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Apple Preparing Bug Fix Updates to Mail, iBooks, Safari and Remote Desktop

Überkraft said:
For those worried about bugs, wait for 10.9.1. I wouldn't wait any longer than that though, as Mavericks is already extremely stable, and free.
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Are you joking? The issues with OS X Mavericks are growing and significant, according to most trusted sources, including Apple's own discussion forums.

- The multiple, significant issues that Mavericks has with Gmail are show-stoppers for a lot of potential customers

Other problems being reported include:

- Multi-display support appears incredibly problematic

- Tons of installation problems being reported

- Major issues with Time Machine not working anymore with external drives and/or corrupted external hard drives

- 24-48 hour periods of initial Spotlight indexing and other issues are proving very common

- A lot of people reporting Safari slowdowns

- Etc.

The fact of the matter is this release is proving to be VERY bug-ridden, nearly to the point of being a Beta test itself.

Kind of surprised you don't appear to have been reading the news.

I'll stick with my trusty Snow Leopard until at LEAST the first update, if not the second or third....Maveriks is a lemon.
 
I use Mail app as my primary Mail client and it has served itself well. I truly believe it offers quite a bit more than most users are aware (an unfortunate downside from the increased ill-equipped part-time floor sales specialists who once were well educated on computer systems before Apple took off with the iPhone, etc).

However, I do not like how it handles links. Many times I simply need to copy a link, not preview it, and the "copy" option doesn't work nor can I simply highlight/select hyperlink text to manually copy. A minor quip but one that I encounter very often.

I do love the ability to print out many various label forms with the ability to fine tune how the labels/envelopes/etc handle my Contacts information. Makes it very easy to send out Holiday cards, etc.

As for Gmail, I found many of the issues were resolved by properly configuring my Gmail account via the settings online. Once properly configured, OS X and iOS handles my Gmail properly.

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RussianAxe said:
I think they should redesign Mail app, it kinda looks old and so many folders that u getting confused sometime which one is it... Kinds Hate Junk folder, and Spam folder is hidden somewhere else(((
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Agree on this point. I have [literally] 150+ mailboxes and subfolders, having to scroll through them on my iPhone in iOS 7 is tedious.
 
astrobill said:
Are you joking? The issues with OS X Mavericks are growing and significant, according to most trusted sources, including Apple's own discussion forums. <snipped> I'll stick with my trusty Snow Leopard until at LEAST the first update, if not the second or third....Maveriks is a lemon.
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Aw, go on: live dangerously and upgrade to ML! That's what I have and it's very stable, quick and just works well. :)

I'm not upgrading to Mavericks any time soon, if at all. Reason why? Apparently with Mavericks and iTunes 11.1.2 (which I don't have either) there is no more USB syncing to devices. You Have to be in the Cloud. At least this is what I've been told.

Well I currently have Contacts & Calendar (only those two) in the cloud and at any time a contact or event may be deleted or corrupted beyond recognition. It's sad how many times this has happened. I've been on the line with Apple Care for hours, now, and each time they think they have it fixed, and each time this is proven to not be true.

So I'm seriously thinking of just stopping any upgrades right here, until they bring back the option to usb sync between devices. (and I think they will, or is this just me Hoping it is true?) In my humble opinion, the Cloud, while being a grand and lofty ideal is just not *there* yet and it causes me grief and time and money every time there's an 'oops' and once again a file is corrupted or deleted.

I'm also thinking seriously of taking my Calendar & Contacts out of the Cloud and remaining with the older ways which, no surprise, "just work" time after time.

/ends rant ;)
 
garylapointe said:
How can you tell, now that the "safari web content" is broken out in the Activity monitor, it's hard to tell (since each window seems to have it's own process). Is there a way to mush that data together?
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declandio said:
safari web content + safari
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I see how to see the info, but in the previous version of activity monitor all the "web content" was somehow visible all on one line. So instead of having to add up a dozen lines in the above chart it was all on one (two actually: I think Safari was one line and web content was another).

Gary
 
Hope they can fix all the IOS 7 issues on my iPad 3 too. The ones that stand out the most are email and iTunes store problems.

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My Safari slow downs were resolved by shutting down App Nap for Safari

astrobill said:
Are you joking? The issues with OS X Mavericks are growing and significant, according to most trusted sources, including Apple's own discussion forums.

- The multiple, significant issues that Mavericks has with Gmail are show-stoppers for a lot of potential customers

Other problems being reported include:

- Multi-display support appears incredibly problematic

- Tons of installation problems being reported

- Major issues with Time Machine not working anymore with external drives and/or corrupted external hard drives

- 24-48 hour periods of initial Spotlight indexing and other issues are proving very common

- A lot of people reporting Safari slowdowns

- Etc.

The fact of the matter is this release is proving to be VERY bug-ridden, nearly to the point of being a Beta test itself.

Kind of surprised you don't appear to have been reading the news.

I'll stick with my trusty Snow Leopard until at LEAST the first update, if not the second or third....Maveriks is a lemon.
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zen said:
Thank goodness, because Mavericks Mail sucks a lot - delaying in updating unread count across multiple mailboxes, vanishing mail, problems moving mail to different folders.

Same for iOS 7 mail - hopefully that gets a fix soon too.
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I would describe it as missing mail that sometimes reappears later
 
bedifferent said:
I use Mail app as my primary Mail client and it has served itself well.
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I have [literally] 150+ mailboxes and subfolders, having to scroll through them on my iPhone in iOS 7 is tedious.
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You know what I did to simplify mail boxes? I made folders called Business, Friends, Kin, and a couple of specifically named folders for the most important senders/recipients. All the rest goes into "2013" and soon there will be one for "2014".

