I'm just keeping a mental tally of the thread... still deciding if I should upgrade from 10.9.5...
IMHO it's time. go for it and enjoy yosemite. it is finally polished.
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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 With Photos for OS X App, Emoji Updates
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IMHO it's time. go for it and enjoy yosemite. it is finally polished.
Photos for Mac, optimization & size of library
In case anyone else has this question, let me offer what I just learned after 90 minutes on the phone with the only Apple tech department that has been trained so far in Photos/iCloud for the Mac.
I purchased more iCloud Drive space in preparation for one thing: To reduce the size of the PhotosLibrary on my 128GB SSD MacBook Air when Photos for Mac was released. That capability was mentioned numerous times in the lead up to 10.10.3. Well, as of today, that is not part of the puzzle.
There is a MacPhotos preferences option that reads "Optimize Mac Storage. Store full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud. Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough storage space. (That is similar to an option on the iPhone that does indeed work, storing screen versions on the phone and hi-res photos in the cloud.)
But, according to Apple, the purpose of Photos on the Mac is only to make the iPhone, iPad, and Mac all behave similarly while accessing the same photos in the cloud. It will not reduce your Photos Library size on your Mac. That Optimize setting has no practical functionality. They say that Photos for Mac still needs your full blown images to reside on the Mac itself. Then why is the prefs option there?
This makes no sense to me. If MacPhotos needs the full image, and you take a photo with an iPhone and it goes to the cloud, does the original download to the Mac even if the preference to download to Mac is not selected? Good question, was their reply. No one knew.
The techies said that they hope Photos will keep improving. Curiously, the Apple Communities link to Photos & iCloud discussions on Apple.com doesnt work, either.
In case anyone else has this question, let me offer what I just learned after 90 minutes on the phone with the only Apple tech department that has been trained so far in Photos/iCloud for the Mac.
I purchased more iCloud Drive space in preparation for one thing: To reduce the size of the PhotosLibrary on my 128GB SSD MacBook Air when Photos for Mac was released. That capability was mentioned numerous times in the lead up to 10.10.3. Well, as of today, that is not part of the puzzle.
There is a MacPhotos preferences option that reads "Optimize Mac Storage. Store full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud. Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough storage space. (That is similar to an option on the iPhone that does indeed work, storing screen versions on the phone and hi-res photos in the cloud.)
But, according to Apple, the purpose of Photos on the Mac is only to make the iPhone, iPad, and Mac all behave similarly while accessing the same photos in the cloud. It will not reduce your Photos Library size on your Mac. That Optimize setting has no practical functionality. They say that Photos for Mac still needs your full blown images to reside on the Mac itself. Then why is the prefs option there?
This makes no sense to me. If MacPhotos needs the full image, and you take a photo with an iPhone and it goes to the cloud, does the original download to the Mac even if the preference to download to Mac is not selected? Good question, was their reply. No one knew.
The techies said that they hope Photos will keep improving. Curiously, the Apple Communities link to Photos & iCloud discussions on Apple.com doesnt work, either.
I know things vary from Mac to Mac but I've been reading/hearing more bad than good about Yosemite. This is the first time I have not upgraded to the latest OS since the beginning of OS X. Mavericks still works very well so I will wait for Yosemite to develope further.
Photos App
Is there a way to disable the Photos App from starting every time I restart the computer with the newly installed OS X 10.10.3. I don't use it and don't want it to spontaneously start.
Thanks
Is there a way to disable the Photos App from starting every time I restart the computer with the newly installed OS X 10.10.3. I don't use it and don't want it to spontaneously start.
Thanks
Right hand click icon in the dock, then choose options, then uncheck "Open At Login"
Yes, they very quietly replaced the combo update the next day with one that would install over 10.10.1.
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I posted this in another thread but I got one response with a person having a similar problem with their external HD. He/she was as clueless as I am.
After updating Yosemite 10.10.2 to .3, my Seagate Expansion USB3.0 Hard Drive doesn't sleep anymore after 3 minutes of non use like it did before in all versions of Mavericks and Yosemite 10.10.2, although it does sleep when I put my 2014 Mac mini to sleep.
Anyone else notice this?
I reset my SMC, checked my internal HD for errors, and repaired permissions. Called Apple support and they were no help. Anyone else experience this?
After updating Yosemite 10.10.2 to .3, my Seagate Expansion USB3.0 Hard Drive doesn't sleep anymore after 3 minutes of non use like it did before in all versions of Mavericks and Yosemite 10.10.2, although it does sleep when I put my 2014 Mac mini to sleep.
Anyone else notice this?
I reset my SMC, checked my internal HD for errors, and repaired permissions. Called Apple support and they were no help. Anyone else experience this?
I moved back to Mavericks from Yosemite last month and haven't regretted it since. Today I tried 10.10.3 on a separate partition on my mid-2014 rMBP with Iris Graphics - and it's still not as smooth as Mavericks.
Lag is most notable entering Mission Control, which I use a lot, and Safari occasionally stutters / tabs freeze.
The Window Server processes seems to be using less CPU now (<5%) compared to 10.10.1-2 where it was closer to 15%, but still not hitting 60fps like Mavericks does
Lag is most notable entering Mission Control, which I use a lot, and Safari occasionally stutters / tabs freeze.
