Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released

[veedubdrew]

...Is in your software update. 97.0MB on my machine!!!

-Drew

[Lacero]

Cool. Only 56.8 MB for me though.

[Malcster]

Yup, 97 meg here too, updating now

[mistabaka]

i just checked Software Update, Downloading now, i'll report back after restart!

[Lacero]

The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.

It includes fixes for:

- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning media
- .Mac sync services
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

[Peterkro]

Cool. Only 56.8 MB for me though.
56 me also,wonder why?

[TheMonarch]

I also got 97MB... Meh, thats a 4 min download... This better fix the dock freezing issue...

[Heb1228]

Mine is 56.3 MB. DLing now. Its SLOWWWWW.

I told myself I was gonna wait until other people installed to see if there were any problems but I just can't wait that long! Don't fail me now Apple!

[Superdrive]

Were there not iChat updates at one point included here too? Maybe they are just little unmentionables. Time to restart. BBS

Edit- Only 56.8MB on my 12" PB 10.4.2

Edit2- Reading the in depth doc does include iChat updates. WOo

[denial]

SLOW to download. The demand is plenty!!.

[Josh396]

97 MB here on a 20 inch iMac. I wonder why it's coming in at different sizes. Maybe it's different for different machines.

[paulypants]

Oooh goody, can't wait to get home to download it :)

[MacRumors]

http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com)

Now available via Software Update:
The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.

It includes fixes for:

- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning media
- .Mac sync services
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

[Whistleway]

Safari can now pass the "Acid2" test.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html

[Heb1228]

Downloading now. I'll post how it goes. The DL is really slow for me, so it may be an hour or so.

[ravenvii]

Not in my software update yet :(

[jinzo012]

Verynice!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

97.0 MB on its way down.

Any problems from you early adopters...? ;)

[denial]

Posting this on another machine whilst the ibook has just downloaded and is restarting. It is taking it's time to restart. A long time.

[Josh396]

Anybody know yet why it's coming in at two different sizes? Mines 97 MB while I've heard others say theirs is only 53 MB.

[liketom]

about time as well - hope this makes my mac speedier then ever !

[TheMasin9]

wow thats a big one. dling now

[Lacero]

Safari appears to been updated to 2.0.2 (416.12).

Everything else appears to be running fine. Feels snappier.

[AC_99]

I was expecting the DVD app to get an upgrade enlight of the play back issues during frontrow. I guess it does make a little sense that apple would not be too keen on enabling the majority of their line to run on a hacked version of FrontRow.

[LionelEHutz]

Anybody know yet why it's coming in at two different sizes? Mines 97 MB while I've heard others say theirs is only 53 MB.

My download is at 97MB too

[Nermal]

Great! It's not showing up in SU for me though, but I'm sure Apple's site will have it :)

[Stella]

Whooo - At last!

I found 10.4.2 quite stable .

[Lacero]

First reboot from the update took awhile. I was scared the machine froze, but nope, everything is running fine. It feels snappier™.

Safari has been updated to 2.0.2 and thusly, certain plug-ins no longer work.

[Peace]

Anybody know what build number this release is ?

[yg17]

Downloading now. I'll post how it goes. The DL is really slow for me, so it may be an hour or so.

Since its a large file, I'm downloading from a campus computer lab computer (dorm rooms are capped at 3mbit/sec). I got the file at about 1.2 megabytes/sec :D I downloaded all 97 megabytes in about a minute! Now it's just taking forever to copy over to my Mac.

[Matty-Andy]

Anybody know yet why it's coming in at two different sizes? Mines 97 MB while I've heard others say theirs is only 53 MB.

Mine's 56.8 MB...

[Lacero]

Anybody know what build number this release is ?
Build 8F46

[mistabaka]

Lol, ok so maybe i'm just imagining it, but some things really do seem to be "snappyer" specifically the finder and image loading, even safari seems a little faster, but i just got it installed so i'm withholding final judgment for now. Hope everything goes well for everyone!

[TheMonarch]

Installed... Everything seems to be fine, except one odd thing...



Look (Pic): I just logged in and I have most of my RAM used up, usually, more than half is free right after a login... Strange...

[liketom]

Since its a large file, I'm downloading from a campus computer lab computer (dorm rooms are capped at 3mbit/sec). I got the file at about 1200 megabytes/sec :D I downloaded all 97 megabytes in about a minute! Now it's just taking forever to copy over to my Mac.
WTF !! how fast ?? aww i pitty the fool on 1mb lol

[hyperpasta]

Why must Mac OS X always display the "blue fan" background during Fast User Switching! Everything else seems a bit more "steady", but still could be a bit more snappy. Seems slower if anything.

[Brundlefly]

should be done in 2 mins... will posts thoughts and problems

[Superdrive]

Feels fast. I also hadn't restarted in a few weeks. Nothing cosmetic, and 10.4.2 was fine, so no net effects yet. Time to wait for 10.5

[yg17]

WTF !! how fast ?? aww i pitty the fool on 1mb lol

Oops, I said 1200 megabytes, I meant 1.2 megabytes though. Still plenty fast :D

Download took right around a minute :cool:

[MacFan782040]

Why must Mac OS X always display the "blue fan" background during Fast User Switching!


what do you mean?

[lieb39]

Mine's 56.8 MB...

Same here.

Download is alright.. about 2 minutes to download it.
//Edit: Using Mac Mini, 'first generation'

Cheers,

lieb39

[tangerineyum]

what kind of machines are the small updaters running ? My update is 97 too... how interesting.

[Eniregnat]

I never noticed the combo stand alone (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1043combo.html) installers before. Click if you would rather run the update from a disk.

Is there a pattern to when updates are released?

[ipacmm]

Great, downloading right now...I hope that it will fix the issues with 10.4 server.

[Superdrive]

No changes here. I'll give the PowerBook owners the green light to this one!

[Calvinatir]

Mine on my Mac Mini is 97 while my roommates on his 12" PB is 56.8

[denial]

Took a good 5minutes to restart but I'm back. All working well. Will go to a few sites that Safari has struggled with in the past and see what it's like.

[Malcster]

Restarted fine, seems good. Plenty of special permissions set in disk utility on a repair permissions now tho!

[Matty-Andy]

what kind of machines are the small updaters running ? My update is 97 too... how interesting.

Dual 2.5 G5

[dubbz]

Mine on my Mac Mini is 97 while my roommates on his 12" PB is 56.8

Was 56.8MB on my 12" PB (updated from 1.4.2)

[Nermal]

Since its a large file, I'm downloading from a campus computer lab computer (dorm rooms are capped at 3mbit/sec).

You are really impatient! :eek:

[Peace]

Installed... Everything seems to be fine, except one odd thing...



Look (Pic): I just logged in and I have most of my RAM used up, usually, more than half is free right after a login... Strange...

