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Apple Releases OS X 10.11.3 El Capitan With Multiple Bug Fixes

StrangeNoises said:
er, you might want to try to find out what keeps doing that, because OSX won't be; and if you don't know what it is, is may be something that shouldn't be there.
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without Flash, browsing is a lot faster, yes, and safer, and gives longer battery life. I've not had it installed on a Mac now for over a year.

I have a JDK installed because it's my job *and* my hobby, but even I don't have it enabled in the *browser*. As long as you ensure that too then it too won't be slowing down your browsing. (You can enable or disable java in the browser in the java control panel, in the security tab.)
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I agree completely with you! I do not have Java or Flash installed on my MacBook Air and it is A LOT faster and obviously more secure. Sure, do some websites look weird because of having no Flash? Obviously yes. However, webpages load A LOT faster! Also, as you said you gain battery life. More and more websites are going to H.264/5 so soon most people won't even need Flash for the most part.

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Same problem I cant connect with my external monitor even with this update!

I have a retina macbook pro 2014 and since 10.11.12 I'm not able anymore to connect to one of my Tv (strangly with another monitor everything seems work perfectly!...).

HELP please!
 
Guy Clark said:
Safari and iTunes can no longer be opened as they are corrupted everything is running at a snails pace. Reinstalling El Capitan now and not going past 10.11.2 it's s disgrace..
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You did it wrong. Mine is running smooth as buttery silk. You probably had a corrupted system before the update but just didn't know it. You do run routine maintenance programs, don't you. 90% of the time, when this kind of thing occurs, it's the fault of the user. I had this happen to a friend. He took his computer to the Apple Genius at the store and he fixed it in no time. Make an appointment with the genius and you'll be all fixed up. Good luck.
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AstroBackpacker said:
Its out, less than a minute to finish the download. Hopefully the performance of my 5k iMac improves. The sleep function has been broken since the last update.
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I clocked Safari before and after the update. About 30% faster now.
 
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rgomez said:
Am I the only one who CAN'T get the external displays to work with this 10.11.3 update? It was working fine before installing it, and after it no matter what I do the computer does not see the displays. I have rebooted, cold booted, and connected/disconnected everything but nothing.

I'm on a MBPr late 2013, with 2 Dell U2410 connected via DisplayPort (each on separate ports, no chaining).
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I've seen a few posts complaining about this issue. I definitely plan to wait before updating.
 
unobtainium said:
I've seen a few posts complaining about this issue. I definitely plan to wait before updating.
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Yeah, that's probably the right thing to do... too late for me :(

By any chance somebody knows how to downgrade to 10.11.2?

I'm with a support guy from Apple (via chat) but I fear it's just going to be a monumentally big waste of my time.
 
Don't forget to update your recovery partition. Updating through the mac app store or with the delta or combo update will NOT update the recovery partition.

To make the 10.11.3 recovery partition:

1. Download the Lion Recovery Update from https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1464?locale=en_US . Make sure it is in your downloads folder. Download the full installer for el capitan 10.11.3 from the mac app store, right click on it and click Show Package Contents. Go to Contents/SharedSupport/. Copy the InstallESD.dmg file into your Downloads folder.

2. Download and decompress the file recovery.sh.zip from http://4unitmaths.com/recovery.sh.zip and move recovery.sh into your Downloads folder if it's not there already.

3. Open Terminal and type the following commands:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/recovery.sh

sudo ~/Downloads/recovery.sh

4. Wait a few minutes for it to finish and return back to a prompt. Reboot with holding down the option key to test your 10.11.3 recovery partition.
 
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I just updated to 10.11.3 my early 2011 MacBook Pro won't get past a white screen with a cursor. Help
 
2011 iMac not booting past white screen with cursor as well. Tried to repair HD but no errors found.

Beware this update...
 
tywebb13 said:
Precisely why I have held off from installing the 10.11.4 beta till now.

