OSX Mavericks? Anyone upgrade yet?

Oh to add things such as apps or folders to the toolbar in finder you need cmd-click+drag

I discovered that click+drag no longer works whilst trying to drag up folder-up app to the toolbar.

I'm confused why they changed that.
 
CAPS LOCK has changed in Mavericks it seems!

Turn on Caps Lock then try holding down SHIFT while Caps Lock is on. Things stay UPPER CASE. I didn't notice this in 10.8.
 
I installed it on my mid 2012 13 inch macbook pro(i7) and on my current gen mac mini i7. The load on the macbook is a temp on as I'm going to replace the hd with an ssd(the mini has a 256 gig 840 pro in it).

The install messed up on the mac mini and I ended up having to redownload the installer. Past that both went fine so far. I've had some weird issues with the power management setting on the macbook before installing mavericks but haven't retested it since the upgrade. Hopefully it is fixed.

Overall I'm disappointed they didn't add more features. I'd like more control over mouse buttons, preview on the alt tab, preview when you hover over something on the dock, and windows style drag to half screen and full screen options. All of this is available with third party software but I was hoping more would be added to the OS itself. At least tabs were added to the file browser.

Upgraded and immediately tested dual monitor support. Perfect.

Its better but still isn't perfect. Have a few apps like VLC that want to take over both screens.
 
Prior to upgrading I've been hitting swap something terrible with 8GB of RAM as I usually have lots of tabs in chrome open doing web dev work but things seem much better under Mavericks with the dynamic memory compression. I'm using nearly 16GB of memory without touching swap according to Activity Monitor between chrome, photoshop and vmware running and its actually usable for a change.

iCloud Keychain has me pretty disappointed though – was hoping for the same keychain sync as MobileMe had instead of a separate keychain that only Safari and some OS X services currently will use.

Edit: Can't say my Macbook Air from 2010 is fairing very well on Mavericks. Kernel panic immediately after the logging in after upgrading. Now it seems to be panicing every 15 minutes or so.
 
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CAPS LOCK has changed in Mavericks it seems!

Turn on Caps Lock then try holding down SHIFT while Caps Lock is on. Things stay UPPER CASE. I didn't notice this in 10.8.

I'm pretty sure this has been the behavior for quite some time. Snow Leopard does that too.
 
Edit: Can't say my Macbook Air from 2010 is fairing very well on Mavericks. Kernel panic immediately after the logging in after upgrading. Now it seems to be panicing every 15 minutes or so.

Strange that a modern machine would be having problems with Mav. Did you try restoring the OS?
 
Strange that a modern machine would be having problems with Mav. Did you try restoring the OS?

I nuked the preferences in system and my user libraries and it seems to be stable for the last 3 hours of compiling in macports. If it comes back I might try installing overtop or just doing a clean install. The amusing part is every panic's dump shows a different process and/or kext as the culprit so its not something I care to try and track down – could be changes in the memory management bringing some bad RAM to light I suppose.

If it is the RAM its under warranty until next month and I've been meaning to replace it with a new Macbook Air anyway for Thunderbolt to use the 27" iMac's display at one of the clients I have a contract with – web dev isn't very fun at 13".
 
Installed Mavericks earlier and it was fairly painless. Haven't used the system extensively afterwards, but didn't notice any significant changes. No doubt I'll find some things to like, though :)
 
I nuked the preferences in system and my user libraries and it seems to be stable for the last 3 hours of compiling in macports. If it comes back I might try installing overtop or just doing a clean install. The amusing part is every panic's dump shows a different process and/or kext as the culprit so its not something I care to try and track down – could be changes in the memory management bringing some bad RAM to light I suppose.

If it is the RAM its under warranty until next month and I've been meaning to replace it with a new Macbook Air anyway for Thunderbolt to use the 27" iMac's display at one of the clients I have a contract with – web dev isn't very fun at 13".

Well no love. Kernel panic'd again. As usual nothing useful – entirely different message and back trace with nothing in common on the most recent loaded/unloaded kext. Time to do a clean install I guess. :|
 
I've had no luck on my hackintosh so far. I probably need to install some kind of missing something... However, we did install it on a 2010 macbook and the performance seemed much better. We also upgraded one of our office computers (Mac pro tower 2011?) to mavericks and it seems to be working much better then on the previous osx. We do need to find some new apps since a few are just not compatible compatible anymore but that's not a huge issue.
 
My friend doesn't post on forums like these so I'm posting in his place.

He upgraded to OSX Mavericks a few days ago on his 2010-era Mac Pro.

Issues he had after upgrading:
  • Lag in OSX App Store.
  • Xcode acting "odd".
  • Scrolling HTML webpages in Safari shows obvious lag.
  • Volume control issues.
He hasn't opted to re-install from scratch just yet hoping it'll fix itself, but I'm wondering if other people have had or are having similar issues after upgrading, and possible fixes.
 
Delete the contents of the Caches folders in /Library and /Users/Derpy/Library

Try deleting some stuff in application support that he doesn't need as well.
 
My friend doesn't post on forums like these so I'm posting in his place.

He upgraded to OSX Mavericks a few days ago on his 2010-era Mac Pro.

