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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Beta to Developers
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And they come by the hundreds. And require multiple restarts, and don't always install correctly, and forgets driver updates, and . . .
and no I got doubled the amount of Windows 10 Technical previews as with OS X Betas
Totally agree. If nothing else, I like things to be consistent between OS's. It confuses my brain when they're not.
I couldn't have said it better. mail Migration is a corruption disaster and loses half of your email accounts and their server settings, but it's only gotten worse. Every update seems to introduce another problem. The latest one I'm getting is dragging/dropping pictures from mail to a new mail to send causes a complete kernel panic forcing a machine shutdown. The MAIL program is still a complete disaster.
Other problems Apple has not fixed are loss of Apple ID recognition and Bluetooth crashes.
To add insult to injury Apple has discontinued support for some older Macs that are supposedly supported machines under El Capitan. That is just blatantly dishonest if not illegal. How can you release a new operating system certified for a machine and than discontinue the support after distributing it and removing any ability to downgrade? BOO Apple!
If someone asked for my honest advice, I'd say unless there is some incredibly needed feature you see in Yosemite or El Capitan that you feel you cannot live without, you'll have a faster, more stable Mac with Mavericks which at least doesn't corrupt your email or crash your Bluetooth and iPhone repeatedly.
Really? I use win 10 about every 2-3 days and there is always at least one update. Sometimes 2 to 3.
Ahh makes sense. So all updates come sans any new features I assume. most of the updates I get are security updates no doubt fixing holes in all the "wonderful" new features I never use.
You still can't. You could however run a verify on the volume while it was booted.
The difference is, the "verify" and "repair" functions got merged into one button in the new version.
If disk utility finds a problem while doing the live scan, it will tell you to reboot to recovery to fix it, same as before.
Wow, thanks for this post. I had no idea how Apple butchered Disk Utilty and your post prompted me to look into it and my God this is some kinda joke! How can they release this to production with no software RAID support! Is this prettified monstrosity the version you're presented with when booting into the repair mode after upgrading to El Capitan as well!? This is simply outrageous! Silently dropping software RAID support! Updating for ease of use is one thing but removing features too at the same time is criminal. I realize this is still in the command line and there are hacks to restore thr old Disk Utilty from Time Machine Backup but that's totally an unacceptable work around. If this is supposed to return (and it sure as heck should) and Disk Utilty wasn't finished why are they pushing a half assed update with those features removed on such a crucial piece of system software!
Here are a bunch of features removed and further on the lack of Software RAID support and what your software defined disks will look like:
http://www.macworld.com/article/298...tool-for-storage-devices-gets-a-facelift.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2015/20151008_0956-OSX_ElCapitan-DiskUtility.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2015/20151008_1222-SoftRAID-vs-DiskUtility.html
Thanks again for the heads up. I was going to wait for the next release to upgrade hopefully fixing issues but now I will hold off until full support and completion of features are returned. You probably saved me a LOT of hair pulling.
Apple get your crap together man what's wrong with your software devs this is a damn joke!
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Oh man this. How did this get past bug testing.
I also miss when you could open links from searching the history and your history tab didn't reset and kill your search position.
Possibly a bit too soon for OS X 10.11.3 as its not far in to testing itself. I would hate to think that Apple are rushing these OS X El Capitan updates through to concentrate of OS X 10.12
Yes, this. ALL DAY LONG! I'm wearing out my ports plugging in the damn thunderbolt cable into different ports until it wakes up. Most of the time that works, sometimes I have to do a hard reboot ffs.
Yea, HW sales are slipping so they need a new OS version to obsolete a bunch of Macs that currently run the "latest" OS.
Maybe Product releases soon, 10.11.4 might be for a future product release and they need to test it out. But strange to do it in public. But that's the only reason I can see to test both 10.11.3 and 10.11.4 at the same time.
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Exchange, IMAP (Gmail) and iCloud here as well, never had a single issue with emails disappearing or attachments being corrupted on any of my El Capitan machines
"I'm afraid I can't help you with that" – SiriTotally agree. If nothing else, I like things to be consistent between OS's. It confuses my brain when they're not.
(Dear Apple, please give me Siri in OS X, I promise not to say any dirty words towards her.)
I had this same problem with the LG 34" Ultra Wide monitor and a MB Pro Retina (early 2013 and mid 2015), connected an external keyboard to the monitor and the same issue with the bluetooth external keyboard.
With connecting the keyboard directly to the computer, the external monitor wakes up correctly without dyiskjockeying the monitor cable to different ports.
It's working great since 10.11.1
For those of you complaining about the update frequency and multiple versions, you clearly have no insight on software development.
Apple is most likely making use of an Agile approach, which focuses on getting the base product out and developing on it as time goes on. It's a way to mitigate feature bloats and to best used in an environment with fast turnarounds. It's pretty much industry standard now.
We didn't see this years ago as internet connections were 100x slower. Software is no longer cut off from the world. It's the same reason you get large day 0 updates in video games.
It's not uncommon for multiple betas to be out at the same time with an software provider. The betas focus on different area and stem from different feature branches in their version control.
Apple is most likely making use of an Agile approach, which focuses on getting the base product out and developing on it as time goes on. It's a way to mitigate feature bloats and to best used in an environment with fast turnarounds. It's pretty much industry standard now.
We didn't see this years ago as internet connections were 100x slower. Software is no longer cut off from the world. It's the same reason you get large day 0 updates in video games.
It's not uncommon for multiple betas to be out at the same time with an software provider. The betas focus on different area and stem from different feature branches in their version control.
I wish they would fix the computer name already in use bug.
I cant give feedback to Apple as the feedback assistant is out of date as well
I cant give feedback to Apple as the feedback assistant is out of date as well
I wish they would fix the computer name already in use bug.
I cant give feedback to Apple as the feedback assistant is out of date as well
What is this "computer name is already in use bug" and how would one replicate it?
Downloading now... not so fast currently, servers seem to be clogged...
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I did. Didn't help.
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Copper.
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Using Professional Pro XP version, so get lots of useful updates.
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That's nothing! Wait until your keyboard comes back!
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Yeah... betas getting close to each other... it's called incest.
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I asked. Tim just confirmed that on the next keynote he'll announce the next OS X as "the third best OS Apple has ever done! Coming after Snow Leopard and Mavericks!"
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I did. Didn't help.
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Copper.
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Using Professional Pro XP version, so get lots of useful updates.
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That's nothing! Wait until your keyboard comes back!
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Yeah... betas getting close to each other... it's called incest.
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I asked. Tim just confirmed that on the next keynote he'll announce the next OS X as "the third best OS Apple has ever done! Coming after Snow Leopard and Mavericks!"