JLateralus
Member
Ugh. Figured I'd do a quick update tonight and then do the real fresh install over the weekend. My highly accurate installation timer stared out at 22 minutes. 15 minutes later it's climbed to 24 minutes.
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OS X Yosemite [OT]
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aparisi2274
Member
I did some research on apple's site and found what you need to run their new features...
Hope this helps....
Hope this helps....
ComputerMKII
Banned
Necromanti
Member
That would explain why I can't use AirDrop with my '11 MBA. I could have sworn that I had an AirDrop folder before I updated, but now it's gone.
aparisi2274
Member
Here are the iDevice models that you need to have to use handoff...
I've never owned a Mac, I think I want one to play with. I like tinkering around, software/OS/UI more than hardware. Would a Mac Mini be OK? I wouldn't want it as my main PC, just to see the Mac experience and play around with it.
What does $499 actually get me? Can I hook it to my old Dell monitor, via DVI or HDMI? Any USB keyboard/mouse?
I'm thinking it would look nice next to my Chromebox.
What does $499 actually get me? Can I hook it to my old Dell monitor, via DVI or HDMI? Any USB keyboard/mouse?
I'm thinking it would look nice next to my Chromebox.
VisceralBowl
Member
Doing the clean install finally.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
It should work out of the box with your hardware. It supports HDMI and Thunderbolt for displays.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
I do have it uploaded on my web server for my own use; PM'd Treefingers to see if it was OK to publicly re-host it. Then I saw this:
Haven't tested that one, but the one I have installed shows up under Safari Preferences > Extensions. Turn it on and fill in your username.
Regarding Yosemite:
Have just installed it on my MacBook Air and holy shit is it jarring to look at. Some of the new icons are realllllllly ugly.
EDIT: Goddamnit, it renamed my perfectly named MacBook Air to "MacBook-Air". Jesus fucking christ, time to roll back.
Emperor Bohe
Member
god damn this update is taking forever to install. can everybody hop off the servers and let me download real quick? =(
Nothing1016
Member
I did some research on apple's site and found what you need to run their new features...
Hope this helps....
D: Noooooooooo my MacBook Pro is Late 2011 model.
No handoff for me?!
Iacobellis
Junior Member
It's been labeled as Mac OS X since 2001.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Yeah, that's why they give it away.
Banjotanooki
Member
Dammit...mine is the early 2011 model....guess I'll be missing out on some of those features. Not that big of a deal though since my phone's an android though.
Fellow Macbook Air Mid-2011 model owners.
Continuity for calls works fine on our Macs, but Apple tried to fuck us over regarding Handoff and Airdrop between OS X and iOS devices: the Macbook Air Mid-2011 model has the necessary Bluetooth requirements, but during the beta the option for Handoff disappeared from System Preferences.
I was in the beta and decided to wait until the final release to see if the features would pop back, but alas.
However, this witchcraft 100% works with no hardware changes necessary. I am not sure if these steps work on other early/mid/late 2011 models as I haven't read through the entirety of that topic and I'm not familiar with the hardware specifics of all models.
This involves messing with the terminal and other switcheroo, so make sure you know what you're doing and to backup both IO80211Family.kext and IOBluetoothFamily.kext when the tutorial tells you to do so.
I actually did something wrong the first time while messing with 0XED, but restored the kext files then did everything right the second time. Now my Macbook Air mid-2011 has all Yosemite features 100% working: Handoff, Instant Hotspot and Airdrop working between my Mac and iPhone 5S (iPad not yet since I have a 3, upgrading later this year).
Sorry for the highlighting etc in the post, but I believe this is a pretty big deal for anyone else with this model of Macbook as much as it is for me. Maybe someone will streamline this process soon enough, but I wanted the features right now.
Continuity for calls works fine on our Macs, but Apple tried to fuck us over regarding Handoff and Airdrop between OS X and iOS devices: the Macbook Air Mid-2011 model has the necessary Bluetooth requirements, but during the beta the option for Handoff disappeared from System Preferences.
I was in the beta and decided to wait until the final release to see if the features would pop back, but alas.
However, this witchcraft 100% works with no hardware changes necessary. I am not sure if these steps work on other early/mid/late 2011 models as I haven't read through the entirety of that topic and I'm not familiar with the hardware specifics of all models.
This involves messing with the terminal and other switcheroo, so make sure you know what you're doing and to backup both IO80211Family.kext and IOBluetoothFamily.kext when the tutorial tells you to do so.
