OS X Yosemite (10.10) Bug Thread

[liquidspark]

Multiple Clicks

Sometimes when I use my mouse to click on a checkbox or other button, or anywhere else, in Yosemite, it clicks twice instead of once. This has not happened to me in Snow Leopard or Mavericks. I thought it might be an issue with my mouse, but it seems to be a sensitivity issue with the checkboxes, where they will check and then uncheck again after I click on them once, if I click quickly rather than hold the mouse button down. Even if I hold the mouse button down, though, it seems to accidentally toggle the checkboxes twice instead of once.

 

[rog]

4 Ghz iMac retina just arrived with 24GB. Slowest new mac I have ever had. My i7 2.6 Mini was faster. I can start to type in Facebook and it beachballs. $3200 and my 2.5 year old Air is faster in basic things like typing and not beach balling. Yosemite is the buggiest since the OS9 days and I'm a mac user since 1992. 1 million beta testers and we get this? $0 is overpriced!

 

[CapAirboss]

53 PAGES, DAMN ! I just joined the forum. I can't read all those pages to find out what is going on with Yosemite. I have an early iMac 24. After loading yosemite, I can't get to many sites in firefox. It says "proxy server not found". Some sites DO come up but lack any other options. Can someone PLEASE help me ? Thanks, Mike

 

[CapAirboss]

Now my early 2009 iMac 24 says " Proxy Server is Refusing Connections" What the heck is up with this. Is this a plot by Apple to get us to 'Upgrade'? I simply can't afford another computer.

 

[xgman]

It seem to me that either Apple is blissfully unaware of many of these bugs or they simply can't be bothered to devote the resources necessary to allow it's users to have a smooth experience with Yosemite. I'm guessing that the people responsible for squashing bugs are likely forbidden from reading the forums or maybe they do any just blame 90% of it on user error. At least is seems that way.

 

[CapAirboss]

The only hope would be that 10.10.2 solves these issues that all are having. Is there a projected date for release?

 

[kdoolz]

Now my early 2009 iMac 24 says " Proxy Server is Refusing Connections" What the heck is up with this. Is this a plot by Apple to get us to 'Upgrade'? I simply can't afford another computer.

I have a brand new MacBook Pro and had the same issues - I went back to Maverick to wait out the bug fixes.....so far - no bug fixes.

 

[CapAirboss]

My new MacBook Pro(late/2013) does not have any issues. How do you go back to Maverics without a disc? ANYBODY ?

 

[KennyKW]

It crashed the boot camp partition of my 2011 27" iMac. I have to re-install Windows 8.1. Bootcamp assistant then created a partition which cannot be used by Windows 8.1. I have to manually re-format it.

Now I tried to do a fresh installation of Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro 2013 but by far no luck. It freezes at %64 and halted there. I tried to use bootcamp assistant to create an iso image. However, it failed to detect the 2 USBs correctly. It is supposed that it creates a Windows installation USB and a bootcamp USB separately. However, it copied both to a single USB. When installing Windows it can never find out the bootcamp USB no matter what.

 

[swingerofbirch]

Apple doesn't care

Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, it's been hard to tell if my Mac has hardware problems or if Yosemite is really that buggy, but in the end it always seems to end up that Yosemite is that buggy.

I have a late 2013 13" rMBP. I run screen sharing on it any time I'm using it (its screen is shared). Any time I disconnected screen sharing, the MBP would freeze. And it would disconnect at random--not just me manually disconnecting it. Like if I left the WiFi network I was in, it would freeze because I was no longer screen sharing. I probably had to manually power it down over a hundred times. Wrote to Apple's developer support (Even though I'm not a developer, but AppleCare couldn't help me). After a month of me pestering them, they tell me it's an OpenCL bug and give me a work around to disable OpenCL when using screen sharing which has taxed the hell out of my CPU and made my battery life crap.

So I started trying to tell them about other issues. I keep getting a message that "There has been a graphics error." I can't use my iPhone as a hotspot on my Yosemite Mac but I can use it on my dad's Mavericks Mac and on my Chromebook. I've logged in and out of iCloud on both devices, reset network settings, forgotten all networks, and I still can't connect. Yet my $149 Chromebook can connect to my iPhone's hotspot in 2 seconds. After hours on the phone with AppleCare, I can't get my MacBook Pro to connect to its hotspot. The guy on the phone with me just gave up. He told me I could reinstall Yosemite, but I've already done a clean install twice for other issues.

