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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Safari Updates

curlydog said:
I've updated to 10.5.7 and am having problems ejecting external drives as spotlight seems to be doing an occasional index - this is really tedious - when will it get on with it or just stop? Any solutions yet?

curlydog:confused:
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My issue was probably coincidence and/or something else that was triggered by a lot of system changes. As far as I could tell, there was a corrupted jpeg somewhere that kept setting off a chain of events. I never did track down the specific file.

I deleted the my Spotlight index, checked my disk, then upon restart, Spotlight completely rebuilt. Problem went away.

I didn't have externals plugged in.
 
This upgrading the OS thing is a crap shoot at best unfortunately.

For me personally, upgrading 10.5.0 through 10.5.5 I had ZERO problems whatsoever. Then the HATED 10.5.6 upgrade came along and totally crashed both of my Macs. After about four days of backing up I finally could go on the Internet again and I downloaded the combo 10.5.6 and I installed it, after that everything worked fairly well again. Except for I could NOT repair my permissions. If I did everything would crash again after a reboot on both computers.

Now with this 10.5.7 upgrade everything went just BEAUTIFULLY for me again. ALSO now I can repair my permissions on both of my computers and reboot, and both computers reboots themselves after my permissions are fixed!
 
Stevamundo said:
This upgrading the OS thing is a crap shoot at best unfortunately.

For me personally, upgrading 10.5.0 through 10.5.5 I had ZERO problems whatsoever. Then the HATED 10.5.6 upgrade came along and totally crashed both of my Macs. After about four days of backing up I finally could go on the Internet again and download the combo 10.5.6 after that everything worked fairly well again. Except for I can NOT repair my permissions. If I did everything would crash again after reboot on both computers.

Now with this 10.5.7 upgrade everything went just BEAUTIFULLY for me again. ALSO now I can repair my permissions on both of my computers and reboot, and both computers reboots themselves after my permissions are fixed!
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What are people's obsessions with repairing permissions? What are you people doing to your computers? Geeze... I think I've repaired permissions twice since 10.5 came out... and that's only because I personally went and changed the permissions on System files to make edits. Other than that, I couldn't care less about repairing permissions... it doesn't make all your problems go away. Do you also reset the NVRAM or PRAM every time an update comes out? Also, why not do a disk catalog check while you're at it. Geeze.
 
TheSpaz said:
What are people's obsessions with repairing permissions? What are you people doing to your computers? Geeze... I think I've repaired permissions twice since 10.5 came out... and that's only because I personally went and changed the permissions on System files to make edits. Other than that, I couldn't care less about repairing permissions... it doesn't make all your problems go away. Do you also reset the NVRAM or PRAM every time an update comes out? Also, why not do a disk catalog check while you're at it. Geeze.
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"because-thats-way-weve-always-done-it.html" ? ¬_¬

Does a Leopard ever change it's spots?

You know what amuses me with some Apple users. They preach to Windows users about having to so called "unlearn" the bad habits. Some Apple users should learn from their own terms about change.
 
TheSpaz said:
What are people's obsessions with repairing permissions? What are you people doing to your computers? Geeze... I think I've repaired permissions twice since 10.5 came out... and that's only because I personally went and changed the permissions on System files to make edits. Other than that, I couldn't care less about repairing permissions... it doesn't make all your problems go away. Do you also reset the NVRAM or PRAM every time an update comes out? Also, why not do a disk catalog check while you're at it. Geeze.
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I agree. I have never bothered to repair permissions on any of my Macs. Well, I did once: as a shot in the dark when my iBook G4 started to experience kernel panics. But that problem turned out to be a failing airport card and nothing to do with permissions.
 
baruch said:
I have received this message a few times and had the download quit. Anyone else?
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I also had that problem and tried again with success after quitting iTunes and iPhoto which were open at the time. I don't know if this caused the issue but it is worth a try to turn off all your programs before doing software update.

Hope this helps.
 
i go to click stuff and i have to try mutliple times. Restart the comp.. have no problems then it starts happening again... odd
 
TheSpaz said:
What are people's obsessions with repairing permissions? What are you people doing to your computers? Geeze... I think I've repaired permissions twice since 10.5 came out... and that's only because I personally went and changed the permissions on System files to make edits. Other than that, I couldn't care less about repairing permissions... it doesn't make all your problems go away. Do you also reset the NVRAM or PRAM every time an update comes out? Also, why not do a disk catalog check while you're at it. Geeze.
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Sometimes repairing permissions ACTUALLY DOES make my computers run faster. Even sometimes it ACTUALLY DOES fix a problem.

Now especially with my iMac DC it's running faster and smoother then it has been in ages.

Is that okay with you? Geeze.
 
