Reluctant to upgrade
After reading about all the problems other users are having since upgrading to Mavericks, I am reluctant to upgrade.
Presumably Apple are going to fix all these various bugs and problems? Does anyone have any idea how long a fix from Apple is going to take to be released?
I am mainly concerned that if I remain using version OS X 10.8.5. I could be missing out on any security updates which are being released. Is this likely to happen to users who do not upgrade to Mavericks?
Any advice/info will be gratefully welcome. Thanks.
There are always many reports of problems with every OS upgrade. If you use that as a criterion, you'll never install any upgrade again. Most of the problems are caused by incompatible third-party software. The best way to avoid them is to take an inventory of such software, remove what you don't need, and make sure the rest is up to date.
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It's not an iTunes login / password issue because sometimes one or two of the Apps will download and the others stall with the blank progress bar. The internet connection is working fine in all other respects.
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Why did my mouse stop scrolling after upgrading to mavericks?
I have completely lost all ability to scroll with my Apple Magic Mouse after upgrading to Mavericks. Why did this happen? How can it be fixed? It worked fine with Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion.
Everyone:
I was able to solve my own problem, after scouring the Internet looking for solutions. Sadly, the Apple Support Community was of no help.
Here's the full story:
I originally had purchased my iMac with Snow Leopard installed. I loved it just the way it was, and really did not ever want to upgrade. However, I've been around computers long enough to know that I would HAVE to do it someday, only because of the age old problem of wanting to run some new application in the future, but not being able to, becasue the app would only run on the latest version of OS X. I reluctantly upgraded to Mountain Lion less than a year ago, without too many problems -- nothing I wasn't able to fix fairly easily anyway. When Mavericks came out, with the "offer I could not refuse" price of FREE, I knew I would eventually have to install it.
So the day comes when I'm finally ready to install Mavericks. To get ready for that day, I did the following:
I ran CCleaner on Mountain Lion to clear out any old files accumulated. (No longer works in Mavericks)
Made sure my Time Machine backup was up to date
Cleared out gigbytes of old files off my hard drive, and archived them on an external USB drive
Made sure every single app on my iMac was fully upgraded.
Made sure Mountain Lion itself was fully upgraded!
I then set aside a full day for the upgrade, knowing full well how long it could take, even with a very fast internet connection. Eventually I worked up the courage to go to the App Store, and proceded to download Mavericks.
The update seemed to go smoothly enough, no problems that I noticed. So I finally get to the point where I can sign on to my iMac again, opened up the Chrome browser, and found out that my mouse was was unable to scroll. I then opened up Firefox and Safari, and found that I could not scroll pages on those browsers either. As a matter of fact, I couldn't scroll using my mouse no matter what app I tried. That feature was completely lost.
I went to ' System Preferences --> Mouse ' to look at the settings, and only the most basic settings were available: click and speed, nothing at all for scrolling or swiping. That's not good....
Looking to see if anything else was missing in System Preferences, I saw that there was no option for Blue Tooth at all. As a matter of fact, Blue Tooth was completely inoperative, and there was literally nothing I could do to make it work. The Mavericks upgrade had completely trashed Blue Tooth on my iMac. I have no idea how my wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse were even operational, Apple must have some sort of "back door" that keeps those two connected even when the entire Blue Tooth subsystem is off-line.
Since there was absolutely no way to fix this, given the damage done by the Mavericks upgrade, my only choice was to do a complete re-install of Mavericks. I did this by turning off my iMac, and then after turning it back on, I held down the command + R keys to initiate the "recovery" of my iMac, and re-installed Mavericks. There are screens the are displayed that walk you through the process, which is fairly easy and strait-forward.
This above process is a feature called OS X Recovery, and it has been present since Lion. Here's a link to an article that explains it more fully:
OS X: About OS X Recovery
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
I did not know about this feature, but found out about it after doing various web searches in an effort to find a solution to my problem.
So, I basically ended up installing Mavericks a second time. This took hours to accomplish, but it worked. After the second installation, I signed on, and sure enough, Blue Tooth was back in operation, and my Magic Mouse worked without any problems what so ever. I had full scrolling ability in all my apps.
So OS X Recovery saved the day, at least for me.
I should note that before doing the Mavericks upgrade on my iMac, I had already performed the upgrade on a family member's MacBook, without any problems encountered at all. They were still running Snow Leopard, the orignal OS that came with their MacBook! Like me they were reluctant to upgrade, but eventually it becomes a necessary evil.
Here's hoping that this information may be of use to someone in the future.
Northwest Line
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But is it possible to have another OS (like 10.3 or 10.4) on my internal hard drive, and harmlessly switch between them? I also have an external hard drive where I could install the new OS, if that would work better.
It is my hope that this would allow me to use my trusty old software when needed, but also purchase some addiional new software. Thanks!Clamhead:
is it possible to have another OS (like 10.3 or 10.4) on my internal hard drive, and harmlessly switch between them?
As Niel has indicated, it is possible. You will need to install on 2 separate volumes.
Depends on what you mean by "harmlessly switch between them." Your computer can only be booted from one OS at a time, so that to "switch" you need to shut down one OS and boot from the other.
Depending on the size of your internal HDD, it may not be wise to partition it, not to mention the disruption that will occasion. The better plan may be to install the OS which will be used less often on a partition of the external firewire HDD.
Please do post back with further questions or comments.
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Problems after Jelly Bean upgrade
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Upgraded to 7 now playlists not showing on nano
Help!
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Now all the music I've since uploaded to itunes, and put into playlists are not appearing as playlists when moved on to my ipod. I can access the tracks from the artist or album menu so they are on my ipod but just showing as playlists. I also don't find 7 that good and the new window where you have to 'tick' from the list what you want to sync with it seems to not scroll right to the bottom of the list sometimes. It might be my imagination but I'm also fairly sure that I'm not getting as much on my ipod as I did before, telling me full when have exactly what was on it before for example.
I'm reluctant to upgrade to version 7.1.1 after the problems some people are having but I'm not happy with it like this either. I'm also due a upgrade to my ipod driver, what would be the best way to proceed? Go back to 6, if so how?
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Don't make me upgrade! ;-) some humor for b noir
You know my reluctance to upgrade from 4.9 (everything works...why chance it?). Well, I'm trying to debug a friend's brand new shuffle (green-light-stuck-on-and-doesn't-play-bug). Guess what? I need iTunes 5.0 or later to see the shuffle. Noooooo!
Answer: go fix it at her house on her PC.
You'll have to pry 4.9 from my cold dead fingers!hi Steve!
So, I deleted em, booted the computer in safe mode, intalled the latest QT first, and then installed itunes. seemed to work out. I'll use the phrase "quirky".
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while we're on the subject of antivirus and antispyware, have you ever tried an experimental launch of itunes while watching the process tab when you've disabled your antivirus and antispyware first, to see what your CPU usage is like then?
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Hello,
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Safe to upgrade to Mavericks with WD drive?
I know this is an old issue, but I have been reluctant to upgrade to Mavericks.
I ran the WD uninstaller to prepare for the Mavericks upgrade. But I saw the WD Manager still installed in my menu bar. I ran a separate WD manager uninstaller to get rid of it. But this left me wondering - how do I know the uninstaller did the job completely?
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GO FIGURE
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line thing anymore.
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