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General => Other Discussion => Topic started by: Phil Harvey on November 20, 2014, 11:39:44 AM

Title: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 20, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
I've just upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and it was a huge pain to get the forum working again after the upgrade wiped out the forum database. :(

- Phil
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Alan Clifford on November 21, 2014, 10:05:25 PM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on November 20, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
I've just upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and it was a huge pain to get the forum working again after the upgrade wiped out the forum database. :(

- Phil

That has done nothing to encourage me to upgrade.

Alan
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 24, 2014, 06:43:38 AM
Hi Alan,

If it wasn't for all of the extra Unix software I have installed on this machine, the upgrade would have been easy.  But if you do have Unix software, be sure to move /usr/local to some other location before doing the upgrade, then move it back again afterwards.  That won't solve all of the problems, but it certainly helps.

- Phil
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Alan Clifford on May 24, 2015, 07:05:16 AM
This looks like it is going to be fun.  I did take a copy of /usr/local as you advised though.

egremont:~ alan$ ls /Library/Perl/5.16/
AppendToPath                Image/
File/                       darwin-thread-multi-2level/
egremont:~ alan$ ls /Library/Perl/5.18/
AppendToPath                darwin-thread-multi-2level/
egremont:~ alan$
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 08:21:08 AM
Hi Alan,

I didn't say copy it, I said move it out of the way...  The Yosemite install will take forever for some reason if there is a lot of stuff in /usr/local.

- Phil
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Alan Clifford on May 24, 2015, 08:32:09 AM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 08:21:08 AM
Hi Alan,

I didn't say copy it, I said move it out of the way...  The Yosemite install will take forever for some reason if there is a lot of stuff in /usr/local.

- Phil

With "forever" being infinite.  It seemed to hang so I went to bed.  Restarted the thing in the morning and seems OK now.  Installed new Java then new Java sdk so I could get to my password manager so I can get my apple id so I can download the Yosemite updates.  Not looked at the Perl yet.

This is really stupid, I might as well be running Linux.  Next laptop will be Linux I think with a virtual machine for Windows to run the Nikon software.
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 09:35:02 AM
Perl should be fine.  I didn't have any problems with that.

The biggest problem with OS X is that apparently they don't consider fringe users (like myself) to be very important.

- Phil
Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: Alan Clifford on May 24, 2015, 09:43:50 AM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 09:35:02 AM
Perl should be fine.  I didn't have any problems with that.

That's OK now probably.  exiftool wouldn't work so I re-installed.

Title: Re: WOW, that upgrade was painful!!
Post by: ugnelakys on June 04, 2015, 07:20:33 AM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on November 24, 2014, 06:43:38 AM
Hi Alan,

If it wasn't for all of the extra Unix software I have installed on this machine, the upgrade would have been easy.  But if you do have Unix software, be sure to move /usr/local to some other location before doing the upgrade, then move it back again afterwards.  That won't solve all of the problems, but it certainly helps. Quote author (http://mainfacts.com/quotes-quotations-sayings)

- Phil


FFor me the same problem, the same solution. :) re-installed.