I want the columns to be sized properly without any user intervention, without mousing around. All this requires is a modicum of code that any intern could write and a checkbox somewhere in the Finder's preferences. Cook mentioned in an interview that Apple users pay the company to make sensible decisions with respect to design. Well, in my opinion Apple is making poor design decisions with Finder. They have billions in cash, so why not hire a few good coders to get Mac OS X to a point where the known bugs and issues are resolved? If Apple stops supporting OS X, then there competitive advantage of iOS looks much less compelling for my purposes.
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I want the columns to be sized properly without any user intervention, without mousing around. All this requires is a modicum of code that any intern could write and a checkbox somewhere in the Finder's preferences. Cook mentioned in an interview that Apple users pay the company to make sensible decisions with respect to design. Well, in my opinion Apple is making poor design decisions with Finder. They have billions in cash, so why not hire a few good coders to get Mac OS X to a point where the known bugs and issues are resolved? If Apple stops supporting OS X, then there competitive advantage of iOS looks much less compelling for my purposes.
Sigh.
Try shutting down from the login in screen before these apps/services are even loaded. The bug persists. (Check your console log).
Very true. You don't.
on your side....
we all know the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease, and maybe this wheel needs to squeak a bit more or louder before someone notices.
This doesn't really sound sane for folders with files with very long names. So it'd only work sometimes. So a lot of users would view it as broken sometimes.
A preference? Does that really sound like Apple to you?
And I think they have. The current behavior regarding long file names is: we respect your last column width choice. If you want us to auto-size it, double click and it's done. The problem with opinionated software is that you can't please everyone all the time.
The Finder isn't without bugs, that's true. But it's still one of the best default file managers on Windows, Linux or OS X. It's decent and fast. Could it be better? Totally agree. But you're being a little sensationalist when you say "stops supporting OS X", aren't you? A teeeeeeny bit over-dramatic?
Installed it this morning, got the popup stating NVIDIA CUDA needed to be updated. There is a new download of 5.0.59 on NVIDIA's site:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.59-driver.html
Installed without any difficulty on my 15" 2013 rMPB.
Thanks,
Dan
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.59-driver.html
Installed without any difficulty on my 15" 2013 rMPB.
Thanks,
Dan
I don't know when this happened but it must have been with the launch of .8.3. I'm assuming. Before under a standard user account checking software update was never a problem. Now as a standard user account a lot of updates do not show. No updates available.
For them to show up now, I had to change the account to administrator.
Or, maybe they know of these problems but just don't care.
For them to show up now, I had to change the account to administrator.
Or, maybe they know of these problems but just don't care.
Erm... I have a 27" inch iMac. There is plenty of space to display full names of files. I would just like the option that this be done automatically. Apple could even leave this option off for default, but they should provide the option. Their failure to do so is user-vindictive (and amateurish) IMO.
God no... A finder window automatically resizing as you scroll would be the worst possible option. And it's hardly amateurish not to do it, none of the other major OS' do it either.
And I have a 27" iMac too as well as a rMBP that I set the resolution to 2880 x 1800. I still wouldn't like an auto resizing finder window.
It's working right for me now. Both yesterday (after installing 10.8.4) and tonight, I fired up iMessage and all the new messages that I'd sent/received on both days from my iPhone appear in the correct order - bit old ones are still jumbled.
Don't know why it seems to fix it for some people but not, it seems, for others. Someone mentioned that if you had installed the iMessage beta it messed things up due to residual files. Did you have the beta installed?
When on the Update screen in the App store, hit CMD+R (Refresh). This will cause the Enter Administrator ID/Password screen to open. Enter credentials, and a full update check will occur.
Have to do this on my non-Admin account all the time.
It very much depends on the protocols that your Exchange server provides over the internet (Outlook web access, IMAP, ...). Not all of them are supported under OSX, but under iOS things work smoothly. Never had a problem on the iPad and iPhone, but no one in our company has access to exchange on OSX. This really sucks, given the fact that Exchange is the de facto standard in most larger companies.
Just finished the installation. MBA 2012 13", for around 2 minutes. No problem so far. It seems, the temp is slightly lower than prev version. I have 49-50 degree celcius now with typical usages, while 10.8.3 usually took around 55-58, never goes down until 50. Also, I didnt notice, spotlight reindex. Maybe because of ssd is quite fast. I clean the cache etc and do reset SMC before install.
Startup/shutdown same with 10.8.3. No compatibility issue so far.
Startup/shutdown same with 10.8.3. No compatibility issue so far.
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Yes I noticed. This is new to me - with previous updates the desktop background was unaffected. This time, I now have a galaxy instead of my nice mountain scene, and all the file/folder icons on the desktop are on top of one another.
I can't find that little tool that allowed to scan near by networks and showed which channels (CCs (county codes), etc) you and your neighbors wifi used, can you guide me to it?
Also, this app asks for password every time i start it and older app (in 10.8.3) didn't not. Is this supposed to be like this now or am i doing something wrong?
Well, after the Combo updater (>800 MB) TRIM was inactive again. Edited the IOAHCIBlockStorage file like for all updates before (replacing APPLE SSD by M4-CT256M) and it got enabled again. For those who feel more comfortable to check before restart, the checksum -with this change- became SHA = 1f783d75d5224cfb2da4e2955e26715d81de6173
Finally fixed the iMessage bug. Now I can use it on the laptop again without wondering why is this convo 12 hours old.
Oh well, just found a bug in 10.8.4, lost the cursor at one point while playing Diablo III. Never happened before. The cursor came back after a while. I was playing multiplayer and the last bit before entering Diablo it was gone. But after the cinematics it came back.
edit: was heading to report to Apple but got this, LOL
edit: was heading to report to Apple but got this, LOL
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Not the window resizing per se, but the righthand column resizing when there is space. Suppose you open a finder window that has five columns, but three on the righthand side are empty. The second column- the one that is actually important because it has file names- should expand while the empty columns should shrink (or not be shown in the first place).
I think that's a bug with the latest Diablo patch since I experienced it before I updated my system to 10.8.4. It's occurred twice now, once before and once after updating...
But your corporate IT shop should be able to make its Exchange server work with OS X, assuming it wants to, no?