Opening Finder tabs causes weird graphical glitches and freezes. There are weird graphical glitches all the time. I have to restart constantly to get the computer to not respond like its made of molasses.

I report all these things to them and give them step by step instructions on how to reproduce them. I send them attachments of Console logs. I send them videos.

And I get nothing back.

Yosemite is not free. Yosemite is a full-time job trying to help a company that doesn't want to help itself. How can a company that big seem to have capacity smaller than a 1-person developer?

I'm sick of it and I needed to rant. I have spent so much time trying to get things to work and reporting things one by one to them. I finally wrote them and said, "Do you want to know where all the bugs are? JUST USE OS X AND YOU WILL SEE THEM."

I have been using OS X since OS X Public Beta (10.0) which cost $29.95 back in 2000. That beta of the very first version of OS X was slow, but it was less buggy than the shipping version of Yosemite today.

Thank you.

 

[grahamperrin]

OT: back to Mavericks

… How do you go back to Maverics without a disc?

Without a backup disk? These questions will best asked and answered in a separate topic.

 

[xgman]

The only hope would be that 10.10.2 solves these issues that all are having. Is there a projected date for release?

From the dev's I hear that so far it caused more harm than good.

 

[swingerofbirch]

My new MacBook Pro(late/2013) does not have any issues. How do you go back to Maverics without a disc? ANYBODY ?

Internet Recovery will let you go back to whichever OS version your computer came with. Back-up all your data first and then boot while holding option-command-R.

 

[CapAirboss]

Called into the Apple Chat. They gave me an 'Exception' (no fee) because of the upgrade issue. Basically they said to clear all wifi info in the 'network' then 'advanced' of System Preferences. Clearing proxies and all references to ANY wifi. I then let it rebuild the connection itself to your Own wifi and all is good. Amazing that it took such an easy step for My situation. I hope this helps others !

 

[bugga]

My new MacBook Pro(late/2013) does not have any issues. How do you go back to Maverics without a disc? ANYBODY ?

Download Mavericks from store and use that to restore over Yosemite.

 

[amsbuddy]

Safari crashes for me too, and mostly is awful at playing online games with flash.

Safari is super unstable for me (i.e. open it and it crashes within a minute). Is this true for anyone else?

Safari crashes for me too, and mostly is awful at playing online games with flash. This morning, i installed a "browser helper" (not sure of the name of it at all, it just popped up and said 'this application is trying to install a helper') and foolishly, I clicked on it and now Safari won't even open at all. I went through my HD and couldn't find anything that said it was installed on today's date.

Now I'm searching for a way to repair safari when you can't get online. No luck.

Can't download and install another browser so.. i'm screwed!!

Can you all please email me at annbrutus at outlook dot com

 

[Abba1]

Safari crashes for me too, and mostly is awful at playing online games with flash. This morning, i installed a "browser helper" (not sure of the name of it at all, it just popped up and said 'this application is trying to install a helper') and foolishly, I clicked on it and now Safari won't even open at all. I went through my HD and couldn't find anything that said it was installed on today's date.

Now I'm searching for a way to repair safari when you can't get online. No luck.

Can't download and install another browser so.. i'm screwed!!

Can you all please email me at annbrutus at outlook dot com

The browser helper would probably or at least possibly show up under startup items. But, it may be hidden somewhere else on your Mac. To check this, look at:

/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Applications
/Library/Preferences
/Library/Logs
/Library/Receipts
/Library/Startupitems
~/Library/Application Support
~/Library/Preferences

Regarding your reinstallation of Safari, either go to the Apple Store where they can download it or ask a friend who also uses Mac to help you since it can be done computer to computer.

Except for Java which is truly problematic, Flash is possibly the most dangerous thing you can use. It keeps being updated because Adobe keeps on identifying vulnerabilities. What makes it difficult is that there are certain websites that require Flash. I personally have stopped using it although I suspect that sooner or later, I will have to reinstall Flash.

