I don’t understand what you mean. I’d like to, but I don’t…
the majority of MTA (Mail Transport Agents) that move email from point A to point B limit attachment size. Certainly 90% of corporations have limits in the MB range, not the GB range.
I thought the attachment idea here was a built-in file server usage so that if you attach a 200mb file it gets uploaded to a temporary iCloud share that the recipient can download from. You aren’t physically using the mail system to relay the bits, and you aren’t forcing users to find their own temporary file hosting server to send large files.
Or at least, that is how I’ve always seen it done. This capability has been possible in Thunderbird for years.
Never once used it, though. 
Thanks, Jaysen
Ah, that much I do understand. But Apple is providing a workaround…
It might not be a traditional MTA solution, but for users it will just work. How it works won’t matter…the problem of large attachments is solved as far as users are concerned. Not a good thing?
No, not a particularly good thing; It means that, should the sender decide to clear out their iCloud files, the recipient can’t go back to that email for the file any more. Also, if iCloud ever (i.e. inevitably) proves to be a vector for viruses , the entire domain may end up blacklisted by malware scanners or even routers. That’ll be confusing as hell to the people on either end who don’t know how “the cloud” works.
I’ll end up upgrading to Yosemite eventually, and like Ioa points out, we’re coming full circle esthetically speaking. I’d consider going back to Linux or shudder Windows, but I abandoned those platforms as a personal computing environment for many reasons, few of which have even been seen as problems to fix in the intervening years. I also remember how I used to dream of the Star Trek TNG computer interfaces being brought to reality. I may see that as foolish now, but it appears that younger me is getting his wish, one re-skinning of OS X at a time.
They keep talking about taking lessons they learned from iPhone and iPad and moving them over to Mac OS. I’ve always thought the idea was to go the other way around, to get the handhelds up to the level of other desktops OSs (within reason, of course), not dumb desktop OSs down to handheld levels.
I don’t mind simple and clean interfaces–as a matter of fact, I prefer them–but you can have simple and clean that looks good at the same time. I like the best of both worlds scenario, but it seems like they are trying to erase one of the worlds all together.
Then again, I might like it once I get my hands on it. I’ll try and reserve any future judgement until I have it in my hands to play with.
I’d say, don’t confuse the skin with the OS. It might look like a Dadaist painter tripping down a stairwell, but it’s still a Mac. The announced features do not negatively impact it any more than 10.7 did. That was still the most iOS-blundering release they’ve done. The rest since then have been even-keel. Not impressive, if you’re like me and don’t really use Apple’s software, some good stuff here and there, dubious stuff as well—but at least they are treating the Mac as a Mac, and not a tablet. I don’t see anything to suggest this release will be anything but along that course. Silly looking buttons don’t mean you can suddenly only have twenty icons per screen on your iMac. As I said above, we’ve had silly looking buttons before. This OS has been downright clownish in the past! Unabashedly so. So what, it’s feeling like red noses and balloons twisted into doggy shapes right now? So be it. We’ll cringe like we did before, and meanwhile…
I can still fire up zsh and get some ruby coding done while crunching a batch of RAW photos from my esoteric camera. Out of the box.
It’s going to take a whole lot more than a different Spotlight skin, with some Sherlock features tossed in for spice, to make this thing act like a telephone.
My review never claimed you were a Windows user. It noted that your review was written in such a way as to suggest bias towards Windows reviews - the OS personally used is irrelevant. Besides, I was writing with News Limited approach: never let the truth ruin a good story… 
In light of your review^5 I unreservedly revise and retract this point from my review^4.
Ioa’s point is key. So Guthrie’s. These solutions are almost universally banned in corporate environments in favor of corp sponsored solutions (home gown and SaaS options available here). We drop vendors/consultants who use these “public” solutions as most of our non-employee viral issues* arise from these services. As it is google drive, non-branded dropbox, non-branded carbonite, and all apple storage are on the permanent black list. this is not encouraging…
My only reason for abandoning linux was the need for self support. The last round of Ubuntu has eliminated my concerns for home use in a family with slightly higher than moderate technical support access. EG access to a person who can help if needed. I have at least one person who is “computer illiterate” and, so far, this person has only called me once. VS the nearly daily calls for help with windows. It might be worth a look another look at various (linux distros or fresh installs).
