gdanmitchell wrote:
bove I mentioned an odd bug in Photoshop where the application menu doesn’t appear when I move the cursor to the top of the screen. Instead a narrow, wide blank area drops down where the menu would be expected. Clicking on it reveals teh menu, but it is awkward. The problem seems intermittent — while using the menus to save a series of files (all of the same type) it appears correct for some of them and incorrect for others.
To update this, the issue has also appeared in other non-Adobe apps.
LiveShots wrote:
They look fine on my IOS 26 iPad using the App.
Are you using the App or your browser to view the images on desktop ?
Its weird its only affecting IG
I am using Website not App. I saw also poor quality video on Twitter ( or whatever is the name now).
It must be MacOS Tahoe problem maybe with old Monitor ?... Because I have my older iMac next to my new Studio and Instagram images look tack sharp.... as they did on my Mac Studio with the same old monitor before I upgraded to Tahoe
I thought my Tahoe upgrade was working fine but today I discovered there is a bug with memory management. I logged in and was told all the apps I have loaded have run out of application memory and should be stopped with Force Quit. In fact, they only use about half the available memory, and that is with zero VM. Researching, I found that Apple has a problem with a memory management process buried deep in the OS which can "think" there is a problem when there is none. Workaround is to restart the computer regularly, rather than wake from sleep. Not directly related to any photo processing problems but worth knowing.
rob_ww wrote:
I thought my Tahoe upgrade was working fine but today I discovered there is a bug with memory management. I logged in and was told all the apps I have loaded have run out of application memory and should be stopped with Force Quit. In fact, they only use about half the available memory, and that is with zero VM. Researching, I found that Apple has a problem with a memory management process buried deep in the OS which can "think" there is a problem when there is none. Workaround is to restart the computer regularly, rather than wake from sleep. Not directly related to any photo processing problems but worth knowing....Show more →
I was occasionally having a problem like this with the previous version, especially with Adobe products. Over time (I keep the app running) its memory allocation would increase to many times its normal size and eventually, in a few cases, everything would grind to a halt. A restart was one solution, but also it was sometimes possible to gradually quit applications (esp. Photoshop) and restart them and continue.
I’m still having one bizarre problem in Tahoe where that I described earlier in this thread — the drop-down menu bar doesn’t display correctly until I click where it should display.
rob_ww wrote:
I thought my Tahoe upgrade was working fine but today I discovered there is a bug with memory management. I logged in and was told all the apps I have loaded have run out of application memory and should be stopped with Force Quit. In fact, they only use about half the available memory, and that is with zero VM. Researching, I found that Apple has a problem with a memory management process buried deep in the OS which can "think" there is a problem when there is none. Workaround is to restart the computer regularly, rather than wake from sleep. Not directly related to any photo processing problems but worth knowing....Show more →
I was occasionally having a problem like this with the previous version, especially with Adobe products. Over time (I keep the app running) its memory allocation would increase to many times its normal size and eventually, in a few cases, everything would grind to a halt. A restart was one solution, but also it was sometimes possible to gradually quit applications (esp. Photoshop) and restart them and continue.
I’m still having one bizarre problem in Tahoe where that I described earlier in this thread — the drop-down menu bar doesn’t display correctly until I click where it should display.
I installed the Tahoe Beta on my M2 MBP and all is good with Capture One and Photoshop but there's real issues with Mail and Messages lately. I launch the apps and it's unresponsive 75% of the time and forget blocking spam, the beachball spins for thirty seconds and I've given up and just delete them. I hope that the Public release fixes the issues but the look of the OS is nice. I've had no issues at all with the iOS on my iPhone and iPad Pro.
schlotz wrote:
On 26.0.1 with the MBP M1 Max, so far no real issues after tweaking down the liquid glass junk.
+1. Same. 26.0.1 on an MBP M4 Pro with Capture One 16.7, DxO Photolab 9, Office 365 for Mac , etc. No issues. Also tried as much as possible to get rid of the liquid glass look which is awful in my opinion. YMMV.
I came across a new Tahoe bug yesterday when updating one of my other laptops to 26.1.
The Wallpaper setting can lose the ability to select your own folder of pictures (as opposed to using one of the photo collections supplied by Apple). Since that is how I store and display my favourite photos this is a problem for me.
I spent several hours researching the forums trying to debug it, but apparently there is no solution if the workarounds are unsuccessful -- just have to wait for an eventual fix. It seems to be triggered in some way by higher levels of security requiring re-confirmed access permissions to the relevant folder, but just granting them does not make the problem go away.
Strangely, it is not a problem on my main desktop Mac, running the exact same release.
I did spend some time searching for a third-party wallpaper manager, since it seems to me it would be easy enough to write one but, again strangely, none exist that work in the same way. There are several that offer picture libraries via the cloud, for a subscription, but they do not allow use of your own collection on your own disk.
