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One solution that I've adopted: never use Finder.
What do you use instead? You navigate exclusively from your terminal?
Cocoa tech Path Finder for me.
OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
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Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#32If time is an issue, consider doing a wipe and fresh install then upgrade instead of upgrade in place. Apparently if you have Homebrew it gets stuck at 2 minutes, potentially for several hours.
I must be missing something, if you are going to do a wipe and fresh install why not go directly to el capitan?
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#33Did they announce about this new OS? I don't remember hearing about it at all.
Formal announcement was made on June 8. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Apple-Announces-O...
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#34I'm eager to upgrade so is this a fairly safe upgrade or are there kinks that need to be worked out?
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#35If time is an issue, consider doing a wipe and fresh install then upgrade instead of upgrade in place. Apparently if you have Homebrew it gets stuck at 2 minutes, potentially for several hours.
If you wipe the system then the time to set it up exactly like it was before is usually orders of magnitude larger than just waiting for the upgrade to move your brew installation out of /usr/local and back again. A better advice would be to just move the contents of your /usr/local to another directory and then move them back to /usr/local after the installation finishes.
I just ignored this and waited for the installer to do whatever it wanted. It took about 1 hour but everything went fine and I'm now up and running.
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#36Just upgraded. Can't delete apps. Anyone figured this out yet? Admin accound sudo rm -rf "game center.app" is returning operation not permitted. Appcleaner is not even able to find the packkages much less delete them. I have the GM though. What is this about? Edit: upgrading to the appstore version. Not sure if this was GM specific, or they are locking the Os down even more. Edit2: if you forget your password immeadi…
That’s probably because of System Integrity Protection. It can be disabled though:
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#37Just upgraded. Can't delete apps. Anyone figured this out yet? Admin accound sudo rm -rf "game center.app" is returning operation not permitted. Appcleaner is not even able to find the packkages much less delete them. I have the GM though. What is this about? Edit: upgrading to the appstore version. Not sure if this was GM specific, or they are locking the Os down even more. Edit2: if you forget your password immeadi…
Might be related to Rootless?
"OS X adds a new feature called "Rootless" that keeps the root user found on Unix-based systems from being able to be run. This can cause some troubles for disk management and backup utilities, so they included a way to turn it off. Open the Terminal and type sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1 rootless=0";sudo reboot to disable rootless and reboot your Mac. Only disable rootless if you know what this feature is used for, and you are experienced with the OS X command line." [1]
[1] http://www.techradar.com/us/how-to/computing/apple/52-os-x-e...
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#38Just upgraded. Can't delete apps. Anyone figured this out yet? Admin accound sudo rm -rf "game center.app" is returning operation not permitted. Appcleaner is not even able to find the packkages much less delete them. I have the GM though. What is this about? Edit: upgrading to the appstore version. Not sure if this was GM specific, or they are locking the Os down even more. Edit2: if you forget your password immeadi…
That’s System Integrity Protection. Under it, system files cannot be deleted or modified, even with sudo. It protects down to the block level, so even if you try to bypass the file system and write to blocks composing system files directly you’ll get an error.
This can be disabled but I wouldn’t advise doing so unless you have a really good reason to.
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#39If time is an issue, consider doing a wipe and fresh install then upgrade instead of upgrade in place. Apparently if you have Homebrew it gets stuck at 2 minutes, potentially for several hours.
I must be missing something, if you are going to do a wipe and fresh install why not go directly to el capitan?
If you do a full reinstall via cmd+r I'm unaware if it goes to El Capitan or the last installed version; obviously going direct would be the best approach.
Re: OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
#40If time is an issue, consider doing a wipe and fresh install then upgrade instead of upgrade in place. Apparently if you have Homebrew it gets stuck at 2 minutes, potentially for several hours.
It gets stuck because it's moving every Homebrew app out of /usr/local, a known but painful issue.
I believe it includes all the source, which is what consumes most of the time.