I can't handle Tiger anymore

[yellow]

I am forced to agree that Spotlight is worthless for me. I don't create data that requires the contents to be indexed. But it constantly fails when searching for files. Plus, it doesn't search the system hierarchies.

 

[PORSCHER_911]

I can repair permissions until the end of time, and am still left with Widget preferences that need changing, but never do change.

I've been having this problem since I updated to OSX 10.4.3 (now running 10.4.4) but nothing changes, it keeps showing hundreds of permissions to be repaired yet nothing gets repaired.

Is there any way to solve this thing? 🙁

 

[altair]

talk about someone dredging up a old thread, has been dead 5 months, I don't think the guy needs anymore advice 🙂

 

[yellow]

Is there any way to solve this thing? 🙁

There are some permissions that perpetually don't get repaired and don't matter. Why don't you show us which ones you're seeing?

 

[DrNeroCF]

Tried anything like System Optimizer? It usually fixes any flaky behavior that crops up in OS X for me...

 

[7on]

I installed OSX 10.4 piss drunk and everything worked up until 10.4.3 which made my Tibook turn off when I put it to sleep. Archived and installed to 10.4.2 and now I'm on 10.4.4 and everything is merry.

 

[xraydoc]

I am forced to agree that Spotlight is worthless for me. I don't create data that requires the contents to be indexed. But it constantly fails when searching for files. Plus, it doesn't search the system hierarchies.

I love Spotlight. I've got a couple hundred scientific articles in PDF format. Spotlight is far, far easier and faster to use to search for a specific term or two than Acrobat 7 Professionals Index and Library functions are.

 

[bursty]

I have found that almost all of the Tiger problems that I hear of are user related....🙄

 

[GimmeSlack12]

I think threadstarter's expectations are a bit farfetched. It sounds like everything is working fine on the computer, but you have no patience for the occasional hangup. I notice spotlight slows down when you have a DVD in, but otherwise I love spotlight.

I agree with Bursty, this is probably User-Error.

 

[thomasp]

When we upgraded our Dual 867MHz G4 tower from 10.2.8 to tiger,we bought the installer package from Apple.

We had previously had serious problems with the G4, but that was only really under OS9. This was the first big upgrade we'd done to it, aside from putting a second hard drive inside.

We just popped the installer DVD in to the G4 (into its tempremental DVD drive which used to reject the odd CD-R...) and followed the instructions. Did an "Upgrade" install, and it's been solid as a rock ever since. Even th CD/DVD drive works better. It also improved the performance of the machine by a frightening about 😱

 

[.Andy]

I love Spotlight. I've got a couple hundred scientific articles in PDF format. Spotlight is far, far easier and faster to use to search for a specific term or two than Acrobat 7 Professionals Index and Library functions are.

I use it for the same thing xraydoc 🙂. I find spotlight comments fantastic for adding in the patient's initials/research study/whatever the paper's in reference too. For me it's been a massive timesaver. It always gets some oohs and ahs when I pull up a pdf with lightening speed with a few key strokes.

 

[thequicksilver]

Tiger's a long way away from the absolute mess it was at the 10.4 and 10.4.1 stages, but I do wish I'd saved my money. Spotlight is incomplete and flawed, Dashboard is a waste of time and space, and Automater is just too complex - valiant attempt to simplify scripting it is, but it's sadly just not simple enough for even a geek like me to be able to perservere with.

The new Mail app has very few new features that I actually use (along with a hideous UI), Quicktime 7 was released for Panther too, I've seen about three apps that actually use Core Image (none of which I've actually wanted to use), and I haven't actually found a single app that I use on a daily basis that I wouldn't have been able to use in Panther.

But, it's my fault - I was suckered into the marketing, I bought it, and I regret it. The next time I upgrade OS X will likely be with a new machine.

Panther was so much better a release in terms of improvement over the previous release it was untrue.