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

[jozeppy26]

I have a couple of outstanding tickets open with Apple regarding El Capitan. One has to do with keychain and our internal intranet and shared windows drive (something most likely unique to a small amount of companies and still an issue with today's update) and the other has to with the apple wireless keyboard and magic mouse. A couple of times throughout the day, everyday, the mouse and keyboard will say connection lost and then about 10 seconds later, it will just reconnect. How odd. This started in the later betas and is open since then. They asked for logs, but nothing else since then. I guess I'll find out throughout the day if this is still an issue.

Keychain issue here as well on the fiancés new MacBook. I've tried everything, even deleting all keychains and creating a new one manually with the same password as iCloud and the computer login. it constantly asks for the password whenever you open Safari or login to the computer or pull up a website login page, etc. Super super aggravating. My MBPr is totally fine.

 

[Traverse]

The sort-of workaround for this is to load PDFs within Safari, which is ok if you only read. Mentioned here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7280052

That actually is a decent (but annoying) workaround that I didn't think of. Thanks! I hope Apple fixes this soon though. Hopefully in OS X 10.11.1.1 and don't make us wait until 10.11.2. :/

 

[dysamoria]

My app store shows both the update (1.19G) and the full install (6.17G). I do have to question why Apple thinks that new emojis are the of so much importance that Apple devoted time to listing them as an important part of the update.

Because it feeds the iOS system integration.

 

[ctg7w6]

Same here. This is real annoying because I go through many PDF files. Preview was perfect under Mavericks (I don't know how it went in Yosemite, I never used that version). I've already lodged a bug report with Apple....

I am surprised you say that... PDFs were UNUSABLE for me in Mavericks and Yosemite. Quite literally unusable, I couldn't scroll them. Got some third party apps that I could scroll with VERY slowly. Even tried different quartz filters and every suggestion I could find. Didn't matter if the PDF was 1 MB or 100 MB. Ended up sending all my PDFs to my iPad where they worked perfectly.

Upgraded to El Capitan. Couldn't believe it, my PDFs worked like a dream again. Upgraded to 10.11.1... Scrolling is still fine, but Preview crashes fairly frequently. I get the ball icon and have to force quit or it just straight crashes. I'm about to try third party apps again.... Like I said, scrolling now works fine, but Preview just won't stay open for me.

I really don't get this. I KNOW that Apple can make PDFs work. They always worked before Mavericks and they still work perfectly fine on my iPad which is way less powerful than my MBA.

And this is not an isolated problem. MANY people are having this problem. I also had this problem on a 2010 MBP, and I thought getting a 2015 MBA would fix it, but it didn't (until 10.11.0).

Just can't believe Preview is now broken for me with this one update after just having it fixed for a month. Very sad about this.

 

[iMi]

So, literally 30 seconds after the update installed I received the now familiar "Outlook has quick unexpectedly" message. Windows 10 is starting to look really good

 

[dysamoria]

The middle finger has been and always will be around until the demise of man. In fact, the last man on earth will probably die giving whatever it is that's killing him/her the middle finger!

As if. It's contextual to certain cultures. The Unicode consortium should also add the other well known version seen in the UK and (?)Australia(?). The one that one of the US presidents unwittingly used to flip off an entire nation...

 

[NMBob]

You mean passing on to our descendants?

Oops. Yup. Thanks.

 

[shirogane]

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan from Yosemite 10.10.5 because the news says it fixed Office 2016 compatibilities issues. So far Office 2016 for Mac is pretty stable under 10.11.1. No crashes, (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook) everything works. And Disk Warrior 5 usb stick works-- boot into OS X Recovery Disk and launch terminal and run DW and it optimized my directory. I'm pretty happy with El Capitan 10.11.1.

Initially after the 10.11.1 Install, it took 4 minutes to log into my account. then i got a notification pop up about the system optimizing. Later after a reboot, everything is fast! plus optimizing the directory with DW5 should make it better.

 

[michaelz]

After upgrade, mail stucks at validating messages... and eats all memory and free disk space, then crash the whole system!

 

[shirogane]

After upgrade, mail stucks at validating messages... and eats all memory and free disk space, then crash the whole system!

michaelz, after the upgrade when u first log in and all it will be slow because the system is indexing and optimizing. give it 10 minutes or so, restart and things should be work fine. for me, the computer used up 13GB of RAM during optimizing and indexing after 10 minutes or so, i restarted and things were better.

 

[jtrauscht]

I have iTunes Match and don't wish to use Apple Music.

If anyone can tell me truthfully that my iTunes metadata like Play Counts, Last Played and DRM status won't get messed up in 10.11.1, I'd be very grateful. It's the one thing holding me off upgrading to El Capitan.

