Some gripes with Mavericks

Have you opened the Maps app on your iPhone and made sure it can use locations services? I had to do that before "send to iPhone" would work, but it does work.

I don't have dual monitors so I can't test that one, although I am trying to figure out how to use AppleTV to Airplay as a second monitor.

I didn't know this was supposed to be a thing, but it isn't working for me either if its a thing.

 

Click the Airplay icon on your mac, choose Apple TV. Once that is done you get an option on the icon drop down to extend desktop. Seems to work a lot like AMD Radeon multidisplay.

 

no iBooks either, and I can't get the send to iPhone option either, nor notifications from iPhone

 

I have a 2009 MBP. As far as I know I can only Airplay music to the AppleTV. I guess that didn't change with Mavericks...

The only Airplay icon I know of is in iTunes and if you Option-Click the Sound icon in the menubar.

 

if an Airplay display is available then, if under settings >> displays, >> "Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available" is ticked , then it will show an airplay icon in the menu bar at the top.

 

Well then that settles it. At least for the moment, mid-2009 13" MBP does not have Airplay display feature in Mavericks.

 

You have to bring your cursor to the bottom of the screen you want it on, then try and bring your cursor down further and it activates the dock.

 

Some gripes with Mavericks

Hey guys, new to the forum and just finished installing my clean install of mavericks. Liking it so far. Unfortunately I learned some tidbits I don't like...

The new tabs feature completely removed (from what I can tell) color coded folders. Now it just replaces the colors with the tag dot next to the name. Not what I wanted...

Facetiming with someone used to be good until now. I can't listen to youtube videos or watch or edit anything in iMovie without it ducking the sound. There isn't a setting in the FaceTime app to disable the ducking and none in the system preferences sound icon.

The "new" safari removed the cover flow history feature. I quite liked it and used it a lot too! I hope apple really considers adding these small features back in. Though it's genuinely a matter of preference since I've been accustomed to mountain lion. Anyone else have gripes with the new system ?

Also does ANYONE have this glitch/bug?

 

What do you mean by "ducking"?

 

FaceTime has priorty over sound so everything else is quieter.

 

And yet a cover flow like is coming back to iOS 7 in the multitasking view.

 

It seems very unusual to me that you'd want to carry on a FaceTime conversation while listening to Youtube or editing video.

 

Yeah this is interesting, I wonder if there will be a way to hack that back in.

OSX really just needs a volume mixer like Windows. I'm actually rather shocked that such a thing doesn't exist already, certainly one aspect that Windows clearly has OSX beat in.

Yeah I think Apple is phasing out 'Cover Flow'. I wouldn't even be surprised if it leaves Finder before Mavericks goes out of beta.

Yeah I have that bug too. Something about having 0 of a type of content just doesn't cooperate with the storage tab. I remember in Lion and ML it would show some other stupid impossible number like 1 Exabyte or something.

Not really having any serious gripes so far aside from things which are obviously bugs.

Here some of my nitpicks though:

• Shutdown is worse than Mountain Lion (30+ second shut down on SSD)
• Notes looks god awful
• Notes font does not match web font so any note using tabs or spacing looks messed up on the web/other devices
• Game Center looks awful
• Reminders looks awful
• Text edit still doesn't have an iCloud folder on the web or iOS
• Chess is still a thing
• iCloud still doesn't have some sort of Dropbox like feature
• Finder still doesn't let you sort with folders on top
• Finder doesn't have an option to show or hide hidden files (although it's pretty easy to make a service to toggle that)
• Lots of Apple apps still can't go full screen (I would expect them all to have this option by now)
  • Activity monitor
  • Reminders
  • Text Edit
  • Contacts
  • Image Capture
  • Dictionary
  • Probably some others

 

It's what I usually do with my significant other.. or we'll share youtube videos between the conversation, etc etc. Don't think it particularly matters how I spend my FaceTime but the ducking is just plain annoying.

Does anyone else have some serious sleep/wake issues? When waking it's really unresponsive for about 10 seconds and after the screen finally comes up the keyboard and system is frozen for another 5. 2012 mba..

 

I have that glitch/bug

EDIT: My ML Partiton is fine even shown in mavericks, see second picture

 

I ran a fix permissions on the hard drive and it came up with some errors, I don't know if thats what fixed it. I also re-installed the system twice but it properly displays the right storage now.

 

Repair Permissions always comes up with error messages, and its ability to fix things is massively over-stated.

The Bug in the Storage info most likely relates to Spotlight. A re-index would probably fix it -- which was a byproduct of reinstalling. Twice.

 

Great. Good to know

 

Send to iPhone nowhere

I have maps on ios7 working with loc data but still not showing "send to iPhone" from maps app. Any updates on this? 2012 Air.

 

Just logout from iCloud in system preference and log in back to get send to iPhone working in Maps

 

There's a lot of people in this thread that act like it's the finished version.

It's not done.... that's what BETA means

 

Yes. Read the Release Notes.