The bugs you mentioned were solved in 10.11.1 or so my experience so far has seemed to indicate. Definitely safari is working better and I never had mail issues but I don’t use the classic view. Either way, mail is functioning nicely under 10.11.1 on this side anyway.
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Craig Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > As a MacBook Air user of just under three months, I am posting a > little tale about my brief experience upgrading to El Capitan. I do > this for two reasons: to acquaint new users thinking of upgrading with > one rookie's experience and perhaps to generate a bit of commentary > from more experienced users. > > As someone who has come up through the ranks of CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows, > and Apple iOS, I am no newcomer to the world of computers. In July, I > bought a MacBook Air, which came with Yosemite 10.10.3, which I > upgraded to 10.10.5 in early September. I love reading documentation, > so I threw myself happily into reading lots of VoiceOver and OS X > resources, including Tim Sniffen's and Janet Ingber's books, AppleVis > posts, and various podcasts, supplemented by generous chunks of David > Pogue's _Yosemite: the Missing Manual_. The learning curve was steep, > but I almost enjoyed my first few weeks. Troubled by some bugs, > notably in Mac Mail, I wondered if I should upgrade to El Capitan. > Years and years of caution prompted my inner voice to urge me to stay > put and be patient as I learned; but one day in October, I took the > plunge. Buoyed by my success at upgrading, I started to play with El > Capitan only to discover within a few minutes that not only were the > Mail bugs still present but also Safari often displayed a "busy" > status at times when performing the same operations in Yosemite > produced happier results. > > I decided to return to Yosemite 10.10.5, so, urged on by an Apple > Accessibility rep who told me I could downgrade without a bootable > drive, I decided to use Internet Recovery to restore the OS that came > with the machine. Something went wrong during the attempt to > downgrade, and the Mac refused to acknowledge my router. A couple of > earnest attempts by Apple Accessibility personnel to help the machine > recover failed, and I decided to take the computer into the nearby > Apple Store for a clean install. The bottom line is that the machine > has been restored to its Day One state, so to speak, and I am quite > content to wallow in Yosemite for the time being. > > My point is simple: if you're new to this game, consider carefully > whether the advantages you may gain when trying to upgrade are worth > the risk. Better to learn carefully what you don't know now than to > add more layers which you may not have bargained for. > > Some of you might be wondering why you have bothered to read something > so self-evident. All I can say is temptation doesn't always yield > beneficial results. At the risk of stating the obvious, I have stated > the obvious. <grin> > > Craig > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
