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Current major bugs in Mavericks?

Can't enable Character Viewer

I can't enable the Character Viewer in the keyboard menu. Whenever I tick the box, as soon as I exit the screen and reopen it, it's unticked
 
Did you use the + sign and select you country's flag first?

If you continue to have problem just go to the folder /YourHardDrive/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ and drag out the file com.apple.systempreferences.plist to the desktop. Then reboot to help rebuild that file. After the reboot open System preferences and reset all you settings and try your Character Viewer problem again, see if this helps.
 
My finder is extremely laggy - takes a long time to rename/move/trash files. Preview takes up 100% CPU at times and crashes often. Often, I would see Preview stuck at auto-saving files for minutes. mdworker, mds and systemstats love to take up my CPU time as well.
 
Finder fix that worked for me

I have the Finder bug. It's miserable but I've found a solution, courtesy of OSX Daily, that addresses my particular Finder problems and I'm so relieved. It's only a workaround and not a bug fix so you will have to reverse it when 10.9.1 comes out.

Here is the link: http://osxdaily.com

It involves a few Terminal commands and commenting out a line of code. Have a look at it. It may or may not suit you but it's worked for me; Finder is now working as normal.

What a relief!
 
I was so frustrated by the Finder bug in Mavericks that I considered installing Linux Mint or Ubuntu on an old iMac that I have and using that. I found that if Linux likes your hardware and you leave it alone it works really well but I had never installed it on a Mac and I don't have a suitable PC anymore so I booted my Mini from an old SSD that had Lion on it, via Thunderbolt, and used that instead. Now that Finder is working normally, the most irritating bug in Mavericks is gone and I can put up with the rest so I'm back to using the most recent and benighted iteration of OS X.

Here's hoping Apple come up with some good solutions in 10.9.1.
 
Has a fix been found yet for the stuck cursor (beach ball)?

The system doesn't actually freeze, but the cursor will suddenly turn to a beach ball and stay that way until I move the cursor.

The system is still responsive so it's not too bad, but it still bothers me.
 
dusk007 said:
Does anybody else have the issue with Flash full screen on an external monitor??
I really like that the screens are now independent but the menu bar on the external one is really buggy. It doesn't go out of the way too often. Flash youtube in full screen on the 1080p display are shrunk for just the size of the menu bar. The menu bar goes out of the way but the video size isn't adjusted. While the video goes all the way to the top there is a black bar (as thick as the menu bar) on the bottom and on the sides. Obviously the video is scaled and not 1:1 pixels for 1080p material. It is quite annoying.
Only a problem in Chrome. Safari seems fine but I cannot stand Safari for usability reasons.


Some other apps if set to full screen mode also experience similar problems. Initially they go into true full screen mode. But sometimes when I do stuff on the same monitor different space, it ends up messing up the full screen apps. Spotify then gets pushed down for the height of the menu bar but that menu bar also disappears again which leaves an odd grey empty space on top. It is very weird.
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I just figured out why this happens, so I'm posting my answer everywhere this questions has been posed.

If you open an application on your machine and drag its window over to your secondary monitor, the translucent menu bar will *always* show on the secondary monitor. The external monitor is a separate space (unless you've deselected that option in System Preferences, which is kind of a silly thing to do), so if you drag a window over to the second screen, the application is actually running out of your machine's space and not from the secondary monitor's space. So in the eyes of the external monitor, the focus is still on your machine's space when you're running a dragged VLC or browser window (or whatever application) in fullscreen mode on the secondary monitor. So it displays that obnoxious translucent menu bar.

So long story short (too late!), literally all you need to do - there are other ways, but this is the easiest - is close the application, put the focus on your secondary monitor's space (by opening a finder window in that space or switching to an app already running that was opened in that space or using the dock from within that space, etc.), and then reopen the application from within the secondary monitor's space. Now when you go fullscreen, the menu bar won't be there, because the focus of the application is in the space it's running fullscreen in.

So in your case, if you were to open a different browser from within your secondary monitor's space and view the videos in fullscreen from that application, it would work perfectly with the annoying menu bar.
 
System memory usage is unrealistic

30 years of writing compilers and operating systems I have never seen a hog like Mavericks -- well, maybe out Microsoft, but that is to be expected.

I seriously question why I "upgraded" to Mavericks. In fact, the last serious desktop o/s from Apple was Snow Leopard which happens to be my favorite animal. Since then I have seen Apple consistently pump out "Vistas" like M$.

Sorry, man but there is not excuse for eating almost 8 GB of my memory on a MBP just for kernel processes. That's a BUG, not a feature. Sad, since Apple used to do a great job of memory management until they took the word "Computers" from the company name.

I know you kids will have a lot to say about this, but empirically speaking is your system slower?

Marty
ps) the keep working guys, my Social Security check needs you :)
 
martyosten said:
30 years of writing compilers and operating systems I have never seen a hog like Mavericks -- well, maybe out Microsoft, but that is to be expected.

I seriously question why I "upgraded" to Mavericks. In fact, the last serious desktop o/s from Apple was Snow Leopard which happens to be my favorite animal. Since then I have seen Apple consistently pump out "Vistas" like M$.

Sorry, man but there is not excuse for eating almost 8 GB of my memory on a MBP just for kernel processes. That's a BUG, not a feature. Sad, since Apple used to do a great job of memory management until they took the word "Computers" from the company name.

I know you kids will have a lot to say about this, but empirically speaking is your system slower?

Marty
ps) the keep working guys, my Social Security check needs you :)
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Interesting how you mention the MS comparison, as since updating to Mavericks, my 2011 2.7 GHz 12 GB iMac has been reminding me more and more of my last Windows machine. Mainly, it has been the inexplicable delays and slowness compared to performance under 10.6.8. I don't have any detailed data, with the exception of start up times. I used to brag to my friends about the lightning-fast boot up times on my iMac, as their Windows machines wallowed in mind-numbing and mystifying boot up and shut down delays. I loved to show them how I could hit the power button and be internet connected in 34 seconds, and shut down completely and powered off in 5 seconds. Consistently. My startup time is approaching two minutes now, and while I understand 2 minutes isn't the impossibly long time that I used to experience in Windows, it is clearly a performance downgrade. Same with shutting down. It now takes longer, and for no apparent advantage to the user. Those are the only performance metrics I have measured. In general, the overall speed of my iMac has grown sluggish, with many, many more "beach ball" delays than before. I would say that all apps take longer to start. IPhoto and iMovie absolutely take longer to start. It used to be, click, start, and boom, I'm working. Now it is more like click, spinning beach ball, opening screen, go grab a coffee, come back, thumbnails loading, hold on a sec, here we go, almost ready, nowwwww, go ahead. It is back to that old feeling that there are all these unknown processes running in the background that I don't have control over, or easy access to observe.

The reduction in speed on my wife's '09 MBP is even more pronounced. Even tasks as mundane as opening a third (*gasp*) tab in Safari are exercises in patience.

While I still don't dislike using my iMac, the bloom is way off the rose with it, especially under Mavericks. It is undoubtedly more lethargic with 12GB RAM and Mavericks than it was with 4GB RAM and Snow Leopard.
 
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