Every single problem I’m having started immediately after I “upgraded” to Yosemite.įirst Mac experience: A Mac SE30 running System 6 at my community college.įirst owned Mac: 1996. But everything still worked perfectly while I was running the previous version of Mac OS X (Lion?). I’ve been running it off an external drive for more than a year. Granted, my current Mac is a 2008 iMac, with a dead internal hard drive (although, yay, I just located a tutorial that shows me how to open up this machine and replace the hard drive). That is just a sampling of the problems I’ve been having lately. I’m forced to hold down the power button to physically shut down, and then hit the power button again to restart. I attempt to Restart (Apple Menu -> Restart), and my Mac will just sit there, apparently doing nothing, or everything will appear to close out, except that I’m left staring at my Desktop, sans menubar and Dock, with nothing else happening, or my screen will go black and remain that way without Restarting. This presents a problem when I’m trying to Restart my Mac. But, if I look at the Dock, all of those apps that I just closed are still showing as “running” in the Dock. I can quit everything, and using Command+Tab shows me that the Finder is the only thing running. Quitting all open apps doesn’t seem to register.Clicking on a link in an e-mail opens a browser window, but instead of bringing my browser to the foreground like it’s supposed to, the browser window remains in the background.I have to resort to logging into my domain host’s webmail option in Chrome, where I delete everything “suspicious” in my inbox so that PowerMail doesn’t have to try to download it. Relaunching PowerMail just ends up getting me a “spinning beachball of death”, as it chokes on … something … while attempting to download new messages. But, since upgrading to Yosemite, PowerMail is constantly choking on certain e-mails (I haven’t yet been able to narrow down which e-mails are the problem.) By “choking”, I mean I come home from work to find an alert telling me that PowerMail has crashed. ![]() ![]() This mail client has been one of the most rock-solid, dependable pieces of software I’ve ever used. I have been using the same e-mail client, PowerMail, for more than 15 years. ![]() Here are some of the problems I’ve experienced, on a daily basis, since “upgrading” to Yosemite: Each and every OS upgrade was an improvement over the previous version. My first Mac ran System 7.6.1, and since then, four Macs later, I have happily upgraded to each new version of the Mac OS as soon as it became commercially available. I have been a Mac user for nearly 20 years.
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