Apple Releases OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan With New Emoji, Mail Improvements and Office 2016 Bug Fix

[MagnusVonMagnum]

If this stuff is giving you so much trouble, why don't you just make a bootable usb instead using these instructions from apple: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201372

That's actually better than a recovery partition because it contains the full installer (which a recovery partition doesn't).

Try actually reading my posts as it's clear you skim at best or I wouldn't have to repeat myself. I already addressed the bootable installer. I'm making a USB drive with bootable installers for Mavericks and El Capitan AND a recovery partition.

Edit: OK, I see now the Recovery Partition is completely redundant once a bootable USB stick is made (i.e. same difference plus install option). So just downloading the install file and then creating the bootable USB stick would have sufficed on the El Capitan end. At least I can finally disable that awful SIP and XtraFinder is working again. Still having some issues with NFS starting correctly, but I might have mistyped something in the script.

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Meanwhile, I've installed El Capitan 10.11.1 to my 2008 MBP (2.4GHz Core2Duo, 512GB 7200RPM Drive, 4GB Ram, NVidia 8600M GT). XBench (for what it's worth today) showed faster hard drive speeds than Mavericks (odd since it's quite a bit lower on my Mac Mini with RAID 0). Quartz numbers are half what they used to be. User Interface scores are absolutely abysmal (same for the Mini on that test; both got around a 19 so maybe the test is now flawed). OpenGL which is as fast or faster on the Mac Mini is less than half what it used to be on the Macbook Pro (same test, same GPU as all previous OS versions so I don't know why it's dropped so much; maybe the NVidia 8600M GT driver is crap under El Capitan?). Other than XBench, it's too soon to tell how well it performs.

 

[tywebb13]

You are aware aren't you that you CAN disable SIP WITHOUT a recovery partition?

To do so, proceed thus:

Make a bootable usb of the el capitan installer using apple's instructions here https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201372

Boot up from it by holding down the option key and then selecting Install OS X El Capitan in the startup manager.

Then in the utilities menu open terminal and to disable SIP, type

csrutil disable

Press return and restart the computer and check in terminal that it has been disabled by typing

csrutil status

(For others reading this I am going to give one more instruction I don't know if relevant to MagnusVonMagnum, but would be to others.)

To re-enable SIP without a recovery partition, you can boot up again from the bootable usb and type in terminal

csrutil enable

and then press return and restart.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

You are aware aren't you that you CAN disable SIP WITHOUT a recovery partition?

As posted above, I found that out after trying out the bootable installer (i.e. looks like the recovery partition plus install option). I haven't used a bootable installer (and never touched a recovery partition as I've never needed to before) since Snow Leopard and since no article about SIP mentioned it that I can recall, yeah I just found out.

XtraFinder and NFS (with -N option for XBMC) now work correctly at boot with that damn SIP off and the startup script edited for the -N option. Between that and 10.11.1 fixing iZotype and upgrading VMWare, everything is now seemingly 100% functional again except for the degraded disk utility (but thanks to installing a Mavericks bootable partition on the USB stick, I can use the old one from a boot if desired).

 

[tywebb13]

OK, I see now the Recovery Partition is completely redundant once a bootable USB stick is made (i.e. same difference plus install option). So just downloading the install file and then creating the bootable USB stick would have sufficed on the El Capitan end. At least I can finally disable that awful SIP and XtraFinder is working again.

Yeah. That's right. No need to make all that other work for yourself if you already have the bootable usb. Even without a recovery partition that alone will suffice to disable SIP using my instructions above.

The way it works is that the bootable usb is like a pseudo recovery partition anyway powerful enough even to disable SIP without having to create a real recovery partition where one does not previously exist.

 

[MacAddict1978]

I'm still on Mavericks (10.9.5). Upgrading today.

Hope you didn't do it! I'd wait till the next update. This doesn't even begin to fix tons of bugs that make the OS run like crap. It's truly earned it's sub 3stars in the MAS.

