It's interesting, I spoke with an Apple guy when I was on the west coast last week about my being disappointed that Apple seems to have shelved a few highly touted Leopard features (Fast OS Switching, full resolution independence, iChat 4.0 Answering Machine option, Time Machine Airport Disk support, etc.) to make the October release, he simply shrugged and said the truth is Apple is run mostly by its marketing department. Whether the OS is polished or not, he stated the marketing department seems to call the shots at Cupertino. That surprised me, especially given Jobs' status, and I question the validity of such a statement. However, given what has happened with the iPhone release (the muck of bricking and SDK's), the bad batch of iPod Touches, and the stripping down of Leopard features over the course of the beta releases, it does make one wonder. Is Apple rushing things and sacrificing its well earned quality?
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It's interesting, I spoke with an Apple guy when I was on the west coast last week about my being disappointed that Apple seems to have shelved a few highly touted Leopard features (Fast OS Switching, full resolution independence, iChat 4.0 Answering Machine option, Time Machine Airport Disk support, etc.) to make the October release, he simply shrugged and said the truth is Apple is run mostly by its marketing department. Whether the OS is polished or not, he stated the marketing department seems to call the shots at Cupertino. That surprised me, especially given Jobs' status, and I question the validity of such a statement. However, given what has happened with the iPhone release (the muck of bricking and SDK's), the bad batch of iPod Touches, and the stripping down of Leopard features over the course of the beta releases, it does make one wonder. Is Apple rushing things and sacrificing its well earned quality?
Oh Man that was quick, If that works you are my hero, or at least one of them. I wish it was dumed down all the way I not sure Ill be able to follow those steps. Ill give it a shot though.
Man arent these forums great.
Agreed
Leopard Browsing Network shares (Windows)
Check out what happens when you browse your network filled with windows shares
Check out what happens when you browse your network filled with windows shares
How childish. I hoped that the blue screen picture was only in the beta versions.
Anyway, would a Lacie Ethernet Disk with AFP work for time machine?
That is a massive load of horse crap.
I bet Apple feels REALLY sorry for you.
If you already have a working backup-solution that you are happy with, why do you need Time Machine? So you could whine about something?
Interesting...
I feel real sorry when reading those lines. They perfectly match my current feelings for Apple. And I can't believe, that they are so stupid. I mean, come on, if you can file class action law suits about a price drop, here is your chance to milk serious.
My current feelings regarding Leopard come down to one thing: Though I was always anxious to try out new Apple OSes, I will hesitate with Leopard 'til the dust settles. I feel perfectly fine with Tiger. It's rock solid.
And I still don't fall into the marketing hype that I NEED Spaces, Time Machine and all the other "new features".
So gunea pigs, tell me:
- Will iSync again drop support for old mobiles (like they did with Tiger)?
- May I finally have a way to tell Spotlight just to search special files, without opening System Prefs (e.g. only look in images)?
- Is there any 'new driver' found in BootCamp (which won't be supported for me poor Tiger User)?
- Is CD-burning in Finder still a PITA or can I finally throw Toast off?
Thanks for all your testing. :
I feel real sorry when reading those lines. They perfectly match my current feelings for Apple. And I can't believe, that they are so stupid. I mean, come on, if you can file class action law suits about a price drop, here is your chance to milk serious.
My current feelings regarding Leopard come down to one thing: Though I was always anxious to try out new Apple OSes, I will hesitate with Leopard 'til the dust settles. I feel perfectly fine with Tiger. It's rock solid.
And I still don't fall into the marketing hype that I NEED Spaces, Time Machine and all the other "new features".
So gunea pigs, tell me:
- Will iSync again drop support for old mobiles (like they did with Tiger)?
- May I finally have a way to tell Spotlight just to search special files, without opening System Prefs (e.g. only look in images)?
- Is there any 'new driver' found in BootCamp (which won't be supported for me poor Tiger User)?
- Is CD-burning in Finder still a PITA or can I finally throw Toast off?
Thanks for all your testing. :
Awesome! Time Machine can share a drive with other data!
So in addition to my "main" Time Machine backup, I intend to also have my very MOST important files (calendar, selected projects, current quotes and proposals, maybe some mail) backed up onto my iPod whenever I synch my music/photos I will then have one extra backup, plus I can peruse those files from any Mac.
Let the iPhone browse files stored on it and I would be in heaven (given that you can browse Time Machine backups just like any other files, in Finder, not just in the Time Machine mode).
So in addition to my "main" Time Machine backup, I intend to also have my very MOST important files (calendar, selected projects, current quotes and proposals, maybe some mail) backed up onto my iPod whenever I synch my music/photos
I will then have one extra backup, plus I can peruse those files from any Mac.Let the iPhone browse files stored on it and I would be in heaven (given that you can browse Time Machine backups just like any other files, in Finder, not just in the Time Machine mode).
"When you unplug your Time Machine external, nothing happens"
by "nothing happens", does he mean the OS doesn't bitch about you unplugging and not ejecting first, or the OS doesn't tell you that Time Machine wasn't done yet?
