Apple Preparing to Seed Developers with First Build of OS X 10.8.1

[richard.mac]

Possible fix for my horrendous Safari page load times?

Safari is fine.. try Reset Safari and restart it, or reboot, and it will be fast again.

Hopefully 10.8.1 will fix the "Save As..." problem.

http://macperformanceguide.com/MountainLion-SaveAs-data-destruction.html

Yes! Maybe it has something to do with ML's Versions, but really Apple? Save as saves the original document? fix it!

Edit: This reminded me to submit feedback about this, just in case it doesn't come in a point update.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Pretty happy with ML so far, just need it fixed so that I can save to smb from Photoshop.

 

[mrxak]

I hope Safari 6 gets an update. Nothing major, but there's a few problems I would like to see fixed.

I haven't yet updated my main desktop to 10.8 from 10.6.8, but I installed 10.8 on my laptop yesterday after testing it out on my mini server for a while, and I'm reasonably happy with it. All my software is working, the UI changes are mostly not annoying.

 

[Lancer]

Dumb question, but I can assume Safari 6 only works on Intel Mac's?

 

[JFreak]

I have no other issues, but...

ML Server messed up SMTP (sending mail). Apparently they changed the Unix standard directory /etc/postfix to Appleish /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix but FORGOT TO ADD SYMBOLIC LINK FROM OLD TO NEW DIRECTORY, which meant that out of the box the half-baked ML Server was unable to send mail. After some hours of investigation I added one symbolic link and ever since everything works perfectly.

Let us see what happens when I eventually upgrade ;9

 

[bbfc]

I have no experienced any issues with ML since i installed it on my Early 2011 MBP. In fact its much faster than Lion was and feels more snappier. Loving the new Safari and Notification Center.

Dumb question, but I can assume Safari 6 only works on Intel Mac's?

You assume correctly. And it's only available for Lion (through Software Update) and Mountain Lion. It's not available for Snow Leopard.

 

[MacSawdust]

ML Good so far...

I don't have the issues that are being mentioned here.
I always repair permissions before and after an OS update. Not sure that will cure all issues, but it can't hurt.

 

[ZipZap]

I have not seen this issue. I have two external hard drives attached to my iMac and Mac-Mini and the drives have always reattach (auto-mount) after wake from sleep. Type of hard drives are you having the issue with?

I do occassionally see the issue where the info reported for a external drive will only show the total size of the drive and the used amount is missing. If I unmount and mount the drive in question, the hard drive info is shown correctly again.

I have a rmbp. The drives vanish under mountain lion when I sleep the laptop.

 

[Kebabselector]

I'm getting some weird behavior out of iPhoto since upgrading to ML.

Summary: Laggy and unpleasant.

That's normal iPhoto performance isn't it?

 

[greenorblue]

We need the option to add a phone number to Messages for iMessage integration. All would be fantastic.

 

[^^BIGMac]

...more snappier

Wat?

 

[Digitalclips]

Possible fix for my horrendous Safari page load times?

I swapped out my HD with an SSD did a clean install and my 2010 MBP is 10x faster at everything, seriously fast. I cannot recommend it enough. Safari an Mail are instant. I popped the SSD into the optical bay with an adapter and set it as the boot drive and retained the HD too. Best upgrade I have ever done and I've been using macs since 1984. The battery life is amazing now as the HD spins down and I only use it for data, most of the time I am only running the SSD. My only concern is I am convinced Mountain Lion isn't switching to the Intel Graphics system when it should, rather staying on the nVidia card but I can use an small utility to manually shift that.

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That's normal iPhoto performance isn't it?

Go SSD!

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I have a rmbp. The drive vanish under mountain lion when I sleep the laptop.

That's the 'Houndini Drive Syndrome'.

 

[felt.]

I experienced my first hard crash ever (GREY SCREEN OF DEATH) with Mountain Lion on my MBP. I've had random lockups and reboots before but in this instance the machine just went grey. It happened while streaming media over ethernet via smb to an external display while playing the audio through a firewire audio interface.

 

[nefan65]

I've experienced a couple of weird things, but nothing major.

1. If I right click on the desktop to change background picture, System Preferences bounces in the dock, and then nothing. I have to click on Sys Pref to open it.

2. If I open Notes, it will sync with iCloud and show notes, but one is displayed like 10 times. If I change window focus, it goes away, and displays just the one instance.

