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OS X v10.1.3 Update Available

Fine on three so far...

So far fine on my QS733, imac-dv 450 and ibook 600.

Seems snappier on all three machines. Finder hangs less when itools disk is connected. More resolutions for my 3rd party tft panel.

No complaints!
 
Some of you....

Some of you are incorrigible!

Haven't you learned ANYTHING from past updates?

Apple does thing Apple's way and you have to learn to live with it, or just do some quick fixes (and they ar quick I promise), every time you perform an official update.

Here's the quick and dirty version:
(refer to macosxhints or the like and search for more detailed anwers)

1. Don't move Apple applications from where they default, ie: Applications or Applications/Utilities (if you need better organization use a 3rd party utility like Dragthing or make aliases ala: create a directory in your user folder named Applications and put all your folder/organizers there w/ aliases of the apps inside)

2. restart again after the mandatory 'update restart'

3. Any custom compiled UNIX apps ie: Apache will be replaced or ignored during the update (if you installed them in /user/local/)

As far as driver support goes... well we've all seen what updates have done in the past, BACK UP your system.. especially if it's 'mission critical'.

To improve performance of apps run this as root:

[localhost:/Users/yourusernamehere] root# renice /


Finally, if you've changed any of your configurations by command line you should keep a manual log of your actions so you can go back and review whether they have changed after the update.

that's all. hope this helped w/o being too rude.
 
$15

D/Ling the update now -- hope everything will be okay... I had a $15 bet with my friend that OS X10.1.3 would be out today!!! 😀 😀

And one thing, my os 10.1.2 print center w/ an epson stylus c40ux always locks up. any suggestions???
 
i have a yosemite and things are fino here. they didn't add a ton in this update (spring loaded folders would be nice - maybe the next go round) - but folders in the dock puke there contents up much quicker now. - almost instantly!

iTunes - plays a lot faster visually - but it's very pixellated now. i understand the pixel inputs generate the opengl effects - but even the opengl effects are fairly pixellated now. what's up with that?
 
10.1.3 = good things.

Have installed 10.1.3 on 3 Macs with no adversities. No lockups, no apps failing to open, no issues at all.. one iMac DV 400, one iMac DVSE 500, and one g3 iBook DVSE 466..

I noticed that visuals in iTunes are a LOT faster in the smaller and medium sized full screen only... on the iMac 500 I'm getting ~60 frames on small and 36 frames on medium sized full screen (lq) settings.. that's quite a bit faster.. no difference on large full screen.. it's still at ~24 fps.

REALLY BIG NOTICABLE CHANGE: Finder seems more optimized.. Large directories nolonger beach-ball.. I can scroll through my Applications drawers which have over 100 items in the show icons mode sort by name and not only does it come up initially faster, it scrolls more smoothly.. I thought this kind of optimization was only intended for 10.2.. it seems some of it found its way into 10.1.3 ... thanks Apple!

Dock: Show/hide still seems as unreliable but it seems more responsive for some reason.. when the mouse moves across the dock from icon to icon, the name change is instantaneous.. it seems to have lost all latency. As the other user said, ctrl+clicking up menus on the dock (right click) is instantaneous now too.. they have obviously been doing work under the hood. Genie effect seems much faster/smoother as well.

Mail.app.. fine.. and I see the encrypted SSL available under account edit options..

That's about all for now. The most important thing is that I'm not experiencing problems on any of the three systems I use (all gee-threes).. My experiences is that mostly only the people who have difficulties bother to post about the upgrade in these message bases, so the impression for some is that the upgrade is more harmful than good when in fact most people experienced more good than harm... truth be told only the unoiled wheel normally squeaks!
 
more..

There have been improvements made to OpenGL I suspect across the board and not just "to iTunes"... some of the GL screen savers like More Gears and Sproingees seem to be running much faster..

And System Preferences is switching between panes faster too after the initial run (better buffering/caching?)

Still haven't found anything to gripe about... Perhaps I'll put my detailed 10.1 bug list against it later line by line to see what bugs still remain.
 
Nice little thing i requested

On my iBook, when plugged into an external display, I can now switch the iBook screen off using brightness controls. This saves my little iBook's screen! Yay! thanks apple for listening to me!
 
Scrolling and resizing windows is still very very slow on my QS G4/800. I hope that this will be improved with 10.2. 🙁
 
i have also noticed the bigtime speed increases in the finder and systemprefs. i was really really happy with this. another thing i have noticed, and maybe this has always been there, is the quicktime preview in the finder. i could have sworn this was a 10.2 "feature" the last go round of movies for jaguar, and i just don't remember if that feature was there before.
 
Originally posted by sparkleytone
i have also noticed the bigtime speed increases in the finder and systemprefs. i was really really happy with this. another thing i have noticed, and maybe this has always been there, is the quicktime preview in the finder. i could have sworn this was a 10.2 "feature" the last go round of movies for jaguar, and i just don't remember if that feature was there before.
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Nope, that's not new. Only there in column view.
 
I have updated now. Everything is working as it should + I believe the window re-sizing is a little quicker.
 
i get 4-7 more fps now in the itunes visualizer. thats about 17-20 fps, full screen and high quality, its better than in os9 now!
 
Restart again.

If your iTunes is running really bad after an update, just restart again! After the install the Finder froze on my machine (before the auto restart after the install). After my system came back up, I tested some of the features of the update and found that iTunes was getting horrible performance. After another restart iTunes is running smoother than it has ever run.

Looks llike Apple got it right after all.

I wonder if this would fix the resolution problems. I know that Macs like to know what they are connected to on startup and that the resolutions can get a bit foobarred if nothing is connected. What if something wasn't quite right after the first restart. Try it again!!!

Matthew
 
Software Update Reset? Anyone?

please help ... ahem ...

i've installed th 10.1.3 update for macosx server ... and i got stuck in the middle (maybe because i was fiddling with other SW ... well anyhow)

now.. my machine still booted up ... still saying it's 10.1.2 server ...ok ... now i want to redo the software update ... but I cannot anymore, because it doesn't offer me any updates anymore, because it thinks i did it already ... great ...

is there a way to reset or control the software update thingy

i just ask becuase there is NO standalone updater (yet) for macos x server ... i tried the normal macos standalone updater, but still says 10.1.2

anyone?
 
Powerbook DVD

Doesn't seem like the "fix" for the DVD player on the external monitor works. I can't get the window to move over to my external vga screen.

🙁
 
one thing

The only thing that I have found so far that doesn't really make any sense, is that my computer's serial number is no longer listed in the System Profiler. Has anyone else checked this since the update? Mine was listed until I installed 10.1.3 last night (no problems with the install either download or actual install).

Everything else just peachy... 😀
 
As for crashing...

It did for me three times. Why not the complaint? Well, it was because I had other apps running. The first two times include adium and IE and a few other apps, and the last time pthclock was running :\

so I went through and logged out, and logged back in and made sure nothing was running.

It probably overwrites files that are in use which causes the system to hault.

If you have to, go into terminal, do a top, then kill anything that is a small app running.

I had to do that with my old imac because the friend who has it now has tons of apps running.
 
still doesn't work

I have a QPS Que' Drive USB 4x2x8 that was not recognized in X. I downloaded the update thinking it would solve my problem but it still is not recognized and I can't start up classic with it plugged in and turned on.
 
deciding to wait...

I'm gonna wait a few days to see how it goes for everyone after installation...

wouldn't want to be a part of the iTunes2 scare again....ha ha ha...
 
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