Month: July 2023

I had some issues with the first Developer Beta that I eventually overcame. Other issues popped up to the point that I gave up and wiped the drive, swearing the whole thing off until we got further into the development cycle.

Being a bear for punishment, when Beta 2 was released I jumped back on. As is often the case, things that were working perfectly fine in one beta get broken on a subsequent one. This was the case with Beta 2.

I have Sonoma installed in a separate container on the main hard drive.  Since the drive isn't big enough to completely clone everything, when I migrated migrated my profile, I left Documents, Pictures, and Music in the original locations, being diligent when using Sonoma to just point everything I changed or added back to those original folders. It's worked like this forever with no problems. Forever until Beta 2. For some reason the original Ventura installation wasn't recognizing my account from Sonoma, even though it was identical (logged into the same Apple account, same name, same password, etc.). When I checked permissions on the Ventura folders it saw my "Mark" account as something new and was stuck in a loop "getting permissions." After several days I have up trying to fix it, wiped everything and happily went back to Ventura.

Well, Beta 3 (usually the point in the past where I've jumped in because it's the point where things start to stabilize) came out last week, and—being a glutton for pushment—I installed it again. I don't know if I did something different, or if the issue had simply been fixed, but my permissions errors were gone. I could access everything on the Ventura partition without issue, and several other glitches were seemingly rectified in this release as well.

Is it ready for release? Not by a long shot, but it's definitely further along. It's not an earth-shattering update to Ventura, but there are lots of nice little refinements that I find useful and I think most Mac users will appreciate.