MacOS Monterey

Very little drama across a few hundred machines.

Only actual issue has been the latest patch in Beta cocking up my display when waking from sleep but nothing in the retail builds.
 
46Female said:
im busy downloading Monterey, has anyone had any problems with the new IOS
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Yes. Wouldnt install at all on my 2017 MBP.

Settled for the latest Big Sur update and called it the day. It sorted out my stuttering mouse cursor so I’m happy.

New isn’t always better I guess.
 
Question to those who have upgraded to 12.1 - how is it performing so far? Have things improved overall? Still concerned to leave Big Sur and possibly have worse performance or battery life etc
 
bluepoole said:
Question to those who have upgraded to 12.1 - how is it performing so far? Have things improved overall? Still concerned to leave Big Sur and possibly have worse performance or battery life etc
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There was nothing wrong with it in the first place.

Stop worrying.
 
maxxis said:
Yes. Wouldnt install at all on my 2017 MBP.

Settled for the latest Big Sur update and called it the day. It sorted out my stuttering mouse cursor so I’m happy.

New isn’t always better I guess.
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Try deleting the Monterey installer from /Applications and then try again.
 
bluepoole said:
Question to those who have upgraded to 12.1 - how is it performing so far? Have things improved overall? Still concerned to leave Big Sur and possibly have worse performance or battery life etc
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No issues detected so far, smooth as silk
 
Still on Big Sur - I need to access Aperture for just a little longer, maybe a month or two, while I export as many archives as I might need.
 
bwana said:
Still on Big Sur - I need to access Aperture for just a little longer, maybe a month or two, while I export as many archives as I might need.
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Upgraded to Monterey today - Aperture works as well as it did in Big Sur, which is not well at all, but it's enough to let me export my archives into a usable format, which is going to take a while.

Now to find some reasonably priced cold storage for all thses images. 2021's work has sucked up about 500gb of my onedrive allocation - it was a quiet year thanks to covid...
 
bwana said:
Now to find some reasonably priced cold storage for all thses images. 2021's work has sucked up about 500gb of my onedrive allocation - it was a quiet year thanks to covid...
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I've heard good things about BackBlaze B2. Seems to be about the cheapest amongst the cloud providers for long term storage that you don't access often
 
bwana said:
Still on Big Sur - I need to access Aperture for just a little longer, maybe a month or two, while I export as many archives as I might need.
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Maybe a good idea to make a backup to an external and you can just boot to Big Sur and Aperture as and when required once you decide to upgrade of course.

Why wouldn’t Aperture work though?
 
bwana said:
Upgraded to Monterey today - Aperture works as well as it did in Big Sur, which is not well at all, but it's enough to let me export my archives into a usable format, which is going to take a while.

Now to find some reasonably priced cold storage for all thses images. 2021's work has sucked up about 500gb of my onedrive allocation - it was a quiet year thanks to covid...
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Too late for my last statement then.

I find Google Drive is actually quite affordable but never looked at those kind of volumes.

Their sync tool also just seems to work better on MacOS than OneDrive.

And you can of course then make use of the Google Photos layer to search and manage it as well if you don’t just upload to Drive directly.

As mentioned above though BackBlaze also an option if it’s purely for in case backup.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Maybe a good idea to make a backup to an external and you can just boot to Big Sur and Aperture as and when required once you decide to upgrade of course.

Why wouldn’t Aperture work though?
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I always clone my drive before an upgrade. I've also got an old air and a 17" MBP running on 10.12.

Why wouldn't aperture work? Because it only barely worked under Big Sur and, as advertised, it churned out unsupported image type when I launched it under Monterey.

SauRoNZA said:
Too late for my last statement then.

I find Google Drive is actually quite affordable but never looked at those kind of volumes.

Their sync tool also just seems to work better on MacOS than OneDrive.

And you can of course then make use of the Google Photos layer to search and manage it as well if you don’t just upload to Drive directly.

As mentioned above though BackBlaze also an option if it’s purely for in case backup.
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I'm not looking for sync - just someplace to dump a decade's worth of images that I'm sort of obligated to keep.
 
bwana said:
I always clone my drive before an upgrade. I've also got an old air and a 17" MBP running on 10.12.

Why wouldn't aperture work? Because it only barely worked under Big Sur and, as advertised, it churned out unsupported image type when I launched it under Monterey.


I'm not looking for sync - just someplace to dump a decade's worth of images that I'm sort of obligated to keep.
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Aah I assumed with the OneDrive mention sync was more or less the need.

BackBlaze would be a good option.

Actually makes me wonder how friendly Amazon Glacier would be for this use case as a non-developer.

Maybe there’s a market for a product there to sell to all you photographers.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Maybe there’s a market for a product there to sell to all you photographers.
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Basically all I want is somewhere to dump ±10tb of photos that I'll never need unless my house burns down.
 
bwana said:
Basically all I want is somewhere to dump ±10tb of photos that I'll never need unless my house burns down.
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So AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive you could literally host it in Cape Town at $0.0018 per GB and you only pay per use not the usual bucket prepaid nonsense.

The only catch is it takes 12 hours to retrieve but for your case that seems fine and there is a cost if and when you do which I don’t remember.

Thing is it’s not really built for end-users, but that may have changed in the last few years. I’m sure though there are many data management type apps that can connect to S3 buckets and using a Glacier one shouldn’t be any different really.

Something worth investigating.

S3 Pricing

aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
Well fancy that after one search.

apps.apple.com

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