The last 10.11.3 beta was build 15D13b. And the 10.11.4 beta was 15E27e. So despite apple being early with releasing the 10.11.4 beta I haven't installed it because then I couldn't test the new build 15D21, which although historically newer than build 15E27e, going by build numbers is between the 2 betas.

So I'll install this 15D21 build over 15D13b, AND THEN (maybe a few days later) install build 15E27e.

That makes more sense to me. (And perhaps more importantly, I'll have time machine backups of all 3 builds).
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The 10.11.4 betas will always be a superset of the 10.11.3 bug fixes. That means that to fix a bug in 10.11.3 means that it's also fixed in the beta. If that's not the model then Apple has serious software development issues.
 
tywebb13 said:
Don't forget to update your recovery partition. Updating through the mac app store or with the delta or combo update will NOT update the recovery parttion.

To make the 10.11.3 recovery partition:

1. Download the Lion Recovery Update from https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1464?locale=en_US . Make sure it is in your downloads folder. Download the full installer for el capitan 10.11.3 from the mac app store, right click on it and click Show Package Contents. Go to Contents/SharedSupport/. Copy the InstallESD.dmg file into your Downloads folder.

2. Download and decompress the file recovery.sh.zip from http://4unitmaths.com/recovery.sh.zip and move recovery.sh into your Downloads folder if it's not there already.

3. Open Terminal and type the following commands:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/recovery.sh

sudo ~/Downloads/recovery.sh

4. Wait a few minutes for it to finish and return back to a prompt. Reboot with holding down the option key to test your 10.11.3 recovery partition.
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Thanks tywebb13, appreciate your timely posts.
I have an older MBP, 2011 15" with a Plextor SSD installed, and on that machine, updated with the combo updater, the Recovery procedure you posted resulted in a recovery partition named "EFI boot", which seemed a little strange! I connected a Firewire disk (Intel SSD 335) and rebooted to that external disk. Ran the procedure again, and it worked correctly resulting in a recovery partition named "10.11.3". So I ran CCC and used its recovery partition cloning function on the MBP internal SSD, which correctly cloned the 10.11.3 partition to the internal SSD in the MBP.
In addition to that little "glitch," I have noticed some strange errors when trying to delete files, with a "can't delete these items because they can't be found" error, which will sometimes be resolved by quitting other running apps, sometimes not until a restart. I can always delete the target files after a restart.
This may be spotlight related, so I will do a reindex via Onyx and see what happens.
I have also encountered this finder "bug" on my older Mac Pro '2009' .
Any iseas as to the cause of this?
 
tywebb13 said:
Precisely why I have held off from installing the 10.11.4 beta till now.

The last 10.11.3 beta was build 15D13b. And the 10.11.4 beta was 15E27e. So despite apple being early with releasing the 10.11.4 beta I haven't installed it because then I couldn't test the new build 15D21, which although historically newer than build 15E27e, going by build numbers is between the 2 betas.

So I'll install this 15D21 build over 15D13b, AND THEN (maybe a few days later) install build 15E27e.

That makes more sense to me. (And perhaps more importantly, I'll have time machine backups of all 3 builds).
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To add to what @dogslobber mentioned, the build numbers across versions don't inherently indicate the age of a given build and are not directly comparable.
For instance, the first publicly available beta of 10.11.3 was 15D9c. We can't assume that's older than build 15C50 of 10.11.2.
 
SRLMJ23 said:
I agree completely with you! I do not have Java or Flash installed on my MacBook Air and it is A LOT faster and obviously more secure. Sure, do some websites look weird because of having no Flash? Obviously yes. However, webpages load A LOT faster! Also, as you said you gain battery life. More and more websites are going to H.264/5 so soon most people won't even need Flash for the most part.

