With El Capitan overall it is very responsive except when checking for Apple updates and I get the beach-ball for several seconds. Never noticed this with any other Apple operating system to include Yosemite. Anyone else finding that to be the case?
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Apple Releases OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan With Bug Fixes and Security Enhancements
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Today, after all these updates were released, Apple's servers were obviously under extremely heavy load and did not respond well.
That's a serious concern and noteworthy (no pun intended), has anybody else had this happen?
No it's not just an overworked servers but I have consistently found for several seconds I get the beach-ball without exception. I have found this with every iteration of El Capitan but never before with any other Apple operating system going back as far as Snow Leopard. While I get the beach-ball the system will not be responsive either until the update check is complete. It's not an inordinately long time but it's irritating and unfortunately for me a consistent finding.
Would certainly be a curious thing to find out. Although I'd think that we'd likely see more posts about that even by now (especially here as well as other places online) if that was something more common.
Nope. My protected notes are still available and I can open them without any problems.
... That (FTP) and WebDAV. Locks up and crashes with WebDAV too. I've seen Windows Explorer handle both protocols better!
Which do you do first Firmware or Combo? Or why the Firmware update?
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Just use the installer from here, it'll handle the firmware update automatically, if your computer needs it: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1885
Use Activity Monitor to keep an eye on network usage. If you don't quit processes, and don't shut down your Mac, you should be able to see what's causing it. FTR, I've seen Mail.app on 10.9.5 go nuts on Gmail boxes; gets threads crossed (or something) and will get into a re-entrant loop on Junk boxes, consuming thousands of MB of data. I filed a bug in 10.9 days, it was reported as a Dup, and I've never gotten satisfactory confirmation that it's been fixed. (I'm not running the messes that are 10.10/10.11 on my daily driver; 10.9 bugginess was bad enough.) Along with the network usage, there was also a significant file access correlation, Reading and Writing GBs of data, but obvs in place as my storage used never changed. Just hard on my SSD (and likely would be brutal on a HD as a perf hit). Along with that was mds Spotlight indexing/CPU utilization too. A one-two punch of performance f-u.
The "distnoted" bug is indeed very annoying, but I have always been able to kill off the process(es) via remote login (ssh).
For which you need another Mac, and the knowledge of how to do it. I do have two Macs but not the knowledge. One thing I did notice when one of them freaked out is that I could still access it from the other via file sharing, but only the file system and not with screen sharing. They must fix this. It's beyond annoying, it's embarrassing.
For WebDAV: when I last checked, service implementations varied wildly. In my experience, worst of all designs is WebDAV served to Mac clients by Microsoft SharePoint. More than that, I'll not say here; if you'd like to discuss, please quote me in a relevant topic.
Well this update has totally messed up my MAIL folders and deleted some too. So not happy, just as well my Snow Leopard drive is up to date in MAIL!!!! Will have to revert El Capitan back to my last Time Machine backup. Yes El Capitan does have 100X more spinning beach balls than Snow Leopard!
So much for progress!!!!!!
So much for progress!!!!!!
@haddy
Yes that was not online yet. That's why some guys asked for a link.
With my links you should install the Firmware Update first. Often it's just the same for every (beta) update and doesn't do anything because it has already been installed with some older version before but you'll never know if there might be a new Firmware for some Mac.
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I think now the Delta update called Patch is for those people who already have a 10.11.6 beta or the latest one installed and the normal Delta update is if you are still on 10.11.5. But I am still not 100% sure.
Better is to install the normal Delta Update instead and don't install the Patch. That always worked for me. I once tried to install only the Patch and it did the same, but I was always on the latest beta.
Out of interest, did you do a clean install when you upgraded to El Capitan or not?
What computer do you have? Does it have a SSD? Old HDDs run very poorly with the newer OSes.
In general, it's far better to wait to get the updates either through Software Update or from Apple's support pages. The direct linked packages typically are not configured to prevent installation in environments where a user has selected the wrong version of a patch. Apple's support downloads will do those checks, as will Software Update.
It's not my notes...then again I don't know. It won't let me past signing into my computer after the update. It's trying to open for 30+ minutes, fan working like crazy (MBP early '09 17").
I know I need a new laptop, but I don't need the OS to push it over the edge without warning.