I'm an iTunes Match user, but I do not use Apple Music. I upgraded to El Cap 10.11.0 from Yosemite with zero problems. I will not join Apple Music for precisely the reasons you've stated. I've put too much effort into my music library's meta data and cover art.

 

[shirogane]

Unfortunately, Windows Phone App by Microsoft on the Mac App Store doesn't work on El Capitan. So how the heck do i sync my Lumia Windows Phone on my Mac now?

 

[dysamoria]

Emojis are for stupid people that don't know how to express themselves using words. But I guess Apple has their priorities in order. At least for their current market. Same reason they changed their front cameras to "Selfie" cameras I guess.

If Apple wanted to do something constructive, they'd add Twitch emotes to OS X's native text input.

Another elite techie that thinks he's the reference standard model human being by which all others must be judged.

Words are cold and sterile. Emoticons appeared (necessity being the mother of invention and all that) to solve that problem. Emoji is simply an official Unicode graphical update to the less than pretty original emoticon.

im traveling and do not have access my backup drive. ughhh. So frustrating because I need to get work done

Well... In future you'll know not to mess with a functioning system when you need to get work done. Sadly, the computer industry is a disaster (that almost no one is willing to honestly admit), and this kind of crap is "standard behavior". Never trust your productivity to an "upgrade".

Same here. This is real annoying because I go through many PDF files. Preview was perfect under Mavericks (I don't know how it went in Yosemite, I never used that version). I've already lodged a bug report with Apple....

I use that app constantly. I haven't upgraded from Mavericks yet, and I still see nothing but backwards motion on OS X since Yosemite. This just compounds my reluctance to upgrade. My music studio boot volume is still on Snow Leopard and it'll already cost me lost hardware to move past it due to bastards like M-Audio and Avid dumping $1500+ hardware in the divestment of M-Audio to InMusic.

 

[knguyench]

I updated. Onenote still crash. What's happen with me.

 

[Shirasaki]

Does it install firmware updates for things that require it, or is it some kind of an incremental thing that installs on any system which runs the updater? Reason I ask is that this is the first time I'm hearing of this firmware updater, and I'm not sure what kind of purpose it would serve if I'm running it on a 5+ year old system...

I would bet file will be downloaded, but will do nothing on your machine. Firmware update is generally more valuable for new machines, not for old machines.
Therefore, firmware update is somewhat useless for you. Maybe for me because my machine is early 2014 MacBook Air.

 

[Tulani]

i still cannot access my NAS

 

[AbyssImpact]

Unfortunately, Windows Phone App by Microsoft on the Mac App Store doesn't work on El Capitan. So how the heck do i sync my Lumia Windows Phone on my Mac now?

You sell your windows Lumia phone and buy an iPhone. Problem resolved.

 

[MrUpload1000]

i still cannot access my NAS

Same here . I always have to click "Go to" in the menu bar and then "Connect to server" to access it in my local network. Kind of disappointing .

 

[Keane16]

seriously, is that a major improvement?

Doesn't need to be, it's a change so it's in the change log.

Regular people probably get more excited about them then great additions like Metal. It's user facing, and they get used a lot.

Plus the Unicode standard is good to adhere to, for cross platform parity.

 

[n-evo]

I can't get Word 2016 to remember my spell checking language. No matter what I do it defaults back to English (US). Even when setting Dutch (Netherlands) as default. It's driving me insane.

 

[dmj102]

Does anybody know how to solve these two issues:

1. Show all desktop thumbnails once trying to choose a desktop? currently it says "desktop 1, 2, 3..." just text without showing me what's in each desktop. I need to hover over the desktop(s) line to see what's in each desktop in terms of applications - can I just keep it visible all the time?

2. When I open a PDF with multiple pages it's automatically opens it in a thumbnail view (the sidebar on the left), how do I hide the sidebar automatically when I open new PDFs without doing it manually? (i.e. not showing the sidebar when opening a PDF).

Thanks.

In response to (1). I have a hot corner for the top left. This will automatically show what's in the desktop Spaces. You can also create one in top right if like. This is workaround until Apple decides to put back this feature like it was in Yosemite. I can't believe it was taken out.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Updated display drivers for Intel and Nvidia.. and openCL. This has not happened for years that .1 update receives a display driver update. Nice!

 

[nebo1ss]

Same here . I always have to click "Go to" in the menu bar and then "Connect to server" to access it in my local network. Kind of disappointing .

Put it in your login items under user.

 

[felt.]

Same here . I always have to click "Go to" in the menu bar and then "Connect to server" to access it in my local network. Kind of disappointing .

You can add network drives to login items if you want them to auto connect at startup.

 

[whodatrr]

And so, our plan for world domination begins... muahhhh!

I can't get Word 2016 to remember my spell checking language. No matter what I do it defaults back to English (US). Even when setting Dutch (Netherlands) as default. It's driving me insane.