Issues he had after upgrading:
  • Lag in OSX App Store.
  • Xcode acting "odd".
  • Scrolling HTML webpages in Safari shows obvious lag.
  • Volume control issues.
He hasn't opted to re-install from scratch just yet hoping it'll fix itself, but I'm wondering if other people have had or are having similar issues after upgrading, and possible fixes.


Mavericks does not support xcode 4.6.3, have to use Xcode 5+ now.

Also Intel HAXM is not supported, so if you do any Android dev work... do not upgrade yet.
 
After using it a fair bit I have noticed a few issues.

Shutting down takes around 10 minutes!
The multi monitor support is nice, but does not remember last window position or size on bootup (it did in 10.8)
Network transfers are slower than before (Samba)
No end of issues with Mail
 
After using it a fair bit I have noticed a few issues.

Shutting down takes around 10 minutes!
The multi monitor support is nice, but does not remember last window position or size on bootup (it did in 10.8)
Network transfers are slower than before (Samba)
No end of issues with Mail

I am seeing the complete opposite, maybe you should consider a fresh install.

Shutting down is fast.
Multi monitor remembers window positions, even moving windows on the laptop's built-in display back over.
Network transfers are much faster.
 
I'm getting the same issue I had during all the developer previews after installing the release candidate.

When browsing a network share with a lot of video files finder will lock up every time I try to play a video. Every time. This didn't happen prior to mavericks.

No problem playing local video. Only on my share with a lot of files.

No issues if I use pathfinder to browse shares.

The other issue I have, the same thing I had with the developer previews, is that whenever I power up my imac or wake it from sleep mail scans all my mail again and I get notifications for many of the emails until the inbox scan is complete.

Now a day later and mail is no longer showing an unread count on the icon in the dock.
 
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Been running since yesterday afternoon, took less then an hour to do it as a lunchtime upgrade. Only app I had problems with so far was Symantec Endpoint Protection, but as soon as I reloaded Java it was fine.

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Anyone else using iCloud for email lose the flagged and archive mailboxes after upgrading? I've tried removing and adding the account again and wiping mail's settings and they won't appear.
 
Anyone else using iCloud for email lose the flagged and archive mailboxes after upgrading? I've tried removing and adding the account again and wiping mail's settings and they won't appear.

Nope. That sounds more like an iCloud issue, not a Mavericks issue. Log in to iCloud.com and see if the mail is still there on the site. If not, then you have an iCloud problem.
 
Was on Mavericks but I'm sticking with Mountain Lion until at least 10.9.1 or 10.9.2. Still a few bugs to iron out with some programs I run and it's just not as smooth.
 
Nope. That sounds more like an iCloud issue, not a Mavericks issue. Log in to iCloud.com and see if the mail is still there on the site. If not, then you have an iCloud problem.

Its there and on my other Macs. Only the Air seems to have issues with it.
 
Both of the Macs in my signature have been running the GM build of Mavericks since it was announced. Both run extremely well.

MacBook Pro: I've saw about a 45minute increase in my battery life with this release. Ram usage is handled quite well... I literally tried to max out my ram consumption and couldn't(a shit load of chrome tabs, photoshop, SQL Developer, MySQL Workshop, Photoshop, Netbeans, Firefox with a ton of tabs, Safari with a ton of tabs, and a 1080p video playing). After about two weeks of running Mavericks on the MBP I did have to do a SMC reset because for whatever reason it suddenly went from its 5second boot time to over a minute.

Mac Mini: No issues. I occasional was getting I believe the MDS reader process taxing my cpu. I reset my finder cache and rebuilt it... this corrected the issue.

Overall software issues: I use VirtualBox to mount local development images and after a reboot I have to re-install VirtualBox each time to fix it... or else it won't start up a virutal machine. This is the latest version of VirtualBox 4.3. Synergy is also currently b0rked for Mavericks. If it is started as sudo from command line it will work... but there are still broken features... screen lock/unlock doesn't work correctly on both machines and there are some issues with screensavers.


Overall... Mavericks has treated me pretty well. I have also switched back to the Mac Mail and Calendar apps instead of Outlook(which I was running for the last year).
 
I'm seeing occasional 10+ second latencies on events being dispatched from kqueue in Mavericks, annoyingly. This is pretty severely impacting the way I build out my Node.js applications, which relies on kqueue for its file/folder watch API.
 
My friend ended up reinstalling from scratch and the issues fixed themselves after that. Seems upgrading straight from the previous version of OSX added the issues I listed above.
 
Loving Mavericks on my 2012 retina macbook pro 15"

Definite performance improvement over 10.8.
 
Im not a heavy Mac user yet, my 13' MacBook Pro is my first Mac ever, not counting any iOS device I own. From what I have seen, the Mavericks update shows a significant improvement in usage. Not sure with everything else, terminal, programming, etc... Im not complaining. Im not into getting everything in the App Store, so dont know all the effects of it.
 
Has anyone figured out how to remove applications from launchpad in mavericks? There was a way to remove them by deleting the .db file pertaining to the dock. But this no longer works in mavericks. I have a bunch of steam games I uninstalled that are still showing up in launchpad that I can't seem to delete.
 
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