Once you are set up with Safari again, only download Flash from the Adobe website (which you should bookmark for access). Do not accept any downloads that come automatically or even notify you automatically. If you do set Flash up for automatic notification, do not download from that but go to the bookmarked Adobe website. You will need to turn off AdBlock, Ghostery, or any other such extension before doing so or you will not be able to download. If you do not set it up for automatic notification, check Adobe regularly for updates.

 

[CooKieMoNs7eR]

Before I updated to 10.10.1, I a had dual boot option every time I booted my mbp, it shows me two options os x or windows, but after I updated to 10.10.1 there is no option to go to windows if I wanted to, I'd have to press and hold the option button to bring up the menu then pick OS X, windows or recovery...anyone else experienced this? also how to fix it? thanks.

 

[bugga]

Very good answer!
Another workaround would be to get a .dmg for Google Chrome browser on a thumb drive and install it.
Hope this helps.

The browser helper would probably or at least possibly show up under startup items. But, it may be hidden somewhere else on your Mac. To check this, look at:

/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Applications
/Library/Preferences
/Library/Logs
/Library/Receipts
/Library/Startupitems
~/Library/Application Support
~/Library/Preferences

Regarding your reinstallation of Safari, either go to the Apple Store where they can download it or ask a friend who also uses Mac to help you since it can be done computer to computer.

Except for Java which is truly problematic, Flash is possibly the most dangerous thing you can use. It keeps being updated because Adobe keeps on identifying vulnerabilities. What makes it difficult is that there are certain websites that require Flash. I personally have stopped using it although I suspect that sooner or later, I will have to reinstall Flash.

Once you are set up with Safari again, only download Flash from the Adobe website (which you should bookmark for access). Do not accept any downloads that come automatically or even notify you automatically. If you do set Flash up for automatic notification, do not download from that but go to the bookmarked Adobe website. You will need to turn off AdBlock, Ghostery, or any other such extension before doing so or you will not be able to download. If you do not set it up for automatic notification, check Adobe regularly for updates.

 

[christian.terra]

Spotlight problems with latest beta

I updated to the newest dev version 10.10.2 (14C81f) and now spotlight isn't working properly. I'll bring up spotlight search and I'll type in what I'm looking for and it won't load. It stays on the search bar.

For example, I'll type in "Mail" and nothing will happen. I have to backspace, delete one letter and retype it for it to finally bring up results. Anyone else experiencing this problem? First time experiencing this.

It used to work like Google Instant results, but now it seems to get stuck.

 

[xgman]

I have been using OS X since OS X Public Beta (10.0) which cost $29.95 back in 2000. That beta of the very first version of OS X was slow, but it was less buggy than the shipping version of Yosemite today.

Well that's progress for ya!

 

[Abba1]

Very good answer!
Another workaround would be to get a .dmg for Google Chrome browser on a thumb drive and install it.
Hope this helps.

A member of the tech support team for my anti-virus gave me that list some time ago, and I check it whenever I am worried about something dangerous or even when I am simply removing a program --even one with its own installer. It's amazing how much remains after uninstallation!

Do you like Chrome more than Firefox? Right now I have Firefox as my backup browser, but I'm not wedded to it.

 

[musicaddictz]

My 2-week-old rMBP is acting weird. I'm not sure if anyone has this but my computer froze for seconds (think about the dock is supposed to move away but it stopped halfway). I'm pretty OCD but tbh I've never had this problem in my last 2 rMBP...The only different things I installed is XBMC and Tunnelblick for my VPN . Can someone tell me what to do?

 

[Fzang]

Updated to 10.10.2 public beta on my rMBP and UI graphics seem faster in places. Especially the "About This Mac" is now silky smooth.

 

[Abba1]

It seem to me that either Apple is blissfully unaware of many of these bugs or they simply can't be bothered to devote the resources necessary to allow it's users to have a smooth experience with Yosemite. I'm guessing that the people responsible for squashing bugs are likely forbidden from reading the forums or maybe they do any just blame 90% of it on user error. At least is seems that way.

If people report them to Apple, there is hope for a fix. If people don't, then Apple may not become aware of the problems.