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Early Mac OS X Leopard Notes and Observations

stoutboy1 said:
Safari wont open under leopard (definitely not snappier) It says Safari has quit unexpectedly, any suggestions?
Thanks
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You've probably reorganized your apps so they're not all in the one cluttered directory and the Leopard install has just put another copy in the root of the Applications folder, while the version your shortcut is to is the older version that you've put into an "Internet" sub-directory or something. It is irritating that the installer doesn't weed out older versions of apps that have been put into subdirectories. Having dozens of apps in the main windows is very messy.
 
overcast said:
It's one disc with a 5 machine license. Those several people must be living in the same house. This isn't for bulk orders between friends.
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I have the family pack, I'm pretty sure the only difference is the tiny sticker on the front of the box, other than that I suspect the data on the disk is identical. It's just an "honor" thing.
 
CWallace said:
You didn't do a backup? :eek:

I've been Carbon Copy Cloning my iMac all week and I will be installing Leopard in a moment on my MacBook to make sure everything is perfect before I then install it on my iMac.
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I had the problem on one of the machines here, I started again and did an "Archive & install" instead of an Upgrade and it worked fine then.
 
Leopard Issue

I installed Leopard on my Powerbook G4 this morning, and so far ALMOST everything is working great. I am having two problems though; maybe someone in here has an idea to fix them.

1. iPHOTO wont open anymore - says there isnt an eligible application available. Please dont tell me the forgot to update iphoto!!!

2. stupid problem but I'll say it anyways.... it wont allow me to upload photos to MYSPACE just keeps saying there was an error


Please help. Thanks IPHOTO is my life
 
Very impressed here. I ordered the family pack 10.5 yesterday lunchtime and it was here (UK) this morning. Installed on to the iMac first and then the BlackBook and all went fine.

Improvements to Mail are very nice. I'm not sure if anything runs any faster.

Mike
 
First Impressions

Installed in 30 mins on Mac Pro 2.66 (Clean Install). Totally painless.

File and settings transfer took an hour, yawn.

Everything is smooth and snappy, app's (Logic8, iWork...) open FAST!

Plus's: Coverflow, Quickview, Stacks, Finder, Spotlight...

Minus's: Fugly UI elements (agua scroll bars, 3D dock, transparent menu bar...), Icons look 'odd', No user editable iMail stationary...

Early day's yet but I think this is a solid update but not revolutionary.
 
anyone else have problems moving thier itunes library over to an external hard drive in leopard? Set it up in the itunes preferences right but it still wont work.
 
iPhoto Library in Leopard

I am going to do a clean install so will be backing things up tonight. Does anyone know if I copy the iPhoto library from the pictures folder and then restore this in Leopard (after intalling iPhoto) will this bring everything across or is there other iPhoto information store elsewhere that I should backup also?
 
stevenz said:
Seems to be working fine here out of the box. My iTech headset shows up as "Headset" and "Headphones". If I select "Headphones" I get proper A2DP stereo bluetooth audio. If I use "Headset" it uses a much inferior headset audio profile. Works fine in iChat though.
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Congratulations, hope it continues to work well for you.
 
thanks for that answer...

I was about to answer to this 'serious IT geek', but you beat me to it.
I couldn't have said it better.

matticus008 said:
A serious geek and hardcore whiner, maybe, but these are some seriously ill-informed observations and rehashing of the old "I don't like the top menu, waaahhh (and other I Wish It Were Windows poutings)" all over again.

So skip it.

Just like every other release? Just like every Windows release since 1995?

Or the one in Tiger. What was he expecting out of file previews, exactly? It shows the file--the only innovation is opening file types beyond simple image formats and PDFs.

Wrong. Good grief, just create a new partition on it using the new tools, and choose that new partition for Time Machine. His precious photos are saved.

Did he archive his previous installation? Did he check swap file usage? I'm going to assume he didn't check these things, given his amateur understanding of everything else.

No OS X updates...just updates for the rest of his system that he hadn't installed yet.

This is where he loses all credibility whatsoever. Short name/user name. Come on. The password is the same, unless he did something very wrong.

Sounds like he's a Windows user out of his element and complaining about things he doesn't understand and wanting things to be the way they were on XP. If he wanted things to be like XP, maybe he should use XP.
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Steve Jobs=God said:
Just installed Leopard onto my machine, very impressed except that the finder is showing my next door neighbors PC on my shared machines, and i don't even know them, let alone have permission from them to access their computer!
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LOL, make sure your wireless network is secure and they aren't leeching Internet access from you.
 
Very nice. Leopard didn't throw a hissy fit when I had a network share open, woke it up from sleep, immediately turned off WIFI, and it came back with an error almost immediately. Unlike Tiger that frequently BBoDed on me. Thank you Apple.

