Mac software updates

[Gary]

Maybe the day after as I imagine servers could be overloaded, also sit back and watch the updates and see what happens first

[Steve]

It's not long since the Europe's internet ground to a crawl with an iOS update although that was iOS 5 I think.

[Gary]

I think so many people will try to update it could be a bit of a nightmare tbh, I remember that, not something I want to be part way though when it stops

[Simon]

I wonder if iOS7 can be made to look like iOS6, like I've made Windows 7 look like XP? 

[Steve]

Philistine.

[Simon]

[Gary]

 

[Gary]

So who's going to be brave and update to iOS 7 tonight? I am interested to see how the parallax effect will look etc, but the world and its dog will be trying to update I imagine and I can see things going wrong when servers stall.

[Steve]

I may depending how quick it downloads.

[Gary]

I may depending how quick it downloads.

I may update the iPad see how that goes. I have had so many app updates the last few days its ridiculous, but needed.

[Simon]

For iOS6, I waited till about 10pm and all went without a hitch. 

[Gary]

May leave it till the morning, I'll do a over the air download anyway, see how it goes later.

[lozcart]

So who's going to be brave and update to iOS 7 tonight? I am interested to see how the parallax effect will look etc, but the world and its dog will be trying to update I imagine and I can see things going wrong when servers stall.

I will try the iPad first before my phone. I need my phone for work the following day so don't want to mess it up 

[Gary]

I will try the iPad first before my phone. I need my phone for work the following day so don't want to mess it up 

My phone is the important bit, like you may try iPad first.

[lozcart]

I should leave updating my phone until friday incase it goes wrong, in reality I will end up updating it tonight 

[Steve]

My feelings precisely 

[Gary]

My phone will wait till tomorrow, iPad tonight but later, even though I have backed up I want to be cautious.

[zappaDPJ]

So who's going to be brave and update to iOS 7 tonight? I am interested to see how the parallax effect will look etc, but the world and its dog will be trying to update I imagine and I can see things going wrong when servers stall.

Going by what I've read some of these effects are very processor intensive and may not be implemented on older phones such as the 4.

[Gary]

iTunes 11.1 released leaves  a mess of permissions behind even after a clean up.

[Bill]

iTunes 11.1 released leaves  a mess of permissions behind even after a clean up.

OS X's permissions are often a mess anyway, does it affect its running?

I'll leave it for a while anyway, all those IOS 7 downloads meant it took about 5 minutes just for the "Checking for updates" to complete- the iTunes update could take hours!

[Steve]

I thought permissions were supposed to left as is unless you had an issue?

Posted from iPad using iOS7

[Bill]

I assumed Gary was referring to the "Repair Permissions" in Disk Utility- any update usually results in loads of errors, most of which (allegedly) get corrected, but they soon come back again.

Not that it seems to make any difference either way

[Steve]

That's my impression,it's a waste of time unless you have an issue. If permissions are an issue you lose functionality at which point it's worth repairing.

[Bill]

IIRC it's always been recommended to run "Repair Permissions" before (and after!) doing any sort of update and I always used to... but like you I found it didn't make any difference and I haven't bothered for a long while.

[Gary]

Up to this update I had none of the pesky permissions that are supposed to be ok it was blank, clean slate since Lion. One update and I have dozens ahh well.  I always run a permissions check after an update as some times you do get a few that are fixed, but not this time. Messy update.