Mojave install a disaster

You know, if the developers and Apple BEFORE releasing this for prime time, simply admitted to the fact that ALL 32-bit apps needed to be purged BEFORE upgrading....that would have been fine. They DIDN’T. I dunno, should they have???

I believe Mojave still supports 32 bit apps. The next release won’t. So there should be no issues.

Furthermore in previous releases older apps didn’t make the system crash. You just couldn’t run them and were given an error.

A few people on other thread had the same issues doing a clean install. Personally I have so many files I’d rather not go through that.

I may just wait for the inevitable update to Mojave and hope it’s worked out these initial bugs.

I am shocked it's nowhere either. I googled the first day and found nothing. I ended up finding out here I wasn't alone with this.

A little surprised this happened too. I've never had a problem upgrading before that I can recall.

I am at this point just checking constantly for updates to everything daily, with the hopes that and maybe the next Mojave release will install . . .

I have too much in the way of software and plugins to go through the headache of a clean install and reinstalling everything right now. By time I can find the time to do that, I'm sure the next release will be out anyways!

Apple needs to reimburse me for the 2 months of pictures and files I’m going to lose. Why release something that a tech savvy person cannot fix? Only see users but no apple tech support people jumping into thread. Completely wrong.

Thanks to threads/posts like this, Apple is well aware of the problems. I’ve spoken with them now on 4 occasions spending hours over the course of the last several days and though unable to come up with a fix, I have no doubt that they are working on it.

Thank you for having these discussions with Apple. I never did get in to see the Genius Bar; I restored back to High Sierra from Time Machine instead and the computer is now working flawlessly. I'm leery of trying any Mojave installations until I see an update to the "point one" version. I am really astounded at how badly this has gone.

I couldn’t agree with you more and thank goodness for High Sierra and TM. There will be no more Mojave attempts on my part until Apple sends out a version of Mojave that actually works. I too am astounded.

I can't speak for Apple. It nevertheless worked and resolved all of my issues such that Mojave is working flawlessly on my 2017 iMac. (I've sent the Apple senior advisor with whom I've been working, the method used to resolve my issues).

My friend instilled Mojave and disaster - your remedy does not work.

MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.3 15" Retina 2012 2.3 GHz Core i7 (I7-3615QM)

Intro. June 11, 2012 Disc. February 13, 2013

Order MC975LL/A Model A1398 (EMC 2512)

Family Retina Mid-2012 ID MacBookPro10,1

RAM 8 GB VRAM 1 GB*

Storage 256 GB SSD Optical

How does he go back to the previous version?

With respect to supported graphics, my mid-2012 Macbook Pro has the Intel HD Graphics 4000. In the system info it says "Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4" - and this machine took the upgrade to Mojave just fine. Mind you, I have also upgraded to a 500GB SSD and jumped from 4 to 16GB of RAM. Hope that's helpful.

TMM

My friend spent three days with Apple Support on the phone, a very helpful man in Portugal sorted out the problem, and his Mac works fine now. I will not upgrade myself yet -

Model Name: MacBook Air

Model Identifier: MacBookAir6,2

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 1.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB

39GB free

I bought it in 2013

Although it will take Mojave I think I'll wait

Just upgraded yesterady my wife’s 2013 MB Air - checked for the infamous file - not to be found - although I discovered that she had NEVER upgraded from the El Capitan OS that came preisntalled. Mojave installed perfectly. (No, I did not admonish my wife for not having upgraded through the years!)

“been on Safari and used Mail...and done a very brief Migration Assistant...Indeed Ann, what and from where did the sysctrl file get imported. I sure hope the Apple engineers are reading these threads/posts. It’s beginning to sound that a Mojave patch shouldn’t be ”rocket science.” Many thanks for the valuable input!

Thanks! I waited from public beta one, knowing this was likely a simple fix. Updated through each beta through recovery, and installed final from USB. SMC and PRAM weren’t the culprits, but everything worked great outside of the main install. Really appreciate the help! Excited to set down the old laptop for a while.

I have had all the above mentioned disastrous problems "upgrading to mojave" and have spent countless hours on the phone with apple support - escalated up to 2 senior advisors, 1 of whom will be calling me back today in a couple hours only to be disappointed that my 3rd install of this awful mojave has not worked yet again. So, when I read this thread and try to look at my 32 vs 64 bit apps (I'm not that computer savvy but am really trying to understand as much as I can), I followed your instructions above - when i went to About This Mac / System Report / Applications....when I hit Applications, i got an error that stated "The plug-in did not respond quickly enough while gathering this information. I can't even decipher which applications may be giving me an issue. Do you have any suggestions on where to go from here? I want to go back to High Sierra and I do have an external hard drive back up that I can restore from. I would just need detailed instructions on how to go about doing that. Is someone willing to provide those for me? Please can somebody help me as I am growing tired of rebooting and waiting tirelessly for the same result....apple is not helping me! Shame on them for releasing this before it's time!!!!! Thank you in advance for anyone willing to lend a hand....