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After trying to install OS X El Capitan onto my hard drive, I've come across a problem. When it asks me to sign into my Apple ID I do with the correct information. It then says that my username or password is incorrect. I know this is not the case because I have reset my password and tested it by signing into the App Store on my phone. Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes? Thanks.
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Hey all,Thought I would pose a question/debate opener,Has anyone found beta 2 of 10.11 really sluggishly slow in comparision to beta 1, I found on my mid-2010 15" (8GB Ram) even the most simple of tasks it finds reason to truggle and beachball me.Even for dev work on it, it struggles so think might be a wipe & time machine back to 10.10.4 as at least that was workable for devving in comparision to this.Was just thinking whats everyone else think??
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can we not post screenshot pics or videos to this forum? I see the icon to attach but when I click it nothing happens.
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I installed the 1st beta of El Capitan, and now I cannot update anything via software update, including OS X itself. I just get the "couldn't communicate with a helper application" error. I even reinstalled the OS, and Im still getting it. Anyone have any ideas? I tried manually installing via command line using ""softwareupdate --install --all"but I get:Jul 3 22:16:20 softwareupdate CLI[4500] <Error>: /usr/sbin/softwareupdate: Service connection invalidated!Help?
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Hello Guys;I'm trying to use the new geat features with Safari with El Capitan in my Macbook Retina 12", 1.3Ghz. Everything starts fine, but there must be a memory leak somewhere. Just after a few minutes, even with no activity in the browser I can see the safari's memory usage grows to 4 then 5 then 6Gb of RAM.Do you have the same behaviour?Thanks;
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Trying to airdrop files from iOS 9 device to Mac with 10.11 Beta 3 installed. I get the notification that the file is being transferred, but the file never appears in the downloads folderanyone else having success with AirDrop??
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Hello,I have Notes 4.0 (512) running on OS X 10.11 (15A226f). I cannot create a new note. Using the shortcut cmd+N. And the menu item File > New Note is disabled (grayed). I can only create folders.All my notes are stored on iCloud. I have space available on my iCloud storage plan. Notes sync with iCloud is activated. I restarted my Mac; it did not help.Did anyone encouter that? Is this a feature or a bug? I Google for this and found nothing. I can't remember if it happened right after updating to 15A226f or a while after.Also to note, I had an issue with no free storage available on iCloud. I fixed it by deleting an iOS backup to reclaim 4GB.Thank you!
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I've been using 10.11 beta (15A225f) on a late 2011 MacBook Pro. One issue I've run into is that although I can create and delete smart mailboxes, the changes don't stick if I quit and restart Mail.app. I've tried a number of things -- most recently deletingBackupTOC.plistDefaultCountsEnvelope%20IndexEnvelope%20Index-shmEnvelope%20Index-walExternalUpdates.storedataExternalUpdates.storedata-shmExternalUpdates.storedata-walLSMMap2SmartMailboxesLocalProperties.plistfrom ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData and letting Mail.app rebuild everything, but the problem persists. I can see entires being created in SmartMailboxesLocalProperties.plist when I add something, but that file gets reset when Mail.app is restarted. Any ideas?Thanks!!
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Has anyone tried to display a contact with the CNContactViewController making one of the email addresses highlighted? I tried it, but if I use the highlightPropertyWithKey method, the resulting controller is blank and the following message is logged:[CNUI ERROR] error calling service - Couldn’t communicate with a helper application.I also tried using the deprecated API (ABPersonViewController), and the result is exactly the same. It works fine on iOS8 though.Here's a sample code: func openAppleSeed(highlight:Bool) { let store = CNContactStore() let request = CNContactFetchRequest(keysToFetch: [CNContactEmailAddressesKey]); do { try store.enumerateContactsWithFetchRequest(request, usingBlock: { (contact:CNContact, stop:UnsafeMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Void in for address in contact.emailAddresses { if address.value as! String == "John-Appleseed@mac.com" { do { let fullContact = try store.unifiedContactWithIdentifier(contact.identifier, keysToFetch: [CNContactViewController.descriptorForRequiredKeys()]) let vc = CNContactViewController(forContact: fullContact) vc.contactStore = store if highlight { vc.highlightPropertyWithKey(CNContactEmailAddressesKey, identifier: address.identifier) } self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true) return } catch { print("CATCHING (B)") } return; } } }) } catch { print("CATCHING (A)") } }Calling this function openAppleseed(highlight:false) works fine, but openAppleseed(highlight:true) generates the blank view controller and the log message mentioned aboved.I tested it with the latest beta (5), and both simulator and device. Same result. I am submitting a bug report now, but I was curious if anyone had the same issue. Any workarounds?Cheers.
