Post your Yosemite issues

[wenjiekoh]

Upgraded mine the moment it was release on the app store.

My issue is that the keyboard will cease to work after a while. Happens on both battery and power-in.


Model:MACBOOK PRO (RETINA, 13-INCH, LATE 2013)

 

[PetPet]

Issue happens in Safe boot as well?

Clean install, but you migrated the data back as well right? because it looks like there are some 3rd party apps installed.

If you have any spare portable HDD or thumbdrive, try doing a clean install of OS X Yosemite on that to isolate software.

Hardware troubleshooting, you can try reseating the RAM from the logic board.

Clean install, apps were straight from the App Store.
Will try safe mode.

 

[aabeesee]

my multitouch gestures sometimes dont work,

two finger swipe for chrome to back/forward also doesnt work sporadically.

 

[afroman]

I think I know why Handoff hasn't been working for me. As mentioned previously, I have taken all the necessary steps to rectify this issue, but no to avail. However, I was trying to pair my MBP mid 2012 and my iPhone 6, and it kept failing, and my iPhone was constantly prompting me to forget my MBP. So I tried connecting my iPad 3 to my MBP via bluetooth and it stayed connected for 15 minutes before i disconnected them.

I'm now pretty certain that the problem lies with my iPhone, something must be wrong with the bluetooth.



EDIT: Everything is working fine now. Read up a thread on Apple Support Communities regarding Bluetooth connectivity issues between iPhone 6 and car bluetooth and was told to reset all settings on my phone and that was what solved everything.

 

[PetPet]

Can you kill the process?

I remember once on an IRC channel someone added a cronjob to killall systemuiserver every 20 mins. It will respawn.

Best would be to find out what is causing it though - you have any fancy apps running which you can see in your menu bar?

Also, why is ImageCapture running? You got a USB camera or something connected to the MBP at the same time? Try removing the USB devices and see if it replicates.

I think it's Apple's issue. It's unable to properly negotiate with the HDMI to VGA splitter. On Mavericks, the setup works flawlessly. However, on Yosemite it's unable to detect the splitter, only to run into a huge memory leak.

I've since tried, Safe Mode, PRAM reset, SMC reset, and even a new user account and they've all failed to work.

 

[PetPet]

Sad part is they won't fix it. When you are not connecting, does the systemuiserver still have crazy memory leaks? Weird that it takes up all your RAM and swaps your disk hard also.

If persists, just add a 20-30 minute crontab entry to killall systemuiserver

I hope I could but it doesn't render things correctly for presentation.
luckily it has no issues via VGA dongles.

Once you disconnect, you'll have to do a reboot. The whole OS goes beyond wonky.

 

[carfan]

Handoff for Notes, iMessage

How well is Handoff working for you?

One that works reliably well is Safari on iPad and Mac.

For Notes, it did appear on the leftmost side of the dock. Upon clicking the Handoff Notes icon, nothing happens. I don't see the iPad Notes content appear on my mac mini Notes.

 

[ashhong]

Hi

Did a clean install of Yosemite, but after that, when I was using Firefox, used to get a lot of CPU usage, so shifted to Safari. Had the same issue with Chrome.

So, Safari seems to have the better CPU usage levels and so am sticking with it.

However, I do not have flash installed. How do you guys work around this? Is there a way to play flash from sites other than Youtube like websites which have alternate mechanisms when Flash is not installed. Don't want to be using Flash, ideally. But if have to install, will install.

What are the CPU usage levels like after installing Flash with Safari? Any estimates or screenshots?

if your daily usage doesn't requires flash, then don't install it. anyway it is a piece of outdated inefficiency junk. unless you are playing some facebook game.

 

[duhduhduh]

once u have flash, safari will be inefficient too

 

[asriznet]

How well is Handoff working for you?

One that works reliably well is Safari on iPad and Mac.

For Notes, it did appear on the leftmost side of the dock. Upon clicking the Handoff Notes icon, nothing happens. I don't see the iPad Notes content appear on my mac mini Notes.

Are using notes sync with a cloud service? Be sure that both devices are configured with the same account. If using iCloud notes, both devices have notes option enabled similar to Google account.

For example in my situation.

I have Mac mail configured with my gmail account however I'm using the Gmail app on my iPhone/iPad instead because I needed the push notifications and the built-in Mail app for iOS device does not support it.

When I load my gmail account on my Mac and attempt to continue on my iPhone or iPad, I get a message that says: Failed to continue activity - the connection to your other device may have been interrupted. please try again later.

 

[slang]

Recently upgraded to Yosemite on my old macbook late 2008.
Noticed the start up is so super slow...

any chance i can downgrade back to snow leopard?
I owned the snow leopard installation dvd.

Tried pressing Command + R during start up and selected reinstalling OS...but unfortunately was only given the choice of reinstalling Yosemite again...

anyone good at apple system can help?

 

[asriznet]

Recently upgraded to Yosemite on my old macbook late 2008.
Noticed the start up is so super slow...

any chance i can downgrade back to snow leopard?
I owned the snow leopard installation dvd.

Tried pressing Command + R during start up and selected reinstalling OS...but unfortunately was only given the choice of reinstalling Yosemite again...

anyone good at apple system can help?

Did you performed a time machine backup while you were still on OS X Snow Leopard? If yes, you're in good hands - do note that any changes from the last backup till now will be lost.

- Connect the time machine device to your macbook via a wired connection(Ext HDD or Time Capsule) I recommend wired because the process will take a while.
- Startup to Recovery by holding down Command + R
- Select "Restore from time machine" in the main menu
- Select your Time Machine volume
- You will be given an option to choose which date to restore it from so select the date when it was last working on Snow Leopard
- You will get a warning that this will override the current data in the internal HDD, just proceed with it.
- Once completed, you should have your macbook restored back to Snow Leopard with your data in tact.

