WOW, that upgrade was painful!!

[Phil Harvey]

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

[Alan Clifford]

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

[Phil Harvey]

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

[Alan Clifford]

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$

[Phil Harvey]

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

[Alan Clifford]

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.

[Phil Harvey]

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

[Alan Clifford]

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.

[ugnelakys]

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

- Phil

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