The Nightmare Before Xmas.

Hi Dialabrian,

Sorry to hear that your 10.11.x beta woes continue on your new 5k. It may be scant consolation, but it appears you're not the only one experiencing the issues you describe with them. Hopefully others are filing bug reports like you and Apple are on the case. There'll likely be a new beta by tomorrow, if not the full release of 10.11.2.

The email notifications seem to depend on having all options in Welcome dialabrain > Preferences, in the top left of the screen, set to On/Yes - at least that's what did it for me and others that have raised the query.

I hope they sort out the El Capitan / Skylake bugs before Xmas, and that you have a good one, 🙂

Best,

Max.

Thank you Max. I hope you have a good one as well. 🙂

Well if the full 10.11.2 release comes out I certainly would be hesitant to install it. 😁

I think my notifications issue is because somehow my Apple ID ended up with two user names. The one here and one from years ago which gets notifications.

Thanks 🙂

Don't you still have that small partition on an external drive for testing new builds?

Have you checked that the address in the "Primary Email Address" section in appleid.apple.com is set as you would like it to be?

Yes, I have an external drive with 10.11.1 installed I can boot from. That's what I keep using to reinstall. 😁

My fear is if I install anything on that, it may not boot and then I really would be stuck. 😢 Even if the full version worked on the external drive, I have no confidence it will work on the internal drive. 😮

My email is fine. I think what happened is somehow when I changed my email a few years ago for my Apple ID, their database kept my old username somehow. Beats me. 😁

I'll talk to someone about my ID issue later today.

Yes, may as well get the ID oddity sorted if you have the time and patience 😀

Fwiw, in my experience I've never yet seen an OS X install booted from a drive connected by Thunderbolt behave any differently from one installed on the internal drive. I can't say the same about drives connected via USB (regardless of 2.x / 3.x), which would of course be futher complicated if the verson of OS X has an issue recognising the capability of the port.

If you have a bit of space on a Thunderbolt connected drive, a secondary test parition might therefore be worth your while.

That would mean I have to buy yet another Xmas present for myself. I also just bought an iPad Pro. 😁😁😁

I was thinking about buying a Thunderbolt drive anyway. It's only money right? 😁

Wow, Xmas at yours sounds great!! 😁

You can get Thunderbolt drives pretty cheaply these days - I've always used them for having a variety of OS versions to test on etc. because they are quick enough for there not to be a noticable performance drop compared to being booted from the internal SSD.

"Wow, Xmas at yours sounds great!!"

It would be if stuff would work!!! 😁

I might as well invest in one. I can get rid of a couple USB 2.0 drives I still have.

I miss the days when Mac OS came on floppies.😝

It's unsettling (for me) to recall that was the best part of a quarter of a century ago 😮

me too. 😁

I wised up. I installed 10.11.2 Beta (15C48a) on the clean install of 10.11.1 on my external drive. Of course it now has the same USB issues. 😁

Apple's beta update notes (as displayed from within the MAS) would have us believe that USB is one of the focus areas of these updates... So I'll be optimistic (for the sake of it 😝), and trust they'll get it fixed for the next release of 10.11.2, which will likely be the final one.

I'm going to be optimistic as well and trust I will live long enough to see them fixed. 😀

You guys are all very optimistic 😀 I'm still running Yosemite.

Mine came with 10.11.1 pre-installed.