macOS Mojave now GA

Hi all,

So around lunch today Mojave dropped (9/24/18).  I had been using the public beta on an old MBA and it has grown into a solid release from my point of view. So here is the upgrade story.

• All outstanding app updates applied
• Backup
  • Time Machine (for easy file restores)
  • BackBlaze (for offsite backups)
  • SuperDuper (for a bootable image backup)
• Connected to electricity
• Connected to network - for hopefully faster update than over the air
• Empty the trash
• Restart
• Update
  • Which means download and update.  It took maybe 60 minutes all told to get me back to a login prompt after the download and start of the update.
• Test Time
  • I see that it is macOS 10.14 build 18A391.
  • My apps all work (all are the latest version)
    • Office 2016
    • View Client 4.9
    • Tweetbot 3.1
    • Slack 3.3.2
    • Skype 8.30.0.50
    • Evernote 7.5
    • Bitdefender - 4.3.72.179537 - this one caught me by surprise, most impressed it worked.
    • 1Password 7.2
    • Monity 1.4.5
    • On a different machine - MBA - which uses Trend today a new copy was available, and automatically downloaded for me, and worked good - it was 9.0.1.
  • No surprise all the apps work.  I have been using some of them in the beta builds.

Links

• Review of macOS Mojave by iMore - https://www.imore.com/macos-mojave-review
• Will macOS Mojave work on my Mac - https://www.imore.com/will-macos-sierra-work-my-mac
• How to prepare your Mac for macOS update - https://www.imore.com/how-prepare-your-mac-macos-update
• How to install a fresh copy of macOS Mojave - https://www.imore.com/how-install-fresh-copy-macos
• What’s new in macOS Mojave - https://www.imore.com/how-install-fresh-copy-macos
• Apple’s macOS Mojave page - https://www.apple.com/ca/macos/mojave/
• If you use Homebrew - such as for installing PowerShell, you should check out this article to fix it.  Thanks for sharing Christian!
• Want to have a USB that you can boot from, and install Mojave, just in case?  Info on how to do that is here.
• If you use BackBlaze you will not get a full backup after you upgrade to Mojave.  This is true of other apps actually, even ones like anti - malware too.  But check out this article from BackBlaze to help.

The biggest thing I have noticed so far is there is more privacy controls, and I have had to say yes a lot to them.

I share all this in case it helps, and so I hope it does. I have two Macs on this version and they are working good so far.

Michael

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