Re: Continual Console Log Entries re Address Book

Any suggestions for clearing this ongoing problem? More information found: The associated plist has a setting for a 3600 second call. As the call is happening every 30 seconds, something is wrong. There is probably a Scheduler somewhere that has stored corrupt data for the call time. A

the spinning beach ball has changed!

Hi All, Just rebooted with El Capitan 10.11, Taken 11 hours, spinning beachball has been simplified. Brian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings

Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

Hi Brian and All, Thanks for the report. Have you had a chance to test your applications, specially any non-Apple ones e.g. MS Office, Gimp, etc? I have finished downloading El Condor Pa... no! I mean El Capitan which took close to 2 hours, but the installation is taking some time to finish.

Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

Hi Philippe, Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" MacBookPro). Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn you that it does. There are some system voice upgrades to do after initial installation, so check updates. It isn't letting me

Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

> On 2 Oct 2015, at 7:42 am, Brian Risbey wrote: > > Hi Philippe, > Office, latest, just upgraded is working, mail fine, (I have a 17" > MacBookPro). > Yes, reboot took longer than suggested, does restart a few times, they warn > you that it does. > There are some system

El Kapitan

Just having upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 and found no significant difference in speed and little else, I am now wondering whether Kapitan is worth the change. I notice that on the upgrade website that extols the virtues of split screen etc the customer reviews show about 10% giving it one

10.11

Good morning all, Have installed 10.11 We are always told to repair permissions before and after. Have done it before but the new disk utility screen does not show the repair permissions option any more ??? Cheers Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: 10.11

> On 2 Oct 2015, at 8:34 am, FW wrote: > > Good morning all, > > Have installed 10.11 > We are always told to repair permissions before and after. Have done it before > but the new disk utility screen does not show the repair permissions option > any more ??? > > Cheers

Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

Hi Brian, Peter and All, Many thanks again for the valuable information. My iMac has been updated and needed a couple of restarts. I have checked MS Office 2011 and Excel is working correctly. One thing which happened thought is that the cooling fan of the iMac, which after a year of usage

Re: the spinning beach ball has changed!

Upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan can be equated to the previous upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It's a no brainer but most improvements are under the hood and you may not necessarily notice them. Upgrade SuperDuper before you upgrade the OS. Repairing permissions became irrelevant a

iCloud issues with Contacts and Bookmarks

My iMac Contacts and Safari Bookmarks data have changed in the last day or so. I think the Safari Reading List may also have been changed. I think iCloud data has merged with iMac data as a number of old, previously edited and deleted entries have returned. 1. Can I delete Contacts and