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Apple Releases OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan With Multiple Bug Fixes
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I take it that this Recovery Update will only work with El Capitan? Could it be used for older versions of OSX like Mavericks or Yosemite?
I wonder what this updates has improved. I see no improvements and all the small bugs are still presents.
It is meant to update a 10.11 or 10.11.1 recovery partition to a 10.11.2 one.
If you have got mavericks or yosemite you are better off with a 10.9.5 or 10.10.5 version of the recovery partition anyway, not a 10.11.2 one.
Both. Sometimes it'll completely freeze, while sometimes it'll automatically restart itself after a brief freeze. And this is with YouTube's HTML5 player. When full screen, sometimes the colors will start changing, video will start skipping, etc. When not in full screen, various parts of the screen will start flashing (even outside of YouTube's player), but will never freeze or seem to slow down. I doubt it's a hardware issue since nothing else does this.
Understood.
Will it create a Recovery Partition on El Capitan if it doesn't exist already?
And my understanding is that this is the first official downloadable Recovery Partition update from Apple since Lion. And if you want to create a Recovery Partition for Mavericks or Yosemite you either re-install, use a third party tool like http://musings.silvertooth.us/2014/07/recovery-partition-creator-3-8/ , or use the Lion Recovery Update and scripts which use the partition from a downloaded installer.app file.
Am I correct about that?
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IF this is true then why Apple received a lot of critique from many developers and professionals about the quality of OS X and several doubts about the feasibility of yearly updates after Yosemite was released? Sample 1. Sample 2.
I think alternative way to keep everyone happy is to add "advenced mode" to Disk Utility which contains all potentially dangerous options in one place?
I can use cli if absolutely necessary but using it gives bad memories form DOS era! I doubt I am only user who has more demanding needs than majority but prefer using GUI?
Windows has too many downsides for my needs. Maybe I have selective memory but I don't remember early versions of OS X having most of the advanced stuff in CLI. Compared to latest 10.10 and 10.11 earlier OS X versions such as 10.4-10.6 had much more options in the GUI...
After updating to 10.11.2 on my Mid 2015 iMac Retina 5K, whenever it goes into deep sleep, the second monitor, a Dell 2408WFP, refuses to come out of sleep. The iMac does not recognize the monitor. Only way to restore is by rebooting. I did a PRAM zap. Also unplugged the power cable and external monitor cable from back of iMac and hit the power button for 45 seconds. Replugged and started up. Didn't fix the issue. This ONLY started happening with 10.11.2. Looks like a bug to me. Any thoughts appreciated!
Weird, I had been having a similar problem with Yosemite and it happened with El Cap:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...10-10-4-5-watching-youtube-in-safari.1913281/
It has mostly disappeared with 10.11.1-2, but it did happen approximately a week ago.
Tried to update. After eventually downloading (allegedly), the App Store 'Updates' tab shows "Restart" button. Click it.
After a few seconds: grey screen. Your computer restarted because of a problem.
OK, try again. Same deal again.
"Updates Installed in the Last 30 days" section lists the El Crapitan recovery update four times; that's how many times I've clicked Update on that. It hasn't even downloaded fully, why is it listed in the Installed Updates section?
Stupid Mac OS X, it's become so unreliable...
After a few seconds: grey screen. Your computer restarted because of a problem.
OK, try again. Same deal again.
"Updates Installed in the Last 30 days" section lists the El Crapitan recovery update four times; that's how many times I've clicked Update on that. It hasn't even downloaded fully, why is it listed in the Installed Updates section?
Stupid Mac OS X, it's become so unreliable...
Well, the update broke USB for me.
Post update, whenever I power on my scanner:
Post update, whenever I power on my scanner:
- Its seen in system report as just the model name
- Its random whether or not my virtual machines can see it
- When they can see it there is additional random behaviour as sometimes its named as just the model name, other times it has #number appended to the name where the number is in the range 1 to 3, most often 3.
Haven't gotten to try it out yet. It literally took 5 hours to download - or so it said it was going to take; I left it to run overnight - on a decent broadband connection.
"It just works."
"It just works."
Not to jinx myself, but better on my MBP than 10.11.1. With the first update, I had some random kernel panics and freeze-ups...
I'VE had this issue for a long time, please tell us if a clean install solves the problem !
just updated my mid 2014 15" MBP .. knock on wood went smooth, everything seems to be running well ... el cap has been pretty good to me since the start, excited to see whats next .. since el cap was mostly under the hood tweaks, hoping next bump (.3) fixes/changes some UI elements / new features
Very disconcerting. I'm currently on 10.10.5 and everything works so I'm hesitant to upgrade. Also have NAS (Synology) and lots of external drives. Please provide more info on which NAS you have and which brand of drives. Thanks.
The answer is already in the quote but I'll repeat it again: people not doing their homework. If they did they knew the sole existence of OS X Snow Leopard plus al those really lengthy topics about Exposé on the forums here or the many topics concerning colour profile problems as of 10.6 at the official Apple forums. Just to name a few. As for wifi..well the problem isn't so much OS X, the problem is the technology itself. It is wireless and thus prone to noise from anything. Getting a wifi network to run properly is extremely challenging as can be seen on the forums of some of the wifi manufacturers.
Btw, some people also need to update their knowledge of software development and look at how many others are developing software. You can name just about every Linux distribution and BSD derivative to show that yearly or even half-yearly updates are not only feasible but also have more benefits for users and sysadmins.
There are some studies regarding software quality in general and none of those are finding that it is declining, yet the outcome still isn't all that positive because they are not seeing an increase in quality either. Quality is generally stuck at the same level as 20 years ago. It hasn't changed at all. That's why you only see critique like this coming from amateurs who think they are professionals.
It's already there and is called diskutil; you need to access it from the commandline and it comes with a great manual.
It's not that comparable though. If DOS and the OS X commandline were a keyboard than DOS would consist of 3 keys whereas the OS X one would be a full sized keyboard with 104 keys. DOS is nowhere near as powerful as Powershell or any of the shells in the UNIX world. Autocompleting files/dirs, commands and even their options is completely lacking in DOS just like many more options. The only thing they have in common is that it is all text based.
That depends on how you look at it. The CLI hasn't changed that much from the beginning, only the GUI did. Let's not forget that those older versions were from a time where computing was quite different. We are now in a competing era where people are using tablets as their computer which is not limited to the elderly (there are some programmers who do the same). There are use cases where having these advanced options in the GUI can be considered as cluttering the interface. And as is common on the internet today this will end up in many topics on forums like this one where people are complaining about it, calling it "bloatware".
Still not upgrading from Yosemite. When everything works, why fix what isn't broken?
Seems many users (5982 who voted at http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/m...-updates-issues-fixes-features-specs-3594193/) agree and think the same.
My faith in instantly updating to new iOS and OS X has completely gone. Going to have to be some major immediate improvements for me to update things instantly, given there's issues that have yet to be resolved. El Capitan isn't happening for me, not anytime soon anyhow. iOS9 has only happened out of a replacement iPhone 6+ that forced me to update it, as well as to watch OS2. The empire is spreading too far and wide IMHO.
Seems many users (5982 who voted at http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/m...-updates-issues-fixes-features-specs-3594193/) agree and think the same.
My faith in instantly updating to new iOS and OS X has completely gone. Going to have to be some major immediate improvements for me to update things instantly, given there's issues that have yet to be resolved. El Capitan isn't happening for me, not anytime soon anyhow. iOS9 has only happened out of a replacement iPhone 6+ that forced me to update it, as well as to watch OS2. The empire is spreading too far and wide IMHO.
