Mac OS X 10.3.3 7F34

[Hugin777]

Re: Re: my gripes with 10.3 (+extras) thus far...

Originally posted by WM.
Do you mean in the Finder? Are you using the Aqua-styled no-toolbar-or-sidebar view? If yes to both, are you aware of the status bar (in the View menu)?

The file size doesn't show. Only the available space and the number of selected items. - Or am I missins something ?

 

[ralphh]

Originally posted by adzoox
I have liked 10.3 - except for mail.

Has anyone else had a problem with 10.3 (all updates applied) and Mail.app?

I hope this update addresses my issue. I send in a bug report some 8 -10 times a day. (Mail_unexpectedly quits) Otherwise Panther is very solid.

Ditto on the Mail instability. My new Powerbook has been totally free of hardware problem signs including kernel panic since I bought it in September. Mail, however, has been crashy since the 10.3.1 update.

But: it only seems to crash after I've retrieved mail over a (very) bad internet connection. I think it may be failed error checking. Could explain how it got past Q&A at Apple and why not that many people are having problems.

 

[fluidinclusion]

Printer Problems here - solved

Originally posted by Photorun
HOPEFULLY they'll fix some printer drivers, my 880 worked great in 10.2, 10.3 WHAM no print control dialogue boxes (ability to print black and white, color, quality), even moved PPDs from my iBook (which is still 10.2) and that made things worse (now my G5 gets confused). Heard this from a few people. Also please put network browsing back the way it used to, what the F*** was Apple thinking (smoking) when they went to you need to know the IP address and you can't just browse the network. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

Everything else about 10.3 is great, but these two HUGE step backs are a major inconvenience.

I too had printer problems when I "archived and installed, preserving users" with my HP 1220 C. All I had was the CUPS printer. The default preinstalled NEW driver for the printer that was supposed to come with 10.3 did NOT appear or had problems. I installed the 10.2 driver from the website (which worked fine). After a clean install of 10.3, ALL PRINTING PROBLEMS ARE COMPLETELY SOLVED. I think upgrading to 10.3 is a no no. (A clean Install is the only way to go!) I had no obvious problems, just little annoyances that are 99.9% gone now.

 

[ultrafiel]

Problems

I've installed Panther on at least 6 powermacs, and while I don't doubt some of you have issues with reliability and stability, I've not had any major problems. However, this may be due to how I set these macs up. I always will start a HD from scratch when installing a major OS release, and will then re-install all applications needed. Yes, this takes some time, a few hours to most of the day depending on which system I'm using, but I think it's worth it. Apply any new updates available, and then repair permissions after.

I did find the new networking in Panther to be more of a pain. In Jaguar I could browse and find all of the windows machines on our network, now I have to manually enter in and save the ip addresses for those machines.

There are some quirks and whatever, but I'm pretty happy with Panther. It doesn't give me as many headaches as Windows in any form. For example, I had to fix two XP machines the other day at work that would load at all. I couldn't even get into safe mode or load from a CD. Well I finally figured out that disconnecting a USB card reader from one solved it, and it loaded fine. The other was easier, as when it hung on not finding the keyboard I knew the batteries were dead. Enough of the rant though.

And for any interested I've found that menumeters and synergy and indispensible add-ons to your system (ok, maybe not synergy from a productive standpoint).

 

[WM.]

Re: Re: Re: my gripes with 10.3 (+extras) thus far...

Originally posted by Hugin777
The file size doesn't show. Only the available space and the number of selected items. - Or am I missins something ?

*head falls on keyboard* D'OH!!! My bad! You're right, of course. The status bar only shows the number of items and the available space on disk.

I guess we should start requesting that file size show up when you "show item info" in View Options in icon view. I never really thought of this as a problem, since I don't use the Finder much and when I do it's in column view, but it seems like this would be a nice improvement. http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback, everybody!

Sorry for the confusion
WM

P.S. Dane power!! I'm only 1/8 Danish, but it's the 1/8 that gave me my last name, and two years ago I went to Vordingborg (as well as Copenhagen and Roskilde), where my great-grandfather was born...

I really enjoyed that trip--seems like quite a nice country you've got there. I think my dad got a little tired of Carlsberg being the only draft beer (in most places) after a while, though.

 

[mbotta]

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[Hugin777]

Re: Re: Re: Re: my gripes with 10.3 (+extras) thus far...

One gripe of mine that I haven't seen mentioned here, is that the zoom button doesn't work in the Finder (since the scrollbars come and go on demand). If I zoom a folder window to make it as compact as possible, I always get a vertical scrollbar because the window is a few pixels too tall :-(

Originally posted by WM.
P.S. Dane power!! I'm only 1/8 Danish, but it's the 1/8 that gave me my last name [..] seems like quite a nice country you've got there.

