Where's the ability to get TotalFinder or XtraFinder working again?
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
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Apple Seeds Fourth OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Beta to Developers
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They better make the animations smoother. All performance issues were fixed from Yosemite, except the graphics randomly became heavy in El Cap.
Well, let's see. The BOM mentions, among many other things:
"WiFi Sleep Wake"
Wireless Diagnostics.app
WiFiAgent.app
CoreWLANKit.framework
CoreWiFi.framework
"BTMM"
awdl_d2d.bundle
BTMMPortInUseAgent.plugin
"HomeSharing"
Not sure what you mean by this. In iTunes?
"Powernap"
powermetrics
powerd.bundle
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
"Finder"
FinderKit.framework
com.apple.Finder.axbundle
Finder.app
FinderSync.framework
"Slow SMB"
SMBClient.framework
mount_smbfs
smbutil
smbd
smbfs.kext
smb.bundle
smbfs.fs
"Bonjour Problems"
BonjourEvents.plugin
com.apple.bonjour.plugin
mDNSResponder
mDNSResponder.bundle
You're right, though. Clearly, 10.11.4 only contains a new version of Finder for marketing reasons. Useless.
Until Apple adds proper cut/paste keyboard shortcut (cmd+x/cmd+v) for moving files via OPTIONAL commands in system preferences along with FOLDERS ON TOP, then Finder is still and forever shall remain complete GARBAGE.
Apple's disrespect towards consumers, power users and third party developers behind XtraFinder and TotalFinder is infuriating. I'm NOT upgrading to El Capitan until they FIX this damn problem. I despise the Finder.
FIX IT, APPLE.
CMD-C, then ALT-CMD-V does the same as your CMD-X + CMD-V for files. Yes, it is different than Windows, and so you may not be happy. But the logic is that "cutting" a file makes no sense, given on Windows the file doesn't actually get "cut", as it still is there. So Apple made a copy and move feature instead. Different, but not that difficult to learn.
Folders on top I can't help you with. As I've never used Windows, I haven't missed it. Or needed it.
Sometimes a separate itunes beta is released to developers before public release, but not always. There doesn't seem to be one this time. But that doesn't mean there won't be a new itunes.
Right. I would not expect to see a new version of iTunes included in any of the 10.11.4 builds. Any new version of iTunes, if there is one, would also work on 10.10.5 at a minimum, so it'll be a separate release.
Further, I don't know why a new version of iTunes is even expected, aside from any necessary updates to support a newer iPad and the iPhone 5Se.
Yep, but not for testing user-facing features, but rather for iOS connectivity reasons, so the beta iOS SDK works.
It's not asking a whole lot for apple to add a simple option here:
They've got a slew of other USELESS keyboard shortcut commands, but the one that so many people have been begging for have been completely neglected.
Pathetic. Absolutely PATHETIC from Apple.
As for folders on top, you may not know it, but it is very useful. You'd notice if you have hundreds of files mixed with folders.
...an option to import notes from Evernote...
I’m a public beta tester who has an interest in this new ability. However, when I sought instructions on how to do it, my question was deleted from Apple’s public forums because it addresses a beta feature. Fine. I’m not a developer, so I can’t query someone who is. Are there any public testers reading this who might know how to import notes from Evernote?
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As a public beta tester, I couldn’t disagree more. I have reported over 120 observations and suggestions for OSX and iOS combined. App developers are laser focused on how the OS changes affect their apps—not the overall experience. As a regular Joe, I’m concerned that everything works and I represent those non-geek customers who are frustrated by things they have no knowledge to correct or circumvent.
Export from Evernote as .enex, then go to File → Import Notes… in Notes and pick the file.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/09/how-to-export-notes-evernote-apple-notes/
+1 to iTunes boo. Apple Music was not beta tested and look how well that has worked for everyone involved. If there is a possibility to beta test Apple Music 2.0 I'm interested, Live Photos in iMessages aren't very exciting for someone who doesn't own an iPhone (yes I know iPhone is THE Apple device and Mac is just a big user interface for it). Spotify has bugs that they've been promising to resolve since 2012, but they keep on adding new features that I don't need. Apple, don't be like that.
What's so bad about ”cmd c” then ”cmd alt/option v” to move (as suggested by curmi)?
