Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work

Post by mikeash » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 2:13 PM UTC

gherkin0 wrote: post #27

mikeash wrote: post #17

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Apple is just awful about providing meaningful, useful errors. The worst is AirPlay. When it fails to connect, which is about 33% of the time, there's nothing. It doesn't even pop up a generic alert, it just silently (or not so silently, if you're playing music) reverts to local playback. Many other examples abound. Most errors at least provide a message, but one so generic as to be useless.

That's pretty terrible. No software performs flawlessly, so good error messages are a key part of usability.

Post by dclowd9901 » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 3:04 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #77

dclowd9901 wrote: post #40

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> I've had to carefully maintain the .app's myself across a couple Mac's as Apple stopped letting you download things that are no longer in the store. Since when? I always download .dmg's and install them outside of the Apple Store. You have to do this roundabout security measure in Preferences to run them, but they're always runnable...

You have to do this roundabout security measure in Preferences to run them, but they're always runnable... Note: you don't have to. You can Control-Click and then choose 'Open' to bypass the signature or unsigned app check. You can also remove the quarantaine attribute with: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Your.app

Post by escobar » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #45

escobar wrote: post #29

The whole "old installer" and "bootable disk" has been a pain-point since 10.8 for me. I have done 4 or 5 clean installs for friends in the last 6 months, and I tried to make a 10.10 or 10.11 bootable USB... no go - each time, a new issue. I have ended up every time using my older 10.8 (ML) install USB every time, then just firing off the free App Store upgrade to 10.11.

In newer Mac's (2012 onward IIRC) you can just boot into a net installer, and it goes and fetches the installer from the internet before re-installing.

Post by astrange » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

x0x0 wrote: post #35

mikeash wrote: post #19

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I believe they're saying that it is related to Apple's release schedule because having a hard deadline every year and a fixed feature set for that hard deadline means that you run into problems with quality. I would dearly love for Apple to take a year or two (or, hell, five, I'm happy with the current feature set) and just fix bugs. No new features, just bugs. Do another Snow Leopard release, or three.

I have a cron script that hard kills finder hourly because it eats a gig of ram and gets slower and slower until there is typing lag in it My partner's itunes refuses to reliably see her iphone. TimeMachine shits the bed on the regular. SMB appears to be the future but TimeMachine still requires brittle afp. On a 15-in late 2013 laptop with 10.10.current, about once out of every 20 times I open the lid the laptop doe…

Post by adamengst » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 5:42 PM UTC

barbs wrote: post #14

Completely by-the-by, but I couldn't help but notice the small advertisement at the bottom for Smile PDFPen[0]. I'm using uBlock Origin, but this wasn't blocked by it, presumably because it's unique to this site, and is indistinguishable from the rest of the content. However, it's very unobtrusive, doesn't track me at all and has no influence on the actual content of the article, so I have no problems with it being h…