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Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date 2015-04-05 13:47 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-04-05, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> You then need to spend time in System Preferences to disable a bunch of
> UI aspects

Not if you aren't an uptight dingbat who refuses to accept progress.

> force enable the scroll bars

I've one that for mouse-only systems. For track pads it makes little
sense to do it.

> "accessibility" to enable geriatric mode to disable translucensy,

Meh. I can go either way with that. It's just not as big a deal as you
make it out to be.

> increase contrast etc to make screen readable.

I've flipped that on and off.

> However, generally, the upgrade works well. Remember that scrolling is
> reversed.

Reversed seems more natural to a lot of us.

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Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2015-04-05 03:43 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 21:02 -0700
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-05 16:03 +1200
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Me, myself and I <baiheli.pip.li@xs4all.nl> - 2015-04-05 12:12 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-05 04:33 +0000
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-05 14:57 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-05 22:57 +0000
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 11:57 +1200
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 03:57 +0000
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 16:33 +1200
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 04:56 +0000
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-06 01:00 -0400
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 17:43 +1200
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:53 +0000
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-06 05:21 -0700
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 09:10 -0400
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:51 +0000
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-06 20:38 -0700
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-06 13:25 +0000
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-07 02:25 +0000
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:47 +0000
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  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-04-05 14:56 +1100
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-05 01:31 -0400
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-04 22:45 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-05 04:13 -0400
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 13:47 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-05 15:59 +0000
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 16:15 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 12:59 -0400
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 17:22 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2015-04-05 14:08 -0700
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:49 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-06 21:55 +0000
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-06 23:51 -0400
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 23:54 -0400
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 09:53 +0000
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 18:08 +1200
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              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 09:35 -0400
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 13:25 +1200
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 18:08 +1200
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-07 09:06 -0700
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