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OS X version 10.10.0, called 'Yosemite,' became available from Apple on October 17, 2014, as a free update to 10.9 Mavericks. This note describes how to update a computer from an older version of MacOS to OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Apple released OS X 10.10.1 on 17 Nov 2014, fixing security and WiFi problems. Apple released OS X 10.10.2 on 28 Jan 2015, fixing security and WiFi problems. Apple released OS X 10.10.3 on 08 Apr 2015, including the new Photos application, and fixing WiFi problems. A supplemental release for 10.10.3 came out on 16 Apr 2015, fixing video driver issues that might prevent startup. Apple released OS X 10.10.4 on 30 Jun 2015, fixing network problems by eliminating discoveryd. Apple released OS X 10.10.5 on 13 Aug 2015, patching many security holes. (See below for information on problems with Perl.)
A Security Update for Yosemite was released on 17 Oct 2014, to fix the 'POODLE' security hole. A Security Update for Yosemite was released on 22 Dec 2014, to fix bugs in the NTP implementation. A Security Update for Yosemite was released on 27 Jan 2015, to fix many security bugs. A Security Update for Yosemite was released on 09 Mar 2015, to fix multiple security bugs including the 'FREAK' attack. Security Update 2015-003 Yosemite was released on 20 Mar 2015, to fix additional security bugs in applications, and a special update for certain early 2015 Macs. Security Update 2015-004 Yosemite was released on 21 Oct 2015, to fix additional security bugs. Security Update 2015-005 Yosemite was released on 08 Dec 2015, to fix additional security bugs. Multiple updates to Safari have also been released to fix security problems.
There are many useful articles about Yosemite at Graham Needham's MacStrategy.
I didn't install Yosemite until after 10.10.4 came out, because of bugs in earlier vesions.
Yosemite was replaced by OS X El Capitan in September 2015. The latest version of Mac OS X is version 10.15, 'Catalina', released in 07 Oct 2019.
New Features of Yosemite
The Yosemite user interace is more like iOS 8. See 'A Visual Tour of OS X Yosemite's Changes'. If your Mac is new enough (late 2012), Yosemite will support integration between iOS devices and the desktop: Handoff, Continuity and iOS 8 to OS X Airdrop. Mail and Messages have new interfaces and features. A new app, Photos, replaced iPhoto.
Should I Install Yosemite?
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None.
What you Should Do Now to Get Ready for Yosemite
Who Can Update
Not everyone can use the new OS version.
Plan your install
When you decide to install Yosemite, do it carefully. You may find that there are issues that affect you: do your homework. Check MacInTouch to see if there are problems with OS X 10.10 that affect you.
Make sure you back up your entire disk before starting to install Yosemite. https://paupervo.hatenablog.com/entry/2020/10/14/182744.
Hours to download mac catalina. Make a list of the hardware you depend on, and search the web to check that each device will work. Older printers and scanners can have issues.
Leave yourself enough time. Upgrading will tie up your computer for a big part of a day. Installing takes an hour or two, but then your computer will be very slow until it re-does the Spotlight index and backs up to Time Machine.
Finding PowerPC Programs
PowerPC-only programs on your computer will not run on Yosemite. (System Profiler no longer lists the 'Kind' of program in its Applications report.) To list these programs, open a Terminal window and type
Many of these programs are not problems: they are leftovers from old software installers or previous versions of software. For example /Library/Application Support/Adobe/AdobePDF.app. If you have questions, contact the manufacturer.
Particular issues before upgrading
Here is a partial list of minimum program versions needed for Yosemite. For other programs, check product websites.
Installing Yosemite
I have upgraded two computers to Yosemite, and the transition did not encounter any terrible problems.
Post Install Tasks
Once you are satisfied that your computer works acceptably, and you are going to stay on Yosemite, you can do some adjustments.
Customization
You will probably want to set up per-user customizations, such as your desktop background and screensaver. After each new OS generation this is something of an adventure; functions get renamed and moved around. Most of my customizations from Mavericks were still there on Yosemite. but you have to check.
