Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Robin]

Upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan can be equated to the previous upgrade 
from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It's a no brainer but most improvements are under 
the hood and you may not necessarily notice them. 
Upgrade SuperDuper before you upgrade the OS. 
Repairing permissions became irrelevant a few versions ago. 

> On 2 Oct 2015, at 12:56 PM, Philippe Chaperon  wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian, Peter and All, 
> 
> Many thanks again for the valuable information. My iMac has been updated and 
> needed a couple of restarts. I have checked MS Office 2011 and Excel is 
> working correctly.
> 
> One thing which happened thought is that the cooling fan of the iMac, which 
> after a year of usage had never been heard, was working at its maximum speed 
> although the internal temperatures were will within norms, and no 
> applications hoarding the CPU. I tried restarting the machine with no luck 
> and finally had to resort to a Reset of the SMC which solved the problem. 
> 
> Thanks to both for the Disk utility info re loss of verify and repair 
> permissions. I guess this is good news?
> 
> I’ll wait for some time before upgrading my main iMac on which I have some 
> applications running constantly - Seti@home, AstroPulse and Rosetta. I am a 
> bit apprehensive mainly for Parallels and VM Ware Fusion as I do not know how 
> they will perform. Before taking the plunge I will update my full back-up and 
> an external disc, using my trusty SuperDuper, just in case!
> 
> Have a wonderful afternoon and a very safe week-end. 
> 
> Kind regards dear WAMUG’ers,
> 
> Philippe C.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:57 am, Peter Hinchliffe  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:42 am, Brian Risbey  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Philippe,
>> Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" 
>> MacBookPro).
>> Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn 
>> you that it does.
>> There are some system voice upgrades to do after initial installation, so 
>> check updates.
>> It isn't letting me log into iCloud, tried during installation and 
>> afterwards. I will try again later.
>> Disk utility, only has First Aid, no verify and repair permissions, 
>> redundant?, auto?
>> I did look Ronni!
> 
> Permissions repair and verify have indeed gone. There is an explanation for 
> this at
> 
> 
> 
> Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
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Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Philippe Chaperon]

Hi Brian, Peter and All, 

Many thanks again for the valuable information. My iMac has been updated and 
needed a couple of restarts. I have checked MS Office 2011 and Excel is working 
correctly.

One thing which happened thought is that the cooling fan of the iMac, which 
after a year of usage had never been heard, was working at its maximum speed 
although the internal temperatures were will within norms, and no applications 
hoarding the CPU. I tried restarting the machine with no luck and finally had 
to resort to a Reset of the SMC which solved the problem. 

Thanks to both for the Disk utility info re loss of verify and repair 
permissions. I guess this is good news?

I’ll wait for some time before upgrading my main iMac on which I have some 
applications running constantly - Seti@home, AstroPulse and Rosetta. I am a bit 
apprehensive mainly for Parallels and VM Ware Fusion as I do not know how they 
will perform. Before taking the plunge I will update my full back-up and an 
external disc, using my trusty SuperDuper, just in case!

Have a wonderful afternoon and a very safe week-end. 

Kind regards dear WAMUG’ers,

Philippe C.



On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:57 am, Peter Hinchliffe  wrote:


> On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:42 am, Brian Risbey  > wrote:
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" 
> MacBookPro).
> Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn 
> you that it does.
> There are some system voice upgrades to do after initial installation, so 
> check updates.
> It isn't letting me log into iCloud, tried during installation and 
> afterwards. I will try again later.
> Disk utility, only has First Aid, no verify and repair permissions, 
> redundant?, auto?
> I did look Ronni!
> 
> 

Permissions repair and verify have indeed gone. There is an explanation for 
this at

>

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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El Kapitan

[Bill Parker]

Just having upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 and found no significant difference in 
speed and little else, I am now wondering whether Kapitan is worth the change.  
 I notice that on the upgrade website that extols the virtues of split screen 
etc  the customer reviews show about 10% giving it one star.  (Just over 200 
reviews).   I am thinking wait and see.   Unless I buy a larger external 
screen, the spit screen mode would be too hard on a 15” MacBook Pro, or even on 
the ext. screen I use frequently with two versions of a Word set up side by 
side.

My main usage is Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (that is often sluggish with 
Word - blue beach ball seen often)

Nikon Transfer and Viewer for photography with original TIFF files up to 30MB 
each shot

Photoshop elements ( latest version) 

Acrobat Pro

Finale Print Music.   and Dragon dictate
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Re: 10.11

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> On 2 Oct 2015, at 8:34 am, FW  wrote:
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> Good morning all,
> 
> Have installed 10.11
> We are always told to repair permissions before and after. Have done it before
> but the new disk utility screen does not show the repair permissions option 
> any more ???
> 
> Cheers
> Walter 

I presume you haven’t seen my reply to Brian Riseby earlier this morning, so 
have a look at

>

for the explanation.

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
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10.11

[FW]

Good morning all,

Have installed 10.11
We are always told to repair permissions before and after. Have done it before
but the new disk utility screen does not show the repair permissions option any 
more ???

