The OSX/Apple support thread

[Tonsko]

So have just put a new stereo in the kitchen, and it has an build in ipod dock. So I thought I'd get one of the latest gen ipods with a 160Gb drive and stash all of my music on it, only to find that Apple have discontinued them since september 14th

Anyone got one they want to sell? :P

[Stevorocket]

Yosemite is a FREE upgrade for a lot of previous OSX versions.

Back up your machine before you upgrade!

[OscarIndia]

NDA said:

Yosemite working fine - Photoshop Elements 12 now no longer working.....

Photoshop Elements 11 working fine for me.

[NDA]

OscarIndia said:

NDA said:

Yosemite working fine - Photoshop Elements 12 now no longer working.....

Photoshop Elements 11 working fine for me.

On a MacBook or iMac?

Elements is working on my iMac, but not on my Air. It seems to be a recognised issue.

[OscarIndia]

NDA said:

On a MacBook or iMac?

Elements is working on my iMac, but not on my Air. It seems to be a recognised issue.

Ah, ok. I haven't got it loaded on my air, it works on my Imac.

[JensenA]

Apple/iTunes Match - iTunes Match seemed a nice idea for only £20 or so a year, however I find it infuriating. Initially, and understandably, it took me about a week to get my collection of 700 CD's 'matched'. I have just imported another 4 CD's to my collection on my Laptop, and kicked off iTines match to update it, that was on Sunday, and despite spending all day Sunday, and every evening since, it still won't do it. It keeps bombing out on the 'Delivering your iTunes Match results', and I have to start all over again.
Is there an alternative way to do it, I can't see any, but if someone offers a solution I will love them forever. :-)

[craigjm]

I have a 2012 MBA and all of a sudden the screen has gone mad with loads of vertical lines that follow the cursor and text etc. Looks like this -



Id this a graphics issue that can be solved by some reset or is it a screen failure?

[Shambler]

just downloaded Yosemite and now safari is searching in Spanish. How do I sort this?

[RedWhiteMonkey]

I've decided to ditch using Firefox and use Safari (so everything nicely syncs between devices) but have one issue I can't seem to resolve. In Firefox if I click on a bookmark folder/tab thing I have the option to open all in tabs, which is great for opening all news sites, etc. The apparent equivalent in Safari does open the various links in new tabs but closes the existing tabs you have open. Is there a way to stop that happening? I want the existing tabs to remain and new ones to open as well.

[Viperz888]

Has anyone installed Yosemite onto an older mac? Mine is a circa 2010 MBP, 2.8Ghz, 4Gb Ram, and i'm worried that it won't be up to a new OS. There's really nothing wrong with Snow Leopard, but Yosemite does look quite good...

I'm assuming if I do go for it, and don't like it, there is no way back?

[Tonsko]

I've just sacked Safari off as it was causing too many hanging issues w/ML. Just installed Iron, which is based on Chromium but with all the google privacy nonsense ripped out.

Edited by Tonsko on Monday 10th November 18:40

[Leithen]

Viperz888 said:

Has anyone installed Yosemite onto an older mac? Mine is a circa 2010 MBP, 2.8Ghz, 4Gb Ram, and i'm worried that it won't be up to a new OS. There's really nothing wrong with Snow Leopard, but Yosemite does look quite good...

I'm assuming if I do go for it, and don't like it, there is no way back?

You should be able to use Superduper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your disk before you upgrade and then revert if it doesn't work/you don't like it. I think the current version of Superduper works with Snow Leopard.

[AstonZagato]

Viperz888 said:

Has anyone installed Yosemite onto an older mac? Mine is a circa 2010 MBP, 2.8Ghz, 4Gb Ram, and i'm worried that it won't be up to a new OS. There's really nothing wrong with Snow Leopard, but Yosemite does look quite good...

I'm assuming if I do go for it, and don't like it, there is no way back?

I have a 2010 MBPro 2.2Ghz and 4GB. Yosemite seems to be working fine. I did have something odd today - a weird pixellated coloured overlay on the login screen - it went as soon as I typed in my password.

[LordGrover]

Tonsko said:

I've just sacked Safari off as it was causing too many hanging issues w/ML. Just installed Iron, which is based on Chromium but with all the google privacy nonsense ripped out.

Not sure it's worth the risk, running a less than current version of chrome - it seems to be a fair way behind in security updates. I'll stick with Skynet Google's version.

[OscarIndia]

AstonZagato said:

I have a 2010 MBPro 2.2Ghz and 4GB. Yosemite seems to be working fine. I did have something odd today - a weird pixellated coloured overlay on the login screen - it went as soon as I typed in my password.

This is the new login page, it completely blurs the desktop image.

Look at it carefully and you should be able to relate it to your Desktop image in some way.

[Tonsko]

LordGrover said:

Not sure it's worth the risk, running a less than current version of chrome - it seems to be a fair way behind in security updates. I'll stick with Skynet Google's version.

It's a good point and well made. SRWare do try and keep on top of it - latest version is 38.2050.0 from 7th Nov for linux, but only 37.0.2000.0 for OSX (12th Sept), so it is lagging a little. I will see how it continues. Thanks for the reminder!

Edited by Tonsko on Tuesday 11th November 11:14

[AstonZagato]

OscarIndia said:

AstonZagato said:

I have a 2010 MBPro 2.2Ghz and 4GB. Yosemite seems to be working fine. I did have something odd today - a weird pixellated coloured overlay on the login screen - it went as soon as I typed in my password.

This is the new login page, it completely blurs the desktop image.

Look at it carefully and you should be able to relate it to your Desktop image in some way.

No, it was a software error. Lots of coloured blocks that looked like jumbled bits of my screen. A bit like this:


If it happens again, I'll take a picture.

[jmorgan]

Just downloaded a load of pics from my camera the Little Snitch tells me there is a huge upload to iCloud. Yet I look at my iCloud and they are not there and I had not told iPhoto to share the images. Something from Apple slurping me info?

[qube_TA]

AstonZagato said:

OscarIndia said:

AstonZagato said:

I have a 2010 MBPro 2.2Ghz and 4GB. Yosemite seems to be working fine. I did have something odd today - a weird pixellated coloured overlay on the login screen - it went as soon as I typed in my password.

This is the new login page, it completely blurs the desktop image.

Look at it carefully and you should be able to relate it to your Desktop image in some way.

No, it was a software error. Lots of coloured blocks that looked like jumbled bits of my screen. A bit like this:


If it happens again, I'll take a picture.

I had a Mac Pro do this on me, was the graphics chip dying. The Computer was actually running fine underneath just was displaying a random mess on the screen. As it wasn't an integrated GPU I just bought a new card.

Not as easy on a laptop, does it still have AppleCare?

[prg123]

Viperz888 said:

Has anyone installed Yosemite onto an older mac? Mine is a circa 2010 MBP, 2.8Ghz, 4Gb Ram, and i'm worried that it won't be up to a new OS. There's really nothing wrong with Snow Leopard, but Yosemite does look quite good...

I'm assuming if I do go for it, and don't like it, there is no way back?

I have installed it on our 2010 iMac runs fine but it does have 12gb memory.

Doesn't have an SSD though

- Pete