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I dropped the full Photoshop, and went to affinity, and I'm happy, but, of course, that depends on what you want to do with the program.
Little update on the iMac M4 today.
I did re-enable Spotlight after I excluded the Users/Shared folder. Shared has all the DAZ content folders and totals around 1.3TB of stuff. With it excluded from Spotlight indexing, I went to pick up lunch today. When I got home, Spotlight had finished indexing the remainder of the drive. It also consumed so little space on the SSD, that I couldn't tell how much my free space had shrunk. I can now search everywhere on the Mac except in the Shared folder. That doesn't bother me since I mostly look for things within DS (Smart Content). I save my self-created presets, renders, etc. in my user account folder and that one is included in Spotlight. So, quite happy that Spotlight worked by excluding the 1.3TB worth of DAZ installed content folders.
Also, I do have several alternative image editing apps on the Mac. I gave Pixelmator Pro a try and I think it will do most (even all?) of what I routinely did with Photoshop Elements. Will need to play with it a bit more to make sure. I'll report back after I've had a chance to use it to post-process my renders.
Haven't moved all my DAZ content over to the external T9 SSD. Now that I have enough free space on the internal storage, I'll hold off until it fills up a bit more.
I did get a slight speed up with Iray rendering. Forgot that I had it set to use up to 8 cores. Set it to 10 core limit this morning and can see that all cores are maxxing out during rendering. The performance cores always ran at full power, now all the efficiency cores join in at full power. So that's a nice little boost with Iray.
One last thing for now, but an important one: Thanks to @Totte for helping the DAZ developers figure out the menu bar related crashes. I'll take stability over the slight convenience from the menu bar change. Thanks all for letting me know about this.
Still happy with the iMac M4. I continue to tinker with creating morphed/mixed figure shapes almost daily.
Enjoy your day!
Lee
This has happened to me more than once using Monterey 12.7.6, and possibly earlier versions of Monterey. I'm using it on a Macintosh pro late 2013 edition. I'm wondering if this is related to the Monterey OS.
After acquiring a number of snapshots, when I scan the data volume with disk utility, I'll get a message that the snapshots are mixed up somehow and I should Back up the data on the drive as quickly as possible. I do that.
When I try to repair the drive in recovery, it fails on the data volume. The other volumes check out OK.
So I fix this by reinstalling the system OS. After I do that, all of the volumes, including the data volume, check out OK.
So are there any thoughts as to why this happens? Why do the snapshots get mixed up on the data volume?
Out of curiosity. What is the best/safest studio version to run on a M2 mac currently?
- And is there already feature parity with regards to the Premier only plugins?
Filament is still not on the table hence, as this won't be there until studio 5 which might be 26/27ish, right?