Yes I agree and found my enthusiasm for the 'latest and greatest' cooled over 
the years :)  I never install a major OS release until the .3 although I guess 
I could do it earlier.  

I have been late with installing Sierra and would normally have it done by now, 
but having a solid working system with El-Cap, I’ve not felt the need to 
meddle.  Still, I shall have to bite the bullet sometime….

Interesting re iStat Menus as I think I installed it sometime in the past and 
subsequently deleted it although I don’t doubt there’s something still there in 
the bowels of the OS.  We’ll see although hopefully any problems will have been 
fixed by 10.12.4

Incidentally I’ve found a small menulet that monitors iCloud Drive activity:  
iCloud Status

http://www.thealchemistguild.com/icloudstatus/

That said I think iCloud Drive may do stuff in the background even when the 
machine is asleep. 


> On 5 Mar 2017, at 01:03, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I dunno.  I heard and experienced a lot of bitching from early Sierra 
> adopters.  
> 
> CPU totally consumed by "deleted" and other daemons (most but not all of 
> which was laid at the doorstep of iStat Menus, including victims who had ever 
> installed iStat Menus even though they were no longer using it); disk 
> bandwidth totally consumed by a non-discretionary photo scanning process 
> triggered by the first launch of Photos; and more of the same.  
> 
> Yeah, some of them weren't bugs that came out of Cupertino, but they still 
> were lying in wait to mug the early adopters.  
> 
> We used to say at my old company that you can tell pioneers because they were 
> the people with the arrows sticking out of them.  I don't pioneer any more.  😓
> 
> 
>> On Mar 2, 2017, at 5:08 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2017-03-01 (12:32 MST), Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’ve not upgraded to Sierra since I never upgrade until around V3 since 
>>> long experience with Macs has taught me it’s better to wait until the bugs 
>>> have been well shaken out.
>> 
>> Your long experience is many years out-of-date.
>> 
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