OSX Sierra

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Piginapoke

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4,737 posts

184 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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I'm downloading Sierra my Macs now. Anyone had a look at it yet?

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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iCloud options need understanding quickly.

Still not sure where my documents are even though they are on my hard drive but info says they are in the cloud. Be very careful and back them up.

This fella looks like a trouble maker.


Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 21st September 07:01

onlynik

3,978 posts

192 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Installed last night.

No problems so far.

Siri is cool, however I can't see me using it in the office.

Had to create a new time machine backup, so that's taking a while.

The new storage management is quite cool, helps removing files, however, I'm not going to be storing my files in the cloud, as I work on high latency low bandwidth sites.

I couldn't find storage management so launched from Siri.

768

13,602 posts

95 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Been running it for a couple of months. Not much difference really.

troc

3,740 posts

174 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Only warning would be to anyone using any Razer devices as Synapse 2.0 is TOTALLY incompatible at the moment. If it's installed, it will disable any Razer keyboards and probably cause kernel panics anyway. i.e uninstall synapse before updating to Sierra and then wait for Razer to update the software. Either use your Razer devices using the basic USB drivers or use something like Steermouse to configure them.

Razer are being particularly crap about this, especially as it was less terrible earlier on in the beta when all it did was just not allow you to change any settings.

GCH

3,984 posts

201 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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I installed it this morning. Really not much difference to El Cap to be honest.
No issues so far and seems to be working well.

The new cloud options (desktop & documents, and optimize) have been turned firmly off and will remain so forevermore. If it is on my desktop, it is probably there for a reason!


Siri works ok most of the time for simple tasks such as 'find documents from the past week' but for anything else I find the recognition to be as crap as it is on the phone, hence I rarely use it.

Leithen

10,800 posts

266 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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GCH said:
Siri works ok most of the time for simple tasks such as 'find documents from the past week' but for anything else I find the recognition to be as crap as it is on the phone, hence I rarely use it.
"Open Pistonheads.com" hehe

Redmax

752 posts

212 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Is anybody else having problems with Mission Control no longer working in Sierra please? i.e. the 4-finger swipe up to show active windows?

Thanks

Jason

Redmax

752 posts

212 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Redmax said:
Is anybody else having problems with Mission Control no longer working in Sierra please? i.e. the 4-finger swipe up to show active windows?

Thanks

Jason
Fixed by going into the gestures, trackpad settings and turning the relevant tick off and on again.

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Not done Sierra yet, slightly put off by the crap old car by the same name wink I did Safari 10 tonight and I'm now using Chrome. They have removed the text zoom function which for those of us with rubbish eyes was essential for browsing PH. The zoom function just does the entire page without rescaling so you have to scroll left and right also, Chrome auto adjusts the width to keep it 1 page wide.

Will probably upgrade to Sierra at the weekend if nobody starts reporting any big issues.

Murph7355

37,651 posts

255 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Waiting until .1 at least, as I have for the last few "upgrades". Will also be keeping a close eye on app compatibility.

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,737 posts

184 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Seems, er, exactly the same

Registering to have Apple watch unlock Mac is a right faff


WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Broadly the same, I had high hopes for Siri being able to find emails from voice commands but it's very hit and miss. Perhaps it needs to index as I've only just upgraded.

The upgrade went smoothly on my mid 2010 MBP but I think I'll leave my main work machine for a while...

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Installed on my 2015 27" 5K iMac with no problems last night.

Trying to get Siri to work with a voice command wasn't happening though, will try again later.

nyt

1,803 posts

149 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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The only problem that I've had is that Flash is disabled by default and has to be enabled on a site-by-site basis.
The worst part is that there's no indication that Flash has been disabled and the content is just missing.

redddraggon

268 posts

128 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Piginapoke said:
Registering to have Apple watch unlock Mac is a right faff
I just ticked the relevant box in the settings and it worked right away....

Cybertronian

1,516 posts

162 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Upgraded my 2013 MacBook Air without issue.

Everything continues to work as before (including some older software), bar having to redownload Java and a couple of icons that needed caching again.

Siri's a nice addition, though I'm far faster typing into Spotlight than I am triggering Siri and then speaking.

megaphone

10,696 posts

250 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Anyone using VM Ware Fusion 6? Does it still work ok?

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Cybertronian said:
Upgraded my 2013 MacBook Air without issue.

Everything continues to work as before (including some older software), bar having to redownload Java and a couple of icons that needed caching again.

Siri's a nice addition, though I'm far faster typing into Spotlight than I am triggering Siri and then speaking.
Need to set up voice activation - which I tried and failed at last night hehe

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Rosscow said:
Installed on my 2015 27" 5K iMac with no problems last night.
Similar - done mine this morning. Everything looking good - just starting my MBP while I'm at it.

Bit of an oddity with the Mac though. I've been monitoring my keyboard Low Battery position for a few days - it was down to 16%, but - as you probably know - it wants to keep nagging you that the batteries are Low - Dangerously Low - The World's About to End, Low......

So when Sierra was loaded it immediately showed 56% Battery.....

It's re-thought that now and says I'm at 16%, so that's OK.

Siri kicked in OK - I had to turn He to a She, because i couldn't be doing with a bloke calling me "Sweetie"......