The blue is the "nice" memory..The memory thats released when a process quits..
I'm guessing spotlight is re-doing it's thing..
Repair permissions with disk utility then restart..

[RJP31484]

My G5 iMac downloaded a 56.8 mb update. What is with the discrepancies in file sizes?!

[dernhelm]

Finally showing in SU!
97mb on my 17" PB

dl'ing now - anyone know of any problems?

[daSilVetZ]

Same here.

Download is alright.. about 2 minutes to download it.
//Edit: Using Mac Mini, 'first generation'

Cheers,

lieb39


wierd, im on a mac mini 1st gen also, my Download was 97MB's, anyways, restarting now, wish me luck..

[rock6079]

Anybody know yet why it's coming in at two different sizes? Mines 97 MB while I've heard others say theirs is only 53 MB.


i may be wrong but i believe the package size is different depending on what you already have installed.. example if you have previous sercurity updates installed etc... thus the more up to date systems would only need the 50mb dl while the not so up to date would need the 90mb download.. lets see what i need.. i just reinstalled tiger on my brand new dualcore 2.3 :)

[jjs1138]

i got the 97mb version on my eMac.

[MonkeyManiac]

Anyone with a TiBook/iBook care to report about the brightness key issue being solved yet? My 1Ghz TiBook hasn't worked since updating to Tiger.

[y0zza]

Very fast download here... 2 to 4MB/s on JANET UK academic network.

97.0MB.

[ColoJohnBoy]

Odd. 97 MB on my 15" 1.67 PowerBook. I called my father and told him to check his - 1.42 Mac mini and it's 57 MB.

[GroundLoop]

I think that I am going to hold off on this one for a day or two. I just have a bad feeling about this. I am sure that if there are any issues, they will surface here within an hour or two.

Looking forward to hearing the issues.

Hickman

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Man, that restart took ages... :eek:

And 10.4.3 has killed MainMenu and AcidSearch... :(

But it left Taboo (uses the same framework as AcidSearch) and Mail's GPG Mailbundle... :confused:

I'm having a bad feeling about this...

[Peel]

My G5 iMac downloaded a 56.8 mb update. What is with the discrepancies in file sizes?!
I'd guess that the 56.8MB file is a delta upgrade from 10.4.2, where that 97MB file is the full update from a previous (10.4.1 or 10.4.0) version.

My iMac G5 DL'd the 56.8MB version, and I previously had 10.4.2 running.

[MajorTom]

From the details page on Apple's site: "Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics." :confused:

[Diatribe]

Man, that restart took ages... :eek:

And 10.4.3 has killed MainMenu and AcidSearch... :(

But it left Taboo (uses the same framework as AcidSearch) and Mail's GPG Mailbundle... :confused:

I'm having a bad feeling about this...

As long as it leaves mail appetizer alone I am happy.

[mistabaka]

Never had any issues with my 1Ghz iBook G4 with the brightness buttons, and there are still no problems, cross your fingers i guess :)

[TheMonarch]

The blue is the "nice" memory..The memory thats released when a process quits..
I'm guessing spotlight is re-doing it's thing..
Repair permissions with disk utility then restart..


Thanks, yeah, I think it was spotlight. There was a period where there was a lot of disk activity, so I'm assuming it was spotlight...

And now, I complain... Ahem...


DAMN YOU APPLE! WHY THE ******* WON'T YOU FIX THIS!
33873:mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

[Dreadnought]

I'll wait till tomorrow! BTW I hope this fixes the crashing in Safari, especially with big javascripts.

[forumBuddy]

Can anyone tell me if they fixed Linksys PCI wireless card support they broke in 10.4.2?

[Flyinace2000]

Mine is 109mb.

This is from a fresh install of Tiger 10.4.0. I am doing the update on my external drive.

[Multimedia]

It's spooky to get an update on Halloween. But I love adventure into the unknown.:p 56.8 MB from a dual 2.5 G5. Looking for the big one... Anyone have that link handy?

[tangerineyum]

repairing permissions after the update show a ton of corrections for widgets the dock and other mac utilities. Tons !

[m-dogg]

Wow, I had this weird sense that this was going to be out today earlier this afternoon...cool!

[daSilVetZ]

wow.. it took 8 whole minutes to restart, from when i heard the chime...

[CmdrLaForge]

How is it going ? Any complaints yet?

[Bern]

With this many fixes I'm downloading the Combo updater (109 MB). Besides I have a couple of friends who are still on dial up so they can use it.

[derajfast]

everything else seems fine, but i used transparent dock, and when i restarted, the dock is back to the regular one.....and now when i open transparent dock to reset the settings i repviously had before updating, the "apply changes" button is greyed out.....i really want it back because i dont like the semi-transparent dock,i want it non existant, except for the icons......any other fre program i could use for this?

[liketom]

i wonder if this stops front row hacks ?

[61132]

mine is downloading right now, 105mb because I am downloading the combo update (that way I can use it next time I reformat, instead of installing all the previous updates individually) But im on a t1 line so its not too bad

[Sogo]

wow.. it took 8 whole minutes to restart, from when i heard the chime...


Yea, it took a really long time to restart...i was annoyed and concered at the same time...I was [ ] close to doing a hard boot or whatever its called.

[p0intblank]

Finally! :D I'm downloading it now. It's 97 MB for me.

[chubad]

An OS update on Halloween... Scary!!:eek:

Took a long while to re-boot and lots of permissions were fixed when I ran Disk Utility. Second re-boot was much faster. Everything seems fine so far. I got the 52 meg version on my eMac.:cool:

[mistabaka]

Spotlight is definantly faster on my 1GHz iBook G4, I'm Happy, Thanks Apple!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I'm totally crippled without AcidSearch...! :eek: How do people find stuff online without it...?! ;)

Also when I restarted an extra time Finder complained about APE, but it seems to run OK and ClearDock is not disabled... :confused:

[sebaz]

97MB Update for my 1.33 Powerbook 12 in.

I wonder what it will be for Dual 2.0 G5...

Well about an hour remaining ..long live 256k "broadband" :rolleyes: lol

[Diatribe]

Spotlight is definantly faster on my 1GHz iBook G4, I'm Happy, Thanks Apple!

If mine is going to be definantly anything afterwards I won't install it :D :p

[Calvinatir]

I got the 97MB and I had done EVERY update previously. Does anyone know if this fixed the 'myspace' issue where it would lock up Safari?

[joenathan]

Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.

Opinions?

[Diatribe]

I'm totally crippled without AcidSearch...! :eek: How do people find stuff online without it...?! ;)

Also when I restarted an extra time Finder complained about APE, but it seems to run OK and ClearDock is not disabled... :confused:

Why do you use cleardock anyway there is a much more elegant way to get a clear dock???

[Diatribe]

Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.

Opinions?

Meaning it probably won't be enabled until 10.5...

