Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.1 Build 10B504 to Developers

[ScottDrummer]

No mention of a DNS fix? *sigh...

Have any of your guys experiencing these bugs actually submitted them to Apple? They are not mind readers and if they didn't QA these bugs the first time round they are obviously unaware of them until someone tells them.

Don't think its a waste of time either, I submitted a small and uncommon bug in 10.5 and it got fixed in 10.6, I had an email from the devs to say it was now resolved. Whether this was a coincidence or not it got fixed.

Submit your bugs, rather than winging about them on a forum.

 

[iMaggot]

Apple has a long way to go with SL, I hope the fix all the issues with this OS soon.

 

[yoavcs]

got an email about this tonight. glad to see it

Whoa. Was this the standard automated form email sent out to everyone who pays cash to register as a dev? Or did you get like a special email direct from Jobso, the kind reserved only for Special Devs(tm) with Insider Connections(R)?

 

[macintoshtoffy]

what makes you so sure about it? I really would not expect 10.6.1 by tomorrow, it's only been 2.5 weeks since release of snowy kitty.

Snow Leopard was GM on 13 August.

What planet does the time period from 13 August to 9 September translate into 2.5 weeks? No honestly, I am concerned - tell me about this 'new maths' that you're employing RED™ because I haven't got that memo yet.

 

[MartiNZ]

I'm reduced to hoping that iTunes 9 may solve the problems with the iTunes dashboard widget, given that I've been submitting bugs in OS X feedback for them since Tiger came out, to no avail.

On other matters, if they're going to stick with the new delays in loading in open/save dialogs, it would be nice to have a progress wheel at least.

 

[heisetax]

I still have Safari problems.

I hope they keep improving Safari. I just had Safari crash (all together, not plugin) twice in a row while trying to reply to a Facebook message. (No other tabs open) Pretty pathetic.. blah!

My copy of Safari under 10.5.6 crashes whenever it tries to open a pdf download. My copy of 10.6.0 on another partition on my Intel Mac Pro did the download of a pdf file without crashing. But rather than having a black triangle pointing to the right it displayed the copy right symbol, the letter c with a circle around it. Small font problem, but still a problem.

FireFox works correctly under both partitions.

 

[RED™]

Snow Leopard was GM on 13 August.

What planet does the time period from 13 August to 9 September translate into 2.5 weeks? No honestly, I am concerned - tell me about this 'new maths' that you're employing RED™ because I haven't got that memo yet.

Excuse me Mr. maths genius, you don't seem to have read my post correctly - I was talking about the RELEASE an August 28, NOT about GM. And that makes my 2.5 weeks! Geez!

And before you say anything about the rumor 10A432 being GM before actual release - for me the actual release was on August 28 and I did not count on the rumors which stated 10A432 GM, just so you know

 

[Truffy]

Naive, I know, but...

...I thought 10.6 was supposed to concentrate on stability rather than major new features. Seems to me that they got the second part licked.

Yes, I realise SL introduces exciting new concepts like grand central and Exchange support (be still my beating heart), but nothing that the average man or woman on the street is going to give a damn about.

 

[iBug2]

Excuse me Mr. maths genius, you don't seem to have read my post correctly - I was talking about the RELEASE an August 28, NOT about GM. And that makes my 2.5 weeks! Geez!

And before you say anything about the rumor 10A432 being GM before actual release - for me the actual release was on August 28 and I did not count on the rumors which stated 10A432 GM, just so you know

Yes but for Apple it went GM, even before August 13th. So they have been developing 10.6.1 for over a month.

 

[WhoPhD]

Enable Zoom: Option + Command + 8
Zoom In: Option + Command + (+)
Zoom Out: Option + Command + (-)
Disable Zoom: Option + Command + 8

I can highly recommend allocating your mouse's scrollup/scrolldown buttons to this. What? You don't have a Logitech MX1000?

CK.

 

[Manderby]

Whenever I'm zoomed in on something for a good 30 seconds, the cursor will jerk to the bottom of the screen for no reason, even when I'm not even touching the mouse or typing. Thanks for the tips though, I'll have to try them out to see if they work any better.