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Hello guys!Anyone out there with high CPU usage issues by kernel_task when you have two monitors connected by Thunderbolt? CPU usage at 1300%. I have to shut down one monitor.Have tested all the betas and the GM and nothing. In Yosemite works quiet.My setup;MacBookPro 15 Retina 20122.3 Core i716 GB RAM2 monitors LG
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Is there a way to disable certain parts of SIP while enabling parts of it? If so, then how do I do this?I'd like to enable most of SIP (such as filesystem protections), but disable debugging restrictions so that I can attach a debugger to System Preferences to debug a preference pane, something that is normally not allowed. I'm aware of csrutil, but there's no manual for the tool, and the online help doesn't say whether it can do this or not.
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Quartz Debug crashes on El Capitan. Is there a replacement for it? I'm trying to debug some weird flashing and slow drawing in my app on El Capitan.
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Il manque le Français dans les langues . Le Français (Seul) . Pour que les applications peuvent être en Fançais !!!
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So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well. I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. I haven't found a way to quit it either. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari. So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the "Desktop and Documents" item. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk. But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. Not in the trash, nowhere to be found. Gone.Can any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.Thanks.
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Hi, For some reason, dirty shutdown is no longer working for me under 10.12 betaI have a script running that switches of my Mac Pro 5,1 at midnight every day. Since I travel a lot, I can remotely switch on my Mac Pro with an remotely controlled power plug switch off/switch on. Works like charm - until now. Looks like something has changed with 10.12... Anybody has an idea? Is it still working for you?Steps to reproduce:1) shutdown via terminal "shutdown -u now"2) wait until shutdown and a few minutes3) unplug the power plug and replug. Computer should start.Please note: if you do a regular shutdown, and then unplug and re-plug, computer will not start.
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I just filed a bug report for the Notes app as follows:Area: Notes Summary: When opening Notes with content that is larger than the open Notes App window, and attempting to edit the note, the entire note content scrolls automatically to the top although the cursor remains where text editing was inserted. Typing on the Smart Keyboard will allow text entry however the note insistently keeps scrolling to the top regardless of how often or how much text is entered into the note. Scrolling the note manually with your touch will stop the action from occurring, however that is intermittent and sometimes will scroll automatically as well. This issue will occur on both iPad and iPhone and regardless of the app is used full screen on the iPad or in Split Screen. When the Notes window is not focused and the user is engaging an app in the other split screen window, the Note window does not scroll, only when it is the focused App. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Notes2. Begin to edit the note by scrolling down and selecting text or placing your cursor to enter text.3. More likely to happen with a note which has enough text to enable scrolling of the note.Expected Results: The note body of text should not scroll while editing or entering text and should remain where placed either by scrolling to the place of entry with using touch or with moving the cursor with the direction keys of the Smart Keyboard. Actual Results: The note scrolls on its own without intervention. Version: IOS Beta 10.0(14A5261v) Configuration: iPad Pro 12.9" and iPhone 6S both with iOS beta 10.0
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Has anyone felt like messaging slows down the quick actions the Apple Watch was meant to have? There isn't a delete all function, nor is there a function that creates continuity between your phone and watch when you delete messages. I would like for them to be erased from all of my devices when I delete from either SOURCE. Instead I get the exhausted arm holding it up for ten minutes deleting messages . At least make this optional!!!!!
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Is there a trick to getting debugging working on a Notification Service Extension? I've set breakpoints and none of them are getting hit. I can't even see my print statements in the console. I know something is happening in there, but I'm having to resort to monkeying with the content of the notification to figure out what is happening.Any ideas are helpful. Thanks!jared
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When I clicked the NavigationBar in my App,it crashed.It only crashes in iOS 10 .The console log is:Assertion failure in -[UIGestureGraphEdge initWithLabel:sourceNode:targetNode:directed:], /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/UIKit/UIKit-3599.6/Source/GestureGraph/UIGestureGraphEdge.m:25
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