:apple:
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I haven't used flash in two years and everything has seemed fine or the same. For a few months some web pages wouldn't run, but everyone seems to have clued in now and i haven't seen anything that required it in over a year.
 
chrfr said:
To add to what @dogslobber mentioned, the build numbers across versions don't inherently indicate the age of a given build and are not directly comparable.
For instance, the first publicly available beta of 10.11.3 was 15D9c. We can't assume that's older than build 15C50 of 10.11.2.
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Well suppose I installed build 15D13b and then 15E27e. How then do you suppose I install 15D21? I bet you can't. At least not properly. I know there has been some talk of doing some "downgrades" via full installers on apple's developer forums but I am not a great fan of that procedure since it could leave some 10.11.4 beta bugs in build 15D21.

So as I said before it will make more sense to install in this order: 15D13b, then 15D21, then 15E27e - regardless of when they were released.
 
The OSX10.11.3 update seems to include a slapdash, incomplete attempt at putting a finger in CVE-2015-7024. Patrick Girdle confidentially revealed his discovery of the hole in Gatekeeper to Apple and he took less than 5 minutes to break through the "fix." Same problem, unauthorized applications can be installed through the hole. see Kaspersky's threat post.

OBTW 9.2.1 OK
 
davidlv said:
Thanks tywebb13, appreciate your timely posts.
I have an older MBP, 2011 15" with a Plextor SSD installed, and on that machine, updated with the combo updater, the Recovery procedure you posted resulted in a recovery partition named "EFI boot", which seemed a little strange! I connected a Firewire disk (Intel SSD 335) and rebooted to that external disk. Ran the procedure again, and it worked correctly resulting in a recovery partition named "10.11.3". So I ran CCC and used its recovery partition cloning function on the MBP internal SSD, which correctly cloned the 10.11.3 partition to the internal SSD in the MBP.
In addition to that little "glitch," I have noticed some strange errors when trying to delete files, with a "can't delete these items because they can't be found" error, which will sometimes be resolved by quitting other running apps, sometimes not until a restart. I can always delete the target files after a restart.
This may be spotlight related, so I will do a reindex via Onyx and see what happens.
I have also encountered this finder "bug" on my older Mac Pro '2009' .
Any iseas as to the cause of this?
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Well I don't know about your particular setup, but for mine (2014 mbp and 2011 mba) the method I outlined above still works at 1 attempt.

Actually it is pretty amazing that a method intended first for 10.7.2 is still working for 10.11.3 years later. It is good apple still allow download of the lion recovery update to facilitate this.
 
I hope they did not integrate the missing USB 3.0 support for the Late 2015 iMac that seems to be in every Beta from 10.11.1 to 10.11.4, but never in in any final version.
 
macbookonthego said:
The OSX10.11.3 update seems to include a slapdash, incomplete attempt at putting a finger in CVE-2015-7024. Patrick Girdle confidentially revealed his discovery of the hole in Gatekeeper to Apple and he took less than 5 minutes to break through the "fix." Same problem, unauthorized applications can be installed through the hole. see Kaspersky's threat post.

OBTW 9.2.1 OK
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This "fix" was part of 10.11.1. Apple hasn't changed it in 10.11.3, and it's still broken. Now that it's fully public, maybe we'll see a fix in 10.11.4.
 
Sirious said:
Hope they add Night Shift to the Mac in the next betas of 10.11.4 :p
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Yes, so you can sleep through all the mail corruption! UGH! :(

There is no way to install El Capitan from Mavericks without your EMAIL being corrupted if you have multiple email accounts. I've done this like a dozen times and pulled all my hair out. It will never adapt several Mavericks email MAIL accounts to El Capitan. WHY OH WHY???

WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT??? It's just making what worked before STILL WORK! UGH!
Sorry, but it's maddening.

Then there's the iPhone & Bluetooth connections. You would think they would do something about Bluetooth crashing upon the connection of an iPhone right? NOPE. It's been a problem since Yosemite and Apple has stopped even asking questions about my submissions no matter how many pics of actuality that I submit. It's like they just don't even care.

Since Steve Jobs has gone, the state of the Apple Mac as we know is also gone sadly.
It's like nobody is home there when you complain.

File an iPhone complaint and BAM, someone wants info on it. Not with the Mac. :(
 
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