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Q: El Capitan

Dear Friends: Where is El Capitan. No sign of it. Available today?

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Sep 30, 2015 4:28 AM

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Q: El Capitan

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  • by Mayemac,

    Mayemac Mayemac Sep 30, 2015 12:09 PM in response to lemach
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:09 PM in response to lemach

    I downloaded the Safari 9.0 update and is making my computer CPU go all the way up to 135% of use. This is in Yosemite MBP (retina, 15 inch, Mid 2014). Not sure if this is caused because I'm using the Capitan Safari version with Yosemite. So I'm in the process of downloading El Capitan and hopefully it will fix the Safari problem. It's downloading moderately fast and backing up as we speak.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Sep 30, 2015 12:01 PM in response to woodmeister50
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:01 PM in response to woodmeister50

    This is all very exciting, isn't it. Until about a half an hours time when the posts come rolling in with 'El Capatain Destroyed My Mac!!!' as with every other OS X update and upgrade.

     

    Got the usual links ready.

     

    Pete

  • by David Farah,

    David Farah David Farah Sep 30, 2015 12:04 PM in response to Lanny
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:04 PM in response to Lanny
  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Sep 30, 2015 12:07 PM in response to petermac87
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:07 PM in response to petermac87

    It becomes a feeding frenzy in the ASC Maybe I'll get bumped up to Level 7

  • by woodmeister50,

    woodmeister50 woodmeister50 Sep 30, 2015 12:10 PM in response to petermac87
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:10 PM in response to petermac87

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    This is all very exciting, isn't it. Until about a half an hours time when the posts come rolling in with 'El Capatain Destroyed My Mac!!!' as with every other OS X update and upgrade.

     

    Got the usual links ready.

     

    Pete

    Of course when asked if they backed up they'll say no.  Don't forget those that

    will also be ready to sue Apple for destroying their business because they depend

    on their computers, but of course had no back up to return to.

     

    As for me, my Macs are clean, apps and drivers up to date, cloned and ready to go.

    Just need to decide who will be the sacrificial lamb .

  • by Toneyorks,

    Toneyorks Toneyorks Sep 30, 2015 12:10 PM in response to leroydouglas
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:10 PM in response to leroydouglas

    Well, I tried the pause and restart and after getting to about 2GB in and hour. It completely finished in 10 mins.

     

    I'm now about to take the plunge... If i'm not back in 30 mins, take it all is not well.... (Not that I've had trouble with any previous OS X updates

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 30, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Mayemac
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Mayemac

    Did you repair disk permission after installing the new Safari?  I had hundreds of permissions that needed repairing.  I've had problems with previous system installs that were fixed by repairing disk permissions.  Give it a try.

     

    As I type this Safari 9.0 is shown at 2% under CPU activity.

     

    Also, the El Capitan download in in the Featured section of the App Store.  If that's already been mentioned in this thread my apologies but I didn't want to go thru every reply to this topic.

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  • by Mayemac,

    Mayemac Mayemac Sep 30, 2015 12:18 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:18 PM in response to Old Toad

    Hi Old Toad!! I wished I knew about the disk permissions before updating it to Safari 9.0. I will do that now and thanks for the tip, its really appreciated

     

    Edited to add: Yes, lots of permissions required repairs!

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Sep 30, 2015 12:16 PM in response to woodmeister50
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:16 PM in response to woodmeister50

    Yeah, this will be the first OS X I haven't rushed into. Nothing jumping out to excite me with this release, but I will eventually. Seems to be a bit of a Mountain Yosemite (I made that up with such cleverness).

     

    But as you say, so many will dive in with no backup, no idea and sadly, no hope.

     

    Pete

  • by Phil0124,

    Phil0124 Phil0124 Sep 30, 2015 12:21 PM in response to petermac87
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:21 PM in response to petermac87

    How about Snow-semite?  

     

    Anyway, its downloading now, onto my Mac Mini. We'll see how it fares.

  • by woodmeister50,

    woodmeister50 woodmeister50 Sep 30, 2015 12:22 PM in response to petermac87
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:22 PM in response to petermac87

    The one thing I want, but might seem quite trivial, is the shake of the mouse to enlarge the cursor.

    With My 27" iMac combined with my Thunderbolt display and my old eyes, I can loose my cursor

    quite often.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 30, 2015 12:24 PM in response to Mayemac
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:24 PM in response to Mayemac

    When doing a full system update I usually boot into the Recovery volume and repair both the disk permission and disk from there.  With El Capitan repairing disk permissions is no longer a user instigated operation. EC is supposed to take care of that automatically.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 30, 2015 12:27 PM in response to woodmeister50
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:27 PM in response to woodmeister50

    Go to the System/Accessibility/Display preference pane and you'll find this:

    System Preferences001.jpg

  • by woodmeister50,

    woodmeister50 woodmeister50 Sep 30, 2015 12:36 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Sep 30, 2015 12:36 PM in response to Old Toad

    I can normally follow it at its current size (knew about that setting) but sometimes flipping back

    and forth between apps, displays, widowed/full screen, etc. it can just seem to get lost.

     

    Thanks anyway.

     

    Also, surprised there isn't already an "El Capitan" added to the communities.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 30, 2015 3:25 PM in response to woodmeister50
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    Sep 30, 2015 3:25 PM in response to woodmeister50
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