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Yosemite (OSX 10.10)The next Apple Mac OS is codenamed Yosemite

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Posted by jk: Mon Jul 28th, 2014 06:32

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As I am in the Apple Beta test group I thought I would test out Yosemite which is the next version of OSX that will be released later this year.

I downloaded and installed the beta of Yosemite OSX 10.10 Beta1.
It installs and works fine.
The Interface is much cleaner than the previous Mavericks interface.
The handling of externally attached USB drives seems to be much better and I get none of the hanging that I sometimes get with Mavericks and external USB drives that have gone into smart sleep mode.

Unfortunately the one thing I was really wanting to report on was the new version of the iPhoto/Aperture revamp. This is not present AFAICS! I guess I need to wait for the next beta release or later!

Early days yet but I think it will be an improvement.

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Posted by TomOC: Mon Jul 28th, 2014 16:29

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Go forth and report, oh brave explorer...

Much as I lust for the new OS, I'm finally acting my age and waiting for the release version :-)

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Posted by Robert: Wed Aug 20th, 2014 14:36

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Well I have finally downloaded the latest developer version of The Mac OS 10.10 - Yosemite. It's definitely different!

I quite like one or two new features in Safari, the way bookmarks cascade is rather neat, might even be easier than the bookmark lists, I always struggle when going into sub folders, when I miss they collapse again.

I haven't looked at iCloud Drive yet. It will take me a day or two to dig around and check out all the features that I use.

Up to now it's behaving well, rather a lengthy install but rather than than a load of issues.

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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 20th, 2014 18:19

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Is the new Photo app there yet?

Not really interested until this surfaces.
That said it does work very well for a beta. ;-)

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Posted by Robert: Thu Aug 21st, 2014 15:27

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No, but I am about to start testing the iCloud Disk this evening.

What I am concerned about is the concept of sending (all) my NEF's to Apple's server, then processing them and the results being available for distribution to any of my devices. Quite apart from concerns about parting with my NEF's, to an external party, EVEN Apple, I want my NEF's on my hard drive, if I loose them then that is my look out but if they are all consigned to Apple's iCloud server there will be a few scenarios where I could loose my master image files through no fault of my own.

I am currently likely to loose my eBay account because of the hack attack earlier in the year, I am having difficulty resetting my password, eBay are no help, I only have a feedback of about 100 but it goes back to the early days of eBay and I would like to keep it if I can.

If that were to happen with my Apple Account then it would be disastrous.

Another concern, or killer aspect for me at least, is I have over 100Gb of images, I think Apple offer up to 80Gb for a big annual fee, I can imagine many photographers need much more storage than that, especially if they are using D800's.

Uploading the NEF's will take forever and cost a fortune in bandwidth. We don't all have Fibre to the home.

In my opinion this system is intended for snapshot photography for the masses, not for serious use. I expect the Photo software will be simplistic and inadequate, like most of Apple's software and probably not developed over time like Lightroom and most other software. I have found iPhoto to be a nightmare at times, especially when migrating large libraries to other or new computers.

I think the iCloud Disk may at last provide a useful tool to distribute files across platforms and locations and to provide a form of remote backup for some types of file. Time will tell.

What would be good (perhaps) would be to allow Time Machine to back up a single folder to the iCloud Disk. One could put any critical files into that folder and be fairly sure they were safe, off the premises and available if ever needed, say after a home disaster, for example, fire, theft or flooding, constantly up to date and a single version, yet have the ability to roll back the clock on a file if need be. Now THAT would be trick.

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Posted by jk: Thu Aug 21st, 2014 16:51

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Precisely my concern about the whole cloud computing concept. At best optimistic but fundamentally flawed.

Less than 1% of the world has bandwidth > 1Mb/sec. Makes you think!

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