3. Have had Safari just crash for no reason. Only about 4 times since the install of ML. But still annoying.

 

[sascha h-k]

please what means "preparing", one day, 2, or .. ?

 

[3282868]

Safari is fine.. try Reset Safari and restart it, or reboot, and it will be fast again.

Safari 6 reloads pages every time, almost ignoring cached info. It's been an issue since the DP3-4. A lot of people have filed bugs.

 

[mattgoldey]

Speaking of bugs, whatever you do, do NOT use root as your normal account in Mountain Lion.

Also, aren't mountain lions the same thing as pumas?

Smart enough to figure out how to login as root. Dumb enough to not know that this is a bad idea. You are the WORST kind of computer user.

 

[pcharles]

Possible fix for my horrendous Safari page load times?

Have you tried broadband?

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Dumb question, but I can assume Safari 6 only works on Intel Mac's?

This is a chicken and egg question. Safari 6 requires an OS that only runs on Intel. Safari 6 does run on lion, which is good.

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Pretty happy with ML so far, just need it fixed so that I can save to smb from Photoshop.

Agreed! I think this is the least painful upgrade I have had since Tiger. Leopard was a total mess because it killed half my Applications. So I held off for Lion until it had been out a long time and things were fully updated. As it happened, Lion turned out to be a fairly useful upgrade. This one has been a clean one as well, with very few things needing to be changed. It also adds a few really nice things such as messages, notifications, and better integration with iCloud.

The one issue I have, is actually a Photostream problem. My wife and I share iPhoto, but cannot tie both out icloud accounts to photostream.

 

[faroZ06]

Smart enough to figure out how to login as root. Dumb enough to not know that this is a bad idea. You are the WORST kind of computer user.

It wasn't actually I who did this. And root was not such a bad idea in Leopard. Malware is super-rare in Mac OS, so it's not like there are any real threats.

 

[milo]

Then why not delay release until major bug fixes are in place?

Because they probably didn't consider any of the bugs that went out the door "major". Every software release has bugs. Obviously you want to minimize them, but at some point you have to ship, there are always some bugs so if release is held up for every known bug it will never ship. And whether a given bug is "major" or not is usually a matter of opinion.

Plus some bugs aren't found until release, to some degree that is always inevitable since there are many combinations of hardware and software (including third party stuff). Even if Apple has hundreds or even thousands testing before release, when it's released and millions are running it within days, that's expanding the usage by a factor of a thousand overnight.

 

[dysamoria]

"Apple has also likely been working on OS X 10.8.1 since some time prior to the launch of Mountain Lion, as it seeded the final version to developers over two weeks ahead of the public launch and undoubtedly continued to find issues requiring attention after that time."

Then why not delay release until major bug fixes are in place? I realize that no release can be perfect, but if it requires a substantial upgrade even for the ".0" release there is something wrong, isn't there? Does Apple actually have a functioning QA department other than its installed base of users?

I'm in full agreement here. Especially since the Notes application has so much trouble with IMAP support. (go look at Apple support forums if you need details). The unification of Notes across devices was supposed to be one of the main points of iCloud and this upgrade. Broken for users with notes on their own IMAP servers.

Is Apple fixing that in this update?? It's the reason I bought the upgrade. I'm still waiting for presented features to work.

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Safari 6 reloads pages every time, almost ignoring cached info. It's been an issue since the DP3-4. A lot of people have filed bugs.

Yes, the scrolling improved while page "Back" actions got worse. I hate those kinds of "improvements."

 

[wpdv]

Aperture freezing

Anyone else having the latest Aperture freezing up your entire system? Frozen so badly that 'force quit' wouldn't even work.

 

[paulie6978]

i guess ill wait to upgrade

 

[willcapellaro]

I thought Lion was horrible, random reboots, slow, lock ups. It just sucked util I removed Flash. Perfect now.

Not that I don't believe you, but I don't understand how disabling Flash could fix so much stuff. Are you always running a browser with open windows with multiple flash elements loaded?

It's not practical for me to disable flash player on my system. I don't even like using things like ClickToFlash. But I am curious as to why people find it such a plague.

 

[Sylon]

The only thing that I hate right now is that if you arrange your files by name in a folder, they won't stay that way. They will randomly jumble all over the place and you have to redo it all over again. Fix that and I'll be a happy camper.