OSX El Capitan

bloodiedathame · 14 Oct 2015 at 07:19

Did a test install. Lost my Notes. Couldn't remote desktop to it from Mountain Lion or Yosemite (doesn't even show as shared). Apple fail.

opethdisciple · 14 Oct 2015 at 16:55

Can someone verify for me that Microsoft/Apple have solved the El Capitan Word 11/16 issues?

visibleman · 15 Oct 2015 at 09:34

opethdisciple said:
Can someone verify for me that Microsoft/Apple have solved the El Capitan Word 11/16 issues?

They haven't; certainly not with Office 2016. There was an update on Tueday but it appears to still be broken and Microsoft have now said it's an issue with El Capitan.

I'm guessing 2011 is a mess on El Capitan? Was thinking about reinstalling it.

Bluecube · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:33

Upgraded both my MBP and Hackintosh with no issues. Thankfully I seem to be missing the problems everyone else has.

markweatherill · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Xd5bbw5aE

Valo · 16 Oct 2015 at 19:27

opethdisciple said:
Can someone verify for me that Microsoft/Apple have solved the El Capitan Word 11/16 issues?

visibleman said:
They haven't; certainly not with Office 2016. There was an update on Tueday but it appears to still be broken and Microsoft have now said it's an issue with El Capitan.

I'm guessing 2011 is a mess on El Capitan? Was thinking about reinstalling it.

According to MacRumors the upcoming 10.11.1 update will carry a compatibility update fix for Office 2016 along with fixes for Mail.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/16/el-capitan-10-11-1-coming-soon-with-office-fix/

FredFlint · 17 Oct 2015 at 08:06

Getting a Mac Mini today to use as an iOS emulator for Xamarin, never used a mac before. Is is possible to install the new OS to an external USB SSD to test?

Update - Got my Mac mini and install El Capitan on a external SSD, it was really easy to do

v0n · 17 Oct 2015 at 18:44

Don't see option to format disks with NTFS in Disk Utility any more... Reinstalled Tuxera but still the same

beachBOYken · 20 Oct 2015 at 10:04

Hi

Not planning to update just yet but when I do is it advised to eject my external passport drive during update?

I have it connected 24/7 for time machine backups.

Thanks

MagicBoy · 20 Oct 2015 at 18:17

Should be fine. I updated the Mac mini with an external HDD attached. If in doubt unmount it.

OS X isn't like Windows of old where it could get confused and install on your iPod by accident...

MacRS4 · 20 Oct 2015 at 23:34

For what it's worth I have the 10.11.1 beta and haven't seen any real issues with Office 2016 or 2011. That's on a Macbook, rMBP and an iMac.

2016 was an utter mess previous to the beta.

ChrisD. · 21 Oct 2015 at 08:07

My 5k iMac is now taking an age to start up, happened not long after installing El Capitan.

bloodiedathame · 21 Oct 2015 at 09:00

S2KIP said:
My 5k iMac is now taking an age to start up, happened not long after installing El Capitan.

Do a permissions repair from the recovery partition.

ChrisD. · 21 Oct 2015 at 09:11

How do you do that now? All I see if a first aid option within disk utility.

Phate · 21 Oct 2015 at 09:22

Updated fine, have seen some small improvements. Mail is definitely improved, it was quite laggy before. Safari seems to be a lot slicker too. Nice change overall. I should take a read of the bigger changes to see if there is anything useful I'm missing

bloodiedathame · 21 Oct 2015 at 09:30

S2KIP said:
How do you do that now? All I see if a first aid option within disk utility.

So run a backup first. Then restart, hold down alt, select the recovery partition, press enter, let it load up, select disk utility, select your hard drive partition and select Repair Disk Permissions. Once it's finished you can restart and it will (should) boot normally.

ChrisD. · 21 Oct 2015 at 09:31

Cheers, will get that done. If it doesn't fix it I'll do a clean install then restore from TM.

beachBOYken · 21 Oct 2015 at 10:22

MagicBoy said:
Should be fine. I updated the Mac mini with an external HDD attached. If in doubt unmount it.

OS X isn't like Windows of old where it could get confused and install on your iPod by accident...

Thanks, will just leave it then.

visibleman · 21 Oct 2015 at 17:31

MacRS4 said:
For what it's worth I have the 10.11.1 beta and haven't seen any real issues with Office 2016 or 2011. That's on a Macbook, rMBP and an iMac.

2016 was an utter mess previous to the beta.

That's good to hear; just a shame Apple and Microsoft didn't sort it out sooner. Although Microsoft seemed to firmly place the ball in Apple's court regarding 2016, certainly reading around various forums it appears Apple 'did something' for the release that differed from the El Capitan betas (apparently 2016 worked fine on the betas) causing 2016 to fubar.

I did move back to 2011 and the recent Office 2011 update seemed to have sorted most of the issues there.

Either way, hopefully it won't be long before 10.11.1 is released!

EyeDot · 24 Oct 2015 at 12:50

Anyone else notice since 10.11.1 that hot corners no longer work for Screensaver?