High Sierra official release

Rangler · 09-25-2017, 01:55 PM

I'm hesitant to install this during a project I'm working on. Any issues with Reaper?

cyrano · 09-26-2017, 05:02 AM

Nobody knows. The version released today is not the same as the "Golden master"...

Futur8me · 09-26-2017, 05:48 AM

I have been trying it out for the last hour and so far Reaper works fine no issues discovered yet.. sadly Reapers GUI is still very laggy and the playhead moves like its 1 frame per second.

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serr · 09-26-2017, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Futur8me

I have been trying it out for the last hour and so far Reaper works fine no issues discovered yet.. sadly Reapers GUI is still very laggy and the playhead moves like its 1 frame per second.

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Well, that's an issue there!

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Originally Posted by cyrano

If you're in the middle of a production, it doesn't seem very wise to upgrade now?

I hope the difference between the GM and the release is a patch for this:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-m...stealing-hack/

Otherwise, all 10.13 users are sitting ducks...

I'm afraid the exploit might work in previous versions of OSX too. But Apple clearly doesn't care about those.

And here I thought I was being paranoid avoiding the feature. Store multiple passwords in a file the OS has access to? I suppose it would be convenient to install a hook for my house key right next to the door outside too. Then I could just leave the key there and wouldn't have to have it in my pocket all day.

Just got an email from Apogee saying everything with 10.13 is all happiness and light.

The DIY business involved in making your USB installer and then shuffling OS install images around different hard drives might seem like regression or too much of a PITA but don't slack off on this! If you don't have known working OS installs kicking around on spare drives you can easily turn your computer into a paper weight if you hose up your only working copy. (This goes for Apple, Windows, or anything else.) Keep your backup clones in order and make the USB installers.

Futur8me · 09-26-2017, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by serr

Well, that's an issue there!

And here I thought I was being paranoid avoiding the feature. Store multiple passwords in a file the OS has access to? I suppose it would be convenient to install a hook for my house key right next to the door outside too. Then I could just leave the key there and wouldn't have to have it in my pocket all day.

Just got an email from Apogee saying everything with 10.13 is all happiness and light.

The DIY business involved in making your USB installer and then shuffling OS install images around different hard drives might seem like regression or too much of a PITA but don't slack off on this! If you don't have known working OS installs kicking around on spare drives you can easily turn your computer into a paper weight if you hose up your only working copy. (This goes for Apple, Windows, or anything else.) Keep your backup clones in order and make the USB installers.

wow you are really negative.., I have no problems with my iMac so far with 10.13.., and as you have read in the other threads is that Reapers GUI has always been laggy and slow and glitchy on these newer iMacs.., and as I have said a few times now the new GUI update Logic Pro X got a month or so ago is butter smooth on my iMac, so it is possible to make Reapers GUI smooth like LPX.

Reaper needs its GUI code updated/fixed for macOS.

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serr · 09-26-2017, 08:36 AM

Just cynical. (The earlier post was the negative ranty one I thought...)

What do you do when someone sets the bar with something and then the next time they do it they come up short? Like when Styx did that Mr Roboto thing.

When this cycle happened with Protools, kicking off their demise... Reaper came along and there was positive happiness and light like never before!

So something good will come out of the ashes here too. And if Apple doesn't get back on track I think it's going to be soon even.

Honestly, Apple and OSX is still happiness and light compared to any other options. But when you release an installer with glaring bugs like this two times in a row it's going to get a few comments. But hey, it's patched already!

serr · 09-26-2017, 05:49 AM

Goes without saying to make sure your backup clone is up to date for your current system so you can just quickly roll back right?

I see the installer has the same bug as 10.12 with some of the supported 2008 and 2009 machines getting called unsupported. Looks like a patch is out already too though. Apple keeps getting sloppier. I can remember back to when their OS installers were simple and just worked. Now you have to make a USB installer yourself with the terminal (or 3rd party download). Oh and don't forget to put the installer file you downloaded away for safe keeping yourself or it will delete itself after a use for your convenience so you have to download it again. Did Apple start hiring from Microsoft or something? This is the kind of stuff we would make jokes about Windows over to feel superior.

cyrano · 09-26-2017, 07:00 AM

If you're in the middle of a production, it doesn't seem very wise to upgrade now?

I hope the difference between the GM and the release is a patch for this:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-m...stealing-hack/

Otherwise, all 10.13 users are sitting ducks...

I'm afraid the exploit might work in previous versions of OSX too. But Apple clearly doesn't care about those.

Futur8me · 09-26-2017, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by cyrano

If you're in the middle of a production, it doesn't seem very wise to upgrade now?

I hope the difference between the GM and the release is a patch for this:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-m...stealing-hack/

Otherwise, all 10.13 users are sitting ducks...

I'm afraid the exploit might work in previous versions of OSX too. But Apple clearly doesn't care about those.

wow your negative also.. lol.. look in order for this attack on your system to happen you have to download dodgy software or click on a dodgy email.., a hacker can not just get into your system easy peasy lemon squeezy.

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cyrano · 09-26-2017, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Futur8me

wow your negative also.. lol.. look in order for this attack on your system to happen you have to download dodgy software or click on a dodgy email.., a hacker can not just get into your system easy peasy lemon squeezy.

No it doesn't. Go watch the youtube vid.

Besides, with what's been happening the last couple of weeks (not only to OSX), I'm beginning to question what Apple is doing.

For instance, the security development "ward" at Apple, has been trying to make a full list of Apple's firmware updates. Only for EC, Sierra and High Sierra, of course. But because some of these might need some previous update on some machines, they needed to do a serious amount of digging. Can you believe Apple doesn't have a complete repository of it's firmware updates? Not even the recent ones?

I had a hard time grokking that. It used to be very different.

These reflections come at the moment when someone (probably some govt) has been hijacking downloads of Whatsapp, VLC and others in transit, to include malware. No precise info about platform, countries where this is happening and number of cases is available as yet. It has been detected by two labs, independently, but they might be under some sort of gag order. The lack of details is stunning.

So it is very certainly not:

Macs are safe, Windows is a sieve.

citizenkeith · 09-26-2017, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Rangler

I'm hesitant to install this during a project I'm working on. Any issues with Reaper?

I'd be more worried about device compatibility than REAPER issues.

This is coming from a guy who finally upgraded from Yosemite to Sierra yesterday!

My Mackie Onyx 1640i was in limbo until they finally updated drivers earlier this year.