10.8.5 released

[Phil O]

FYI

[MIDI Life Crisis]

TIme to blow up the Mac!

Thanks, mon.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

It's... snnnnn......

[cuttime]

Snow Turtle?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Ha... -appier!

[Phil O]

I have a partition that I use for testing upgrades. Installed 10.8.5 there. So far no problems.

Phil

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I only do that when the names change.

[Phil O]

To protect the innocent?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

To protect the innocent?

My machine lost any hint of innocence decades ago... and my computer's been thru the bushes as well.

[mhschmieder]

Kind of surprised to see this update -- isn't 10.9 less than a month away?

[ChrisByrd]

I guess this will be the final stable release for those who want to stay with ML for a while - I'm not sure I want to risk my five-year old iMac!

No problems with 10.8.5 here.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

No problems here either. How do you know the new OS is so imminent?

[mikehalloran]

Kind of surprised to see this update -- isn't 10.9 less than a month away?

Apple always has an update when the next release is due. 10.7.4 was about the time of 10.8 and 10.7.5 was after IIRC. 10.6.8 was so that the App Store would work for 10.7. I remember 10.4.11 being released after Leopard, too.

The major issue for 10.8.5 seemed to be large file transfers over Apple's new wi-fi standard. I happen to have an affected machine. Being one of the few who can test that, I noticed no difference - but then I didn't have a problem before the update, either. The Combo Updater was 845MB - I downloaded on my iMac and pushed it to the other four Macs in the house.

The update caused a 13G Time Machine backup on my wife's new MB Air that came with 10.8.4 last month. The backup took about 15 minutes over wi-fi -- that is just freaky to watch wireless go that fast. The other four Macs each had about a 3.4MB TM backup including overhead. Permissions were clean on all 5 machines.

[Kubi]

There's another issue with 10.8.5 - the OS seems to ignore Energy Saver settings and puts non-startup drives to sleep regardless of how the Energy Saver is set.

Some people report having trouble getting the drives to spin back up. For me the drives do spin up when accessed, but it's a pain in the neck since it slows everything down, and startled me when I noticed that I kept hearing drives spin back up for no reason.

Resetting the Energy Saver prefs doesn't work. Still same problem afterwards.

Right now I'm testing the solution someone put forth on an Apple forum that not letting the display sleep actually makes the OS respect the Energy Saver setting to not let the HDs sleep. We'll see how that goes.

If that doesn't work, there's this little utility that seems to do the trick:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31158 ... e-spinning

Just a heads-up. Hope Apple fixes this soon.

[daniel.sneed]

Here, energy savers have always been set to *never*, and 10.8.5 seems fine.