Stevamundo said:
Sometimes repairing permissions ACTUALLY DOES make my computers run faster. Even sometimes it ACTUALLY DOES fix a problem.

Now especially with my iMac DC it's running faster and smoother then it has been in ages.

Is that okay with you? Geeze.
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Okay... whatever you wanna do, but how come I hardly ever have problems? I guess I just know how to run my computer.
 
So far I am not convinced about 10.5.7.

Installed the Combo on my 2006 CD MBP. During the shutdown for the required restart I got an alternate white/blue screen. I left it for almost 20 min to no avail. Hard shutdown. On restart everything went fine, the computer did update with 2 the 2 successive shutdown/restarts.

After 2 days I encountered a problem, which I never had before. All of a sudden I lost my keyboard functions. Couldn't type anything anymore.

--> Restart

Just now I lost all my sound. Everything was silent.

You guessed it.. --> Restart

Of course it could be a coincidence but I don't recall having these kind of issues before. :(

Oh, yeah, before i forget. I can't seem to repair permissions before. After it is done, I always get the same 50000 messages:

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .


No, I give you a thumbs down on this one, Apple
 
TheSpaz said:
Okay... whatever you wanna do, but how come I hardly ever have problems? I guess I just know how to run my computer.
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As I said, I don't have problems either except for that 10.5.6 installer.

“I think” that installer just didn't download right as it seemed it did for some reason.
 
Like others, I had a problem downloading the update thru "software update". Took the advice of others and downloaded the combo updater thru Apple's site. Was a bit worried about updating and was doing some eBaying so I held off. Just updated and everything went fine. Geeez, things seem "snappier";). Went back to the software update and got the Safari 4 public beta too....no problems here. Kind of glad that I waited just a bit and did the combo. Always cross my fingers during the restart. Guess this might be the last update for me and my G5 PPC. Sad. On the bright side, maybe I'll have to get a laptop:D Cheers
 
Not sure if it's been discussed here or not (not gonna read through all the pages), but if you're having the sleep issue, there seems to have been a workaround find.

Check out this thread over at Apple for info.
 
Installed the 10.5.7 update and all went good. 40Min download, 5 min install, 1 prompted restart, 1 self restart, all seems reasonably well. Time will tell.
Last week had a Segate 1Tb drive fail, under warranty but will just scrap it.
I don't want to give up a backup drive to a complete stranger at Segate, just in case they can recover. Will buy Western Digital for replacement.
My update download was 248 MB, but I also update every week so I may not have needed as much as some.
 
filmweaver said:
Installed the 10.5.7 update and all went good. 40Min download, 5 min install, 1 prompted restart, 1 self restart, all seems reasonably well. Time will tell.
Last week had a Segate 1Tb drive fail, under warranty but will just scrap it.
I don't want to give up a backup drive to a complete stranger at Segate, just in case they can recover. Will buy Western Digital for replacement.
My update download was 248 MB, but I also update every week so I may not have needed as much as some.
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Western Digital IS Seagate. I suppose you are talking about replacing it with a more reliable drive (more expensive instead of one of the on-sale drives).

When my drive failed, it was making a ticking and metallic scraping noise, then it repeated over and over until I shut down the drive. Even though it was under the 5-year warranty, I did not consider sending it to 'the company' where anything/everything could be accessed by someone there. The only thing I look for (in the way of warranty) when I buy a drive is whether it will be replaced FREE if it fails to be formatted. A 5-year warranty is meaningless when you have to pay for shipping, you will receive a re-manufactured/refurbished drive, and your data/personal finances are out there for anyone to misuse.
 
blybug said:
Had the same message on my PPC G5 before the first restart, but as shown in the dialog the only choice was to "Restart"...so I clicked it. Computer auto-rebooted itself twice, and the second time stayed on the Apple-spinner screen for a looooooooooooooong time but eventually made it to the Desktop. About This Mac tells me I'm in 10.5.7, and everything seems OK so far...
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Cool thx :)
I rolled back using my back-up in T/C. I will give the update another try..
 
doctor-don said:
Western Digital IS Seagate. I suppose you are talking about replacing it with a more reliable drive (more expensive instead of one of the on-sale drives).

When my drive failed, it was making a ticking and metallic scraping noise, then it repeated over and over until I shut down the drive. Even though it was under the 5-year warranty, I did not consider sending it to 'the company' where anything/everything could be accessed by someone there. The only thing I look for (in the way of warranty) when I buy a drive is whether it will be replaced FREE if it fails to be formatted. A 5-year warranty is meaningless when you have to pay for shipping, you will receive a re-manufactured/refurbished drive, and your data/personal finances are out there for anyone to misuse.
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Western Digital is not Seagate. You have probably confused them with Maxtor.
 
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