OS X mail issues duplicate sent imap drafts partial creation email saves residing in trash, crikey OH riley apple give us some control over this ? i dont need 20 drafts saved for an email that took 10 minutes to write ? GRRR
Network links/aliases in dock not working ?! in Lion they no longer automount the associated network volumes if the login is stored in keychain, or offer up the dialogs to put in username and password when the login details have not been stored in keychain, this worked fine in snow leopard and was extensively used by many in my office environments. There are too many things that go wrong with an upgrade to lion as it stands.
Why Oh why dont I have a preinstall option to do a good old “archive and install”, So i get a clean OS install and then can pull in only user data that will be known not to conflict ? and reinstall apps. I know Lion prefers a clean install, because I have four machines that are all now slow glitchy and rubbish by the users measure and level of complaint after a normal Lion download & upgrade process, apples now standard way to install the OS ? I took one of these machines, backed up 250gb of user data via ext FW800 ! YAWN even that was a pain because you made the user library folder invisible in lion ? and made the copy function not copy invisible files ? Dangerous from a manual backup perspective indeed! I then erased the drive, did a pure clean lion install from a manually created install on a Hard drive from the ESDinstall img. Another problem recovery boot install manually re-downloads the installer image everytime! thats total !*$! from my perspective, imagine I need to do this on 5 machines Meaning I have to download a 4gb file 5 times ? not everyone has a 100mbit fibre connection on an apple campus !!, Then I hand reinstalled all apps, selectively manually copied back the user data, avoiding most library and sys related files that werent necessary, Now the machine runs as it should do normally and without so many issues ? total time 10 Hours just to do a full clean install of their complicated setups. Why Must I Erase a drive to get a completely fresh install of Lion on these machines ?????? this involves backing up 300gb of data and copying it back again from a support perspective its a disaster time and expense wise for my clients ? a £20 upgrade costs them a fortune in support hours to have their machines working normally ? just so they can have calendar and address book syncing back !!!! the only feature they wanted to keep using.
gay farmer having an affair with east european farm hand ? thanks archers yes thanks allot for the simpering hideous setup its repulsive, turned off as soon as I noted your cynical plot device.
christ almighty is there no end to the … for the sake of salaciousness, grubby cynical bullshit plot manoeuvres and characters, The archers is already this hideous stereotype of rural english culture, but there seems no device they will not stoop to, there is no limit to the depths this nasty radio program won’t got to, to maintain viewership . People in the media seem like a liberalist virus designed to destroy this culture through an endless enshrined multiculturalist polysexual enshrined mantra of rubbish.
having upgraded four imac machines in an office environment to lion >
24″ imacs, one an intel core 2 duo 2.66ghz 2gb ram machine (unuseably slow in comparison to snow leopard ? same spec)
24″ imac 4gb ram intel core 2 duo noticeably slower and pausing not as but bad as 2 gig ram imac. but still allot worse under lion ?
under snow leopard the same machines were all fine ?
the machines have gone from being useable on snow leopard to almost unuseable after the upgrade to lion, immense pausing all the time mail being too slow for words ? and weird pausing occurring, As a person who supports apple machines for a living I dont expect an OS upgrade to cause me such grief that machines become practically unuseable through a enforced paid upgrade. just so that my clients can continue to sync contacts and calendars ? with the forced death of mobileme ?
this means although the os only costs £20 my time spent resolving the slowness and upgrading software is untenably high ? and now am coming to the conclusion I have to go onsite to do flaming clean installs, as the machines performance stands, post upgrade its unacceptable, my clients are giving huge grief over the upgrades. which were only implemented to retain syncing ?
Also the fact you have removed all control in recent os installs from the user over what kind of install occurs compared to previously, ie Theres no “archive install” or clean install selectable unless I format the drive ? as the process is now all hidden from the user and automatic etc, only improvement in this process being I can remote install the upgrade and wait for a restart.
looking in activity monitor and console I can clearly see page ins and page outs are high will upgrade the 2gig to 4gig, to the sorry max of this machine you set in firmware ? although in a 64bit os its now 8gb rather than 4gb ram right ?
console is riddled with os complaints and errors post upgrade? issues relating to mdworker and indexing which cpu process wise, seems to dominate things, but the pausing seems worse than expected even for a low memory scenario hence going for the clean installs and the time to reinstall and re-setup every darn thing on the machine seeming the only logical conclusion ? however wasteful of support time and unnecessarily expensive for my clients. why do so many apple programs seem so memory hungry compared to others apps ? safari v chrome for instance why does safari gobble so much with hardly any windows open ? compared to chrome ?
why has perfomance under lion so radically degraded compared to SL, and dont suggest ML 10.8 as the solution ? where are you wasting the machine previously acceptable performance ?