Even if that does require an iTunes update (which I'm not sure is still the case), it wouldn't necessary one with exciting user-facing changes.
It aint natural and incorrect. Cut/paste to movie something is universally known as cmd+x/cmd+v. Apple being their typical 'think different' asshats have to go against the standard. It's stupid. And if they dont want to abide by universal standards, at least give us the OPTION to change it in system preferences.
What's so bad about an option to change as I suggested earlier?
My solution, works fine, along with some other options I use every day...It's not asking a whole lot for apple to add a simple option here:
Odds are that new version of iTunes would work just the same as it does now, so there's no reason at all to get a beta of something that supports new devices which aren't yet available to the public. Apple isn't going to distribute new iTunes features to developers without a fanfare, and Apple isn't going to risk that someone figures out what's in the new devices by way of digging through an iTunes update before the devices are public.
That's not a solution. Your shortcut would make everything, either copied or cut to ALWAYS be moved. You need to CMD+X shortcut to make it a solution. Apple refuses to do it.
Lets not forget AirDrop not working or if it works then it is a matter of rolling a dice and channelling Steve Jobs with a weegie board to get it to work. Although I'm hanging in there hoping for fixes to come I am increasingly finding myself attracted to the idea of moving over to Windows 10/PC (Dell XPS 13.3" and Dell XPS 8900. If I do move it won't be until next year at the earliest) and moving to Android because it appears that increasingly the focus has been adding features rather than nailing down and getting those fundamentals sorted out.
In all due respect, no one is railing against adding new features but when there are fundamental problems being left unaddressed and have plagued OS X users for almost 3-4 and sometimes 5 years I certainly don't blame the likes of kagharaht getting a bit annoyed at the current state of affairs. What is even more annoying is when they do add features they're broken or half complete - Metal for example is only partially implemented and not fully optimised resulting in performance no better than OpenGL, then there are features that Apple promote to give them an edge over the competition such as AirDrop that fail to work, Wifi Syncing for iTunes is something that I gave up on years ago because the performance was atrocious not to mention the iffy reliability.
Cisco VPN working really well now. It was like pulling teeth the last two betas.
For whatever it's worth: AirDrop and the other Continuity stuff such as Handoff was extremely flakey for me in the iOS 8 / OS X 10.10 era, but somewhere around iOS 9.2 / OS X 10.11.2-ish, things just started working. As recently as October, so well into iOS 9 and OS X 10.11, I still had bizarre situations where an iPad, an iPhone and a Mac, all right next to each other, don't fully see each other — e.g., the Mac and iPad see each other, the iPhone sees both, but neither see the iPhone. But these situations do seem — knock on wood — to be resolved now. Even temporarily switching to the old protocol to get my old Mac, then switching back to get the iOS devices again seems to work within mere seconds of delay. Again, this was terribly, frustratingly broken for me even in a bizarrely simple setup, on two entirely different Wi-Fi network infrastructures (i.e., both at home and at work). Even once you left out iOS entirely and instead had two Macs communicate each other — randomly, one saw the other, but not vice versa.
Thus, I would hesitantly encourage you to give it another shot.
So, with that fundamental, massive issue improved tremendously for me, possibly even fixed entirely, I can move on to actually criticizing the UI. The Contacts Only vs. Everyone UI is a clever choice, but I'm not happy with the implications it has with receiving shared data. Apparently, it means that for contacts, you automatically get the data (potentially switching apps, kicking you out of whatever you were doing), whether you like it or not. An extra "Trust this device to send me useful data" toggle on the receiving end, with a better label explaining the implications seems like a good idea to me.
As for other network issues, well… there is a single other Mac in this home network. As I'm typing this, Finder doesn't acknowledge it. I could manually connect to it with Connect to Server, but I shouldn't have to. I can make random OS X networking things go poof (and mostly just quietly relaunch itself) by typing 'sudo killall networkd networkd_privileged netbiosd DiskUnmountWatcher NetAuthAgent NetAuthSysAgent Finder CFNetworkAgent' and immediately have it show up in Finder, but I shouldn't have to. This was broken way back in the 10.1 Puma era when I first tinkered around a little with OS X, and Apple still can't seem to get it right.
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