[Aarow]

Ugh. 35 minutes(estimate) for download. I never thought my internet was slow, but w/ cable and faster DSL's, I'm starting to think that:(

[derajfast]

spotlight is def faster on my 15in 1.33ghz pbook, but transparent dock doesnt work!!!!! anything i can do to get a clear dock again? id really really like this back

[jinzo012]

I felt so good when I tried Safari with the Acid2 Test IT WORKED! yee ha!

[kugino]

99.3 MB download on ibook g4 1ghz w/10.4.2

restart took a few minutes.

repair permissions is still going...lots and lots of fixes, mostly widgets but other stuff as well.

restarting second time now.

[GroundLoop]

Screw it! I am just going to take my chances and download it. I am too weak to hold out. Hopefully all goes well.

Hickman

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Why do you use cleardock anyway there is a much more elegant way to get a clear dock???Like...?

And the advantage is that ClearDock works, opposed to TransparentDock...

And it's been a while since I could be bothered to modify and replace the Dock resources myself... ;)

[rock6079]

anyone try their front row now that they have updated ??

edit: well to answer my own question... yes..

took no more than 30 seconds to boot :)

[Flyinace2000]

My reboot took a cool 2 minutes.

[Diatribe]

Like...?

It's an installer package that changes just that (makes the dock clear). Comes with an uninstaller too and has never made ANY problems for me. If you're interested I can send you the link or the file later (I am at work right now) just pm me. :)

[Super Dave]

Apple says that update sizes may vary:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25799

Linked to from the 10.4.3 update page.

David :cool:

[derajfast]

can anyone help me with getting my dock transparent again? transparent dock wont work now, and i tried getting clear dock but its an ape? file....what the hell is that.....it opens automatically with xACT which i use to convert flacs/shns/and wav files.....are there any transparent/clear dock programs that will work with this update

[deckmoney]

I lost ALL of my items in the source list of iPhoto when it first launched...reopening the application fixed it.

[furryrabidbunny]

Finally... the iChat not responding in activity monitor has been fixed. That has bothered me since day one.

[Dreadnought]

Just had a Kernal panic when downloading the update... Spooky!! :mad:

[Frisco]

My external Mouse tracking speed still resets back to the fastest setting whenever I restart or unplug and replug the mouse. It's been this way in Tiger since day #1.

1 Gz TiPb using logitech cordless Mouseman optical.

[ChrisFromCanada]

Only about 4 minutes from start bong to running on the iBook in my sig. Note its running a 5400RPM HD.

EDIT: **WARNING** Front Row is broken on my iBook.

EDIT 2 : Maybe not completely broken. I may have been something specific to my set-up. Xkeys may have been the culprit.

EDIT 3: It appears Xkeys and Front Row are both working, however the Start Front Row Applescript is broken.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I felt so good when I tried Safari with the Acid2 Test IT WORKED! yee ha!I'm VERY impressed. Tried that with Opera recently and even that was fairly messed up, don't even want to mention Safari 2.0.1...

But 2.0.2... amazing...!

The attached image is NOT the reference page... :)

Edit: Just a hiccup... image attached now...

[Multimedia]

Safari appears to been updated to 2.0.2 (416.12).

Everything else appears to be running fine. Feels snappier.That would be the placebo effect? Or not? ;)

[Diatribe]

To everyone wanting the cleardock/transparent dock installer... because of strong interest I'll open a thread in Mac Basics later when I get home and post the link if I find it. If not I'll upload it somewhere (no clue where yet, if anyone knows let me know) and post the link.

[drater]

Finally... the iChat not responding in activity monitor has been fixed. That has bothered me since day one.

no crap, that was pissing me off too for a while.

[WildCowboy]

So far so good here...27 second download, three minute restart. Good number of permissions repaired. No issues so far.

[Nermal]

You STILL can't customise number formatting! You could do it in 10.3 but they took it out of 10.4 :mad:

Edit: Here's an interesting change - the .exe file on my desktop no longer has a Virtual PC icon, but rather something that looks like it's out of System 7!

[liketom]

what ichat encryption all about ?

[DaftUnion]

Cool! Can't wait to get my iMac back from the Apple store repaired, so I can try out the update.

[Flyinace2000]

Installed fine on my backup drive (extneral firewire drive with Tiger installed). Also 7200 RPM desktop drive vs. 5400 laptop drive. OSX feels soooooo much faster with the 7200drive. WOW

[Multimedia]

Apple says that update sizes may vary:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25799

Linked to from the 10.4.3 update page.

David :cool:I think it's safer to run the 109 MB Combo updater no matter what version you have running. It may just be a phoney rumor, but I've read in the past that Combo update running usually yields better results.

[bloogersnigen]

Finally... the iChat not responding in activity monitor has been fixed. That has bothered me since day one.
Same. We'll see if this fixes it.

[Peace]

what ichat encryption all about ?

That allows you to do an iChat across a network using encryption..
The data is encrypted ;)

[sord]

97mb on my iMac G5 first rev. It had all updates up until this was released so I didn't miss anything that would add to the size. Boot took about 3 minutes in which my fans went full blast.

[kugino]

second restart "only" took 2 minutes on my ibook (check sig.)...but i'm repairing permissions again and there's a lot being repaired AGAIN! gonna restart for a third time and repair permissions again. things are actually a bit sluggish since the update :mad:

[chubad]

Wow! Safari on my eMac is much faster!

Then the security updades will come out and it will get slower with each one.:(

[ITASOR]

Thanks, yeah, I think it was spotlight. There was a period where there was a lot of disk activity, so I'm assuming it was spotlight...

And now, I complain... Ahem...


DAMN YOU APPLE! WHY THE ******* WON'T YOU FIX THIS!
33873:mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

I seriously don't see what's wrong in the pic that you are complaining about...

[Calvinatir]

I seriously don't see what's wrong in the pic that you are complaining about...

It doesn't say Finder about his Finder logo...

[derajfast]

To everyone wanting the cleardock/transparent dock installer... because of strong interest I'll open a thread in Mac Basics later when I get home and post the link if I find it. If not I'll upload it somewhere (no clue where yet, if anyone knows let me know) and post the link.


think you could PM me it? thanks

this will work on the updated version? because i had transparent dock before, and once i restarted it didnt work

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

It's an installer package that changes just that (makes the dock clear). Comes with an uninstaller too and has never made ANY problems for me. If you're interested I can send you the link or the file later (I am at work right now) just pm me. :)Thanks, I might take you up on that if APE and/or ClearDock actually quits on me... for now it works fine... :)

[thogs_cave]

Just loaded it on my iBook G4 (12"/1.2GHz) with no issues. Plus, it fixed my wireless issues.

The size of my installer was 97 (or so) MB, and this is a clean, updated system.