The Window Server processes seems to be using less CPU now (<5%) compared to 10.10.1-2 where it was closer to 15%, but still not hitting 60fps like Mavericks does
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When I turn on the machine, about 6-7 sec, display goes completely black. I hear the sound but nothing shown. After 7 sec Apple logo apears and everything runs normal like before. This issue has happened after 10.10.3 update. Any one has the same issue? Any advice?
The option is labelled very clearly, so I'm not sure that the tech guy told you. If you have a small SSD and a big iCloud photo library than it will not store full res images, it can't.
If you have the space on your Mac why wouldn't you want the full res copies, even when optimised is selected?
When on optimised setting and you run low on space than photos will start to delete full res images and you will gain space back. In theory you don't have to worry about it, it will figure it out in the background.
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Yeah this is a bug with 10.10.3 and it happened to a lot of people. Simply do a NVRAM reset and you will be back to normal.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204063
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OS X Vista
Apple, what is going on?
Several month of public betas, 3 dot releases after the launch and Yosemite is still buggy as hell.
Apple made our Radeon 7950 Mac Edition into an expensive doorstopper, because they are unable to fix their Radeon driver in Yosemite. Had to shove out another 500 bucks to switch to a recent NVIDIA card to compensate for Apples incompetence.
They try hard to surpass Microsoft with their Windows Vista debacle.
My single advice to Apple is: Don't bug us with another halve backed OS at WWDC. Either take your time to fix Yosemite (i.e. make a Snow-Yosemite version) or, if you are unable to do this, go back to the drawing board and start from scratch based on Snow Leopard, that last truly solid OS from Apple.
Apple, what is going on?
Several month of public betas, 3 dot releases after the launch and Yosemite is still buggy as hell.
Apple made our Radeon 7950 Mac Edition into an expensive doorstopper, because they are unable to fix their Radeon driver in Yosemite. Had to shove out another 500 bucks to switch to a recent NVIDIA card to compensate for Apples incompetence.
They try hard to surpass Microsoft with their Windows Vista debacle.
My single advice to Apple is: Don't bug us with another halve backed OS at WWDC. Either take your time to fix Yosemite (i.e. make a Snow-Yosemite version) or, if you are unable to do this, go back to the drawing board and start from scratch based on Snow Leopard, that last truly solid OS from Apple.
Apple QA process broken
Same experience. Apple designs beautiful hardware but the software is frustratingly rushed and lacks a robust quality assurance process. There has not been a solid OS X release since Snow Leopard. This is unfortunate. Continued poor releases will catch up with Apple at some point. This is also unfortunate. We live in hope but hope like everything else does not last forever.
Apple, what is going on?
Several month of public betas, 3 dot releases after the launch and Yosemite is still buggy as hell.
Apple made our Radeon 7950 Mac Edition into an expensive doorstopper, because they are unable to fix their Radeon driver in Yosemite. Had to shove out another 500 bucks to switch to a recent NVIDIA card to compensate for Apples incompetence.
They try hard to surpass Microsoft with their Windows Vista debacle.
My single advice to Apple is: Don't bug us with another halve backed OS at WWDC. Either take your time to fix Yosemite (i.e. make a Snow-Yosemite version) or, if you are unable to do this, go back to the drawing board and start from scratch based on Snow Leopard, that last truly solid OS from Apple.
Same experience. Apple designs beautiful hardware but the software is frustratingly rushed and lacks a robust quality assurance process. There has not been a solid OS X release since Snow Leopard. This is unfortunate. Continued poor releases will catch up with Apple at some point. This is also unfortunate. We live in hope but hope like everything else does not last forever.
Both are running fine side by side here for me. But of course changes in Aperture do not automatically sync to Photos and vice-versa, so the two libraries are separated. Have to decide which one will be the primary going forward and manually export/import back and forth. Facing a lot of work cleaning up organization in the new Photos library imported from Aperture. Sigh.
Close Photos app then reopen it while holding the Options key. Select the iPhoto (or Aperture) library you want to import. In my case the import process renamed my Aperture library to "migrated", but then when I opened Aperture for the first time after getting Photos settled down, I was prompted to select an Aperture library. I picked the "migrated" Aperture library. It opened fine and was renamed back to the original Aperture library name. In the end both are running independently on my Mac, each with their own separate libraries.
Have you actually read the comments about the poor performance of WiFi in some circumstances? I will NOT be upgrading to 10.10.3 until I can confirm that this issue has been resolved. I'm not having constant drop outs from the network just for the sake of some new emoji
still having mail issues
When are they going to fix the mail not receiving new messages problem?
Is there any way to revert back to the last OS X and get rid of the Yosemite beta?
When are they going to fix the mail not receiving new messages problem?
Is there any way to revert back to the last OS X and get rid of the Yosemite beta?
You are already on 10.10.2 and what I've heard/read is that 10.10.3 does indeed improve WiFi stability compared to previous point releases. Since you said you're not experiencing connection drops, I'd suggest you update. It says it right there on the release notes: "Improves WiFi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios".
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I have 10.10.3 installed. I don't have wi-fi issues. Only mail not retrieving new messages on my iMac only. No issues with mail on my iPad. The problem on the iMac started about 2 months ago. I've had Yosemite longer than that. It has to be an update issue from around that time. Wish I could undo that update.
I am not experiencing any drop outs because 10.10.2 is stable, whereas the 10.10.3 beta was appalling.