I am using an iMac (2020) 27" Retina 3.3GHz with a 1Tetra HD. and loaded and installed the Sonoma update a week or so before Christmas and intended to install MS Office 2021.
However I have had nothing but problems!
1) WEB. I was unable to post on any programme (Safari 17.2.1) until today - other than 'like' button use on some ADIY posts. My broadband service is British Telecom.
2) Many (approx 50%) emails have been lost and I have not been able to send any other than locally! These two have cleared today but I have lost very many mails.
3) I do NOT wish to use iCloud yet cannot seem to get rid of that most annoying message which appears on the top right of the screen. If I delete the message two further
screens appear and need to be closed - at which the first message reappears!!!
Any ideas on solving any of these problems?
Having always been a Mac user I find that the current software is no longer easy to use and appears to be more interested in linking to iPads, watches and phones than in providing
a sensible work station. I have 4 old desktop Macs in the garage and 2 cinema screens - I may be driven to using one!
However I have had nothing but problems!
1) WEB. I was unable to post on any programme (Safari 17.2.1) until today - other than 'like' button use on some ADIY posts. My broadband service is British Telecom.
2) Many (approx 50%) emails have been lost and I have not been able to send any other than locally! These two have cleared today but I have lost very many mails.
3) I do NOT wish to use iCloud yet cannot seem to get rid of that most annoying message which appears on the top right of the screen. If I delete the message two further
screens appear and need to be closed - at which the first message reappears!!!
Any ideas on solving any of these problems?
Having always been a Mac user I find that the current software is no longer easy to use and appears to be more interested in linking to iPads, watches and phones than in providing
a sensible work station. I have 4 old desktop Macs in the garage and 2 cinema screens - I may be driven to using one!
Well - at last I can use this cursed iMac to post! Seems that the root problem was a flooded junction between cable and fibre junction to local exchange. The joys of countryside living 
[Despite the fact that the iMac was not to blame (totally IP's problem) I find that Mac systems are becoming decreasingly less intuitive.
]
Belated New Year wishes to all!
[Despite the fact that the iMac was not to blame (totally IP's problem) I find that Mac systems are becoming decreasingly less intuitive.
]Belated New Year wishes to all!
I got this from an associate who recently installed Sonoma on his M1 Air.
An update is imminent. That will hopefully help.
I usually wait until just. before the next OS upgrade to upgrade to the latest version of the OS. If you buy a new machine tyou get teh lastest OS (or if the timing is right, the one yopu get hasn’t yet gotten the latest at the factory which i managed with my new 15” Air).
good to see you escaped from upgrsade hell …
dave
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I avoid office. Nisus, Numbers for the baby worksheets — i would love to have a macOS 68030 emulator running 7.6.1 so i could use the ancient spreadsheet i was an expert in — even today it outclasses Excel. i do have excel 2004 on the MacPro downstairs but it is such a poor piece of software. Keynote reads PowerPoint.
But if you are stuck in a corporate grind…
dave
But if you are stuck in a corporate grind…
dave