Is Yosemite safe to use yet
All my data is on 1Password 4 Windows and iOS. I'm about to jump to Yosemite from Lion. I do have a 1Password 4 - 5 license which is currently unused but I'm wary about Yosemite. It seems to have issues with Spotlight leaking info and 3rd Party SSDs which I will upgrade to at some point. One the other hand, I wouldn't want to be left behind with regards to security updates.
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I have used it since it came out and it works well for me. There are still some annoyances when it tries to jump between 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks so wifi could do with some love and attention, but that's meant to be improved in 10.10.2 (beta six of which has just been released). I know there are DNS problems which have been alluded to by MikeT on these forums but, on the whole, I found it a worthwhile upgrade—and very much like 1P5 (which, of course, runs only under Yosemite).
Stephen
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I think much (but not all) of the issue with Spotlight is because it can now search outside the Mac itself, and the extra categories are on by default. Try turning these off.
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Hi @wkleem
There are fun little discoveries to be made with Yosemite. Bonjour can get itself confused, Stephen_C mentioned DNS commented on by MikeT and yeah, Spotlight. You might be best turning all of Spotlight off and then selectively turning the bits on you actually want.
Sadly Mavericks probably isn't possible now unless you know somebody that has already downloaded it. If the choice is between Lion and Yosemite I'd say upgrade. If the choice is between Mavericks and Yosemite it's a tougher call. I use Yosemite on my main laptop but the server is still running Mavericks until I've heard better things about OS X server on Yosemite.
I haven't heard about the issues regarding 3rd party SSDs so I don't know how severe they are. I'm using an official Apple sourced one though so less inclined to worry.
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I know of one issue regarding third-party SSDs. TRIM support is not provided for them by Apple, and third-party TRIM support requires adding a kext that is not accepted (unless some checks are turned off, which can cause problems of its own). But there is a whole lot of argument as to whether TRIM is needed.
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I have also been hearing about wi-fi issues with those who upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 and supposedly fixed with 10.10.1 but some say the problem still exists.
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Hi @wkleem,
Are you referring to Wi-Fi issues within 1Password specifically? Our developers have just put out an awesome update to 1Password 5 for Mac that includes some great improvements to Wi-Fi sync, so hopefully any issues that may have existed before have been worked out in this release.
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Hi
I haven't moved to Yosemite yet. I was just reading up on general Yosemite issues unrelated to 1Password. Anyway, Apple just released Yosemite 10.10.2. and iOS 8.1.3.
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I base it on user reports found in other discussion sites but not my own experience! :-)
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Hi @wkleem,
Spotlight leakage should be fixed in 10.10.2 and Wi-Fi issues are mostly resolved but not entirely. Apple's getting there but they need help from these affected users to track down the rest of the issues. The DNS issues are not fully fixed, it needs another couple of updates to really get it stable.
The best thing you can do is install Yosemite in a secondary partition and/or use external drive and give it a try. If you see issues, you just go back to the Lion partition.
Whatever you do, don't upgrade Lion to Yosemite, that'll bring its own issues. I've seen more successful reports from clean install of Yosemite than any of the upgrades from any prior OS X versions.
In Yosemite, Apple increased the security by requiring KEXT to be signed. That means if you have a third party SSD and you're forcing the TRIM via third party KEXT drivers that is not signed, the system won't boot until you remove the unsigned drivers or you disable the security feature. A clean install won't have this driver but if you force the unsigned KEXT, it will stop booting.
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