Upgraded last night, but my MBP (Late 2010) froze on the blue screen with the loading symbol as it tried to restart during the update. I had to force my laptop off using the power button. The OS did take a bit longer to load than usual, but apart from that, it was fine!
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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.8
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Not even the case. Started downloading the update last night was taking a while and I was really tired so I powered down my MBP so I could finish up in the AM. Well as soon as it finished it asked me if I wanted to restart or wait and when I Chose to restart, that's when all he'll broke lose. Now I'm left with a MBP that won't even boot up.
I don't see this behavior with 10.6.8, or previous versions. All of them correspond.
When you press a letter on your keyboard to navigate, say Applications folder, it now animates by scrolling down to the first retrieved item.
I don't know if they changed this just now, or if I have very bad observational skills and have never noticed it before, but either way I remember it just jumping to the item and not animating to it previously.
I don't know if they changed this just now, or if I have very bad observational skills and have never noticed it before, but either way I remember it just jumping to the item and not animating to it previously.
Then you must have the rare, magic Mac!
If I open more then one Flash site, it locks up.
I ended up changing the program name to BeachBall.
I know they would hate to borrow something from Windows, but at least the browser is stable enough to let Flash crash and it keeps running.
Now I make sure that if I do any flash heavy browsing, I use Chrome.
Unless they figured a way to fix Safari, I would love to go back.
Hmm, I have heard people tend to have better success with using the combo update versus the delta(sorta) update.
I have never really done that in the finder because I open everything with Quicksilver but often do it in itunes and it has had that ability for years. It then goes to the first name starting with that letter in alphabetical order based on what way your library is sorted. I always keep it sorted by artist.
Trouble with 10.6.8
Installed the update - delta version using software update. All appeared to go well however once desktop was up would always hang and become unresponsive. Thought it might be dropbox, growl, menucalendar clock, sophos antivrus, istatmenus, or DAV mail - so safe booted and killed all those - still would not finish the startup so applied the combo updated from a dvd - downloaded on our home imac - since then startup great - added back everything except sophos antivirus and evertything is fine for at least a few restarts.
Only other observation is that spotlight was unusually busy after the combo update and see activity nor more sporadically then before.
Hope this helps or spurs some thoughts on anything I should watch for.
Installed the update - delta version using software update. All appeared to go well however once desktop was up would always hang and become unresponsive. Thought it might be dropbox, growl, menucalendar clock, sophos antivrus, istatmenus, or DAV mail - so safe booted and killed all those - still would not finish the startup so applied the combo updated from a dvd - downloaded on our home imac - since then startup great - added back everything except sophos antivirus and evertything is fine for at least a few restarts.
Only other observation is that spotlight was unusually busy after the combo update and see activity nor more sporadically then before.
Hope this helps or spurs some thoughts on anything I should watch for.
Well yeah, I mean, you're NEVER supposed to interrupt or power down your computer while an update is in progress. I thought everyone knew that.
My internet has been really buggy since upgrading to the new MBP, I lost my connection several times during the download as is, so finally I gave up and powered down. When i powered on my machine this morning the download finished like normal. Perhaps, I can try copying this update to a disk from my other MBP, and trying manually installing that way? UGH, hope there is a fix for this...
P.S. and as stated above I definitely didn't power down while it was actually updating, only while it was downloading. Honestly I didn't think it mattered. maybe I was wrong?
True, but still not a good idea. It's not worth risking something getting screwed up... and oh hey, look what happened, something got screwed up.
You might want to get a tech to come out to your house and take a look at what's wrong. There can be a million different reasons, but as being a former cable technician, I can tell you most of the time it's because the signal is too high or low and that causes your modem to get disconnected (if you have cable internet).
I've only started having intermittent internet connections since upgrading to the new MBP, my older 2007 MBP didn't have this problem. A quick search on Google shows I'm not alone.
Probably unrelated. The only thing that gets screwed up when I close my laptop mid-download is unresumable downloads.
That's why MD5sums exist. To make sure the downloaded file is identical to the file on the server. Installers, especially update installers, check these sums before proceeding.
Go sit in your local McDonald's!
(It's kinda what I do when I'm on the road and need access, albeit timing it with lunch).
I must be one of the lucky ones. Installed on 2011 13" MBP and 2011 21.5" iMac - both without any issues. Strange indeed that there are so many people having issues.
Booting up for me has been amazingly slow on my iMac since the update, will try to zap and smc reset...