[Diatribe]

Thanks, I might take you up on that if APE and/or ClearDock actually quits on me... for now it works fine... :)

Welcome. :) The reason I like this a lot better is because it doesn't alter as much as if I install APE it just exchanges the png for a transparent one. I just don't trust APE...

[sord]

Apple says that update sizes may vary:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25799

Linked to from the 10.4.3 update page.

David :cool:
I think you've mistaken - that link goes to the 10.3.4 update and has a timestamp of July 9, 2004

[TheMonarch]

I seriously don't see what's wrong in the pic that you are complaining about...

Whew, here I thought my complaint was going to be unheard of :o .

What I was complaining about is that the dock freezes (Not always, but many, many times) when hot corners are enabled. My exposé hot corner is to the bottom left, and sometimes when I use it (And I use it a lot, coudn't live without it)...

You should try it, set your hot corner in the same spot for a day or so, you'll see what I'm talking about (Assuming you use hot corners, and don't hide your dock)... Its been here since 10.4.0 (It was fine in panther)

[joecool85]

Both my PB and PM were 56.8 mb. Downloading it right now.

[Ashapalan]

yeh 56.8, downloading now.

I've had problems with safari, hopefully this will be the end of them...
2 mins remaing.

[~Shard~]

A long time coming - I'm happy for all you Tiger users out there, you've been very patient! :)

Good to hear Safari got updated as well, I know that was the cause of several issues for certain people.

[drater]

what is the major different between the 109mb update and the 97mb update? anyone?

[kugino]

okay, third restart and it took just over a minute from first appearance of the apple logo until my user/password prompt came up. and now things seem pretty zippy. repairing permissions for a third time and once again, a bunch of widgets are being fixed. anyone else get this?

[Superdrive]

My iChat buddy list is larger now! It has to display my complete name for some reason. I liked before when I could just get the elipse in there and have it nice and tight. Why make these stupid changes Apple?:mad:

[Diatribe]

A long time coming - I'm happy for all you Tiger users out there, you've been very patient! :)

Good to hear Safari got updated as well, I know that was the cause of several issues for certain people.

You haven't upgraded yet? What happened? Spent all your money on the wedding and honeymoon trip? :p :D

[AppleMatt]

I seriously don't see what's wrong in the pic that you are complaining about...

The mouse isn't over the dock, but it's magnified.
If you move the mouse over again, the dock will respond once more, but if you don't it will remain magnified indefinitely. This was a real big problem in 10.4.0, was partly solved in 10.4.1 but still persists in some form in 10.4.2/10.4.3.

AppleMatt

[Plymouthbreezer]

Two minutes left to my download... I hope all goes well on the other side...

I'm worried about the ClearDock/Transparent Dock issues though. Maybe I'll be lucky?

[godbout]

I am not sure what is with this file size difference because I have a fully updated PB15" and I have 97MB to download so it is definately not because you are going from 10.4.1 rather than 10.4.2. Not sure... maybe we should plot which systems are doing what... I will start..

1.67 PB 15"
Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46)

[Laser47]

My update was 97mb, my ibook only took about 3 mins to restart, safari seams faster. The only thing is that Onyx does not work, it gets an applescript error. So i guess the updated applescript is causing some wierd things to happen.

[mistabaka]

My iChat buddy list is larger now! It has to display my complete name for some reason. I liked before when I could just get the elipse in there and have it nice and tight. Why make these stupid changes Apple?:mad:
Mine is still letting me size it below the size of my full name ellipses and all, maybe repair permissions?

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Well, 10.4.3 solves this issue. About time... :)

[frenetic]

okay, third restart and it took just over a minute from first appearance of the apple logo until my user/password prompt came up. and now things seem pretty zippy. repairing permissions for a third time and once again, a bunch of widgets are being fixed. anyone else get this?

Yes, that's perfectly normal. DskU is actually not repairing the permissions in question, it just says it is using special permissions. A bit confusing, but that is what it does. From now on you will see this every time you repair permissions.

[TheMonarch]

Whew, here I thought my complaint was going to be unheard of :o .

What I was complaining about is that the dock freezes (Not always, but many, many times) when hot corners are enabled. My exposé hot corner is to the bottom left, and sometimes when I use it (And I use it a lot, coudn't live without it)...

You should try it, set your hot corner in the same spot for a day or so, you'll see what I'm talking about (Assuming you use hot corners, and don't hide your dock)... Its been here since 10.4.0 (It was fine in panther)


Oh my, how perfect :rolleyes:

Notice exposé is on... 33881

Here is my issue (And its not my machine, I've have this issue with other machines on Tiger)

[joecool85]

I haven't the slightest what my PM was before as far as build, but now it is

10.4.3, build 8F46

My PB is the same.

[GroundLoop]

Installed. 4 Minutes to reboot. Tons of permissions comments (none of any interest). Finally, my ClearDock works just fine. All on the PB in my signature.

Hickman

[jcrewleif]

My update was 97 MB's as well. I installed the update and everything is running smoothly.

[winmacguy]

Since its a large file, I'm downloading from a campus computer lab computer (dorm rooms are capped at 3mbit/sec). I got the file at about 1.2 megabytes/sec :D I downloaded all 97 megabytes in about a minute! Now it's just taking forever to copy over to my Mac.

Wow! Our work maxes out at 1mbit/sec and that is on a good day:eek:

[silvergunuk]

finally my dvd playback is working!!!!

[Ti_Poussin]

Took a hell of a time to reboot, more than 2 min. Safari is faster, at start up it seem it have redo the spolight archive on my external HD, took a few minutes. My firewire connection seem more stable, I run into trouble from time to time, now work like a charm. The low sound with internal speaker issue on powerbook seem to be gone finally. Spolight is more responsive.

Note: repair permission after installing, a lot got mess up even if I repair them before installing. There's now a verify start up disk now in disk utility too.

Finally the firewire problem is still there, I begin to suspect intermintant hardware problem, anybody have a good schematic of the firewire for powerbook Ti 1GHz, so I may try to repair it?

[Punani]

Aloha,

Looks like Safe Sleep didn't make it into 10.4.3 for the rest of the portables. Anyone suspect this is due to odd bugs (i.e. the ethernet port not waking and DVD-Audio disks play without sound)?

Should we expect this to show up in an eventual revision?

[maya]

Screw it! I am just going to take my chances and download it. I am too weak to hold out. Hopefully all goes well.

Hickman

excellent. ;) :D


Give in to the Dark Side Temptation. :D

[cemil]

To all those who knew one of the many hacks to enable Quartz 2d Extreme - Don't do it in 10.4.3! I had Q2dE enabled in 10.4.2 without any troubles. I installed 10.4.3 and, as promised, it was disabled. I did the old go into Quartz Debug, enable, force quit trick and bam - not 3 minutes later I had a kernel panic (the first one on my powerbook in 6 months). Don't do it (or save everything first!)

