OS 10.11.4 broke all of my applications...

On a whim I tried the 10.11.4 update from the App Store and lo and behold everything seems to be working properly, Applications and Utilities in place and working. As I said in my previous post I felt as if the update (from the combo updater) seemed to go quickly, but I wasn't watching very closely, but I think that it didn't do a complete job with the install. I noticed with the App Store update the installation part of the the update process seemed to take quite a bit longer.

To all: nothing is "wrong" with the update, but clearly something went wrong in during the process (disk error, etc.)

10.11.4 works great for 99.???% of people, ncluding me 3 times.

Try re-installing over the obviously corrupted disk.

Oh, and are you running any anti-malware that might be the real culprit?

G

WW,

Consider creating a separate partition on your mac and install 10.11.4 on this partition, then install each third party application one at time on the new partition assuming everything remains stable noting which app if any causes instability. Finally copy your personal data to the new partition and test for a few weeks if no issues have occurred. If everything functions and remains stable after that test period you could delete your old partition and then expand the new "test" partition to fill the entire volume.

just an idea...

dave

P.S. Running factory supplied fusion drive here on my Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014 with zero issues with the .4 upgrade or a clean install.

Hi:

Where did you find an installer of 10.11.4?

Thanks,

Hi Shuka,

The App store has had 10.11.4 published since the day it was released for download and installation on any partition. You simply download it from your current partition and point it to a new test partition for installation during setup as opposed to your current partition if that's what you're referring to.

regards,

dave

Hi blackdogaudio:

Whenever I try this on a Mac that is already updated to 10.11.4 nothing downloads. Any idea how to get around this?

Shuka

Try from App Store>Purchased tab.

Shuka wrote:

Hi blackdogaudio:

Whenever I try this on a Mac that is already updated to 10.11.4 nothing downloads. Any idea how to get around this?

Shuka

Download the combo update instead.

Download OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Combo Update

The combo will not work on a new, empty partition...correct?

You are correct, it is also just an updater (a little larger because it will work on 10.11.1, 2 and 3

Shuka

Thanks, thought that was the case.

No, it is an upgrade to 10.11 (earlier versions)

For any that may be confused...

"Consider creating a separate partition on your mac and install 10.11.4 on this partition, then install each third party application one at time on the new partition assuming everything remains stable noting which app if any causes instability. Finally copy your personal data to the new partition and test for a few weeks if no issues have occurred. If everything functions and remains stable after that test period you could delete your old partition and then expand the new "test" partition to fill the entire volume."

...this post refers to the full installer of 10.11.4 which would be required for installation on a new test partition on an existing OS X 10.11.x, etc machine if not clear.

If I remember correctly this is the first time since 1986 that an OS update gave me problems. So, once every 30 odd years is not bad statistics. Still, I found no resolution to the problem. I even erased my disk, restored from a bootable backup, but now the updater downloads, installs, but at the end of the process I am left with 10.11.3 - This is amazing.

This is why I was looking for the full installer so that I can install on a clean empty disk and then use the merge with an "older" mac - an option that I remember that was once available.

Thanks anyhow,

Shuka