Now that being said the Finder shell has already crashed on me once when I was cover flowing a few documents. I hope that was a one off snag. :(

PS- The one thing that I was pretty much expecting was customizable desktop pictures for each desktop space. You'd think this would have been a no brainer on Apple's part. :confused:
 
MacBook Pro and Leopard

I just did a cleaninstall of Leopard on my 1 week old MacBook pro 2.2 and my brightness, and all volume keys stopped working. I repaired permissions and rebooted but nothing. Those keys don;t work. Just a heads up.
 
teerexx52 said:
I just did a cleaninstall of Leopard on my 1 week old MacBook pro 2.2 and my brightness, and all volume keys stopped working. I repaired permissions and rebooted but nothing. Those keys don;t work. Just a heads up.
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No problems with either via a clean install on an Al iMac 24" and a Gen1 MacBook.
 
Worst OS X Version to install since OS X Beta

I have installed them all - every OS X version since Beta and this was the worst to do.

1. Would not recognise my main hard drive so I eventually (after 2 hours of messing with it) installed it on my cloned drive but at the then end was told it failed to install. After re-booting it found my original drive and it managed to install....go figure.

2. Printers were totally wiped out which was very hard to correct for the non-standard non USB printers i.e. Epson dot matrix (used for docket printing). That was painful. For the standard USB printers, it was very quick to setup.

3. Wont wake the displays from sleep when running two displays as an extended desktop on a Mac Pro so have to force shutdown. Ironically this is the opposite problem to what we had with Tiger....would always immediately wake from sleep and so never sleep.

4. Losing personalised folder icons in the dock is a major flaw by Apple. I had lots of folders with their individual icons in the dock but now they look awful with the forced blue folder and preview overlays. Seriously Apple, switch it off or at least let us switch it off.

5. Overall the system is definitely faster and snappier. RAM consumption has increased - mine peaked at 7GB used of 11GB available.
 
First Impressions

Machine
MacBook Pro 17inch

Ease of Installation:

Hung for approx 10 min at the "Select Destination" screen but i let it run since i could hear my hard drive chunking along. Sure enough, it finally displayed my drive volume and i was on my way to the install.

Installation time:
90 minutes

Issues after install

After I restarted, log in screen would not allow me to enter any text. Restarted again and all was fine.

First Impressions
Ran hot first couple hours. Fans ran a lot. Lots of indexing going on so that seems to explain why things ran hot for a bit. Settling down now.

Value
I give it 8 out of 10 pts
 
Hi All,

Installed Leopard, archive&install , took 32 min. But I must say I feel weird.

Few things surprised me:
a) strange blue icons (is it possible to change to at least like it was in Tiger),
b) stacks..... it opens with stuttering effect in grid option, looks like freezes for a second (I have new 24"iMac), fan option works fine though, but icons look low resolution
c) bright blue highlighting in the menu (is it possible to customize??),
d) application stack - it displays first icon as a key icon on the dock which is address book in my case, so I have two address book on my dock (I wonder if I can customize that, like in iPhoto, to set up the key picture).
e) When first started Leopard apple menu would not respond, but if I launched an application it would work. I restarted and now it works. I am quite new to Mac, except working with Final Cut pro at work, but I didn't bother getting deep into OS's, so I don't know, may be it is normal behavior after update.
f) Application frames look darker than before.
g) Why apple does not give an option to customize a desktop, colors, fonts and so on? ...... may be I missing something here
h) When in cover flow, it takes a second or two while the picture or icon looks ok, from low res to high.

These are all nice features, but they don't work as fast as I expected. Do I have to reinstall and do a clean install? I would not want to reinstall all the apps I have. May I don't get something.:confused:

Would be nice if we were given an option to use a Tiger look or other previous OS's looks. Transparent bar is not practical, in my opinion, it is not good for eyes. I would switch to solid color.

All applications seem to be working fine. iTunes does work faster. But iWork 08 took longer than before to start .... and photoshop as well. Front Row .... I like Tiger's much better (is it possible to put Tiger FR back?). I think I should not have jumped in updating ti Leopard, I should have looked first ..... Not like I am disappointed, but I have been quite surprised.

Can you please tell me why all of a sudden, it is more than 134 GB when before installation it was around 75? Is it because I did archive and install?
 
Leopard on Imac

I just got Leopard at 4pm today via Fedex. I installed on my new Imac 24" and am still having the video card screen lockup issue; except much worse.
Also, I am not real impressed with Leopard yet. There are some neat new features but not really worth getting excited about (yet).

I also attempted to install Leopard on a Macbook with no success. The Macbook superdrive doesn't even recognize the disc. Called Applecare and am sending the Macbook in for drive replacement! I sure hope things get better!
 
posting this from Leopard!

All I can say is, this is AMAZING! There's no other way to describe it!

(anyone know how to repartition a FAT drive on the fly?)
 
Not sure if this was brought up yet. After installing Leopard on my G5, suddenly my Quick time doesn't work anymore. I get the Q with the question mark.

Any thoughts? I'm repairing permissions right now.

Doesn't seem all that much faster really. Not sure why because I have 2 gigs of ram in there. I'll have to tweak with it a bit more.
 
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