I figured I'd bump this thread as I believe the last update to Tahoe was just released as Golden Gate will likely be released in a month. Since I am a Sequoia hold-out, figured I'd see if anybody has any regrets. I still use some Rosetta software so I believe that will still work on Tahoe (I know it will be phased out at some point).
The whole Liquid Glass aesthetic is so half baked and overall the experience of moving around the OS feels slower with no major new features that made it worth the squeeze.
I have Tahoe on my MacBook Neo and despise the whole Liquid Glass thing. Maybe I’ll just stick with Sequoia.
RoamingScott wrote:
I definitely wish I hadn't updated from Sequoia
The whole Liquid Glass aesthetic is so half baked and overall the experience of moving around the OS feels slower with no major new features that made it worth the squeeze.
I installed Tahoe on my photo system right after it was released, and I’ve had no issues at all that could be traced to it. Interface preferences are a pretty subjective thing, so you might need to check it for yourself —— though it doesn’t create any problems for me, and I’m certainly not seeing any slowdowns.
I suppose it is fine to lock yourself into an earlier version as long as it still works fine for you, but I don’t see any reason to avoid upgrading.
corposant wrote:
I have Tahoe on my MacBook Neo and despise the whole Liquid Glass thing. Maybe I’ll just stick with Sequoia.
Search the Web a little. It’s easy to disable or tone down most Liquid Glass visuals (Macworld, other pubs describe them, for example), and there are Terminal commands to restore pre-Tahoe window corners and eliminate the new menu icons. The only remaining thing I’ve noticed is app icon squircles.
gdanmitchell wrote:
Interface preferences are a pretty subjective thing
They’re really not. The original Mac interface was arrived at after two years of prototyping and formal psychological experiments. For example, Fitt’s Law allows convenient menu access (at the top), and conveniently moving the dock to another monitor (by smashing the mouse pointer to the bottom edge of that monitor and holding it there).
There can be no doubt that a text entry box which is transparent to text below it, as seen in Tahoe’s Settings app, is a bad idea. But if you do doubt, you can prove it by experiment.
I suppose it is fine to lock yourself into an earlier version as long as it still works fine for you, but I don’t see any reason to avoid upgrading.
It’s only 3 to 5 weeks until the release of Golden Gate, which fixes most or all of Tahoe’s UI problems, and Sequoia is still receiving security updates, and will for another year. If your machine can run Golden Gate, and is still on Sequoia, I think it would be best just to wait for Golden Gate, and perhaps the first update of Golden Gate if you’re not eager for some feature in it. On the other hand, if it’s even possible with the applied firmware updates, I think it would be silly to try to downgrade a Tahoe machine to Sequoia for just a few weeks.
gdanmitchell wrote: Interface preferences are a pretty subjective thing
melcat replied: They’re really not. The original Mac interface was arrived at after two years of prototyping and formal psychological experiments. For example, Fitt’s Law allows convenient menu access (at the top), and conveniently moving the dock to another monitor (by smashing the mouse pointer to the bottom edge of that monitor and holding it there).
There can be no doubt that a text entry box which is transparent to text below it, as seen in Tahoe’s Settings app, is a bad idea. But if you do doubt, you can prove it by experiment.
How ann interface operates is not exactly subjective, though a lot of subjective choices go into its design. There are obviously facts about how it functions. However, how one responds to that interface is, indeed, subjective. Note that I used the words “interface preferences” in that sentence. (Exhibit 1: Some people lover Windows way more than Mac OS and some love Mac OS way more than Windows.)
In addition, one aspect of the current Mac OS interface is that many things can easily be change to be more in line with your preferences. For example, it is pretty easy to disable that transparency in Mac OS (and in iOs). In fact, for some of us with vision issues that's a necessity... but easy to do.
I also wrote: I suppose it is fine to lock yourself into an earlier version as long as it still works fine for you, but I don’t see any reason to avoid upgrading.
melcat replied: It’s only 3 to 5 weeks until the release of Golden Gate, which fixes most or all of Tahoe’s UI problems, and Sequoia is still receiving security updates, and will for another year. If your machine can run Golden Gate, and is still on Sequoia, I think it would be best just to wait for Golden Gate, and perhaps the first update of Golden Gate if you’re not eager for some feature in it. On the other hand, if it’s even possible with the applied firmware updates, I think it would be silly to try to downgrade a Tahoe machine to Sequoia for just a few weeks....Show more →
I'll agree with you on waiting to see what the new interface looks like rather than upgrading now if you are still using an older version of the OS.
On the other hand, I would not be in too great of a hurry to move to this new OS on a work-centric photography machine since there are some pretty significant changes. (You may have seen the warnings about the need to use Rosetta if you have some old software, for example some of the tools that come with Epson printers.)
Recent updates have not created any problems for me with my Epson printers, but in the past there were some serious issues that made it better to wait and see. I'll probably update my non-photo Mac pretty quickly with the new OS, but I'll wait at least a week or two to upgrade my Photoshop machine and let others be the beta testers on that. And when I do update... I'm make sure I have at least one solid backup of my entire system and external drives.