Hopefully the former, meaning we can unplug drives without ejecting, like you can unplug the iPhone.
by "nothing happens", does he mean the OS doesn't bitch about you unplugging and not ejecting first, or the OS doesn't tell you that Time Machine wasn't done yet?
Hopefully the former, meaning we can unplug drives without ejecting, like you can unplug the iPhone.
Where the heck is my transparent menu bar? I really wanted to be able to complain about it and it isn't transparent! OK, so this is a bare minimum machine (iBook G4 933Mhz) but is it really that difficult? The menus are all transparent so why not the menu bar?
That is a massive load of horse crap.
I have a home server that has served me well over the last 3 years when I rebuilt her. Backups via scrip has run flawlessly. I was looking forward to ditching the script for TM and simply using some of the TB of space I have available. For a time I've been considering buying an external drive just for TM, but I just had an $800+ hospital bill dumped in my lap. That isn't happening anytime soon. This better be hacked in short order, dang short.
You know why it's not supported right? The Drive needs to support Hard-links, eg an HFS+ volume. If its just a plain ol' Fat32/NTFS drive you have on you homebuilt server, there's no way its going to work.
Hardlinks to files are how when browsing the Time Machine volume, there are folders labelled by time/date, and each folder magically contains a FULL IMAGE of your computer at that time. The files in all these folders are actual files (not aliases), but all point to the same location on the disk. In order for the data on the disk to disappear, all the hardlinks must be erased.
No windows hard-drive format supports Hard-links, and the Finder hides this capability out of sight because of the large potential to create "chicken and egg" type situations. eg imagine making a hard link from a child folder to its parent folder, creating some weird recursive loop.
Virtual File Systems such as SMB dont support hard-links either. That's why it MUST be a HFS drive over the AFP protocol, and why the posted workaround works.
So gunea pigs, tell me:
- Will iSync again drop support for old mobiles (like they did with Tiger)?
- May I finally have a way to tell Spotlight just to search special files, without opening System Prefs (e.g. only look in images)?
- Is there any 'new driver' found in BootCamp (which won't be supported for me poor Tiger User)?
- Is CD-burning in Finder still a PITA or can I finally throw Toast off?
Thanks for all your testing. :
Not sure about the rest but for Spotlight... yes. Use kind:image, kind
df, etc in your search.HTH
It is very useful but it looks very cool too!
The transition is slow when you hold shift so I was able to make this screenshot. Basically it looks like exposé but then trough different spaces.
To those wanting to use SMB with time machine, it MAY work if you create a disk image on the SMB share then use that as the time machine drive. That's how I manage an Aperture vault on an SMB share.
Total speculation on my part at the moment though.
Total speculation on my part at the moment though.
That is a massive load of horse crap.
I have a home server that has served me well over the last 3 years when I rebuilt her. Backups via scrip has run flawlessly. I was looking forward to ditching the script for TM and simply using some of the TB of space I have available. For a time I've been considering buying an external drive just for TM, but I just had an $800+ hospital bill dumped in my lap. That isn't happening anytime soon. This better be hacked in short order, dang short.
Hey SiliconAddict,
If your running a M$ server you can install services for Macintosh & reshare you SMB volumes via AFP.
Hope that helps!
Ben.
airdisk failure
first I was dissapointed not to get time machine airdisk support, but now after installing leopard my macbook refuses to connect to my airdisk at all.
knew i should have waited before installing - us kiwis are the quinea pigs today.
Coverflow/quick look in the finder is frickin awesome however!!!
installation on my macbook took just over one hour, with airdisk being the only problem I have come across, except for Mail crashing on first attempt.
- Leopard purchased at 6.02pm, friday 26th october 2007.
first I was dissapointed not to get time machine airdisk support, but now after installing leopard my macbook refuses to connect to my airdisk at all.
knew i should have waited before installing - us kiwis are the quinea pigs today.
Coverflow/quick look in the finder is frickin awesome however!!!
installation on my macbook took just over one hour, with airdisk being the only problem I have come across, except for Mail crashing on first attempt.
- Leopard purchased at 6.02pm, friday 26th october 2007.
My mates copy of leopard arrived in his box this morning (I'm in NZ too), seems Apple doesn't seem to care so much about the exact release time up to the minute here
Time Machine + .Mac Integration?
Does anyone know if .Mac users will be able to use Time Machine to backup to our online drives? I don't have a need for a USB drive at the moment.
The whole reason I purchased .Mac was for the ease of backup through Tiger.
Thanks all!
Arc
Does anyone know if .Mac users will be able to use Time Machine to backup to our online drives? I don't have a need for a USB drive at the moment.
The whole reason I purchased .Mac was for the ease of backup through Tiger.
Thanks all!
Arc
Yeah, there are a couple of features that would have been awesome. This being one of them. Oh well only thing we can do is leave feedback.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I just sent them some. I want this feature.
Check out what happens when you browse your network filled with windows shares
funny but childish