Any way, I’m still running 32bit cores on two systems and my mbp13 will stay at Mountain Lion since there is nothing in mavericks that is remotely interesting to me. Yosemite only motivates me to not upgrade with the same passion that I am refusing to adopt IOS7.
[size=80]* The correlation between employee viral infection and … illicit site usage … is so strong that there have been a few suggestions that once a viral source system is identified, the employee is immediately suspended pending an audit of the proxy and browser logs. Basically look for porn first and use that to figure out what the virus is. very discouraging.[/size]
Well, I’m still trying to get over the “natural scrolling” they switched every Mac too a couple of OSs ago. Granted it was an easy fix to get it back to normal. I’m more upset that they infer that my scrolling preference is “unnatural.”
Admiral Blount’s actual quote for those who haven’t seen it:
If you are using a trackpad or a touchscreen, the older way of scrolling was indeed unnatural. To move a sheet of paper down you don’t usually pull your finger up, but down – as the recent OS works.
Paolo
Indeed, the current physical metaphor is more natural, but so much of the traditional GUI is based on weird clunky unnatural metaphors that are so deeply ingrained it is sometimes hard to rethink to something that is “better”. Having said that I forced myself to adapt to the physical scroll metaphor when first released for the desktop because it was more “logical” and I’m a masochist and haven’t looked back…
Folders are another unnatural clunky metaphor that we need to lose. Tagging is both more logical and way more powerful to managing digital content. But us old fogeys are so set in the ways of inflexible linear filing. Mavericks was a good step forwards in that regard, though Apple should have exposed metadata editing to the file management UI years ago (as anyone who enjoys Ars Technica reviews of OS X can attest to).
Anyway, Yosemite looks pretty darn good, and as Ioa says, the aesthetic change is in the way it looks, not the way it works; OS X is still the by far the best all round OS for my needs, the dumbing down has yet to arrive…
Have read that you can get maximise rather than full screen by…
Alt+clicking the full screen button.
Does Scrivener run on Yosemite?
I still have yet to find any cases where I want Full Screen mode, ever. The whole idea is ruined for me in that you need to have a dedicated virtual desktop for each program acting that way, and no two programs can ever share it—and sometimes even an application’s own client windows cannot make it over. If I wanted it on a virtual desktop I’d make one and put it there, and then I could go on using the program with other tools as well. Meanwhile it is still full of glitches (in large part on account of all these contortions), years later.
As for the button, the decision to replace the Zoom feature with Full Screen on this button is rather ill-conceived and not well thought out. The problem is that any program that doesn’t support full screen will Zoom instead. So half of the time you click the button you’ll get this kitschy animated virtual desktop Mission Space Commander full screen mode, and the other half it will just… simply and instantaneously use the available screen space without any fuss.
With a touch screen, yes. With a trackpad, not so much. The disconnect between the screen in the trackpad just doesn’t do me any favors. I don’t move a sheet of paper on the right side of my desk by sliding my fingers down on the left side of my desk.
The thing that kills the Full Screen mode for me is that the standard Control + Number of the Screen doesn’t work. Sure you can just swipe or some other ways to get around to it, but that doesn’t work for me. Now that I say that, I’m sure there is a way to switch with a keyboard short cut and I’m only showing my ignorance.
You can actually do that. It’s not in an obvious place. You have to go into the general Keyboard System Preferences pane, under the “Shortcuts” tab. There will be a Mission Control section. Also, if you want a little more control over virtual desktops, TotalSpaces is pretty cool. Much better than the default Exposé + Spaces amalgamation that Apple offers, in my opinion. It has a demo.
Hm, maximise was always broken for me on OS X, as it resized based on what it thinks is optimal, which for my needs and apps always caused inconsistent and often undesirable final window sizes (which I then had to manually adjust, wasting far more time than just doing it myself)[1]. I use full screen much more than the “I know better than you” maximise. And so this change is much better for my mode of working.
Ctrl+arrows work fine for me (I’ve remapped ctrol+numbers too), and I actually think Mission control + exposé is certainly better in Mavericks than any of the Lion’s and actually I’m probably as efficient in it now as I was in the IMO excellent 10.6 implementation. Full screen/Mission control in Mavericks is great with multiple monitors too, finally after years of Apple ineptitude in designing for more than 1 screen!!!
[1] actually, I use BetterTouchTool and its emulation of Windows 7 window snapping which unlike Apple’s maximise always works consistently and show you visual feedback what it will do.