[OS X TeX] to upgrade or not to upgrade

[juan tolosa]

I want to thank everybody for your input. I upgraded to Maverick and, after a few hiccups, everything seems to be working normally.
juan

On Apr 17, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 15, 2014, at 10:09 PM, juan tolosa <juantolo at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am getting regular invitations from Apple to upgrade to Maverick. Yet I am hesitant, since I have read about so many bad experiences in this distribution list. Has Maverick cleared the problems with OS X TeX? What is the recommendation?
>> Thanks,
>>                 Juan
> 
> The only significant problem that I had was the finder being very slow to display icons when first accessed. That was a widely recognized problem that has been fixed in 10.9.2, at least for me.
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> The finder would also occasionally and seemingly randomly revert from preview icons to generic icons on the desktop. That has not been fixed.
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> I also noticed that, for the first time, the last system update did not make my personal library folder invisible, and I did not have to go to the terminal to make it visible again. I hope that was not an accident and they will continue to respect our choices.
> 
> Richard Séguin
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