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MacInWin
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OK, I know none of these are global, or the universe would be screaming and all a-boil with flames everywhere, but I have some curious challenges with Mavericks.
For background, I have a MBP 17", 8,3, early 2011. I have a 480-GB SSD from OWC as boot drive, and moved the 750GB HD to the optical bay with their data doubler. I have my home directory on the HD, keep Applications on the SSD. I have a Thunderbolt Monitor to which my external drives are attached by FW and which then attaches to my TB port on the MBP.
I downloaded Mavericks and it installed just fine. Here are the strangenesses:
1. Has anybody actually installed from the USB installer? I created the USB installer on a USB stick three times, once using the "unhide files" approach, once use the newest version from the guy who created the ML installer application and once using the sudo command from Lifehacker Australia. All three ended in a USB stick that boots, that let's me run the Disk Utility and which fails at the install with a message about the installer having been amended and refusing to go any further.
2. Time Machine backs up, but when I invoke TM to see the backups all I get is a black screen on the MBP and a frozen screen on the second monitor. I have the TM disk attached to the second monitor and must admit I've not tried eliminating that by connecting the TM drive directly to the FW port of the MBP, but before Mavericks, TM worked just fine by dropping down my desktop to show the TM screen with all the backups along the right edge, blacking out the second monitor. I can use Finder to see that the backups ARE being made, and I did a restore from one of them with no problems through the USB boot process, but TM doesn't want to let me see the backups directly, for some reason.
3. Prior to Mavericks Disk Utility could verify my OWC SSD drive just fine. Now if I use Verify Disk, it hangs at the checking drive bitmap stage, never completes. I can see in Activity Monitor that the CPU usage for it drops to 0, disk activity stops and basically the processes seems to have ended, but I never get the last two steps of the verify reported as completed nor the results of the verify. I've tried two different SSD's (The OWC one and a new one from Crucial) with the exact same results.
4. Photoshop CS6 reports an error on startup that it cannot calibrate colors because of an application problem. No updates at Adobe, no screaming in their forums, and once I ignore the error message, PS seems to work ok.
So, anybody got any ideas of how to get past these for me? As I said, a quick Internet search didn't yield much from other folks, so it must be something on my end.
For background, I have a MBP 17", 8,3, early 2011. I have a 480-GB SSD from OWC as boot drive, and moved the 750GB HD to the optical bay with their data doubler. I have my home directory on the HD, keep Applications on the SSD. I have a Thunderbolt Monitor to which my external drives are attached by FW and which then attaches to my TB port on the MBP.
I downloaded Mavericks and it installed just fine. Here are the strangenesses:
1. Has anybody actually installed from the USB installer? I created the USB installer on a USB stick three times, once using the "unhide files" approach, once use the newest version from the guy who created the ML installer application and once using the sudo command from Lifehacker Australia. All three ended in a USB stick that boots, that let's me run the Disk Utility and which fails at the install with a message about the installer having been amended and refusing to go any further.
2. Time Machine backs up, but when I invoke TM to see the backups all I get is a black screen on the MBP and a frozen screen on the second monitor. I have the TM disk attached to the second monitor and must admit I've not tried eliminating that by connecting the TM drive directly to the FW port of the MBP, but before Mavericks, TM worked just fine by dropping down my desktop to show the TM screen with all the backups along the right edge, blacking out the second monitor. I can use Finder to see that the backups ARE being made, and I did a restore from one of them with no problems through the USB boot process, but TM doesn't want to let me see the backups directly, for some reason.
3. Prior to Mavericks Disk Utility could verify my OWC SSD drive just fine. Now if I use Verify Disk, it hangs at the checking drive bitmap stage, never completes. I can see in Activity Monitor that the CPU usage for it drops to 0, disk activity stops and basically the processes seems to have ended, but I never get the last two steps of the verify reported as completed nor the results of the verify. I've tried two different SSD's (The OWC one and a new one from Crucial) with the exact same results.
4. Photoshop CS6 reports an error on startup that it cannot calibrate colors because of an application problem. No updates at Adobe, no screaming in their forums, and once I ignore the error message, PS seems to work ok.
So, anybody got any ideas of how to get past these for me? As I said, a quick Internet search didn't yield much from other folks, so it must be something on my end.