Yup. Quite a nice country Cheers to all fellow Danes ;-)

 

[stid]

Quartz bug

There is another bugs in OSX 10.3 related to Quartz. Some application like Cubase SX 2 have interface element that aren't redraw correctly.

The developer at Cubase Forum said that the new OSX update will "probably" fix this problem.

Also other applications that use some feature of quartz are affected by the same problem.

 

[vollspacken]

gimme more VPN options and features!!!

uhm, just gimme all the VPN features that XP has so I can finally connect to my university network!!!

aaaaargh, this is killing me!!!

vSpacken

 

[digitalbiker]

More VPN options

I second the more VPN options request. I can't get my OS X machines to play nice with my VPN router. A big part of the problem is a lack of control on various settings and XP has many more varriables that you can set than the OSX equivalent.

 

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by Ge4-ce
I don't say it isn't a good OS, it rocks! especially with the new features, but it has cost me and a lot of other people a lot of years of our lives the last 4 months! All because of the OPenGL problem

I do a lot of OpenGL programming, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're referring to here. What did 10.3 break with OpenGL that is causing people so much grief?

 

[12lemon]

Permissions Please

Anyone know if they are going to update the way permissions are assigned?

 

[kingtj]

OS X with Dave, anyone?

I've run into pretty much all of these issues, too - and it's frustrating. (Not to mention, another problem where sometimes, if applications have references in their "recently used files" lists to items on currently unavailable network shares, the apps will freeze up. My ex-boss just went through a week of uninstalling/reinstalling/deleting preferences/pulling out hair to figure out why Appleworks 6 kept crashing upon launch on his iBook, only to find out it was this issue.)

I'm wondering though, has anyone tries using the "Dave 5.0" software from Thursby under Panther? It says it's both MacOS and OS X compatible. I know it's supposed to enhance functionality in OS X for more complex Windows environments with domain controllers and complex security permission structures in place, but does it fix any of these basic networking problems too?

Originally posted by Stewie
The inability for Panther to add my username and password to the keychain for the windows servers I connect to everyday.

The sometime strage problem of not prompting for a username and password on a windows share and then telling me that the username and password is not correct.

Finder Crashing when trying to view a windows share

Finder refusing to disconnect a windows share, claiming it is still in use.

Other apple servers not showing up under network view

I could go on.

 

[AppleMatt]

Some may remember in the thread about the last build I asked if anyone knew whether Apple had addressed application launch time problems brought with the 10.3.2 update.

In the seednote for this build, they have asked to investigate application launch times



AppleMatt (happy)

 

[SoGood]

So the question now is, where is 10.3.3 updater? Next 24 hours?

 

[sphereboy]

To clarify what jettredmont said: specifically, you want Full Keyboard Access.

this is the best tip i've seen in a few weeks! thanks, i've always wondered why i couldn't tab to dropdown menus or radio button. I love this forum! MAC RULEZ!

 

[Surfernate]

Agreed. Trying to make my Powerbook talk to other computers on the Windows network at work is a pain in the ass. I'd really love a way to create network shortcuts -- for example, there are network shares that I access all the time, and it'd be nice not to have to navigate to them everytime. I'd like the ability to put a shortcut on my desktop, and so far, I haven't found one. Making an alias to it does not work...

A trick I learned (discovered) is to add each server to your startup items(preferenecs>accounts>start up items). When you start up if they are available they mount on your desktop (after requesting your UN/PW if required). You have to manually mount each server (at least that's the way it worked for me) and then simply drag them to your startup items. If you login when off the windows network they just don't mount - no error messages or anything.

oh yeah look up a little dockling called prefling it's great.

 

[MacBandit]

A trick I learned (discovered) is to add each server to your startup items(preferenecs>accounts>start up items). When you start up if they are available they mount on your desktop (after requesting your UN/PW if required). You have to manually mount each server (at least that's the way it worked for me) and then simply drag them to your startup items. If you login when off the windows network they just don't mount - no error messages or anything.

oh yeah look up a little dockling called prefling it's great.

Sometimes you can manually enter the address of the server you are trying to connect to into the Connect to Server window. You can then click the plus button to add them permanently to the list. I know I have done this for my LAN here at home in the past but haven't had the need since figuring out how to get Appleshare working correctly I can then just click on networking in the sidebar of the finder windows and my computers with Appleshare on the LAN just show up automatically.