Security issues
Under Yosemite, Spotlight 'shows suggestions from the Internet, iTunes, App Store, movie showtimes, locations nearby, and more.' To do this, it sends your location and query to Apple servers. This may be a problem if you are required to keep information private, for example because of US laws HIPAA or FERPA. You can disable Spotlight Suggestions in ► System Preferences=>Spotlight=>Search Results, in the Safari preferences, and in iPhone/iPad settings. Here is an article from the Intego blog: Spotlight Suggestions in OS X Yosemite and iOS: Are You Staying Private?
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Yosemite observations
The initial download and install took a couple of hours. The programming tools took a few more hours. (I saved the installer file so I could create a bootable USB Yosemite installer.)
Photos
Photos is a new program, similar to Photos on the iPhone. iPhoto will no longer be maintained or enhanced. Photos will convert your iPhoto library to a Photos library (if you have moved the iPhoto library out of your Pictures folder it takes some fiddling). After it imports the iPhoto library it renames it iPhotoLib.migratedphotolibrary. My experiences with the Photos app are in a page on picture handling.
Contacts
Software I wrote depends on the format of vCards exported by Contacts. The Export vCard function now has a checkbox to export pictures or not. There are slight differences between the exported files from 10.9.5 and 10.10.4, but nothing that is a problem for my program.
New Features
Bugs/Gotchas in Yosemite
Mouse/Trackpad: After updating, I found that the scroll wheel on my mouse would stop working in Firefox after a while. Trackpad two-finger scrolling also stopped working. Switching to another app made it work, but on switching back to Firefox, it was still broken. Google shows many users having the same problem. I have tried various voodoo.. sleeping the machine for 10 seconds, changing trackpad prefs, turning off Bluetooth and WiFi. Sometimes they help, sometimes not. In the trackpad control panel, I turned off everything in the first two panes, and the problem stopped.
GraphViz/Cairo Library: After updating, compiling a '.dot' file got the warning:
This is an error in the Cairo library provided by MacPorts, which is calling an Apple routine that is deprecated in Yosemite. A ticket was filed on this in May 2015 to update MacPorts to the latest Cairo, but the issue is still unresolved, because it would break support for Tiger. A recent addendum to the ticket describes a way to recompile Cairo without the Tiger patch. Haven't tried it yet.
Screensaver: I created a Photos album and pointed the screensaver at it. It shows each picture for 3 seconds: there is no way to adjust this parameter, except using Xcode to edit a framework .plist file.
Auto tune 8 r2r aax. Window Resizing: On the Mac Mini, I make the Firefox window very large. When I put the machine to sleep and wake it later, the window has gone back to standard size. I figured it out: when I wake the Mini and the TV attached to it, the Mini wakes first, asks the display its size, gets no answer, assumes a default size, and shrinks any windows that are too big. I'm not sure how to correct this.
Mail.app: As of 10.10.3, you should make sure Automatically detect and maintain account settings is checked if you use Mail with a Gmail account.
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Silverlight: I have deleted Silverlight and switched to using Chrome for viewing Netflix movies. Chrome streams video using HTML5 instead, and this is much more reliable.
iTunes: On my Mini, the only notifications I get are when iTunes changes the song. I would like the song title to stay up longer than 3 seconds. I tried to change the length of time a notification banner shows, by executing
but it had no effect: iTunes notifications always seem to last the same time.
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Perl: Installing OSX 10.10.5 broke my Perl setup. I had set PERL5LIB to (my lib):/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.3 and 10.10.5 installed Perl 5.18. Access to MySQL from Perl started failing, saying that the 5.16 library was incompatible with the 5.18 Perl loader. I set PERL5LIB to (my lib):/Library/Perl/5.18/, trying to avoid using the MacPorts Perl, and made a symlink to the new system Perl in my /bin directory with ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl. Then I did sudo -H /usr/bin/cpan or sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install module' to install a bunch of stuff into the system Perl lib, such as DBI. CPAN still failed installing DBD::mysql, even after setting the CPAN config using o conf makepl_arg '--testuser=root --testpass=xxx'. I searched the Web, which suggested sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib and this allowed me to install DBD::mysql and run Perl MySQL database accesses.
Planning for the next version
Keep a list of the software and devices you use and depend on, so you can check that they are supported.
Apple's next version of Mac OS X was released at the end of September 2015 as OSX 10.11, called 'El Capitan.'
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