Apple - Issues ?

[JH]

Just read the previous topic about iPhones etc suddenly no longer connecting to their modem etc. I had this issue many months ago on a non BT modem. After all sorts I also found it cured itself spontaneously. Soon after a major update was released by Apple.

Tonight whilst online on my MacBook Pro it started freezing, Safari not responding and such like. I wish I had read others were having spurious problems before I got to try and sort it. A couple of the re starts, then a disk utility first aid and some other such stuff (clearing caches) but it was just unuseable. This has happened before just as they ready for a major OS update but I just didn't think of it then.

I thought I'd just re set the Pram - restarted it and the bloody thing had decided it instead needed to restore from my time machine - WTF. Now I am Looking at a screen that says 99 odd hours to restore. It is slower than a bloody slow thing.

I bet it is the great Apple bods that are affecting everything with a new update and they have affected people with some sort of prep work which affects current users. I am now shagged until and if this thing bloody restores, now at 100 hours.

It seems I only have issues when they are about to launch major system changes. I just wish they would warn people then we would know and just turn it off for a day or two.

Anyone with any useful tips please - 103 hours apparently. I love my macs etc but just now and then they check you about.

 

[Schtum]

If you're already running El Capitan 10.11.4 there doesn't appear to be a new update available for it yet, although 10.11.5 is out for beta testing.

 

[JH]

Hi

Not sure really. I am not that good with these computer stuff and things. That is why I went Mac. It is great when it works.

But only about 1% of my stuff has been restored. It'll take forever. Is there any thing I could do to speed it along ?

I suppose we will see in the next couple of days if there is stuff coming out. But as I say it has happened before - my system goes awry - then Apple make some sort of release or other.

 

[Schtum]

I'm not quite sure how you got in the position of having to restore your machine. However, not that it's doing it, can you pause it and plug it into your time machine with a network cable. That should speed up the process.

 

[JH]

Good idea. But I don't see a pause button?

Nothing but the progress bar force storing files. No at 80 hours ......

 

[JH]

Just stuck the cable in anyhow - seems to be going along much quicker. Thanks for that - so obvious but completely overlooked.

I don't how I came to require a full back up either

But all I did was re start with opt / cmd / p + r in an effort to reset the Pram as the thing was having a funny five minutes. I should realise my limitations with these things .........

I should have left it and waited for it to work again. Thank god for my iPad

 

[Bendy toy]

Ive been getting this hassle with the Macbook Pro running OsX 10.11.4

Ive home into the router. It sometimes slows down and high or might not sped up again. Power off and on solves the router issues - until next time.

The fix is -
1 switch off wifi on the mac (click WiFi icon and follow menu options)
2 reboot the router
3 wait for router lights to settle into normal flashing
4 At the Mac, switch the wiFi on again and it now works fine.

Anything else and the Mac will fart about looking for the router.

The iPhone 5S seems to cope with the crap router but it it might just be switching to mobile data so hard to be sure.