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My 2¢ on Mavericks

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(long time since I've been on this N.G.)

On a relatively new MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion.

Took 10 hours to download, but then I have only a 1.5M DSL line.
30 minutes to install, followed by a 5 minute continuation.
Took another half day or so to download the *free* updates of iPhoto, 
Pages, Numbers, Keynote etc.

So far what I think are only a few minor glitches.

Don't like the change in Dock background color, but can live with it. 
I'll probably grab one of the Dock enhancement apps and fiddle with it.

The Time Machine icon in the menu bar now indicates a back-up is in 
progress with a barely visible change in the clock-face icon,rather than 
the rotating clock border.  OK, but it took awhile to notice.

When Pages first came up the open file dialogue opened into iCloud and I 
didn't realize that at first and I thought it was broken -- couldn't 
find my files!  (then I saw the "My Mac" selection and that fixed it.)

I have a handful of different accounts for self-protection and it's 
annoying that when I first logged into each of them it went through the 
drill of asking for my AppleID.  But of course it's only a one-time (for 
each account) annoyance.

Some of the accounts came up with the previous desktop background color; 
others came up with some weird pattern.

Had a short cut to Wireless Diag on the dock that turned into the ?.  I 
imagine they moved or renamed it.  Too lazy to find it again and don't 
really need to since it's readily accessible from the wifi menu item.

I have one account that I want encrypted but not the whole disk, so I 
created it with its home directory on an encrypted disk image.  As I 
recall it was a little tricky to set up.  It doesn't work on Mavericks 
-- I keep getting a request that it needs to update the Library.  I'm 
guessing it's a permissions/ownership/acl problem and I haven't had time 
to track it down.  (The image is fine so I'm not worried about losing 
the data in the account.)

An applescript I use to launch ShapeShifter doesn't work, but SS itself 
works fine if I launch it manually.  No time yet to track the bug down.

Thunderbird now puts up a notification when new mail arrives (Nice!) -- 
I don't know if that ability was there before but I hadn't enabled it or 
if something happened with Mavericks.  (TBird itself wasn't updated.)

I haven't yet put everything I use through all its paces, but I think 
I've tried all my main apps and features and have a sense that most 
everything works faster (iPhoto especially) but since I don't do 
anything terribly taxing, that doesn't really make sense!

Generally quite a pleasant experience.

Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN

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My 2¢ on Mavericks Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-10-25 09:20 -0500
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:45 -0400
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-26 02:50 -0400
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-10-31 12:59 -0700

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