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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by chatmasta »

zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Personally I have Spotlight indexing completely disabled, except to index items in `/Applications` so I can use it as a quick-launcher. This was not easy to configure, and I'll probably have to do it again next time I update the OS. But it did seem to help with performance - Spotlight was often the cause of unpredictably high CPU usage spikes.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by ezfe »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #280

I'm surprised they released this. I try to participate in every macOS beta I can. This is by far the most unstable release I've experienced. - Settings app has a lot of weird bugs and performance issues. After a restart I have to wait a few minutes before the Settings app actually functions. Overall the Settings app has felt like a step back in terms of UX and performance - Lots of weird issues with Docker (might be…

I've been running in the beta since the spring too and I haven't seen any of these problems

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by ezfe »

diimdeep wrote: post #75

Could anyone please share emoji file, do not want to get 12gb only for this :D `/System/Library/Fonts/Apple Color Emoji.ttc` nvm, https://0x0.st/oxdZ.ttc Apple Color Emoji Version 18.0d4e1 Glyph count 3 574

You don't lose 12GB, since it's replacing existing data

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by ezfe »

agoddard wrote: post #301
tnmears wrote: post #253

Did anyone else get a Safari window after the update with a iCloud page to setup family sharing?

yep, it opened to this page https://setup.icloud.com/family/cacheMugshotMarquee?aaaction... which responds with a HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request seems like a bug, weird that it didn't get picked up before GM as it was also noticed during the beta: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/712858 Some discussion of it from today, but no definitive answers yet https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/strange-safari-open-tab...

It doesn't happen when you update each beta in a row so it probably wasn't noticed. I didn't get it on my beta machine, just on my work machine.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by boesboes »

zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

If I'm recall correctly, it was pretty much perfect in the first few releases. It got worse and worse over the years when they added smart features.

But maybe that more nostalgia than actual memories ;)

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by bdlowery »

zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

There’s one simple solution… buy Alfred.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by replwoacause »

replwoacause wrote: post #465

Be aware anyone using Parallels 17, it isn't compatible on Ventura so you will have to upgrade to the latest version for $70: https://forum.parallels.com/threads/did-anyone-else-on-17-ge...

So for what its worth, I just upgraded to Ventura and was able to continue using Windows 11 on Parallels 17, so I'm not really sure what is going on with their confusing messaging.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by rubyist5eva »

smoldesu wrote: post #355
rubyist5eva wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP but offering perspective: I've tried it and it's so painfully slow that I just coughed up the money for parallels.

Is Parallels that much faster?

In my experience using linux vms mainly for database workloads Parallels is nearly 10x faster than both UTM using Qemu and even Apple Virtualization (just tested it this morning using Ventura and the latest UTM 4.0 version with Ventura updates).

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by tinus_hn »

samuelstros wrote: post #248
tinus_hn wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows has such great window management its users have much less windows open and thus manage much less windows than the MacOS, which has such bad window management its users manage hundreds of windows. It does not make a whole lot of sense.

I see where you are coming from. Windows has great window management = less chaos, less orphan open windows Mac OS has inferior window management = chaos, hundreds of open windows The main reasons stems from the fact that Windows open window discoverability is higher. Open windows are always displayed in the menu bar. MacOS only displays the app icon but provides no information about the open windows except for press…

Mac OS displays exactly the same information, Windows groups windows under one icon as well. Windows shows miniatures of the windows on hover, Mac OS pops them all up to the foreground if you click the icon and lists them on right click/control click.

This theory makes little sense.

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