I actually did something wrong the first time while messing with 0XED, but restored the kext files then did everything right the second time. Now my Macbook Air mid-2011 has all Yosemite features 100% working: Handoff, Instant Hotspot and Airdrop working between my Mac and iPhone 5S (iPad not yet since I have a 3, upgrading later this year).
Sorry for the highlighting etc in the post, but I believe this is a pretty big deal for anyone else with this model of Macbook as much as it is for me. Maybe someone will streamline this process soon enough, but I wanted the features right now.
Yeah, The No Files had a hard time gaining traction on Japanese TV.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
cyberheater
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You did do a full back up before upgrading didn't you?
Yes. It's being weird, telling me to click "repair" to repair the disk, but the button is not useable.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
Just installed Yosemite and it looks great but my Apple mouse keeps fucking up and disconnecting now. WTF anyone having the same problem?
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
Wasn't a new Photo app announced that would replace iPhoto, or am i dreaming?
Yes, it is to be released early in 2015.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Reboot while holding down Command+R and then select Disk Utility and repair from there.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Oh hey, upgrading to 10.10 nuked all my VPN configurations. A-1, would buy again.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Remember while doing that that it's probably turned off for a reason, so who knows what weird things may happen one day.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yosemite on my Retina Macbook Pro (2012) won't let me make phone calls. Tells me my phone needs to be on the same iCloud account...thing is...it *IS* on the same damned account. Am I missing a step here?
EDIT: Nevermind I figured it out. Had to log out of FaceTime on my iPhone specifically then log back it. At *that* point it prompted me to add my phone number on my Macbook. Would be nice if they kinda explained that....
EDIT: Nevermind I figured it out. Had to log out of FaceTime on my iPhone specifically then log back it. At *that* point it prompted me to add my phone number on my Macbook. Would be nice if they kinda explained that....
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Apparently iMessage is broken.
Technosteve
Banned
Lol that's something I am happy I no longer have to do.
Finished john's X.X review and the last bit about swift was an amazing read, and outs it in to context why swift the programming language can still preform as well as object c while abstracting more low level functions.
A volume cannot repair "itself", so yeah boot to recovery by holding cmd+r at boot and runnin disk utility from there.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Does this behave similarly to the batch rename that's been in Windows since Vista? The lack of this has been really annoying me on my work computer (mac) lately cause I've just gotten so used to using it in Windows Explorer for the last 6 years. Had several cases in the last month of "oh yeah, now I need to open this in terminal..."
Pretty strange how Safari only shows the domain name in the URL bar when opening an image in a new tab from the same website. I hope there's a way to turn this feature off, but I can't find it. Actually this is the deal with all extensions, which is annoying to say the least.
Overall it seems like the usual two steps forward one step back dance with OSX upgrades.
Overall it seems like the usual two steps forward one step back dance with OSX upgrades.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Thank you! Unfortunately didn't work, so I had to erase and reinstall Mavericks and am now waiting for my backup to restore. I'll try upgrading again tomorrow.
dark_prinny
Banned
I can´t seem to get continuity to work. I don't know what I´m doing wrong...
sweetvar26
Member
Guys, a quick question.
If you want to do a clean install, can we just upgrade to Yosemite for now, and then use the reinstall option from the Disc Utility menu after?
Might be a noob question, but other than the fact that it takes longer, is there any other difference doing it?
If you want to do a clean install, can we just upgrade to Yosemite for now, and then use the reinstall option from the Disc Utility menu after?
Might be a noob question, but other than the fact that it takes longer, is there any other difference doing it?
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Deleted my Yosemite beta partition.
Disk Utility won't let me combine the now free space to my main partition.
Did a CMD+R boot. Shows as "Free Space." Can't use the subtraction sign to remove it. I formatted... it doesn't do anything. Nothing I can do to get rid of this "free space" 50 gig partition. It's the "bottom" partition. Shouldn't be a problem, but I'm at a loss for what to do.
Any ideas? I hate having to do it, but I'm thinking I might end up making a Genius Bar appointment. Ugh.
Disk Utility won't let me combine the now free space to my main partition.
Did a CMD+R boot. Shows as "Free Space." Can't use the subtraction sign to remove it. I formatted... it doesn't do anything. Nothing I can do to get rid of this "free space" 50 gig partition. It's the "bottom" partition. Shouldn't be a problem, but I'm at a loss for what to do.
Any ideas? I hate having to do it, but I'm thinking I might end up making a Genius Bar appointment. Ugh.
i always used automator for this o.o