MACOSX upgrade rant… and place to archive my progress.
wscottart
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Note: Don't try this at home LOL
Well, I'm pretty deep into upgrading from mac snowleopard 10.6.8 to mac yosemite 10.10 on my 2009 iMac . Cloned my 10.6.8 and created a few bootable partitions on two other drives for archiving. I have numerous external drives with redundant runtimes to try to make sense of down the road here. as well.
I was planning to install fresh applications (Poser Pro 2014, Daz Studio 4.7, Carrara Pro 8) But thank Apple Yosemite didn't overwrite my account files or applications . I'm sure there will be many problems along the way here , but looking very promising right now. MIght as well throw my laptop into this upgrade and go all out.
Main thing is I can sit here and post and rant while waiting for all this and archive my process, and be happy knowing that no matter what, I got a working partition I can always boot to play with bryce in =).
Also while playing around in yosemite 10.10 a little earlier It actually opens Bryce 7 pro. Just comes tumbling down when I try editing terrains. Lets me know its possible to get Bryce working in the new world.
And earlier this weekend I spitting mad saying no no never will upgrade. Upward and Onward!
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My wife upgraded her laptop to Yosemite and has had lots of problems. The major problem is it is very, very slow to connect to WiFi. Can take a few minutes to connect when you power it up or wake it up. There are long threads on the Apple support forum about this problem. The last update was suppose to fix WiFi problems, but it did not help on my wife's laptop and from threads on various forums it did not help a lot of other people that were having this problem.
I assume not everyone is having this problem, but enough people are that there are a lot of threads on it. I have tried all the "fixes" suggested on the forums and on technical sites, but none of those help my wifes laptop.
Step two checking Graphic work flow apps:
Carrara Pro 8.5 with Luxus render: Check working great.
Carrara Pro 8.5 public build : Check
Painter 12 : had to do some tweaking here as the splash screen wouldn't go away. Managed to check the dialogue don't show at startup and on next launch splash screen is gone. Can Hardly wait now though. I've been wanting to get the newest painter for a while now.
Bryce 7 Pro: Launches, but as we all know won't stay working in this new os, but I can manipulate and move primitives and even render. This has got to be a permissions problem in the os surely this could be fixed!
DAZDIM: little afraid to check this until after all the other pieces of software check out.
Daz Studio 4.7: looks like everything is still there, smart content and mapped drives and all. Able to load figures,and render. I'm very pleased at the moment here.
Hexagon: Check
Browsers: Check with all my bookmarks and plugins
Iphoto: fail but not worrisome yet. omg the download is 1.14 gigs no wonder its taking 4ever.
Gimp: fail prob new a newer version .
Itunes: Check, rock and roll and art, gotta have it.
texteditor: check
Now for the main
Poser Pro 2014: BOOOOOOM! we are in business here! all the runtimes still mapped. rendering nicely
Wacom tablet fully functional.
HAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Sorry to hear about the wifi problems. That can be really frustrating. I had a problem with a mac lab when we upgraded to 10.6.8. a few years ago, and still many of those machines have wacky ethernet connections, and I don't want them on wifi they'd overload the network.
At any rate iMac appears to be in good running order with 10.10. Think I'll start the laptop soon as it finishes cloning one more redundant drive..
You guys have no ideals all the nightmares I was having over switching up systems. I am so happy atm.
Logging out to begin the laptop transition, not as scary. I only use this one for painting anyway. No heavy duty Poser or any 3d. and its had 10.8 to begin with so this one will actually be fun to upgrade.
Could you put "MacOS" in the title please? Would save time for us PC people...
Thanks!
All of my macs are now sporting the flashy new Yosemite OS, and running pretty well. Running into permissions problems here and there. Now If I could just get that Reality 4 for Poser going. After all that's the only reason I upgraded. Hate having to reboot to play in Bryce under OS 10.6.8. May just have to get me a new machine dedicated just to Bryce.
Its just drives me nuts to know that Bryce will launch in 10.10.
Rather than reboot, why not try something like VM Fusion or Parallels? I'm using VM Fusion myself and not running into any problems, if that helps. They're not that expensive these days and I figure the time I'd lose in rebooting all the time more than pays for it.
-- Walt Sterdan
UPDATE: Oops, just reread your posts and realize you're using a 2009 iMac; I'm using a newer 27-inch, and don't know how well it would run on your set-up. On the other hand, they both have trial versions, I believe, so you could test them to see how they'd perform...
Decemebr 2018,
I have abandoned all hope of having Bryce or anything like it ever again. In the meantime I have become more familiar and drawn into Daz Studio. I still find myself pulling up Poser 11 and loading Victoria 4.2 as Studio renders away.
December 17, 2018
Picked up Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Victoria 4 today.
Here's my Genesis 8 HD sporting an old friend.
I had appalling performance from Yosemite when the iMac I bought in 2015 shipped with it. In retrospect, I am pretty sure that something that was transfered over from my TimeMachine backup managed to screw something deep in the system up and we never managed to find and remove it . El Capitan was marginally better. Sierra marginally better than that, and High Sierra a step backwards. That machine's performance was *never* acceptable. Worst of all was the fact that TimeMachine kept claiming that it was backing things up -- when it *wasn't*.
It also tended to lose files. Sometimes scattered individual files. Sometimes whole disks worth. Simply gone. (I spent several weeks on and off with Apple support on an open case number trying to find the glitch. All we managed was to get it to the point of minimal performance)
But the machine did run Studio and behaved no worse in that than it did in most of my Adobe software, so I was resigned to it.
Replaced it about a week and a half ago with a new iMac that shipped with Mojave. There are a few things that I don't much like about Mojave. But otherwise it's been performing like a champ.
Meanwhile, the 2011 iMac that the cursed iMac had replaced turned out to have just had its video card fail. I've since replace the video card, and the hard drive (which failed a year or so later) and keep it in a closet running SnowLeopard, as a legacy machine. Comes in handy.
There are places that sell used Macs, and it might be worthwhile to think of finding one that will run SnoeLeopard or earlier for legacy stuff.
I have a graveyard of macs dating back to the mid 90's. I unlike you find mojave to be really quirky, so I think I am saving for something that can actually run some Nividia gpu's.
Can you give an updated rundown on what you're running at this point? Hardware, system, 3d software... and suggetions for what to use for different modelling, eg characters, terrain, animation...
It's a shame that Bryce no longer works, as I liked it years ago when I first bought it, but I never really got into at the time (same with poser, daz), and, obviously, now Bryce is the child left outside to starve.
Btw, my system is a 2015 MBP 13" 3.1i7 16GB Iris 6100 1536MB
Upgrade: my ran is resolved. I switched to windows 10. Bryce, Carrara, and almost every app I ever really like appears to be up and running now.
On my macs I nowdays I run LightWAVE 2015, zBRUSH, Poser 11 Pro,Blender2.8 and Painter 2019. I don't really do any animation nowdays.