-Cemil

[MBHockey]

Mine's also 97 MB while running 10.4.2

The first 14.8 megs downloaded in a flash, now it's absolutely crawling...

[[Rsync]]

Update Done!

All perfect! , Safari 2.0.2 is now more fast, Tiger is now more stable. :p

-----
Ibook G4 1.25 12" 768MB OSX 10.4.3 :)

[Xanderxxx]

Widget Manager = Still Broken :(
Link: http://fam.madeiraspainting.com/Picture%201.jpg

[ZildjianKX]

Has the iChat bandwidth error bug been fixed when video chatting? It was suppose to be "fixed" in 10.4.2 but never was...

[vouder17]

Was this in 10.4.2???
It isnt very useful but looks cool:rolleyes:

[XNine]

I'll download it on my mini when I get home. Hopefully Safari works, and doesn't hang or unexpectedly quit anymore. Also, on one of my Admin accounts, I cannot move items in the Application folder without putting in the admin password. No matter how I correct permissions or change them to accomodate this.

[dops7107]

Since its a large file, I'm downloading from a campus computer lab computer (dorm rooms are capped at 3mbit/sec). I got the file at about 1.2 megabytes/sec :D I downloaded all 97 megabytes in about a minute! Now it's just taking forever to copy over to my Mac.

Does this mean you downloaded some stand-alone file and then copied it across to the computer with a slow connection? I'd like to know that for two reasons: I only have 256 kbps at home (I know... :( long story), so I'd like to download at work (mmm, JANET :) ). Also it would be useful to archive updates so I don't have to download again. Is this possible?

EDIT: duh, found it here (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads//)...

[cgratti]

SLOW to download. The demand is plenty!!.


97 MB for me.. took 3 minutes to download....

running fine after reboot

[Peace]

Has the iChat bandwidth error bug been fixed when video chatting? It was suppose to be "fixed" in 10.4.2 but never was...

Don't know if it's been "fixed" but it works a lot better over my airport network.
I used to get "not enough bandwidth" almost everytime I tried iChat over airport.Now it's down to 1 out of every 10 times.
If you still have this problem make sure any device that uses the IEE1394.eg a firewire drive is unmounted and retry.

[robbieduncan]

Installed fine on my 15" PowerBook (1.25Ghz) and Mac Mini (1.42 Ghz). Downloads nice and fast (700K per second or so). Both machines took a little longer than normal in Open Firmware (the grey screen with the Apple logo).

I must admit I took a full backup before installing. Better safe than sorry :)

[scb]

everything running fine on my imac.

anyone know if this has updated RAW file support in iphoto for the Canon 350D / Digital Rebel XT ?

EDIT: appears not :(

[kugino]

when does apple post the combo update download? i want to download it here at school before going home to update the PM.

[rmathus]

when does apple post the combo update download? i want to download it here at school before going home to update the PM.

They already posted it.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1043combo.html

[mhrob]

You can now view RAW files in Preview.app and RAW files show up in the Finder slideshow: that RAW support should also work in any other slideshow capable apps (Mail?), or maybe in iMovie too, although I haven't tried everything yet.

Great system feature.

[LeviSnuts]

few things i've noticed on my 17" powerbook which lead me to ask some questions

1. the hacked front row doesn't work - i can't expect it to, whatever.

2. lots of permissions need repairing - is it ok to keep clicking repair?

3. ministat2 (widget) is showing my CPU heat up to 116 degrees F. that's up from 104. is that a healthy heat?

EDIT: also 10.4.3 seems to have fixed my "flicker screen problem". anyone else?

[TheMonarch]

Does this mean you downloaded some stand-alone file and then copied it across to the computer with a slow connection? I'd like to know that for two reasons: I only have 256 kbps at home (I know... :( long story), so I'd like to download at work (mmm, JANET :) ). Also it would be useful to archive updates so I don't have to download again. Is this possible?

EDIT: duh, found it here (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads//)...

What's with the random name in the middle of your post? :confused:

[corbin_a2]

What is the Difference between Combo and standard update?

[Bandit]

Can anyone verify if the hacked version of Front Row still works after this update? Just curious.:D

[Riot_Mac]

will it be safe to use the 97mb update on all macs? or should I use the combo. I support emacs, imacs, PM, PB. Im thinking it will be safe to use the 97 on all of the computers because if you go apples download site that is the only one they have listed other than the combo. I'm only rolling this update out on a few machines and I will see how things go. I've been waiting for this update for a long time... tiger has been kind of buggy in the production dept.

[blockheads88]

Can anyone verify if the hacked version of Front Row still works after this update? Just curious.:D
on my imac G4 it seems to work fine for me

[Riot_Mac]

What is the Difference between Combo and standard update?

the combo is all updates in one... so 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3 combined into one updater. Standard update would be just 10.4.3... if you are up to date with 10.4.2

[kugino]

They already posted it.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1043combo.html
shoot, i was looking in the wrong place. thanks rmathus!

[scb]

You can now view RAW files in Preview.app and RAW files show up in the Finder slideshow: that RAW support should also work in any other slideshow capable apps (Mail?), or maybe in iMovie too, although I haven't tried everything yet.

Great system feature.


yeah, i can get the RAW files from my 350D via image capture and view them fine but iphoto still doesn't like them! :mad:

[mechcon]

when it comes to macs? its TLC and mine now works a treat, safari is quicker, mail is quicker... overall? im satisfied (thus far) more info later y'all :P

[Super Dave]

I voted negative on this post and I'm an Apple fan boy from way back. Apple should never have released something as buggy as Tiger was. Yes I know some people never had any issues, but I was not one of those people, nor were many people I know.

I still would prefer Tiger to Windows, and it is infinitely less buggy. It's also a lot better than the bad ol' OS 9 days, but after the release of 10.1 Mac fans began expeccting better. Maybe we're just spoiled.

I did wait it out for 10.4.3 without any BIG hassles, but Leopard really has to be better than this to thrash XP and one day (who knows when, likely after Leopard) Vista/Longhorn. It's not enough to simply be better. Apple has to continue to embarrass Microsoft as they have for the past .

David:cool:

[~Shard~]

You haven't upgraded yet? What happened? Spent all your money on the wedding and honeymoon trip? :p :D

Yeah, something like that... ;)

Nah, just never had a big driver to switch from Panther. For my needs, it suits me just fine. I think I'll just wait until I buy my new Intel Mac with Leopard preloaded in a couple years... :cool:

[gandalf55]

my old mac (g4 400Mhz) is going on 25 mins rebooting - still at grey on one monitor - black on main. Weird...

[godbout]

the combo is all updates in one... so 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3 combined into one updater. Standard update would be just 10.4.3... if you are up to date with 10.4.2

This is not how it is working though because there are many people that have updated systems but are only getting the combo option.

