrong as has happened with iOS updates in the past.
What could
possibly go wrong?

Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:59 pm
by cuttime
I'm really enjoying my Indian cricket scores!
Re: Sierra 10.12.4
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:00 pm
by bayswater
cuttime wrote:I'm really enjoying my Indian cricket scores!
I happily risk losing everything to get those.