Why is mail like the slowest mail client I’ve ever used ? it desires to endlessly write every tiny change to disk and to be so slow at writing it means moving a thousand emails takes an age ? compared to what it should be ? im seriously considering moving them all to thunderbird just to get some performance when running an email program ? why is this the case ? exporting mboxs takes an age and doing anything in mail seems to take crazy amounts of time, if you observe and wait for the activity window to actually finish a given task moving emails etc ?
sadly I dont trust that any of this stuff will be fixed in 10.8 and why should I pay for that when the recent lion upgrade seemed to bork things up and stiff me over time and energy wise ?
feature request
In the future it would be good if you could build computers where every point of the bootup and shutdown process can be visually remote controlled, a big ask but a second networked always on os, a secondary os to the main os, perhaps residing in earam to remote control the main install would be immensely useful.
A simple GUi way of determining the ip of an osx machine im networked ? get info on networked to machine icon ?
a way in network utility of testing hardwired ethernet networks for throughput and interference to establish weak links in network topology
a better permission system that just works by default from a collaborative networked group perspective, interface for setting umask ? os9 permissions sharing system worked much better in practice than osx’s do, especially from an permissions inheritance perspective subfolders etc, the dual acls and posix perms setup is confusing as hell and permission repair in disk utility not repairing user folder acl permissions is very weak ? command line seems only way or reset pasword boot hidden perms repair routine another trick that wont work remotely ? site visits grr… ?
other issues
installer re download for each machine.
The way the app store expects you to download the upgrade to lion on each machine individually repeatedly is the biggest waste of bandwidth and time from a support perspective, obviously I can do some installer extraction and copy round the network and instal , but your actual chosen standard method of re-download is ridiculous from a tech support perspective. and yet now creating usb boot version of lion installer to save time from from a support perspective in disk utility has also gone south and become unusable ? refuse to do with checking also AS I maintain many many macs ive noticed you mark the installer to some extent to an apple ID as I discovered ? after copying the installer around for upgrading clients as I was purchasing the upgrade for clients using there apple IDS from the app store but not wanting to wait for the downloads on each machine as a waste of time and bandwidth, so the re-use of an lion installer. but this revealed at some point the installer was retaining the apple ID ?
FUll screen effects
AS a person who does 90% of his support remotely, I find it highly offensive the number of full screen transitions and visual unnecessary rubbish you use throughout the os as the is an immense waste of upload bandwidth when remote supporting to draw all these gimmicky full screen effect screen redraws for different actions, please be sparing with these things and think of remote support.
lion is a memory hog and awful when it comes to paging in and out to disk, had a client on a 24″ imac that happened to have 2gb of memory, he got away with that memory spec on snow leopard, on lion his machine was practically unuseable directly after the lion install. client angry and frustrated upgrading to 4gb memory the crappy max on this 24″ imac can take … cheers apple, notebook technology in desktop replacement machines ? ADVICE to all out there make sure your mac has 4gb minimum before installing Lion. The amount of memory safari uses is obscene compared to chrome. and the full screen effects are a waste of bandwidth from a remote support perspective. Apple get worse by the month.
tip for anyone suffering in lion with 2gb ram, run the major memory hogging apps in 32 bit mode (tickbox selectable when “command I”-ing on the keyboard the selected application itself) then restart the program
financial pariah list – dont know – befriend – entertain or foster these people in anyway, let them sit in their middle of their squalid money piles – friendless
international based corporate shareholder self love egotists who have little solidarity with any culture or people other than themselves, who historically decided to disenfranchise and profitably ill reward depositors with no interest on their positive accounts, so they could create profits to for themselves to create vastly leveraged speculative digital debt growth encouraging operations whose further profits were then used to set up huge corporate trading arms for the benefit of shareholders, that vastly outweighed the depositor operation, so as to create speculative market based gambling operations whose only function was to reward the shareholder class and shareholding employees, subverting the idea that a bank is supposed to benefit its depositors, who are the lynchpin by which they gamble.
