I ran into the same issue and ended up rebooting after 30+ minutes. Everything seems to be fine.
Funny (well not really): The new photos app presented me „your nicest birthdays“. It was almost exclusively pictures of my grandmothers funeral, which took place not even on my birthday but a few days before that some years ago. Must have looked like a glorious party to the AI, with all those different people in black ties.
Unfortunately voice control (and especially the dictation feature) seems not to be available in german yet. I hope this gets added, I’d love to use that.
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That was it! Thanks !
Is anyone else missing their purchase history on the Mac App Store since upgrading? The store doesn’t seem to think I have any previous purchases.
I’ve tried signing out and back in with no luck, so I’m about to try a reboot.
I updated my Mac Book Pro 2018 to Catalina just now, until know everything is working fine, I had one app that needed updated, and that’s it. The only issue I see is that the messages are not syncing as I would expect, but I will give it a little more time and see what happens… beside that everything is working fine.
Well, my problem isn’t resolved. But I’m also not the only one, at least:
Purchases are missing (Apple forums)
Catalina has lost all my App Store purchases (Reddit)
Missing purchased apps from Catalina App Store (Reddit)
This is aggravating. I never had trouble with the betas, but I ran the betas on the old machine that I traded in a little over a week ago. Since I just got a warranty exchange on the new machine, which was stuck on reboot yesterday, I figured I might as well update it to Catalina right out of the box, then install my apps.
Apparently that was a mistake. Sigh. Otherwise, I really like Catalina. Everything else is working fine. (Heck, if I download something like OmniFocus, the system even recognizes my subscription. It’s just apps that have to be paid for up front that I don’t dare download.)
As usual, I think I’ll be waiting for the first dot release of Catalina before I make any moves to upgrade. I just don’t have time to waste on troubleshooting potential issues 
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Would be great is someone could confirm this?
I use the star system extensively as a target for my smart filters. Across a local library of 700 albums, I’d be lost without it.
Sucks that sidecar does work on my 2015 MacBook Pro 
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True!! I didn’t notice that… not good.
Purchases magically came back for me this morning.
However now my email doesn’t stay in sync On my devices: iPad, iPhone or MacBook Pro. Oddly, it worked perfectly with the beta versions. I did, however, do a fresh install with the official release (perhaps that messed something up).
I just powered up my machine, and my purchases are also magically back. I suspect the commenters in one of the Reddit threads were right, and there was something odd happening server-side.
Sorry about the Mail glitch you’re experiencing. I’ve occasionally tried using Apple Mail, but I’ve never found it worked very well for me. I’ve always ended up going back to a combination of Gmail (for work mail) and Spark (for everything else).
Thanks, I hadn’t noticed the preferences option, but did notice that you can rate songs in the “Get Info” window.
I understand that lots of people get more out of just a thumbs up/down/love or whatever everyone is moving to, but I hope they keep star ratings. I have a fairly complex smart playlist that uses the ratings. To me, the ratings are how often I want to hear the song. 1 star means never, two occasionally, maybe every year or two … and 4/5 much more frequently.
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I highly regret trying to install Catalina on a day I wanted to work from home. Good lord. I thought downloading it overnight then starting the install at 6am would be plenty of time to get started working at 9am. Nope.
What a joke. At least give us a decent “estimated time remaining”. Mine was literally blank (just said Estimated time remaining…) the whole time until the last 10 minutes. Then I got all excited when I logged in, only to get stuck at the Setting up your Mac screen for another hour.
I gave up and went in to the office. This was my first “Windows-like” experience on my Mac. Not a good feeling.
Same here, what a mess.
I did Catalina upgrades on two of my machines
The first was on an older (2013) Mac Pro with lots of RAM (128 Gb) but apparently with marginal CPU capability as it is not eligible for SideCar. It took 6 hours to upgrade - similar to your experience with “Estimated Time Remaining” forever.
The second was on a much newer (2018) Retina iMac with decent RAM (40 Gb) - the upgrade took under an hour and was very straightforward.
I note that both machines are CPU limited when I try to make substantial use of Voice Control - though the older Mac Pro is much more limited in that regard than the newer iMac.
I am pondering whether the long upgrade times are just the tip of the iceberg and whether a lot of Macs out there which had been quite usable on 10.14 are going to be on the verge of non-usable on 10.15 - and whether into the future attention to tech specs of a new Mac will be increasingly important to be sure it can do the desired task.
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Fortunately things have since been working very well overall…and there’s a lot to like about Catalina.
Did anyone else have issues with the audio for this episode? It seemed to skip in several places. One example is around the 43:50 mark when David is talking about email clients.
I noticed David dropping out for fractions of a second occasionally. I thought it was my AirPods at first, but it wasn’t.
I agree. My girlfriend was poised to do the upgrade, and mentioned it in passing. Then we had the backup talk, possible issues with Word, etc.