Not another Mac update
 

Apple is trying to get me to update to something called Sierra. Has anyone tried this? Will my Macbook Pro and/or my iMac go up in flames if I upgrade? Is there anything in Sierra that is a must-have improvement over OS 9? (just kidding - maybe)

Latest OS release... I'd wait a few weeks, make sure others don't have major issues...

Done... still alive....

Don't do it if you rely on Adobe products

Adobe software seemed to be too inquisitive, and uses too many computer resources...
They have the patent on .pdf.

(But I wish that large-format CPU dump crap had never become an industry standard.)

Free alternative .pdf reader software seems to be a bit 'far and few in between'.
One option is Foxit for Macintosh:
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/sdk/pdf-sdk/osx/

I have no experience with this.

The included app "Preview" is a great PDF viewer.

I got it the fist day and started a thread on it, it's excellent. Completely stable for me and I can now unlock my screen by having my watch near the laptop. That alone was worth it for me, well and having Siri is pretty nice too.

And I just thought of another thing, when I'm at work and my phone is locked up I get my text messages on my laptop now.

I've been waiting for this. Scroll down for video.

Depends on how old your Mac(s) is. My early 2009 is too old.

So is my early 2008 Mac Pro. I am now waiting patiently (not) for the new iMacs to come out. I will be ordering a 27" model the moment the Apple web site lets me!

It seems the most common component that indicates a dropped platform is DDR2 boxes although there are a couple of DDR2 laptops still compatible.

Curious.

Me thinks they are trying to faze out some of that older hardware that they simply overbuilt and a lot of us are still using because they work so well there is no need to upgrade.

If you have done the update, check Photos. I lost a bundle of my pics when I did the update. Not sure what happened but getting some crazy image where the picture used to be and an exclamation mark in the middle. Anyone else experience this?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1475865695.jpg

How long has it been since the update?

Minutes or hours or days?

Did you upgrade from El Capitan or Yosemite?

Most importantly, did you back up?

Did the update when it first came out.

Have done the other updates as they came out and yes, have been doing back ups.

Navigate to where pics are stored.

Do a visual and see if they are there.

Off the top of my head it could be anything from the library being corrupt and needing a rebuild to missing thumbnails.

Quit Photos.

Hold Option+Command while launching Photos.

Rebuild option should pop up.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

It's common practice with computers to render older machines obsolete with system upgrades. It's how they sell you new stuff. When I get a new iMac I'll also have to get new external hard drives (if I want firewire speed), a new scanner (also firewire currently), yada yada... Who here remembers SCSI interface externals, or serial printers?
Yes, you can get adapters for earlier peripherals but frequently the makers of those devices don't update drivers, etc...
Yes it's a conspiracy, and thus proves why I love the analog simplicity of my '74 911...

I was being rhetorical.

You can always keep your peripherals and buy a $30.00 Firewire to Thunderbolt adaptor.

Loved and hated SCSI.

You needed to be up on your dark arts skills to get multiple chained devices to play nice but when it worked it worked.

It's not always common. The end user is not microsofts customer, the computer manufacturer typically is.

Apple has traditionally treated the end user as their customer, and has avoided these games in the past

I am not all upset that Apple is not supporting my 2008 computer with the latest OS. The system is 8 years old! I am very pleased that my system has been so bullet proof and has performed so well that I had not considering replacing it until now!

I have never used a FireWire device on my 2008 Mac Pro.

To a point.

They've been really good about not disrupting users even through two rather significant architecture changes.

Was not a simple thing to keep peoples software / hardware investments viable through the swith from x86 to PPC then to Intel.

Why not? It was so much better than USB.

Everything I use is internal or doesn't matter. The keyboard and mouse are on USB and the printer is on Ethernet. The monitor plugs into the video card and the speakers plug into the sound port.

My G4 tower (which I still have for the sole purpose of running a SCSI scanner) was rendered obsolete by the switch to Intel processors - which meant no Snow Leopard upgrade for it....
I think USB 3.0 is meant to be competitive with firewire - and yes adapters can be had... but a shiny new iMac...ooooohhhh.....me want....

Because everyone just see's theoretical throughput and thinks it's on par but that's not the whole story and ignores the primary advantage of firewire.

A firewire device requires no common processor.

You can plug any two firewire devices together and they can communicate / function collaboratively and independent of a PC.

That's actually dependent on the devices of course, they have to have a need for each others functions, a firewire NIC is useless to a digital camera if the camera does not have a network stack.

But what results from that is consistent throughput because you are not dependent on available CPU cycles or affected by processes that drag the host system down.

Plus you can daisy chain it and no SCSI voodoo to deal with.

Repair library didn't do anything but it turns out if I rotate one of the exclamation point pics, the image appears. If I rotate it back the image stays. Crazy. I'm guessing there will be an update to correct this problem, hopefully.