I experience this a lot even without zooming. The cursor suddenly runs quickly to the bottom left corner. In our office, all computers using a mighty mouse experience this kind of problem. I presume it's the mighty mouse which has an error in the optical tracking.

 

[Heijtink]

+1

I did an upgrade and had the spinning beach ball when opening safari and mail.. said screw it and did a 7-pass format/clean install and everything works flawless.

No safari crash, no mail crash, no problems loading pages, it just works.

?? Why a 7-pass? You only do that for security reasons. So people can't recover data from a supposedly formatted disc. A normal format would have had the same results you are experiencing now.

 

[Heijtink]

Submit your bugs, rather than winging about them on a forum.

I love winging on this forum

 

[andrewclarke2]

Excuse me Mr. maths genius, you don't seem to have read my post correctly - I was talking about the RELEASE an August 28, NOT about GM. And that makes my 2.5 weeks! Geez!

And before you say anything about the rumor 10A432 being GM before actual release - for me the actual release was on August 28 and I did not count on the rumors which stated 10A432 GM, just so you know

Friday 28th August to Wednesday 9th Spetember is 2.5 Weeks??????

Anyway I was chatting to a friend of mine who works for Apple in Regent Street, London. Whilst telling her about my wireless problems and after the SL update my MBA not being able to hold a signal she said "Don't worry an 10.6.1 will be released next week."

Now this was on Sunday 6th September, nearly three weeks ago so the question is did she mean this week or next week.

She did not tell me anymore and said she has put her foot in it already.

 

[Ivan P]

Friday 28th August to Wednesday 9th Spetember is 2.5 Weeks??????

Anyway I was chatting to a friend of mine who works for Apple in Regent Street, London. Whilst telling her about my wireless problems and after the SL update my MBA not being able to hold a signal she said "Don't worry an 10.6.1 will be released next week."

Now this was on Sunday 6th September, nearly three weeks ago so the question is did she mean this week or next week.

She did not tell me anymore and said she has put her foot in it already.

Apple does not tell their retail staff when product updates, let alone mere downloadable software updates, are going to be available. They find out when the rest of the world finds out, basically.

While dragging a new version of an app into the Application folder, I got the Finder move pop-up telling me it could not complete the operation because the file was in use. In fact it wasn't and secondly, I thought Snow Leopard was going to correct these messages by telling us who was using it and it didn't.

That's for ejecting removable drives - for example, if you try and eject it while something is copying to it, it will tell you exactly what app is currently writing to the disc.

EDIT: Before the trolls get in, I've reported my own post so that it gets merged with my above one, don't worry *eyeroll*

 

[exscape]

*sigh* Wish I would've waited to upgrade...
Here are the bugs I've submitted so far:

Spotlight/Dictionary:
"When searching for a word in the dictionary using Spotlight, and then selecting the entry to open in Dictionary.app, sometimes multiple windows open; the frontmost being the word you just looked up, and the background windows being words you've looked up previously using the same method.
This started in 10.6, and did not occur in 10.5.8."

iCal:
#1: "At times (not every time) an alarm appears, it seems to show a reminder for each time I've clicked the "show again in X minutes" button, since July or so (I don't know of anything special about that month, by the way, my Leopard install and my calendar is much older than that), but I'm not certain of it."
#2: "After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I noticed that my iCal alarms weren't firing off as they should (I have numerous reminders that reoccur at the same time every day). After a minute of investigation, I noticed that they had all been changed from "x minutes before" to "at date: 28/08/2009", hence not showing any alarms when they were supposed to. I changed them all back to "x minutes before", but a few days later most of them returned to "at date" between 29/08 and 01/09 (yesterday as of this writing). I can only suppose that this will keep reoccuring, thus making my alarms essentially useless since I cannot trust them any more."

Mail:
"It appears that all message subjects, RSS or email, in all and any mailboxes, turn blue in the message list view after viewing a mailbox that contains an "UPDATED" RSS entry (shown in blue).
Remedy: Restart Mail.app (but make sure that the UPDATED message isn't displayed, or the bug will reoccur until it is no longer displayed)."