A friend told me about this method and it made things so much easier. :) Something like this might possibly work. You just have to put the same separator labels also in your thinking, lol.

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princigalli said:
Safari is perfect for me. No problems and always getting better.
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Use it more and you might see the problems, then again it might vary based on computer and internet speed.

One site that was a good example of the Safari slowdown for me was speedtest.net then I shut off App Nap all is good again. App Nap on a iMac doesn't make a lot of sense for me anyway.
 
japanime said:
Mavericks handles Adobe Flash content in Safari much better than previous versions of OSX.

Before upgrading, the fan on my MacBook would soar to its top speed within a couple of minutes of launching a Flash-based video. With Mavericks, the fan is much quieter when playing Flash content. I can finally hear the audio clearly over the fan!
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I'm still having trouble with videos on youtube. Whenever I play a video on youtube, it being 720p or 1080p (lower resolutions work fine), the video lags every now and then, which is really annoying.

I know it's not my MacBook Air, because it plays stored (on the ssd) 1080p videos just fine, but when they are on youtube, they get laggy because of the flash usage.

I tried the ''ClickToFlash'' extension, and videos on youtube stopped lagging, but the audio is choppy when using it...

Are your videos ever choppy in 720p+ ?
 
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Kobayagi said:
I'm still having trouble with videos on youtube. Whenever I play a video on youtube, it being 720p or 1080p (lower resolutions work fine), the video lags every now and then, which is really annoying.

I know it's not my MacBook Air, because it plays stored (on the ssd) 1080p videos just fine, but when they are on youtube, they get laggy because of the flash usage.

I tried the ''ClickToFlash'' extension, and videos on youtube stopped lagging, but the audio is choppy when using it...

Are your videos ever choppy in 720p+ ?
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I had the same problem and it turns out to be a problem with the ISP (comcast) throttling youtube. This fixed it for me...
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/
 
Mail app has been driving me nuts, by not getting mail :( The "get mail" button is completely useless. Many times when I'm waiting for a customer's email, I end up going to my webmail instead of waiting.

Is this an appropriate time to say, "if Steve was still around..."?
 
polterbyte said:
Pretty fast (but still not a minute too soon in the case of Mail/GMail). And I'm still surprised this didn't come up during the beta test.
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It did. And it was a big stink on the dev forums. I had multiple bug reports open on it - was a bit surprised Apple would let such a major system app ship like that.
 
In my view, iBooks need to be updated ASAP since its unusable, as least Mail, and Safari can still be opened.

Just like with iphoto 9.0, Apple realized this and pushed out an update to 9.1 ASAP...... while Apple now, just doesn't care about it's users...... Release Safari updates later ? This is much more important... Their own app cannot be opened... This should be their top, and ONLY priority...lesser bug fixes like in Safari, Mail etc, come later. if needed..

That's how i'd do it.....
 

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Daria said:
I'm not upgrading to Mavericks any time soon, if at all. Reason why? Apparently with Mavericks and iTunes 11.1.2 (which I don't have either) there is no more USB syncing to devices. You Have to be in the Cloud. At least this is what I've been told.)
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You've been told wrong, this simply is NOT true.

I should know, I only USB sync my idevices with iTunes.
 
I have yes

Taz Mangus said:
Have you considered the possibility that maybe something you have installed on your system is causing the issue you are having that maybe incompatible with 10.9? Have you looked at the activity monitor to see what could be taking up the processing time?
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Nothing new installed. I removed a good deal of software before installing Mavericks because it was incompatible.

I forgot about App Nap though, will shut that off in Safari tonight since it is not very useful for a desktop.

Thanks for the reply.
 
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lewismayell said:
My app doesn't even open, it's just a grey box that doesn't do anything, it's only been like this since Mavericks
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Nice. Can't say I have that problem with it.

My only gripes with Mavericks are;

  • Doing a Google image search crashes Safari for several seconds before it displays the images instead of grey boxes
  • Finder freezes after booting and opening a new window
  • Takes ages to sleep my iMac now, screen turns off immediately, but it's a good few seconds before the old HDD spins down (and I assume SSD goes to sleep) – first-world problem

The Google images problem is almost comical. It's so incredibly fundamental to a web browser it amazes me that the bug exists.

Every year for the past 10 years I've updated my Macs at the earliest possible time after public release, and every year there's annoying problems – I never learn do I.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
I can give you one fix: Remembering session cookies, so you don't have to re-login for every page-load. I "discovered" this bug this morning, and subsequently spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why my webapp wasn't working, until I tried Firefox. Quitting Safari fixed the issue too.
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That is not a universal issue, session cookies are working just fine with everyone I have asked. Sounds like you had "private mode" turned on.
 
Wifi issues

I'm having major wifi issues, on occasions my router doesn't appear at all, on other occasions it appears but is running so slow it's taken over an hour to download a couple of app updates (about 30mb).
Wish I'd have not rushed into upgrading before all the issues had been sorted.
 
kazmac said:
Nothing new installed. I removed a good deal of software before installing Mavericks because it was incompatible.

I forgot about App Nap though, will shut that off in Safari tonight since it is not very useful for a desktop.

Thanks for the reply.
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If the issue still persists I would suggest that you create a new partition on your HD and clean install Mavericks and see if the problem still happens. You can always remove the partition after.
 
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