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My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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_dev wrote: post #44
_urga wrote: post #23

As far as I understand, the versioning implementation in OS X is built on top of SQLite, which has one-reader/writer-at-a-time-only transaction semantics. I wonder how much this contributes to the beach balls. Save As must come back. iCloud syncing of Notes is broken. Notes which are supposed to be in iCloud often get branched to On My Mac without me noticing, where I continue editing them, only to create conflicts.…

I'm not sure what causes the beachballs, I've been meaning to crack open lldb one of these days and try and find out. As for Notes syncing - I've been making fairly heavy use of it recently and never had a single issue, hopefully that will simply come down to teething problems and be addressed in a 10.8.x update. Your suggestion about merging Notes and TextEdit is really thought-provoking, probably not entirely possi…

Thinking more about apt-get,

With more care, Apple could make OS X great not just for users but also for developers. Xcode must be installed by default, along with command line tools. A package manager as good as apt-get is something Apple should take as seriously as it does iTunes and the AppStore.

Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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superjesuspants wrote: post #35
_urga wrote: post #23

As far as I understand, the versioning implementation in OS X is built on top of SQLite, which has one-reader/writer-at-a-time-only transaction semantics. I wonder how much this contributes to the beach balls. Save As must come back. iCloud syncing of Notes is broken. Notes which are supposed to be in iCloud often get branched to On My Mac without me noticing, where I continue editing them, only to create conflicts.…

Save As will show up in all apps automatically if you bind Shift-Cmd-S to "Save As..." in your keyboard shortcuts preferences.

Thanks, great to have it back again.

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_dev wrote: post #48
coob wrote: post #25

> does a photo manager have to be 707 MB? iPhoto 9.3.2 is 1.46GB.

Good god, really? My copy of 9.3.2 appears to only be 707 - http://cl.ly/JO6T

I've asked around the office and on all but mine it's 707, I need to figure out why! Mine is a copy from the App Store, not preinstalled, which seems to be the difference…

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coob wrote: post #63
_dev wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good god, really? My copy of 9.3.2 appears to only be 707 - http://cl.ly/JO6T

I've asked around the office and on all but mine it's 707, I need to figure out why! Mine is a copy from the App Store, not preinstalled, which seems to be the difference…

Interesting - Mine is preinstalled too, have you had a look around the App bundle to determine where the majority of the space lies? For me, ./Contents/Frameworks/ & ./Contents/Resources/ are equally about ~330 MB (about half of the total bundle size)
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