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I can't reproduce the Mail bug any more, but I've found the iCal #2 bug to recur about every damn DAY, forcing me to repair my alarms almost daily. Also, it appears to display one reminder for each time you "snooze" it, and by the time it's displayed more than one at the same time (bug #1), the alarms are back to "at date".

Oh, and (this I haven't submitted), when reverting the alarms, the procedure is:
1) Double click alarm and click edit
2) Select "minutes before" instead of "at date"
3) Click "all future alarms"
4) Repeat step 2 since it didn't change the first time
5) Repeat steps 1-4 for the other 5 alarms...

 

[andrewclarke2]

Apple does not tell their retail staff when product updates, let alone mere downloadable software updates, are going to be available. They find out when the rest of the world finds out, basically.

She is not retail staff and Regent Street is not just an Apple Retail Outlet.

 

[odedia]

Am I the only one experiencing weird lines and graphics gliches with 10.6? I have a white iMac with a Geforce 8600 GPU.

I wonder if this is a software issue or a hardware issue...

 

[skate71290]

Is crashing Desktop Services that really annoying thing where the Desktop icons can't be clicked/selected etc. until you've logged out and in or 'killall Finder'?

AppleMatt

never happened with me finder seems to be fine on my MBA Rev A (which has to be the slowest mac ever built) i still can't close windows with the red traffic light?

is the dyld shared cache important, because if i try to much on the MBA everything comes to a halt and doesn't speed up unless i restart the Air (if i run Quicktime and Safari simultaneously)?? thanks only 7 hours to the media event

Am I the only one experiencing weird lines and graphics gliches with 10.6? I have a white iMac with a Geforce 8600 GPU.

I wonder if this is a software issue or a hardware issue...

black lines that change if you change the selected applcation window? i restarted my laptop (Rev A MBA) and it hasn't done it since

 

[fhall1]

Same here. If it's bothering you, please write about it on Apple's feedback page for Mac OS X. If enough people write about it, it makes the issue a priority for a fix (according to some Apple engineers, or so I've heard). In the past, issues that raised a big stink (Bluetooth audio in particular) caused a lot of people to write in, and tweaks were delivered regularly until the issues were resolved.

That goes for everyone, of course. If there's a bug or an issue that you're not happy with, write in. What do you have to lose? Heck, most of you are already writing up the complaints here - just copy and paste (and perhaps add a little more detail)

I hope all you folks that took the time to detail your bugs here, also took the above advice and sent them to Apple.

 

[duncyboy]

Another thing to bear in mind is that the list of fixes is by no means exhaustive. Those of you who don't see your particular bugbear listed, it doesn't necessarily mean they won't fix it in the update.

Submit your bugs, rather than winging about them on a forum.

Can't we do both?

 

[Shintocam]

Is crashing Desktop Services that really annoying thing where the Desktop icons can't be clicked/selected etc. until you've logged out and in or 'killall Finder'?

AppleMatt

I'm not sure but I hope not. I've not yet made the jump to SL (waiting for .1) but on my MBP (2.4 SR) I get this all the time in Leopard. Less so since 10.5.7 but it used to happen a lot to me. Very annoying.

 

[Talcon]

Directory Services

I wish that they would include the fix for Directory Services. The client binds to Active Directory, but if you try to login with any domain account, it just kicks back and the logs say "could not get the user record <username> from Directory Services."

 

[benthewraith]

Soooooo where's my list view?

You mean column view right? That's already in List View.

 

[mvasilakis]

Is crashing Desktop Services that really annoying thing where the Desktop icons can't be clicked/selected etc. until you've logged out and in or 'killall Finder'?

AppleMatt

I've had this issue since 10.5.x. In my search for a solution it seems that if I leave a directory or smart folder minimized in the dock or a smart folder open for a day or so this happens. Closing all open finder windows & smart folders seems to set things right again.

I have not seen this behavior in 10.6 so I cannot attest that my "solution" works in SL.

Good Luck
Mano