{"id":439,"date":"2014-10-24T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2014-12-22T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:35:47","slug":"a-yosemite-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/24\/a-yosemite-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yosemite Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back my ag\u00e9d mother said, \u201cI need a new computer.\u201d This is what she always says when her iMac misbehaves in some small fashion, but in this case it was misbehaving in a big way. Like many people, she got bamboozled into clicking a pop-up ad for MacKeeper<\/a> and her computer was now experiencing major Spinning Pinwheels Of Death<\/a> to the extent that she couldn\u2019t do anything on the machine for more than a few minutes \u2014 at best \u2014 before one of those twirly rainbow SPODs would appear.<\/p>\n

My youngest brother, who is primarily a Windows guy but who knows his way around the UNIX command-line, spent hours heroically tracking the various bits of MacKeeper malware down and expunging them, and though he succeeded for the most part, her computer\u2019s operation was still a few orders of magnitude short of optimal. It got to the point where we had to move her to a new user account: fortunately, though MacKeeper mostly trashed her login account, its effects did not jump the wall to the new account we created. Finally, she could do her bill-paying and read her email, but most of her files and pictures and music were still in the old sad, bad account, so I made an appointment to spend a morning moving her files.<\/p>\n

However, a couple days before the appointment, she called and asked with the same child-like eagerness with which she\u2019d probably clicked the MacKeeper pop-up\u2019s button if it was safe to install Yosemite<\/a>, OS X 10.10, which had just been released. I cringed but figured she\u2019d probably do it even if I said \u201cNo,\u201d so I told her it was risky but up to her. She installed it. Fortunately, nothing dire happened. At least, I thought not; I didn\u2019t get a follow-up call saying otherwise.<\/p>\n

On the day of the appointment, I sat down at her Mac and logged into her old, bad, sad account to see about moving her files and pictures and music. What I found was astonishing: no SPODs! Or, at least no more than would be normal in any account waking up under a new OS for the first time. The old, bad, sad account was no longer bad and sad (it remained old): the OS X 10.10 installer had apparently found all the remaining corruption and cruft that MacKeeper had left behind and cleaned it all out.<\/p>\n

Whenever a new OS for the Mac is released, one always sees stories about how it has messed up formerly fine computers. These stories make for great press and give us all a secretly delightful frisson of fear (\u201cThank god it didn\u2019t happen to me! Yay, me!!\u201d), but for every such story we see, we can\u2019t know how many stories like my mother\u2019s there are didn\u2019t get reported, where the new OS fixed a machine that was on its last legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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