@vincent Bug Sur. 😂

@vincent Not public beta, yet. But, it will be.

@zorn Bug, Sure… 😂 @vincent Maybe I’m a bit lucky neither of my macs can be updated to it?

@zorn 😂

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@zorn @vincent Every Radar should begin with:

A bug, sir!

@vincent OK, that sounds great then 😃👍 Personally I can’t justify forking over more💰💰to Apple right now, so I’ll have to be on Catalina and High Sierra respectively for the moment. Maybe if I win the lottery, there will be something with Apple Silicon 🤑

@vincent Wish I had your install! 🤣

@maique I've had no problems whatsoever

@maique nope, I've been using Catalina on two different machines without a problem

@maique I had a pretty annoying issue with the Music app where it used 100% CPU all the time. I was able to fix it by making a new music library. Other than that, everything has been good.

@maique The music thing was some bug with album art lookup (I think). I have a lot of local ripped music. I ended up exporting my library as an XML file and reimporting it as a new library. No one else on the internet seemed to be having the same problem as me, so it's not common.

@maique @tgray - How long has Photos.app's processes been pegging your CPU? Is it because you imported a large set of photos into it? You know what I'm dealing with

@maique @vincent - The only issues that I have with Catalina are Bluetooth related. Otherwise, I've had a very solid experience on two computers with it. Almost all of the issues I've read or heard about I do not have.

That said, excited for Big Sur.

@cdevroe @maique No issues here with Photos. I hardly ever open it up though - the only photos I have in it are from my iPhone and synced through iCloud. I have no desire to load it up with my other photography.

@maique I'm operating at well above 100,000 photos and videos in my Library. Photos for Mac seems to perform just fine for the size of the Library that I have, it is the facial recognition part that seems to take a very, very long time. Otherwise, no speed complaints.

@maique You can also use a Smart Album to help with dupes. See my tweet re: that.

Can do something much more sophisticated if needed.

@tgray @maique - I have two Photos for Mac Libraries. One is personal from my wife and I. And the other is my photography projects both film and digital. I keep them separate.

I keep the .photoslibrary files on my MacBook drive, and the images are all on external hard drives.

@tgray @maique OK, I really need to write all of this up into a single post. I'll find the time in September. I promise.

@tgray I have recently had my fans spin up on a relatively idle machine with iTunes running, but not playing. Looking at the process list, it was a process that appeared to be doing something with album artwork or metadata. So maybe you're not the only one.

@maique I can open Photos when the drives are not connected. I can browse the photos, search the library, tag things, etc. It is using the thumbnails it creates. By leaving the files on external drive, my library file is “only” 41GB. If I need an original file, I mount the drives

@tgray That is the process that was using CPU. Hopefully I won't have to do a full re-import :-(