- Joined
- Oct 31, 2012
- Messages
- 538
- Motherboard
- ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS
- CPU
- Dual E5-2680 v1
- Graphics
- GTX660 Ti
- Mobile Phone
Not as many issues here, but definitely more flaky with 10.12.4, Nvidia web drivers and Safari causing lockups or KP's was even worse with PCIe Wi-Fi card turned on ...OK, I've made a few posts to this thread about the problems I've had with 10.12.4 - and finally I'm going back to 10.12.3 and will await 10.12.5 instead, then try again. Don't know why so many of these problems are unique to me. Didn't want to do a complete fresh install because some of my software has been "activated" and the license would potentially be lost.
My system has been rock-solid for 6-months. No crashes or kernel panics at all, only the odd small problem when something is updated.
The catalogue of problems with 10.12.4 is summarised as follows:
1) Magic Mouse became erratic. Thought it was BT or aerial. No. Tested in Windows. Tested another mouse.
2) Mouse Preference Pane crashed every single time it was clicked-on. Error report seemingly pointing to an inaccessible address.
3) Graphics - most peculiar. I have uninstalled the Nvidia graphics - all 16 kexts have gone - but I no longer need Nvidia web-drivers to get accelerated graphics.
4) Apple Mail updates all your messages to a new version which is NOT readable by 10.12.3's version or earlier. A big surprise this because it isn't just a Hackintosh problem, it will affect all Mac users. There should surely have been a pop-up message warning about the upgrade going to be done.
If you make the upgrade and then decide against it you can get your mail back by doing this before downgrading to 10.12.3 - select each On My Mac mailbox, Right Click/Option Click on it and choose Export Mailbox. You can select more than none. Choose a destination. Once you've reverted to 10.12.3 Import Mailboxes from File menu, but don't choose the Apple Mail option, choose the Mail in MBox format one near the bottom.
5) Clover needs updating to a v2.4 r4xxx release because kext injection from their EFI kext tree doesn't work for 10.12.4. Sure, you can put the kexts in L/E instead, but upgrading Clover is easy enough. You have to do this BEFORE the upgrade though.
6) Problems with Frequently Visited web-pages not showing in Safari.
7) System freezes. Not minor. Complete lock-up. Initially every 15-30 minutes needing a reset to clear. They became less when I did yet another 10.12.3 install then upgrade to 10.12.4. What would happen is that the mouse-pointer would freeze solid. No keys moved anything. The Caps-Lock light worked on/off as intended so it looked like USB was still working. Reboot only way out.
So there we go. Quite a story!
Martin