PB15 97MB 97MB 97MB
PB12 58MB 58MB 58MB 58MB
D2.0G5 58MB
IB12 97MB 97MB 97MB
ImacG5 97MB 97MB
D2.5G5 58MB
PB17 97MB 97MB
MacMini 97MB 58MB 97MB
IB14 97MB

This is what I have figured... hmmm.....

[szark]

What's with the random name in the middle of your post? :confused:

I would guess that dops7107 is talking about JANET (http://www.ja.net/about/index.html).

Glad to see 10.4.3 -- will have to remember to download it when I get home tonight.

[Diatribe]

Yeah, something like that... ;)

Nah, just never had a big driver to switch from Panther. For my needs, it suits me just fine. I think I'll just wait until I buy my new Intel Mac with Leopard preloaded in a couple years... :cool:

Haha, I guess I am just an upgrade junkie. I couldn't live without some of the Tiger features... lucky me I have a fast connection down here in México or else I'd cry now... :D

[sebaz]

I just saw this in the changelog:

X11 windows no longer stay in the background after selecting the X11 application from the Dock or with Application Switcher.

Which I must say its awesome that they finally fix that. You had to double-click the icon since i believe 10.2..

[Xero]

Can anyone with a final revision Ti Powerbook (mine is 1ghz, fyi) confirm wether this fixes the battery capacity issue or not?

[SummerBreeze]

Just loaded it on my iBook G4 (12"/1.2GHz) with no issues. Plus, it fixed my wireless issues.

Wireless seems to be working better on my 12" PowerBook as well. I live in a large apartment complex, and before I could only see three networks, now I see five. Plus, Safari is definitely speedier.

[jedijoe]

I have a dual-core 2.3. It tried to reboot for ~20min and I got scared, so I hard-rebooted it. Now it still suck in a blue background, round finder busy icon in the middle of the screen on boot. The second boot try has been going for about 25min now.

97MB update pack. My 12" powerbook (56MB) update went perfectly fine. In fact, I am typing this post with it now.

Anyone else encounter such problems? Suggestions? thanks

EDIT: Shutdown computer. Pulled power plug from UPS for 20 seconds. Everything restarted fine. It fact it restarted ultra fast. Like 15 seconds and I am up at my desktop. I had to run Disk Utility to repair 2 illegal filenames....

[Laser47]

on my imac G4 it seems to work fine for me
It also works fine on my ibook.

[Multimedia]

Only about 4 minutes from start bong to running on the iBook in my sig. Note its running a 5400RPM HD.

EDIT: **WARNING** Front Row is broken on my iBook.

EDIT 2 : Maybe not completely broken. I may have been something specific to my set-up. Xkeys may have been the culprit.

EDIT 3: It appears Xkeys and Front Row are both working, however the Start Front Row Applescript is broken.
I don't have the Xkeys part installed. And my Front Row won't start any more. Bummer. Anyone know where the fix may surface?:(

[cycocelica]

After updating i have this on my dock (far left, Terminal)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/cycocelica/Picture1.png

When I place the mouse over it, it says Java.should I just pull it off or what?

thanks

[ChrisFromCanada]

I don't have the Xkeys part installed. And my Front Row won't start any more. Bummer. Anyone know where the fix may surface?:(

Okay Fully fixed!

There was never a problem with the front row application it still launches when holding esc. It appears Apple updated applescript. The old applescript launcher I was using was broken.

Use the following code in Script Editor, compile then save as an application bundle and you are golden.

tell application "Front Row"
activate
tell application "System Events" to key code 53
end tell

[mooshoo]

Something's definitley up with the Disk Utility. I've repaired/verified disk permissions like 6 times already and there are still a lot of things cropping up. Normally it's just2-3 items, but this like A LOT. Anyone else with this problem? Or should I just stop repairing and let it be?

I also noticed that the permissions are all related to widgets, which I only have 4 items enabled...

[jmille44]

Does anyone notice that all flash web sites are now messed up with the updated safari?

This sucks

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[LeviSnuts]

Something's definitley up with the Disk Utility. I've repaired/verified disk permissions like 6 times already and there are still a lot of things cropping up. Normally it's just2-3 items, but this like A LOT. Anyone else with this problem? Or should I just stop repairing and let it be?

I also noticed that the permissions are all related to widgets, which I only have 4 items enabled...


i ran it a bunch, never seemed to stop having things to fix. i'm leaving it alone for now.

[cepler]

Just updated my 15" PB, 97 meg, about 2 megabytes/sec download rate :) Woot...love sitting on 2 gig links to the net...heh..about 1 min download time.

I suspect the 97 meg version may have to do with Xcode, or X11. I don't think I have X11 installed on here yet but I am pretty sure I put Xcode on.

Memory usage looks OK, about 1.42 gig free, 225 meg in use. I noticed a CPU spike at login which looked like mdimport running so Spotlight may have been updated and was doing some adjustments/reindexing (Or maybe it does this on all reboots, I'm an OS X newbie so don't know).

So far so good, it boots at least...and Safari loaded to let me post this, thats about all I can report.

[jaykk]

Mighty Mouse driver is included in this update. Good update so far for me.

[rmathus]

Does anyone notice that all flash web sites are now messed up with the updated safari?

This sucks

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

You need to reinstall Flash.

[sxtxixtxcxh]

a couple notes:

if you've UNO (http://gui.interacto.net/index.php)fied, the highlighted tab in safari doesn't mesh smoothly into the rest of the of window.

also, if you have the item info displayed on the right on your desktop, they increased the column spacing... a lot.

otherwise, so far so good, though.

//edit: my safari install didn't drop flash support.. i had flash 8 installed a while ago though.. i think when it was beta.

[Zoowatch]

This update kills Front Row hack!

also, some of the custom icons for e.g. generic folders, iDisk are reset to the default OS X ones

[joebells]

whats with all the permissions repairing? It sounds like it needs to be done manually after every update?

[Astral Cars]

97MB download took me less than 30 seconds, restart did take awhile. I repaired permissions and restarted again. I ran XBench and got a better score than in the past. Front Row still works just fine.

On a PB 15" 1.5GHz

[jmille44]

You need to reinstall Flash.

Re-installed Flash 8 and all is well


:o :eek: :o :cool: :D

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

whats with all the permissions repairing? It sounds like it needs to be done manually after every update?Well, it might not be needed, but it's a convenient way to avoid any problems. All installers that requires password may mess with your permissions, and by repairing them right after major installs you might just catch potential (though rare) errors before they cause problems... :)

[rugbyspartan]

Does anyone know why the update isn't showing up in my software update?

[bbyrdhouse]

This is not how it is working though because there are many people that have updated systems but are only getting the combo option.