This is not what Snow Leopard was to Leopard. I'm sure after 1 or 2 more updates it will be great, but this still feels like a beta copy.

 

[Jeffois]

For what it's worth, I've upgraded, and I'm not facing any issues, neither with Mail nor with Office 2016.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Has anyone tried to enable or disable their infrared receiver in 10.11.1? I see the preference pane on my Macbook Pro with El Capitan, but it's missing on my 2012 Mac Mini from the pane. I had it disabled when I upgraded. I wonder if that somehow messed things up (i.e. El Capitan somehow thought it didn't have one since it wasn't turned on?)

 

[chrfr]

Has anyone tried to enable or disable their infrared receiver in 10.11.1? I see the preference pane on my Macbook Pro with El Capitan, but it's missing on my 2012 Mac Mini from the pane. I had it disabled when I upgraded. I wonder if that somehow messed things up (i.e. El Capitan somehow thought it didn't have one since it wasn't turned on?)

I disabled mine on a 2012 Mini prior to the 10.11 upgrade. The option is still there and I can enable and disable it at will.

 

[sshambles]

Sticking with Yosemite (for now).

Until there's an app that requires upgrading to El Capitan, I'll wait for others to ride out the bugs first. The yearly upgrade cycle is ingrained in Apple's history, but perhaps they could do Major and Minor updates, like the S year updates for iPhone. I had a feeling they tried to do this with El Capitan, but look at all the problems... Won't happen, but it'd help their software from being unusable for 6 months of the year.

As for users with large iTunes Libraries. Wish I had never upgraded to use Apple Music last year. No end in sight for fixing the problems with that disastrous monstrosity - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7113001?tstart=0

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Since 10.11.1 and turning SIP off, I'm starting to find my mouse pointer "frozen" once in awhile. The mouse (Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB) is lit, but does nothing. If I unplug/plug it starts working again. I had it plugged into my USB 2.0 hub (I've got a 7-port USB2 hub and a 7-port USB3 hub. I use slow stuff on the old USB2 hub), but it worked fine in 10.11.0.

However, I had SIP on in that version and that meant my Microsoft mouse driver stopped working (seems they need to update it). After turning SIP off, the mouse driver works again (buttons 4 & 5 are once again assignable, etc.), but perhaps something is going wrong with it beyond just not working without SIP off. It's hard to tell since that coincided with the 10.11.1 update as well. I've plugged the mouse into the USB 3.0 hub for now and will see if it still hangs. If so, I might have to uninstall the Microsoft driver for now. Who knows if they will even bother to update it or more like "when". I guess I could send them some feedback. Who knows, they seem to support Apple products overall more now than they used to when they made the driver and they did update it a few times in the past. I don't think they make this particular mouse anymore, but it's a driver for all their mice, really.

The one thing that makes me think it might be an issue with the USB 2.0 hub rather than the driver is that my PS3 controller when plugged in "wired" into the same hub stopped working in the middle of a game more than once. I moved it to the USB 3.0 hub and it hasn't done it since. I seem to recall reading some people having some USB 2.0 hubs that stopped the system from even booting when plugged in since El Capitan was installed. I don't know what the could have done. If anything, the USB 3.0 hub was the flaky one before (e.g. having my 3TB USB 3.0 media drive plugged into it would give me a "improperly ejected" warning once in a while like it blinked off sometimes. I moved the drive to being plugged straight into the 2012 Mac Mini and it never did it again plugged in that way so I suspected something was still a bit off with the hub. Perhaps Apple improved the USB drivers for 3.x for stability but messed something up for 2.x hubs somehow?

