Dear WeatherCat early adopters,
. . . . I suppose hell must be about to freeze over . . . . . I am now running on OS 10.10 Yosemite!
I first finally got around to putting a system on my rescue drive partition, so I'm now protected even if
da' cloud goes bust. I then used a USB thumb drive to boot to Yosemite and upgrade my main hard drive that way. I used the beta version of DiskMaker X:
http://diskmakerx.com/It seems like a prudent precaution to have one of these thumb drives around in case your system needs a rescue. Although I noted that there isn't any obvious way to restore a time machine backup from the thumb drive anymore, you have to use Apple's "Rescue HD."
That's just one of the uncool things about this version of OS X. I definitely beg to differ on those who like the look of Yosemite. For the sake of cool, Apple has once more seriously compromised readability. I found it bad enough that I had to turn up the contrast using the
Accessibility preference pane. I sure hope somebody figures out how to change the system font. I'm finding this hard to read and my Mother with macular degeneration may find her computer beyond her vision because this silly nonsense.
Apple should know better than to break its promises to those with handicaps . . . .
Sigh, Edouard