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When my computer boots up, I get a "Get OS X Yosemite free" box in the upper right corner. It has a button for "Details" but no way to get rid of the box. I right click, reboot, nothing works. It covers up icons and the search box. Any suggestions for getting rid of it, short of actually installing Yosemite?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Did you try moving your mouse over the notification, and then swiping with two fingers on the trackpad towards the right?
Did you try moving your mouse over the notification, and then swiping with two fingers on the trackpad towards the right?
The two-finger-swipe does not work, thanks for suggesting it though. I first went under Apple's main "Contact Us" -> support/product feedback area, and not seeing an entry for "OS" items (it just lists typical hardware products and apps), I submitted a "bug report" for my computer since I didn't know what else to do, stating that I thought it was poor design that they only have a "Details" button and no "red" exit button on that pop up dialog. I scoured the internet for 10 minutes, looking for info that maybe it was really a Phishing attack. Unnecessary concern and time wasted. Bottom line: Everyone preaches "Don't click on links or popups you don't know... it's a security risk".... then they design a pop up with no exit button? The design team needs some understanding of their user base expectations for communications rollouts. As a side effect, I am now slightly less interested in Yosemite.
shawne2 wrote:
Bottom line: Everyone preaches "Don't click on links or popups you don't know... it's a security risk".... then they design a pop up with no exit button?
Security exploits via OS X notifications? What a novel idea! If only Apple had thought of that first.
Hello
The following is for OS X 10.6.8 but possibly it might be applicable to 10.9.5 as well.
Under 10.6.8 with an App Store update applied, intrusive notifications like the said one is reportedly generated by the following application:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Noticeboard.app
And this application is periodically invoked by the following launch agent:
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist
Thus you might disable such unsolicited advertisements by disabling the launch agent by:
#!/bin/bash sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist
and reboot.
If you really wish, you may optionally delete the application after disabling the launch agent:
#!/bin/bash sudo rm -fR /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Noticeboard.app
NOTES
- I myself have not tried this procedures because I have never applied App Store update and therefore not seen this sort of annoying advertisements under 10.6.8.
- Even if this works as intended, it might have unwanted consequences. So make sure you have backuped your system before modifying system like this.
- NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. I posted this just in hope it might help you to get rid of the annoyance. And indeed if I were you, I'd investigate this noticeboard thing and try to get rid of it.
Good luck,
H
PS.
cf.
Turn off mavericks upgrade notification in Snow Leopard
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6060490
Is there a way to block these pop-up windows pushing that I update the computer's MacOSX to Mavericks?
The App Store is spamming me in exactly the same way. I can't see any obvious way to solve the problem but at least you know that it's not unique to your machine. This is, to me, just another sign of the erosion of Apple's good design methods — which is the reason I won't "upgrade" to Yosemite.
I do not get the Yosemite notification spam on my Mavericks machine. Here is my System Preferences setting for App Store:
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I'm also having this problem. I tried the 2 finger swipe, which didn't work for me either. So, I tried to hide the notification by going to the app store (suggested by stevejobsfan0123). This worked to hide the Yosemite banner in my App store window, but unfortunately, I still have the annoying pop-up. Even after a reboot. Any other ideas?
You have to click the Details button on the pop-up, and after it takes you to the App Store, then you do the "Hide Update." Then the notification should not return.
I was having the same problem. I just went to my App store settings and unchecked all boxes. Then I clicked in details on the popup, and it disappeared. I just closed the App store window and it never appeared again.
I don't want to update to Yosemite anytime soon, so not checking updates automatically was a good solution for me.
The easiest way is to use System Preferences > Notifications > Reminders - make sure None is checked under Reminders Alert Style:
This is from Apple Support.
Sounds like it'd work, but it didn't for me. But it didn't do nothing — what I got instead is the ability to click through to the App Store for a Yosemite banner that doesn't respond at all to a right-click!
Turning off all notification reminders isn't the goal, pbridgerx1. I use those reminders! Just not the Yosemite reminder.
It's been bugging me for OVER A YEAR!
Last time they tricked me to upgrade I ended up having to reinstall Mountain Lion because some of my music apps wouldn't run on Yosemite.Why Apple want to shove Yosemite down our throats? ML is so much faster.
shawne2 wrote:
The two-finger-swipe does not work, thanks for suggesting it though. I first went under Apple's main "Contact Us" -> support/product feedback area, and not seeing an entry for "OS" items (it just lists typical hardware products and apps), I submitted a "bug report" for my computer since I didn't know what else to do, stating that I thought it was poor design that they only have a "Details" button and no "red" exit button on that pop up dialog. I scoured the internet for 10 minutes, looking for info that maybe it was really a Phishing attack. Unnecessary concern and time wasted. Bottom line: Everyone preaches "Don't click on links or popups you don't know... it's a security risk".... then they design a pop up with no exit button? The design team needs some understanding of their user base expectations for communications rollouts. As a side effect, I am now slightly less interested in Yosemite.
As a side effect, I am completely ANNOYED TO DEATH by Yosemite.
Can't get rid of annoying Yosemite popup
