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I've never regretted a software upgrade so much as I have regretted upgrading to Mavericks. Mail went from being a pretty nice email client to a complete disaster. Numbers is broken too. Another upgrade regret. I hope Apple stabilizes Mavericks soon, but right now it is Apple's "Vista" in my book.

As was Mountain Lion apparently, and Lion ...
 
As was Mountain Lion apparently, and Lion ...
Not for me. Lion and Mountain Lion were mostly fine as upgrades. They had their normal hiccups and glitches, but no real showstoppers.

Mavericks -- OTOH -- should never have gone out the door. Apple shipped it before it was ready. I'm using it on two machines, a 2010 MBP and a 2012 Mac Mini. It's a buggy mess on both systems.
 
Not for me. Lion and Mountain Lion were mostly fine as upgrades. They had their normal hiccups and glitches, but no real showstoppers.

Mavericks -- OTOH -- should never have gone out the door. Apple shipped it before it was ready. I'm using it on two machines, a 2010 MBP and a 2012 Mac Mini. It's a buggy mess on both systems.

And yet for me Mavericks is better than ML in just about every way.
 
External Drives

That's really strange. I have a 2010 iMac and have had the opposite experience: my external drives are now far more stable than they ever were under 10.8.

Glad to hear your story is different. Per the web there are issues especially with Western Digital and Pegasus external drives. My external drives worked perfectly in 10.8 - not so now.

I am looking to buy the new Mac Pro - hopefully it won't have issues.

I have to say that I have never had so many issues with an OS X release and I have been using it since 10.1!
 
10.6 had an odd pattern: the build numbers of 10.6.1 and later were all in the 500-900 range, and it looks like Apple was using a different internal system to number the builds. The build number for released versions increased from 10.6.0 to 10.6.3 despite kernel version letter increases, then went down slightly in 10.6.4, up again in 10.6.5, down slightly in 10.6.6 and down again in 10.6.8 (10.6.7 was the same kernel version as 10.6.6).

That's not the only build numbering oddness from apple.

The first number in a build is the major version but major version 3 seems to be missing for mac os x.

If such a build exists, what is it?

Builds for major releases of Mac OS X (I have left out updates and developer previews to make the pattern clearer):

1H39 (Kodiak US version)

2E14 (Kodiak International version)

?

4K78 (Cheetah)

5G54 (Puma)

6C115 (Jaguar)

7B85 (Panther)

8A432 (Tiger)

9A581 (Leopard)

10A432 (Snow Leopard)

11A511 (Lion)

12A269 (Mountain Lion)

13A603 (Mavericks)
 
I hope this fixes my USB KVM swith problem. 10.9.0 rendered the device totally useless. It's been a real pain since I updated.
 
This update didn't fix my biggest annoyance: Mail still asks for my iCloud password every day.

Guess I'll go back to using Sparrow then. :rolleyes:

I hate that. I kept thinking my password was wrong.. nope, just randomly decides to ask for it. lol.
 
ok, the safari swipe back bug is back. happened a lot to me for a while, then stopped (when i swipe back sometimes, safari stalls mid swipe, and i get a narrow window on the left).

it went away (all by itself!) last month or so, and is back.

also, my fans whirr up a lot, then...calm down...
 
Still can't untick "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox".

All I want to do is use the Del key to archive in Gmail instead of actually deleting, anyone know a workaround for this?
 
Hanging at the "calculating" point in the install (after the download finished) for some 45 minutes now.
 

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Apple needs to abolish avfoundation and bring back compatibility for Perian. That would be a nice update.

Also, many of my icons don't refresh and for some reason when selecting 'open with' for any of my media files, I get the VLC icon showing up TWICE.

AVFoundation is not going anywhere. You want to code properly on OS X then leverage it.

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Just updated. Still beachballing, still have buggy column widths in Finder.

Still show no technical specs on your system for the `beach balling' and more.

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Finder still does not open folders in a new window. I am beginning to think my Finder has issues. Even setting finder to open folders in tabs instead of new windows does nothing different.

View the contest of finder's plist instance in your ~/Library pathway. If it's old and houses settings you don't recognize rename it with a .old extension.

Reboot and compare the new .plist to your old one and look for the functionality you expect and where it is in the settings.
 
hahahahaa

who else thinks this is funny: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5313?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

OS X Server (Mavericks): Clients cannot connect to VPN service using L2TP
Symptoms

With OS X Server (Mavericks), the VPN service may no longer accept L2TP connections. This can happen if the client and server are behind different network address translation (>NAT) gateways.

Resolution

You can configure and use PPTP instead. Please note that PPTP requires Directory accounts.

Seriously... Problem can't securely connect to my server... Apple's solution well connect using a non-secure method.....

How about you managed your mappings for the gateway translations with NAT. FreeBSD does it differently than Linux, but you'll discover that there is a way to manage this between gateways. If it has incorrect mappings it most certain won't instantiate a secure socket layer connection.
 
I updated my 2012 Mini that has 16GB of RAM from 10.9 to 10.9.1 and noticed I have 1GB of VRAM.

The last I remember it being was 768MB, but I could have still be on ML.

Anyone else notice this, or did the change occur with 10.9 and I'm just now finding out?
 

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Special variants (typically model-specific) start at a build number which is some multiple of 1000, with lower build numbers reserved for the common variant. I think that in recent OS X versions, Apple has started special build numbers at 2000, leaving 0-1999 available for the common variant.

[snip]

For other major versions of OS X, the 10.x.1 and later releases usually have build number in the 1-99 range (sometimes getting up into the 200s) and adjacent versions have unrelated build numbers (unless they have the same kernel version letter, in which case the newer OS X version has a higher build number than the previous version).

Wow. That was an excellent, well-written explanation - thanks for taking the time, dempson.
 
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