PB15 97MB 97MB 97MB
PB12 58MB 58MB 58MB 58MB
D2.0G5 58MB
IB12 97MB 97MB 97MB
ImacG5 97MB 97MB
D2.5G5 58MB
PB17 97MB 97MB
MacMini 97MB 58MB 97MB
IB14 97MB

This is what I have figured... hmmm.....

My PB15 was 97 MB while my Dual 2.7 was 56MB ...

[swindmill]

if you've UNO (http://gui.interacto.net/index.php)fied, the highlighted tab in safari doesn't mesh smoothly into the rest of the of window.



I noticed that too. Is the top just darker than before? It actually doesn't look too bad this way, so no big deal.

[mooshoo]

Does anyone know why the update isn't showing up in my software update?

Just to be sure, are you on Tiger or the previous OS? Sorry, I had to ask :)

[Peace]

Does anyone know why the update isn't showing up in my software update?

There could be a myriad of reasons..

More info would help..

[SummerBreeze]

I get over 1.5 MB per second at school. It's great. I downloaded an iTunes update in less than 20 seconds or so.

Ah, I am jealous. I used to have a fast dorm room connection, but now my apartment building's connection goes slower. It took me five minutes to download the update :(

[StarbucksSam]

I'm wondering if this fixes the bad blood between Tiger and AIM.

[andysmith]

Just installed this on my partner's iBook, (never experiment on my own ;)) and all seems to work well. It was 56.8mb, and took around 2 mins on my 4meg connection. (although I can't believe people are moaning that it took 5 whole mins :D :p)

Repairing permissions brought up the same as everyone else - a slew of widgets, and some php-related files. I repaired them, and the same things still came up when I tried it again. Ah well :)

[rugbyspartan]

There could be a myriad of reasons..

More info would help..

I'm running 10.4.2 right now on a latest revision powerbook.

[risc]

If you have an El Gato EyeHome you may want to hold off upgrading to 10.4.3 until El Gato release an upgrade for their EyeHome product, it is crashing out here constantly since I upgraded to .3. Finally though this will force El Gato to upgrade the EyeHome which IMHO has been in need of a firmware upgrade for ages now, how about an upgrade to some modern codecs El Gato?

[Peace]

I'm running 10.4.2 right now on a latest revision powerbook.

It should show up..Where are you ? US? Europe?

I'm sure the files are propagating thru Apple's servers..Might take a little while.
Keep checking..

[runplaysleeprun]

google maps still crashes safari when scrolling around. i like google maps, i'm mad this wasnt fixed.

[TMA]

Just installed 10.4.3 on my dual 2.0 Powermac.

immediately after installing and before I restarted the Hard Disk started thrashing about a lot. I restarted and it's still doing it! I'm a bit concerned! It's never thrashed about like this before, ever!

I've got plenty of RAM (1.5gb) I wonder what it is?

[rugbyspartan]

It should show up..Where are you ? US? Europe?

I'm sure the files are propagating thru Apple's servers..Might take a little while.
Keep checking..

I'm in the US. Yea, haven't had a problem before, so I can't imagine why it isn't showing up. Any other thoughts?

[cgc]

Safari still doesn't work with my online college site (University of Maryland University Campus http://webtycho.umuc.edu). Sits there trying to login but never does. Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, and Opera all work, however.

[Peace]

Just installed 10.4.3 on my dual 2.0 Powermac.

immediately after installing and before I restarted the Hard Disk started thrashing about a lot. I restarted and it's still doing it! I'm a bit concerned! It's never thrashed about like this before, ever!

I've got plenty of RAM (1.5gb) I wonder what it is?

It's the new,improved spotlight..
Lot's of spotlight functions work on the fly faster thus causing more reads to the HD.It'll settle down after a while.I had the same problem and it eventually mellowed out

[j-a-x]

Seems to have fixed the weird thing where KernelTask would take up 10% of the CPU or so while idle for not apparent reason for scrolling trackpad users!

Failed to fix the thing in finder where you move the cursor over a column boundary in finder to resize and the cursor does not change the the resize icon. I don't know why but this really bugs me !

[TMA]

Just installed 10.4.3 on my dual 2.0 Powermac.

immediately after installing and before I restarted the Hard Disk started thrashing about a lot. I restarted and it's still doing it! I'm a bit concerned! It's never thrashed about like this before, ever!

I've got plenty of RAM (1.5gb) I wonder what it is?

According to Activity Monitor its writing approximately 1-4mb of data a second to the Hard Disk. What the heck is it doing!?!

[andysmith]

google maps still crashes safari when scrolling around. i like google maps, i'm mad this wasnt fixed.
Works perfectly well for me, and always has :confused:

[TMA]

It's the new,improved spotlight..
Lot's of spotlight functions work on the fly faster thus causing more reads to the HD.It'll settle down after a while.I had the same problem and it eventually mellowed out

Ah yes! Thank you! I've just noticed it's re-indexing my HD, or appears to be. It's just finished now. On older systems with slower drives that's going to be a pain in the ass

[mkjellman]

Well my download took about a minute on my Verizon FIOS 15mb/2mb connection. God bless Verizon and their fiber to the home.




-Safari = if you open a link in a new tab it doesn't activate the tab, it just loads the page behind it. I think thats new...but i'm not sure

-Disk Utility = Repaired some permissions but not to any degree that anyone else has been talking about

-RAW Support = FINALLY SUPPORT ALL NIKON NEF FORMATS THANK YOU APPLE

-Image previews as thumbnails in finder = SO MUCH FASTER! Images literally are loading 2-3 times faster than they were in 10.4.2 and! this is with RAW support too. And this is with 200+ NEF/RAW files per folder.

-Black border with NEF- This is finally fixed in both iPhoto and Preview.


my restart took a while though



AND CHECK OUT THIS JEM IN THE APPLE NOTES: Improves compatibility with Microsoft Word and Excel 2004, addressing an issue in which the application could stop responding for several seconds.
Resolves a potential redraw issue in which an application window's scroll bars could appear in the wrong place.

AHHHH I'm SO HAPPY. Lets hope it actually fixed something. NUMBER ONE PET PEEVE WITH TIGER.

[andrewm]

According to Activity Monitor its writing approximately 1-4mb of data a second to the Hard Disk. What the heck is it doing!?!

Perhaps updating all of its Spotlight stores--notice that new metadata items (like the 'Software' field for TIFF files) are now catalogued. I suspect that it wants to go through other files, too, for other things.

EDIT: Just adding the quote to which I responded

[cepler]

google maps still crashes safari when scrolling around. i like google maps, i'm mad this wasnt fixed.

Does it happen regularly and easily or only after a lot of scrolling? I just tried a bit and scrolled maps and sat views with no crashes...

[occam]

After 10.4.3 update, I notice I can no longer edit my Mail.app rules. The rules window opens, but the rules don't open to inspect or edit.

Anyone else to verify? (Thanks.)

