{"id":18439,"date":"2017-07-21T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18439"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:42:16","slug":"some-known-bugs-in-macos-10-12-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/some-known-bugs-in-macos-10-12-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Known Bugs in macOS 10.12.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2017\/07\/21\/known-bugs-in-macos-sierra-10-12-6-an-incomplete-summary\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a> has a list of user-facing bugs that remain in what is likely the last update to Sierra. Here are some that continue to affect me regularly:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/my-2017-imac\/\">iMac 5K doesn&rsquo;t wake external display<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/08\/sierra-bluetooth-problems-and-the-logitech-k811-keyboard\/\">Spontaneous disconnection of Bluetooth keyboard and mouse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/on-the-uselessness-of-search-in-macos-mail\/\">Mail&rsquo;s Flagged mailbox shows wrong number and contents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Double-clicking words in Mail selects the trailing space, even when the &ldquo;smart&rdquo; features are disabled.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/262964\/macbook-startup-problems-mouse-and-keyboard-not-working-at-login-stuck-on-ap\/\">Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard are not recognized at boot time for selecting the FileVault user<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Search Kit&rsquo;s tokenizer omits some words and breaks others into pieces.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/sierra-stuck-mouse-cursor-graphic-bug\/\">Mouse cursor stuck with wrong graphic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/more-macos-preview-pdf-trouble\/\">Various PDF rendering and user interface issues remain<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/processing-the-selected-text-via-script\/\">Custom keyboard shortcuts don&rsquo;t work and\/or disappear<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Photos gets confused and takes several days to redownload 20K photo <em>thumbnails<\/em> that haven&rsquo;t changed.<\/li>\n<li>Disk Utility fails at mounting volumes and at partitioning disks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/highpoint-rocketstor-5212-thunderbolt-dual-drive-dock\/\">Spontaneous ejections of USB 3 volumes<\/a> (many different enclosures and Macs, since USB 3 was introduced).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/mac-os-x-10-11-4-and-ios-9-3\/\">Command-Delete doesn&rsquo;t always work in Finder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finding files by name in Finder is unreliable (since 10.4 introduced Spotlight).<\/li>\n<li>Finder windows don&rsquo;t remember their position or status bar state (also for many releases).<\/li>\n<li>Update (2017-09-06): Finder icon view stops responding (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenbraddy\/status\/905065997035589633\">Stephen Braddy<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Update (2017-09-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/rocketstor-drive-dock-more-expensive-but-reliable\/\">USB 3 hard drives spontaneously unmount<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley has a list of user-facing bugs that remain in what is likely the last update to Sierra. Here are some that continue to affect me regularly: iMac 5K doesn&rsquo;t wake external display. Spontaneous disconnection of Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Mail&rsquo;s Flagged mailbox shows wrong number and contents. Double-clicking words in Mail selects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,1143,422,131,538,838,458,30,1381,1490,1289,345,927,102,343,398,1042],"class_list":["post-18439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bluetooth","tag-bug","tag-diskutility","tag-display","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-magic-keyboard","tag-mouse","tag-pdf","tag-photos-app","tag-preview","tag-search","tag-searchkit","tag-spotlight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}