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Apple Seeds Sixth OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers, Public Beta Testers

It bricked my mid-2012 MacBook Pro :(

On the restart, I got the 'prohibited' symbol, and failed to startup.

Booted to Recovery, disk verify/ repair made no difference.

Reset SMC/ PRAM made no difference.

Luckily I have a time machine backup from yesterday.
 
skaeight said:
Is anyone else noticing that Photos absolutely obliterates your upload bandwidth when uploading to icloud - to the point where even loading a website somewhere else on your network is an exercise in frustration?

I'm going to install this latest beta to see if it's any better but my network became unusable when I had it enabled on the previous beta. They need to implement an auto throttling mechanism so it backs off and doesn't fully consume your upload bandwidth.

Also for reference, I have a decent internet connection - 35/3 Mbps.
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I would love it to do that, for me it has been the opposite, sometimes it uploads slowly, sometime faster, sometimes doesn't upload at all. I wish I could leave my computer on until it's done. Hopefully this new update will make us both happy.
 
skaeight said:
Is anyone else noticing that Photos absolutely obliterates your upload bandwidth when uploading to icloud - to the point where even loading a website somewhere else on your network is an exercise in frustration?

I'm going to install this latest beta to see if it's any better but my network became unusable when I had it enabled on the previous beta. They need to implement an auto throttling mechanism so it backs off and doesn't fully consume your upload bandwidth.

Also for reference, I have a decent internet connection - 35/3 Mbps.
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Anytime I do any uploading I can't do any sort browsing/downloading because uploading hogs all my bandwidth. Granted, I only have a 0.8 Mbps upload, which sucks.

Would be nice if Apple included a bandwidth tool to dedicate a certain allotment for uploads.
 
Photos App

After this update does anyone know if the Photos app will re-upload and start the whole damn process again because it took me 4 days just to get it going and a couple of times it has had to re-upload or update and it sucks my whole computing power and bandwidth. I have about 130GB of pics and videos uploaded with 100/15 speed but its the video conversion process that sucks all power from the mac
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
Unless the SSD is Apple OEM, make sure to turn off TRIM before doing any system updates, SMC or PRAM resets. If you forget, you will have the same problem. After the update is completed, you can turn TRIM back on.
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Wow, well thanks for the advice. I never even thought of it.

Is that a common occurrence? Happens to a lot of people?
 
skaeight said:
Is anyone else noticing that Photos absolutely obliterates your upload bandwidth when uploading to icloud - to the point where even loading a website somewhere else on your network is an exercise in frustration?

I'm going to install this latest beta to see if it's any better but my network became unusable when I had it enabled on the previous beta. They need to implement an auto throttling mechanism so it backs off and doesn't fully consume your upload bandwidth.

Also for reference, I have a decent internet connection - 35/3 Mbps.
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Do you know if it starts the whole uploading all over again? This happened to me before and took me another 4 days of hogging my mac and bandwidth.
 
TranceJD said:
Wow, well thanks for the advice. I never even thought of it.

Is that a common occurrence? Happens to a lot of people?
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See this page:
https://www.cindori.org/trim-enabler-and-yosemite/

That should help you get your computer booting again.

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DoctaDre said:
Do you know if it starts the whole uploading all over again? This happened to me before and took me another 4 days of hogging my mac and bandwidth.
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I would assume not. It seems to kind of know what it's already uploaded vs not. I've witnessed this several times when disabling / reenabling on my phone. The initial upload took a while, but subsequent enabling will say I have x000 photos to upload but it finishes very quickly.
 
Is enabling TRIM really still recommended anyway? I've heard various arguments for and against. My Samsung is currently disabled for TRIM.
 
acedout said:
Is enabling TRIM really still recommended anyway? I've heard various arguments for and against. My Samsung is currently disabled for TRIM.
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Disabled? really? I've always just kept it enabled because it's "meant" to prolong the lifespan of your SSD.

Have you noticed any performance issues?

I've been a fan of Apple for many years, but sometimes their restrictions just take it too far... like saying no to non-Apple OEM SSD's when you don't disable TRIM for System Updates.
 
acedout said:
Is enabling TRIM really still recommended anyway? I've heard various arguments for and against. My Samsung is currently disabled for TRIM.
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I've gotten away from enabling it. My Macbook Pro randomly wouldn't boot for me one day and I had to figure out why - it was TRIM. Ironically enough this happened a few days after listening to John Siracusa discuss why he wasn't going to enable TRIM on his SSD (worth a listen for a thorough explanation):

http://atp.fm/episodes/90

Some more info:

http://atp.fm/episodes/91

Fortunately this is going to be a problem that goes away completely very soon, because Apple is effectively not shipping macs that don't have SSDs anymore (I'm pretty sure they all at least have the option to get a Fusion drive - which you should get, no more lone spinning disks :) ).
 
skaeight said:
I've gotten away from enabling it. My Macbook Pro randomly wouldn't boot for me one day and I had to figure out why - it was TRIM. Ironically enough this happened a few days after listening to John Siracusa discuss why he wasn't going to enable TRIM on his SSD (worth a listen for a thorough explanation):

http://atp.fm/episodes/90

Some more info:

http://atp.fm/episodes/91

Fortunately this is going to be a problem that goes away completely very soon, because Apple is effectively not shipping macs that don't have SSDs anymore (I'm pretty sure they all at least have the option to get a Fusion drive - which you should get, no more lone spinning disks :) ).
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After my MacBook wouldn't boot (due to TRIM being enabled) I think I'm gonna run with it turned off. I can't run the risk of this happening again. Luckily this time I have a time machine backup, but I may not be so lucky next time.
 
WiFi working great

Faster and much , much more responsive . Joins Networks immediately , no delays ... Getting better , Safari snappier too . Mail too . I was having a long pause after sleeping to join Networks , now it seems to be just fine. :)
 
latndude said:
Faster and much , much more responsive . Joins Networks immediately , no delays ... Getting better , Safari snappier too . Mail too . I was having a long pause after sleeping to join Networks , now it seems to be just fine. :)
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Regaining internet after reconnecting to wifi from closed mac is still MUCH slower for me now since the last beta and this one. Previously, I had no issues at all on my MBP Mid-2010.
 
Watabou said:
There were so many Finder bugs in the last beta. The most annoying one was that the sidebar would get hidden if you ejected a disk image. Hopefully they fixed that this time around.
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It's fixed in this version, so far. I didn't encounter the bugs.

AllergyDoc said:
Badabing! Fixed phone calls on my Mac and Look Up looks even better. Off to the gym.
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Badabing! Same.

accentaudio said:
They still haven't fixed all the flickering GUI issues.
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No such issue on my machine. iMac 2013

Banyan Bruce said:
As long as it fixes the slow clunky behaviour of these two apps I'll be happy. They have been appallingly slow and unresponsive since the upgrade to Yosemite. :confused:
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Safari and Mail is super fast now.

interstella said:
I can see what's going to happen here. Yosemite will just about become ok and then Apple will release another "fantastic" OS which will be full of bugs. A year later, that will be stable then they release...I'm sure you get the idea.
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Historically, Apple OS update follows the pattern of: new features - improvement - new looks - improvements - so on. The next one falls into category improvement. On the other hand you won't see many new features or drastically new UI design. But expect lots of improvements and stability across the OS.
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Will there ever really be a final wifi fix??
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Or for Safari which has not worked on my mid-2014 MacBook Pro for over a year now! Still jams even with this latest beta update.

Sadly, though not a fan of Google I must admit their latest version of the Chrome browser ( a recent updated and welcome 64bit app) works flawlessly.
 
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