IMPORTANT: if NO time machine backup was done before, you're in a bit of work. MAKE SURE you backup your data now before proceeding, Time machine backup is the best option IMO.

You have to perform an erase and installation of OS X Snow Leopard to revert back to that OS. After which, you can restore your data back MANUALLY from your backup

Before proceeding, my advice is to disconnect your time machine device from the macbook and put it aside first, after installation is complete, you can connect it to restore the data manually.

1. Insert Snow Leopard installation DVD into your macbook
2. Restart and hold down Option key on startup
3. Select the DVD from the Startup Manager
4. Menu Bar -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
Select your main internal HDD from the left of Disk Utility
Select the "Partition" Tab on the right
Select 1 Partition from the Dropdown menu
Rename the Partition name to: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Max out the size
Click Options and make sure GUID Partition table is selected
Click OK & Apply - NOTE this will wipe the data off from your macbook, MAKE sure you have already backed up your data
5. Once disk utility completed the process, close down disk utility and continue the installation process
6. Select Macintosh HD when asked where you want to install OS X Snow leopard on.
7. You should get the Setup Assistant after installation completes

you can then attempt to get your data from your backup back to the computer.

if you don't feel confident doing this yourself, call in to AppleCare and get them to guide you along.

 

[slang]

Did you performed a time machine backup while you were still on OS X Snow Leopard? If yes, you're in good hands - do note that any changes from the last backup till now will be lost.

- Connect the time machine device to your macbook via a wired connection(Ext HDD or Time Capsule) I recommend wired because the process will take a while.
- Startup to Recovery by holding down Command + R
- Select "Restore from time machine" in the main menu
- Select your Time Machine volume
- You will be given an option to choose which date to restore it from so select the date when it was last working on Snow Leopard
- You will get a warning that this will override the current data in the internal HDD, just proceed with it.
- Once completed, you should have your macbook restored back to Snow Leopard with your data in tact.

IMPORTANT: if NO time machine backup was done before, you're in a bit of work. MAKE SURE you backup your data now before proceeding, Time machine backup is the best option IMO.

You have to perform an erase and installation of OS X Snow Leopard to revert back to that OS. After which, you can restore your data back MANUALLY from your backup

Before proceeding, my advice is to disconnect your time machine device from the macbook and put it aside first, after installation is complete, you can connect it to restore the data manually.

1. Insert Snow Leopard installation DVD into your macbook
2. Restart and hold down Option key on startup
3. Select the DVD from the Startup Manager
4. Menu Bar -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
Select your main internal HDD from the left of Disk Utility
Select the "Partition" Tab on the right
Select 1 Partition from the Dropdown menu
Rename the Partition name to: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Max out the size
Click Options and make sure GUID Partition table is selected
Click OK & Apply - NOTE this will wipe the data off from your macbook, MAKE sure you have already backed up your data
5. Once disk utility completed the process, close down disk utility and continue the installation process
6. Select Macintosh HD when asked where you want to install OS X Snow leopard on.
7. You should get the Setup Assistant after installation completes

you can then attempt to get your data from your backup back to the computer.

if you don't feel confident doing this yourself, call in to AppleCare and get them to guide you along.

thanks for the info.
but yosemite does not allow me to do the downgrading...
I am only given the option to reinstall back the same yosemite OS...

 

[slang]

Odd. Should allow you to launch disk utility from the Snow Leopard disk, format partition and do a clean install.

However can you try a little turning off the transparency in Yosemite? It is in System Preferences -> Accessibility.

Turn off the items under Notifications.

Also, turn off all the indexing options in Spotlight.

Reboot and see if is a little faster and manageable?

I am allowed to launch the utility...from the utility, i did a harddisk formatting...then when restarted. I am only given a choice to install yosemite via the internet.

The snow leopard disc i inserted has its snow leopard icon crossed out, i cannot install at all.
Only able to access the utility

 

[asriznet]

I am allowed to launch the utility...from the utility, i did a harddisk formatting...then when restarted. I am only given a choice to install yosemite via the internet.

The snow leopard disc i inserted has its snow leopard icon crossed out, i cannot install at all.
Only able to access the utility

Please follow the steps I indicated for the clean installation as it is.

You're not supposed to run the Snow Leopard disk while booted to your system, especially if you are already upgraded to a later version.

 

[slang]

Please follow the steps I indicated for the clean installation as it is.

You're not supposed to run the Snow Leopard disk while booted to your system, especially if you are already upgraded to a later version.

okie let me try once more. thanks!

 

[asriznet]

okie let me try once more. thanks!

I believe you weren't successful in reaching Step #2 and booted to the normal system with OS X Yosemite.

you can refer to the following article to learn more about Startup Manager - Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume

There is also an old article on how to do an erase and install of OS X Snow Leopard -
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3910

the steps slightly differs but produce the same results - Hold down C on startup to boot the disk & Erase tab instead of Partition in Disk Utility.

I prefer to repartition the whole drive rather than just formatting the main partition. Sometimes there might be additional partitions created by OS X like Recovery HD.

 

[mgsten]

read the stuff here and uninstall flash.


and it's


juz dat some websites still use flash videos. and hv to use chrome to watch.

 

[mgsten]

is there a safari extension to 'play' flash video without the flash plugin? me know firefox got an addon for dat.

 

[rza29]

anyone encounter this issue in your yosemite when saving files from the internet you cannot view the bottom options Save and Cancel like below pic?