Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.7

[jwp333]

I remember when I used to get excited by updates

Back in the days of 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, I used to get pretty excited by system updates. You could always see that something had changed. Now, not so much. Updates in 10.5 or 10.6 always feels just about the same to me each time.

 

[PurpleMarmalade]

For those who have plugins for Apple Mail, i'm sure you know that Mac OS X updates usually disables them if Apple Mail is updated. Well this time around it was. These are the new UUID's for Apple Mail for you to add to your plugins to enable them again.

1C58722D-AFBD-464E-81BB-0E05C108BE06
9049EF7D-5873-4F54-A447-51D722009310

Thanks for providing the numbers - saved me from having to dig into Terminal. Widemail is up and running once more (I still can't believe Mail 4.4 doesn't have this functionality built in. It is 2011, right?!)

 

[iBug2]

Are you sure it's indicative of hardware issues?? On my new 2011 13" 2.3 I've already had 4 kernel panics. That's about how many I've had on my late 2006 MBP over 4.5 years.

A kernel panic is 99% hardware related. I used to get kernel panics when my GPU overheated. I sometimes get Kernel Panics when one of my external hard drives disappear during a crucial operation due to their stupid hardware design.

 

[Kyzelios]

Successfully installed the update on my 15-inch MacBook Pro (Mid 2010). Everything is running swimmingly!

 

[incongruity]

For those who have plugins for Apple Mail, i'm sure you know that Mac OS X updates usually disables them if Apple Mail is updated. Well this time around it was. These are the new UUID's for Apple Mail for you to add to your plugins to enable them again.

1C58722D-AFBD-464E-81BB-0E05C108BE06
9049EF7D-5873-4F54-A447-51D722009310

Thanks for the tip -- Out of curiosity/for future reference, where does one find the new UUID's (when not supplied by kind forum members like yourself)?

 

[007bond4321]

I'm on a new Macbook Air (13" maxxed out) and the update seems to be causing iTunes to freeze the whole system - clock, mouse, keyboard, etc. It happens about 5-6 seconds after I launch iTunes. I can start a song, and it will continue to play after the system locks up, but otherwise I'm stuck with a hard reset. I tried clearing the preference files in \Users\[me]\Library\Preferences, but that didn't help. I repaired disk permissions before and after the update. Any suggestions?

Alright, I downloaded iTunes 10.2.1 (rather slowly, thanks OSX update downloaders ) installed it, and problems seem to be fixed for now. Serves me right for being an early adopter, but these type of things shouldn't crop up.

 

[SoGood]

Why is Safari 5.0.4 showing a blank page for 10.6.7's technical document?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4472

No problem with Chrome.

 

[Cresence]

I hope others have better luck than me. I downloaded this and installed it with no difficulty. Then the computer attempted to restart. It appeared to go through a 10-15 second initialization sequence and then powered off. It's done this about 10 times. No way at this point to actually get it up and running on its own. Maybe it needs to rest overnight.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Back in the days of 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, I used to get pretty excited by system updates. You could always see that something had changed. Now, not so much. Updates in 10.5 or 10.6 always feels just about the same to me each time.

It does seem that why now days.

 

[tkermit]

Is that necessarily a bad thing though?

 

[incongruity]

Back in the days of 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, I used to get pretty excited by system updates. You could always see that something had changed. Now, not so much. Updates in 10.5 or 10.6 always feels just about the same to me each time.

This one feels like the exception to me. With my 2011 MBP, I hadn't been seeing the crashing reported by others, but it was all around slow - lots of beach-balls, etc. It was to the point that my 2008 macbook seemed about on par with the new MBP.

This update seems to have changed that. Now my machine seems fast.

Needless to say, I finally feel like I got the machine I'd ordered. Lets hope it lasts!

 

[tethead]

Why is Safari 5.0.4 showing a blank page for 10.6.7's technical document?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4472

No problem with Chrome.

same. odd

 

[Shagrat]

weird...date reset?

Hmmn, applied the update (from Software updater) and on reboot got message saying that my date and time were 2001...

Then couldn't get into Airport to connect to Internet to reset time automatically.

went to Keychain, as I couldn't remember my WiFi password, but wouldn't let me access the passwords as when I authenticated with admin password, just said Access Restricted.

Trie emails, also wanted gmail password.

LUCKILY, i remembered my Wifi passw, logged on to www, and then set date and time to automatic.

date and time now fixed, and all keychain stuff id accessible again. guess all the certificates were date related, and now are valid again.

Cue sighs of relief!

So if any of you get this sort of issue check Date and Time!

FYI...

 

[Shagrat]

Why is Safari 5.0.4 showing a blank page for 10.6.7's technical document?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4472

No problem with Chrome.

I noticed that, but i then tried to login at support.apple.com, and had to log in and change my support password.

Then, was able to see that page.

 

[spillproof]

If you don't have 10.6.6 you have to install it before 10.6.7 each at 1.06GB.

Weird. I have 10.6.4 and did not have to do that for 10.6.6 when it came out.

 

[PurpleMarmalade]

Installed without a hitch for me (2011 15" MBP). Does anyone else think the CPU temps are slightly lower on 10.6.7? I was averaging about 43C with 'normal' usage (Mail, Word x 15 docs, Safari x 20 tabs, iCal, Keynote, Preview x 10 PDFs), and now I'm on 36C. Fans are the same 2000rpm.

 

[daneoni]

Why is Safari 5.0.4 showing a blank page for 10.6.7's technical document?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4472

No problem with Chrome.

same. odd

It isn't for me

 

[sammich]

Third-party mDP connectors, no display

No display when I connect with a third-party connector:

No External display, 10.6.7, Griffin Video Converter

 

[8CoreWhore]

My God! I just got back from the Apple Insider forum on this issue. What a turd hole it is over there.

 

[Shagrat]

Ps

Safari actually DOES feel Snappier...not kidding

Guess it's just the old Updater clearing caches, etc. But it does really seem noticeably faster on my 13" 2.26 FW MBP.

Actually, everything does...

 

[jacg]

Does it fix the endless problem of Spaces losing certain types of window? I ran Software Update, switched spaces and apps a few times and now the dock icon is jumping but I can't find the window.

Spaces has never worked properly for me, with or without dumb MS Office to mess everything up. Why do apps (even Apple ones) jump from their specified spaces, etc.

End of rant. Hopefully I will get the update installed eventually and see...

 

[als522877]

Thanks for the tip -- Out of curiosity/for future reference, where does one find the new UUID's (when not supplied by kind forum members like yourself)?

I used these 2 terminal commands to get terminal to post them for me.

cat /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep UUID -A 1

cat /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Resources/Info.plist | grep UUID -A 1

After each one is run it will display the updated UUIDs

 

[Morod]

Installed without a hitch for me (2011 15" MBP). Does anyone else think the CPU temps are slightly lower on 10.6.7? I was averaging about 43C with 'normal' usage (Mail, Word x 15 docs, Safari x 20 tabs, iCal, Keynote, Preview x 10 PDFs), and now I'm on 36C. Fans are the same 2000rpm.

Maybe because the CPU fan is running at a higher RPM?

On edit:
Before 10.6.7, at idle the CPU fan was around 1200RPM. After installing 10.6.7, CPU fan is at 1336 RPM. I d/l'ed 10.6.7 around an hour ago, maybe the fan will drop with time.

 

[aiqw9182]

Is it just me or are grid stack icons closer together/smaller with this new update?

 

[rjbruce]

Home share issue seems to be fixed on my 2011 model. Was a little sad there for a bit while my Win media PC worked and my MBP didn't. All is as it should be now...