bob diamond
Jerry del Missier
comment who we need to add to this list
Set up some kind of banking oath the banks traders and all employees have to sign up to, I think separating off the trading arms wouldn’t benefit the individual customers bank interest rate which is already appalling, I think what is best is get rid of the shareholders from the equation, by depositing only with co-op building society style banks where only the depositors are shareholders. and any risk taking as agreed in advance and benefits the depositors, not just shareholders and employees, and to make this more viable attempt at regulating these international selfish societal destroying twats, and put in place proper jail time for shady and criminal financial practices and make some proper examples, ie damn well jail some people, as monetary crime seems only in the rare exception in which the bank are offended to garner a prison sentence(madoffs etc), also get a public guarantee from the government that they’re will never again under any circumstance be any bailing out of banks, and that government will work to never be in the banks power, by limiting governmental borrowing from the banks to reasonable levels, as currently this has turned democracy into a 4 yearly popularity contest for a different set of idiots to come in and screw this country up, by the implementation of fiscal prudence at a societal level.
errata description in osx when describing not enough space to copy
copying a thousand files when it says there isnt enough space to copy to, it says there isnt enough space to copy the first file in the list ?
can I have an explanation as to why under 10.6.8 im getting large numbers of errors using disk utilitys restore features to restore a .cdr file to usb stick partition when i did not suffer these issues before under leopard ?
errors like resource temporarily unavailable when attempting to mount a .cdr file
and other errors when attempting to restore the .cdr file involving it needing scanning of some kind ?
I know there are no errors or issues with the disk the .cdr file is stored on it is no way corrupted or damaged I have done this exact restore procedur before in previous versions of disk utility, lastly in leopard without issue, I also know I dont suffer these issues when using asr (the command – disk utility uses) through command line – terminal. So these are fresh problems that have somehow been introduced into disk utility ?
I did not leave the command lines of cpm and dos all those years ago and start using the gui of macintosh systems, so as to, at this later stage in my life be forced back to using terminal to achieve anything marginally non plebian, things have got worse since leaving OS9 as control via guis over the functioning of the operating system seems to have been systematically removed, os9 as a gui had a much grander scale of gui led user based control than OS X offers, as far as im concerned everytime I have to resort to the “terminal” you have failed me as a provider of a gui ! When macs are networked and sharing communal files from a mac the default umasks and permissions aren’t even sufficient for group collaboration or work ? and rarely consistently work ? fat formatted nas disks work better by default than a osx based machine serving files from a permissions perspective ? why when dragging files from iphoto to a shared volume does it seem to ignore the drives umask etc, So little can i rely on the umask setup on shared volumes, I have had to train my users to use batchmod locally on those drives in order to avoid endless support calls as to why files aren’t accessible etc ? also turning off permissions on the drive however unsecure, never seems to work either as it turns itself back on ? and having to edit launchd.config using nano is a horrible poorly documented solution to set the umask anyway, where is the gui for this default new file permissions control ? this was vastly superior and easier under mac os 9. I dont need your new rubbish wizzy visual features launchpad, mission control etc I need a GUI that enables me to set all the settings i need without resorting to terminal and i need it to just work ? stop adding features and fix your OS ? also while were at it where is my gui for control of spotlight indexing ? and where oh where has my ordering of search results by file size gone ? why does search default to content and not specifiably by name ?!?!?! why is it not capable of searching invisible and system files by default, more and more you treat the user like a muppet by default, and expect anybody who wants any greater control to use terminal, thank you for destroying the idea of full gui control of a computer by a user ? why does os x, so often fail to find files, even ones I can plainly see ? why do you keep removing the functionality I need from the OS and replacing it with features I dont use ? Im not saying coding an operating system is easy im just saying fix the old and aging bugs in it and make it function right before adding other features ? Can you please add a template to installers so I can specify how the preferences are set on an install, why must I go round the same loop of preference setting (yes i do want to see document extensions by default and yes i would like to see internal, external and network disks on my desktop !!!!) every time I setup a fresh system, Oh I could image and restore a pre preferenced system you say ? not if disk utility has got worse and stopped doing what it used to without unnecessary grief and trouble ?
An increasingly angry apple evangelist, with you and promoting you all along unpaid from the days of the apple II europlus, owner of many apple computers and ios devices.