Lots of Updates before OS Mavericks

Apple made announcement on Noct 22, 2013 that the new Mac OS Mavericks released on the same date for free. What a surprise to all Mac users! That means all mac computer users as early as 2007 can get their Mac OS updated. I checked my 2008 MacBook Pro. It was not able to update to Mountain Lion, but now it is legitimate for update.

Here is the information about Mac OS Mavericks:

Last night I hold on the update. The reason one is to prepare for the update: checking all the updates available before updating.  Another reason is to wait for any issues related to Mavericks. So far, I have not notice any issues. As my schedule, I'll do my preparation updates first.

OS Update: Safari 6.1, iTunes 11.1.2...

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	…376,180
After	…402,852
Difference (A-B)	26,672
Capacity	48%

iBooks Author

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	…402,852
After	…584,468
Difference (A-B)	181,616
Capacity	48%

Apple Configurator

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	…68
After	…80
Difference (A-B)	12
Capacity	48%

Xcode 5.0.1

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	…584,480
After	…733,808
Difference (A-B)	149,328
Capacity	48%

By the way, I had trouble to use Safari after updating yesterday. My Safari kept crashing when it was opened. Fortunately, I has Chrome as a way to browse internet. I found that many people had similar issues, but different causes. Some are history to be cleaned, or Safari db files to be removed from Library folder. 

Eventually I found a solution for my case after I submitted my case. It was caused by Glims. I have to uninstall it or update it. I removed it from my Mac. After that, my Safari is stable.

One lesson learned from this incident: always be prepared for browser failure. Second one is valuable, even I don't use Google's Chrome in most of time.

Mac OS Java Update

Apple has announced that the next media news event will be on Oct 22, Tuesday. I guess the new Mac OS Mavericks will be released anytime after the event.

This update is only for Java update.

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	...958,660
After	...893,340
Difference (A-B)	-65,320
Capacity	48%

Mac OS Updates: OSX 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1.1

Mac OS Mavericks Golden version has been released to developers. The new OS will be out in any time.

Today I got two updates: OS X 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1.1

Here is the space difference between before and after for the update:

Command: df -lak	Used(Kilobytes in 1024-blocks)
Before	...70,212,604
After	...69,932,920
Difference (A-B)	-279,684
Capacity	49%