Problems upgrading to macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro 2018

I asked a friend of mine I know on the other platform to post here and see if he could help. I don't know what his name is on here, but he has newer Macs in the range of the ones having issues here. He was also a beta tester, both public and developer, and he hasn't had any issues. Maybe he'll see my posts and reply since He knows I'm over here now.

I would like to be more help, but I don't own the newer Macs. The newest is the late 2015 iMac, and is probably my last Mac, I'm not happy with the direction Apple is going with hardware, and I only still use them for their software at this point.

(This coming from someone who has followed Apple since the 80's through now). Using products from the Apple II through the Mac.

Yes. It does. Also bit that it matters, I’m on the public beta for iOS and I tried to install Mojave under the beta.apple.com with the profile. But I don’t get the software update option in applications. Probably cause the beta is over and there isn’t a beta release yet for Mojave.

But rather then pulling my hair out. I’ll just wait

It's your choice to wait, but There is a Mojave beta out. Version 10.14.1, I installed it the other daly. You have to go into system preferences, and to software update to get system updates now.

From what I have seen though, currently it adds back Group FaceTime that was removed in earlier betas. The iOS 12.1 beta also adds it back for iOS devices.

I agree after trying the upgrade 3 times and forced to reinstall High Sierra 3 times, I’m convinced that it is best to wait it out until Apple releases a REAL Mohave OS that actually works - this one most certainly does not. Otherwise, theyll be buying back my 2017 iMac.

dmauch, You think, you're angry and frustrated now. There are reports of Apple in a few years possibly moving the Macs to their on processor as well, like the iPhones, and iPads, and other units. That's some change I'm not looking forward to. We'll just have to wait and see, but there have been various reports of it coming.

Well that’s just great Allan. Kind of like playing the lottery, uh? We all shell out the money and for some of us, we win, and others, we lose. Great business model - don’t you think? It’s completely unacceptable and after buying Apple products now for over 3 decades, it looks as though the High Sierra’s will be my last journey before dying of thIt’s in their Mohave.

We have one more day of the Weekend to get through, then by next week hopefully people will hear something more from apple. Typically in the past, when there are real genuine issues, Apple has been usually quick to get something out to people as a fix.

Your confidence level in your statement is mind boggling.

This is not my first rodeo. I have done this and cleaned out my MBP etc etc. I have done updates to the Mac os many times and never have I been stumped as with Mojave.

Clean Install with erasure of SSD, you name it I tried it. Hours spent trying to do something that should be simple.

This is nuts

Yes, the same as picklebreath - except three times - all back to normal with 10.13.6 So please stop telling us that the problem lies with our machines. The problem is with Mohave and its ADVERSE EFFECTS on our machines. Plain and simple.

The only thing I would say is installing TM from NAS can be very time consuming.

Though a keep a NAS backup I have always done backup from a USB 3 HD.

Also when it asks what you want transferred from your account let it populate all the fields with files/apps/network settings before proceeding.

You will only get a partial restore if you do not wait until calculation has finished.

Yes I have have waited for it it to complete and wired to NAS and like I said works like a charm with High Sierra and worked like a charm when I went from Sierra to HS.

So where is the difference = Mojave

For me I have a lot of mailbox and huge amount of data on mac.

TM puts that all back in place.

I did have issue earlier in year but that was trying to use NAS as TM source.

And my USB 3 external drive had multiple (weekly backups for 6 months or so) it did not like that too much.

I was migrating to machine I have now 2017 MBP, but still had old MBP so I created a fresh TM back up and migrated that first go without issues.

Understood. I Primarily use Gmail, and iCloud, so both are iMAP services, so no reason to back up email as it's stored in the cloud. With that said, I usually just save my documents, (including Virtual Machines) and anything specific that can't be recreated on the new install without a lot of time and effort. then I just restore the items back to the appropriate places, and I'm good to go, usually takes about an hour, maybe 2.

dmauch, You might be experiencing something called "RAM Creep". It's where one or more modules have become improperly seated. To check, disconnect iMac after shutting down, lay it on a towel or on a bed display down, open the RAM door on the back, take out the DIMMS, and reseat them. close up the Mac and see if those memory messages go away. RAM creep can be caused by improperly seated RAM, or the process of heating and cooling for them to come loose. Also, keep in mind, if you've upgraded your RAM to a third party manufacture, and it's NOT the stock Apple RAM, iMacs can be extremely sensitive to damaged, or incompatible RAM. If you are using Apple's Stock RAM, and reseating doesn't fix, I would make a genius appointment and have them check for bad RAM. You could do this at home with diagnostic tools, but it depends on how down and dirty you want to get in diagnosing your problems.

Also, if you're iMac is under warranty, while testing the RAM yourself at home, won't void the warranty, taking it in should get you a free RAM replacement, if it's damaged.

Many thanks DVD for your further insight. My iMac only has the stock Apple RAM that came with it. But one other observation I would make. The Activity Monitor showed an extraordinarily high Memory use - kernal_task (952.9MB) suggesting I believe the need to drive the fan. Is this not somewhat odd?