[jinzo012]

Front Row doesn't Work, on my PBG4

[yg17]

Updated permissions on my powerbook and it found 2 files that needed repairing. I'll do the same on my powermac as soon as a DVD finishes burning.


Overall, it does seem snappier. Spotlight's faster, Finder's a bit quicker. Haven't tried Safari as I use Camino, but may give Safari a shot now if it's better since Camino is slightly buggy.


This should have been 10.4.0.....

[finchna]

Anybody know yet why it's coming in at two different sizes? Mines 97 MB while I've heard others say theirs is only 53 MB.

From www.macintouch.com

"Apple released the Mac OS X 10.4.3 (Delta) update for 10.4.2 and 10.4.3 Combo update for any 10.4 version"

The smaller version is probably Delta and the bigger version is the updater for other than 10.4.2.

[StarbucksSam]

PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 12" 768MB 60GB Rev. D.

Initial restart time (chime to login screen) 109 Mississippis
Permissions repaired quickly.
Second restart time (chime to login screen) 49 Mississippis

And I'm a Northerner, so I probably say Mississippi a lot faster than those of you who are from there. ;)

Oh yeah, and I see no issues yet.

[Fitzcaraldo]

I am not sure what is with this file size difference because I have a fully updated PB15" and I have 97MB to download so it is definately not because you are going from 10.4.1 rather than 10.4.2. Not sure... maybe we should plot which systems are doing what... I will start..

1.67 PB 15"
Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46)

Strange... My G5 DP 2.7 was 56.8MB...
and my identical G5 DP 2.7 is 97MB...

[~Shard~]

Haha, I guess I am just an upgrade junkie. I couldn't live without some of the Tiger features... lucky me I have a fast connection down here in México or else I'd cry now... :D

Ahem, and just when exactly did you end up in Mexico? And furthermore, did you get hit by the hurricanes at all? Come overt to Hawaii, that's where I'll be in a couple weeks. :cool:

Yeah, I'm definitely not an upgrade junkie - too practical for my own good, I guess. If I see a lot of value in the upgrade for my personal needs, then yes, I will (i.e.e getting Toast 7), but otherwise I'll just stick with what I have, like Office X for my word processing/spreadsheet needs (no need for 2004) and Final Draft 6 for my screenwriting needs (no need for 7 or AV). :cool:

[andysmith]

-RAW Support = FINALLY SUPPORT ALL NIKON NEF FORMATS THANK YOU APPLE
Still doesn't support my Minolta 7D's MRW files :(

[yg17]

I'm not too sure whats up with sizes, but I downloaded the 97 meg update from Apple's site and it worked on both my PowerMac and PowerBook. Hopefully it will work on my parent's Mac Mini, I'll find out Friday when I go home.

[DMann]

Downloaded 97mb on iMac G5 (rev b). Download took approx
1 minute (cable). Repaired permissions once before download
and twice afterward. Start-up in seven spins (30 secs)
Safari speed is significantly improved!!! Front Row
still works. Update soon:)

[ketha]

Mine loaded into 'Darwin' on reboot... :eek:

Still seems to be working now, and no, frontrow don't work.

[swindmill]

-Safari = if you open a link in a new tab it doesn't activate the tab, it just loads the page behind it. I think thats new...but i'm not sure



Pretty sure that is a preference in Safari


Also thought I would note that my PB G4 12" got the 97mb version. I had a fully updated version of 10.4.2 before the update

[bousozoku]

I don't have the Xkeys part installed. And my Front Row won't start any more. Bummer. Anyone know where the fix may surface?:(

Sounds to me as though it's been fixed, thankfully. :)

Two machines working fine with the update...so far.

[rmathus]

-Safari = if you open a link in a new tab it doesn't activate the tab, it just loads the page behind it. I think thats new...but i'm not sure

It's a preference in Safari to switch to the new tab when opened. Go to Safari > Preferences > Tabs and check "Select new tabs as they are created".

[Coheebuzz]

Just 10 secs to boot on my dual 2GHz - and Wow!! every problem i had since 10.4 has been fixed. No more Spotlight spinning balls and no more dead keyboard on every startup! :)

btw - i tried to Verify my startup disk with Disk Utility and it froze my mac (not kernel panic) and i had to hard reset. Is this a bad sign for my disk??

[cycocelica]

stupid question but I am kinda new. what is updating permissions? how do i do that?

[andrewm]

Apple still hasn't fixed the issue where, when you use the Terminal to tell the Finder to show all files, including invisible ones (easy to do on Windows!), *all* files dim to half-opacity, instead of just the invisible ones. Try this in icon- or column-view mode (looks as though list-view shows them normally).

Panther did not have this problem. Turning off the setting restores all files to full opacity. This is rather off-putting, from an I-want-to-be-a-geek-but-I-still-want-to-use-the-GUI standpoint--I should be allowed to know what's on my machine without having to squint to make out the icons.

[lucas]

Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.

Opinions?
for me, enabling Quartz 2D leads to issues redrawing certian pdf files when not viewed at 100% (lots of black boxes where equations should be). seems fair enough to make "off" the default. if you want it, you know how to turn it back on

[Mac_Freak]

.....
-Image previews as thumbnails in finder = SO MUCH FASTER! Images literally are loading 2-3 times faster than they were in 10.4.2 and! this is with RAW support too. And this is with 200+ NEF/RAW files per folder.

-Black border with NEF- This is finally fixed in both iPhoto and Preview.
.....

WOW, you are so right, this so fast now, even on mine 4200RPM drive :D

[G5Unit]

Took about 3(97mb) mins to download on my 1.8Ghz PM(we have 5 computers on 1 5 meg connection). I hope this fixes the bug where it crashes after 2 hours of use and opening a movie in full screen.

[Multimedia]

Okay Fully fixed!

There was never a problem with the front row application it still launches when holding esc. It appears Apple updated applescript. The old applescript launcher I was using was broken.

Use the following code in Script Editor, compile then save as an application bundle and you are golden.

tell application "Front Row"
activate
tell application "System Events" to key code 53
end tellI have never written an Applescript before. Never run that application before. And your instructions were so spot on it worked the first time I tried it. Thank you very much.
:p :p

[macgallant]

Mac OSX 10.4.3 finally fixed the MDD Audio bug for me.

Thanks Apple!

[Daveway]

The login window shows more options now, mainly network ones, when you click on the text under "Mac OSX".

My reboot from a combo update took 2:40 on my iMac.

The Widget Manager still doesn't load for me.:mad: And thankfully, Spotlight is much faster.

[SummerBreeze]

-Image previews as thumbnails in finder = SO MUCH FASTER! Images literally are loading 2-3 times faster than they were in 10.4.2 and! this is with RAW support too. And this is with 200+ NEF/RAW files per folder.

Ah yes! I didn't notice this before, but now that I looked into my pictures folder it's going so much faster. Before, image previews weren't even showing up.