 

[Kayan]

This update did absolutely nothing in terms of fixing my Excel 2016 beachball issues: whenever I open a file with large amounts of data plotted on charts, the program becomes very sluggish. Whenever I use PC Excel, its speedy and just fine with the same files, which is too bad, because I'm used to Macs being much faster than PC in most areas.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

This update did absolutely nothing in terms of fixing my Excel 2016 beachball issues: whenever I open a file with large amounts of data plotted on charts, the program becomes very sluggish. Whenever I use PC Excel, its speedy and just fine with the same files, which is too bad, because I'm used to Macs being much faster than PC in most areas.

Try Numbers.

 

[OverSpun]

Mail is still broken. I have a business that is in disarray and only one workable Apple Mac at home out of four because I restored to Yosemite. What the hay is going on?
Does anyone have any hopeful news about proper fixes rather than new emoji's?

I too installed 10.11.1 and its been a disaster. My mail keeps crashing and my calendar does the same. am i the only one that get this to work?

Ugh... They didn't even fix Mail after claiming that they fixed it in .1? I'm not updating to El Crapitan until they fix it. Hopefully soon.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Ugh... They didn't even fix Mail after claiming that they fixed it in .1? I'm not updating to El Crapitan until they fix it. Hopefully soon.

When has Mail NOT been broken? I think it's been buggered here ever since I bought my Mac Mini in 2012 in one way or another (usually won't grab mail often enough and telling it to "get mail" didn't work. I always had to quit and restart. I was using Thunderbird before that for the most part and I just moved back to Thunderbird again shortly thereafter and haven't had any issues with getting email ever since (and I have multiple accounts set up in it). It works and even can look the same across multiple platforms as well (loved that about Firefox as well). My Windows browser looks like my Mac browser looks like my Linux browser. And WTF shouldn't it if I want it to?

 

[navaira]

I swear I saw this somewhere but couldn't find it... someone wrote that their mouse cursor seems to lag. So does mine. A new feature in 10.11.1! It looks like tracking speed drops every now and then, I have it set to very fast tracking and sometimes it seems to drop for a second. It's not a massive problem, it's just irritating. I can't pinpoint it to anything, like my Linux laptop has this problem when there's network activity, but the iMac just lags randomly.

 

[OverSpun]

When has Mail NOT been broken? I think it's been buggered here ever since I bought my Mac Mini in 2012 in one way or another (usually won't grab mail often enough and telling it to "get mail" didn't work. I always had to quit and restart. I was using Thunderbird before that for the most part and I just moved back to Thunderbird again shortly thereafter and haven't had any issues with getting email ever since (and I have multiple accounts set up in it). It works and even can look the same across multiple platforms as well (loved that about Firefox as well). My Windows browser looks like my Mac browser looks like my Linux browser. And WTF shouldn't it if I want it to?

I have not had any severe issues with it before until El Crapitan. Mail didn't work at all for a handful of my work email accounts. Only iCloud and Gmail and worked properly. I'm not too interested to try 11.1 to see if mail works better since I don't have a lot free time to test it and restore to Yosemite again. Haha.

 

[chrfr]

Ugh... They didn't even fix Mail after claiming that they fixed it in .1? I'm not updating to El Crapitan until they fix it. Hopefully soon.

I'm using OS X Mail with Gmail, Exchange, and a standard IMAP account and have no problems to report.

 

[Kayan]

When has Mail NOT been broken? I think it's been buggered here ever since I bought my Mac Mini in 2012 in one way or another (usually won't grab mail often enough and telling it to "get mail" didn't work. I always had to quit and restart. I was using Thunderbird before that for the most part and I just moved back to Thunderbird again shortly thereafter and haven't had any issues with getting email ever since (and I have multiple accounts set up in it). It works and even can look the same across multiple platforms as well (loved that about Firefox as well). My Windows browser looks like my Mac browser looks like my Linux browser. And WTF shouldn't it if I want it to?

Mail is an incredible program that has never given me problems whether I use Gmail, iCloud, hotmail, yahoo...Even now, it's running fine. I'm not sure what all the problems are that ppl are having, but my only problems are with Microsoft Excel 2016, ugh.