tnw2933

I received my 16 in. M1 Max MacBook Pro on launch day (October 26th and I have never been abled to get TM to complete a backup. From the very first backup it has always gone about 97% to completion and then given the error message TM "waiting to complete backup" which it never does. In fact, I have now turned off automatic TM backups since it just keeps repeating this behavior over and over while never showing any time machine backups in finder but showing GB's of files in Apple>About this Mac>Storage. I contacted Apple Support over  three weeks ago and spent at least 8 hours over two days trying to resolve the problem. None of the following solved the TM issue: (1) Formatting the USB 3 TM disk as APFS; (2) Setting up and running TM in Safe Mode; (3) Creating a Test User account and running TM; (4) Trying other USB3 external HD's for TM including one brand new USB3 HD; (5) Reinstalling the Mac OS Monterey. The Apple Senior Specialist collected diagnostic information and forwarded it to Apple Engineers. She sent me an email the next day (which was about three weeks ago) to tell me that Apple Engineers admitted there was a TM problem with the new Apple Silicon Macs and that they were working to resolve it.  Since then I have heard nothing further. I am now using Carbon Copy Cloner to make backups of my M1 Max.  This problem is the subject of an 18 (or more) page thread on Macrumors. Be thankful if you have an M1 MacBook Pro and have not had this TM problem, but it is not isolated to a few users. 

I installed this software update on my Early 2008 Mac Pro running the latest El Capitan with everything working fine prior to installing the update.  No problems or error messages were encountered in installing the update.  However, upon rebooting I was taken to the login screen, entered my password, and the spinning wheel kept spinning.  After 20 minutes I shut down the computer, used recovery mode to reinstall the OS, and tried to boot again.  Once again I got the spinning wheel and could not get past the login.  Fortunately I had a day old clone and I was able to boot my Mac Pro with this clone with no problems.  I then used Super Duper to copy the clone's OS back to my Macintosh HD, and I could then boot the Mac Pro without problems.  I repeated all of this twice.  Each time I tried to boot after installing the security update, I could not get past the spinning circle after putting in my password.  I have now used my clone to restore my Macintosh HD and I am booting and using the Mac Pro without any problems. I do not plan to install this update, and I believe that I have clearly shown that the update is flawed for my Early 2008 Mac Pro. I submitted all of this feedback to Apple. 

Tom

If you are editing Canon 5 Canon raw footage be advised that this Final Cut Pro X update (10.5.9) does not support the Canon raw plugin and that Canon raw footage cannot be edited until the plugin is fixed to work with this new version. In FCP 10.5.8 the Canon raw plugin downloaded from the Canon web site worked fine, and I had no problems editing Canon raw in FCP X, but sadly this is no longer the case. Resolve, however, handles the Canon raw footage perfectly. I hope that Canon and/or Apple will address this issue as soon as possible.  

focher said:

tnw2933 said:

I received my 10 core iMac Pro on December 26th 2017.  I noticed immediately that 95% of the time when I woke my iMac Pro from sleep all the external USB drives were ejected.  This occurred for various external USB3 hard drives from different manufacturers as well as with a Sandisk Extreme 64 GB USB3 flash drive and a 16 GB USB2 Kingston flash drive.  I also discovered that I could not boot into Windows 10 if any external hard drives were connected and that I could not use the Option key> Storage Manager to boot into Windows 10 regardless of whether USB drives were connected or not.  I filed a formal case with Apple Support on January 2, 2018 and I have since been in touch with a total of five Apple Support contacts regarding these two issues -- three of whom are Senior Advisors.  To date, the problem still exists, and I still have an open case with Apple.  I have been using the iMac Pro with Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 2 external hard drives without any problems as long as I do not attach USB drives to the iMac Pro and put it to sleep.  

I'm not disputing your experience, but just saying that I have the same usage scenarios and do not experience those problems. USB3 drive connected, and was never disconnected during sleep/wake up cycle. Windows 10 on a Bootcamp partition works fine with the same USB3 attached, along with a Thunderbolt 2 storage (with Thunderbolt 3 adapter) attached.

I am glad to hear that your iMac Pro is working properly and does not have the problems that I have reported.  I have five Macs now and this is the first time that I have ever had a problem with any of them.  I do realize that not all iMac Pro's have this problem having heard this from owners on other forums.  Unfortunately, my iMac Pro does have the problems and they have been observed clearly by Apple's Senior Advisors using screen sharing on my iMac Pro.  I would just like them to resolve the problem preferably without replacing the iMac Pro, but, if necessary, via a replacement. 

I have the late 2019 Mac Pro running Catalina 10.15.14 with the Apple Pro XDR Display.  Supposedly there is a firmware update to version 2.2.2 for the Pro XDR Display.  I have shut down the Mac, started it back up, disconnected the Pro XDR Thunderbolt cable and reconnected.  I have not been offered the new firmware and I have confirmed that I am still on the original firmware that shipped with the Apple Pro XDR display.  Has anyone with a late 2019 Mac Pro and the Pro XDR display been offered the firmware update for this monitor?

Tom