Cheers
Walter 
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Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Peter Hinchliffe]

> On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:42 am, Brian Risbey  wrote:
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" 
> MacBookPro).
> Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn 
> you that it does.
> There are some system voice upgrades to do after initial installation, so 
> check updates.
> It isn't letting me log into iCloud, tried during installation and 
> afterwards. I will try again later.
> Disk utility, only has First Aid, no verify and repair permissions, 
> redundant?, auto?
> I did look Ronni!
> 
> 

Permissions repair and verify have indeed gone. There is an explanation for 
this at

>

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Brian Risbey]

Hi Philippe,
Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" MacBookPro).
Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn you 
that it does.
There are some system voice upgrades to do after initial installation, so check 
updates.
It isn't letting me log into iCloud, tried during installation and afterwards. 
I will try again later.
Disk utility, only has First Aid, no verify and repair permissions, redundant?, 
auto?
I did look Ronni!

Brian
Sent from my iPhone6 Plus
iOS 9.0 🏊🏻

On 2 Oct 2015, at 01:24, Philippe Chaperon  wrote:

Hi Brian and All, 

Thanks for the report. Have you had a chance to test your applications, 
specially any non-Apple ones e.g. MS Office, Gimp, etc?

I have finished downloading El Condor Pa... no! I mean El Capitan which took 
close to 2 hours, but the installation is taking some time to finish. I hope 
the iMac will boot tomorrow morning when I will be able to check the various 
applications I have. 

Good night to everyone, 

Philippe C

On 1 Oct 2015, at 10:30 pm, Brian Risbey  wrote:

Hi All,

Just rebooted with El Capitan 10.11,

Taken 11 hours, spinning beachball has been simplified.

Brian
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Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Philippe Chaperon]

Hi Brian and All, 

Thanks for the report. Have you had a chance to test your applications, 
specially any non-Apple ones e.g. MS Office, Gimp, etc?

I have finished downloading El Condor Pa... no! I mean El Capitan which took 
close to 2 hours, but the installation is taking some time to finish. I hope 
the iMac will boot tomorrow morning when I will be able to check the various 
applications I have. 

Good night to everyone, 

Philippe C

On 1 Oct 2015, at 10:30 pm, Brian Risbey  wrote:

Hi All,

Just rebooted with El Capitan 10.11,

Taken 11 hours, spinning beachball has been simplified.

Brian
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the spinning beach ball has changed!

[Brian Risbey]

Hi All,

Just rebooted with El Capitan 10.11,

Taken 11 hours, spinning beachball has been simplified.

Brian
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Re: Continual Console Log Entries re Address Book

[Alan Smith]

Any suggestions for clearing this ongoing problem?

More information found:   The associated plist has a setting for a 3600 second 
call.  As the call is happening every 30 seconds, something is wrong.  There is 
probably a Scheduler somewhere that has stored corrupt data for the call time.  
A hidden file?  The found plist filename is: System/Library/Launch Agents/ 
com.apple.AddressBook.SourceSync.plist.

More observations, but may not be relevant:  The Console log entries continued 
regularly after trashing all ~/Library/Caches, and also continued when computer 
was disconnected from the network.

Most Apple Community requests for help re "AddressBookSourceSync" refer to 
system memory avalanche problems while connected to iCloud.  I am normally  
“permanently” signed out of iCloud, but even when signed in I did not notice 
any significant CPU usage.

Cheers
Alan

> On 27 Sep 2015, at 5:54 pm, Alan Smith  wrote:
> 
> The iMac Console Diagnostic and Usage Messages log is recording the same pair 
> of entries every 30 seconds.  I would expect that an entry at hourly or 
> longer intervals would be normal.  How can I fix this?
> 
> The first message (preceded by date and time) is:-
>   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
> com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.providers
> and the second is:-
>   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
> com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.summary
> 
> Both entries have several lines of detail exposed with the flippy triangle.   
> The “provider” details include:-
>   com.apple.message.signature: com.apple.google.iaplugin
> 
> Regards, 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Smith
>  Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5  Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OS X 10.10.5 
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iCloud issues with Contacts and Bookmarks

[Alan Smith]

My iMac Contacts and Safari Bookmarks data have changed in the last day or so.  
I think the Safari Reading List may also have been changed.  I think iCloud 
data has merged with iMac data as a number of old, previously edited and 
deleted entries have returned.

1. Can I delete Contacts and Bookmarks data in iCloud?
2. How can I determine what other data is stored in iCloud (and delete it)?
3. Can I cancel my iCloud account (which uses my standard Apple ID)?
4. I have signed out of my iCloud account on all my devices -  two iMacs, an 
iPad and an iPhone.  Can I again edit my Contacts and Bookmarks (individually 
on each device) and be sure that there will be no further “synchronising”?

This data merge may have been triggered when iTunes was upgraded to ver 12.3 a 
week or so ago.  I was continually prompted to sign in to iCloud.  I eventually 
did so.  Months earlier I had downloaded physical copies of my purchases that I 
wanted to keep and am happy to abandon the others.   Then a gremlin  interfered 
- I could not sign out of the iCloud account from my iMac.  This was sorted out 
but required serious surgery.  The patient and I are still convalescing.

Regards, 
Alan

Alan Smith
  Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5  Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.10.5 
Yosemite
  Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.6 Mavericks
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