Mac OS X 10.3.3 Released

[diesel machine]

Network browsing with SMB is a bit worse than before for me. I have a Windows server that I could browse to before that now returns "The alias "blah" cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found." which is annoying. Still, I always connect to SMB servers through the Go menu so it isn't a major inconvenience--besides simply existing as a feature that doesn't work.

The only way I have been able to access all the NT boxes here has been with Sharity. It doesn't seem to get as much notice as Dave, but for me it has worked quite well. Anyone who doesn't enjoy connecting to a server through the go menu might want to check it out. http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/ 2.9 was a huge improvement over 2.8!

 

[OutThere]

Halo is SO MUCH BETTER NOW!!!

10.3.3 seems to have broken my Halo, it unexpectedly quits a lot now, and is incredibly unstable, maybe they'll have a fix for it soon...

 

[sweetandsour]

mac wont wake after sleep

Since updating from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3 my G4 Desktop (graphite) no longer wakes after energy saver puts the monitor to sleep. i have to reboot.
I have reset energy saver, and done all the usual permissions/restarts/etc. There are no other problems.
My 12" AL powerbook is fine after updating however.

Any ideas?

 

[Darrin Bell]

Printer still doesn't work

My $400 HP Laserjet 1200 is still an expensive paperweight after this update. Now I can get it to show up in the "add printer" dialogue box, but it still won't print anything.

Does anyone know if there's something I can do to fix this?

 

[wdlove]

Since updating from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3 my G4 Desktop (graphite) no longer wakes after energy saver puts the monitor to sleep. i have to reboot.
I have reset energy saver, and done all the usual permissions/restarts/etc. There are no other problems.
My 12" AL powerbook is fine after updating however.

Any ideas?

I have the same type of Mac that you do. Wanted to wait on the upgrade to see what happened to others. What type of monitor do you have?

My wife installed the update on her 15" PB, no problems so far.

 

[benny.c]

benny.c, yes, I've had this happen to me and it seems like it is USB specific. Are you on any network that includes even one PC, Ethernet ...even wireless? Do you have an AirPort card installed?

Although rare in Mac computers (unless they have Virtual PC installed, especially the new MS version), it is especially commom on a PC running Windows 95. Thank heaven for a MacBuddy, Aaron, that I iChatAV with in UK (near London), he had the same problem on his CUBE. (He is on a wireless cable network with his employer - SKY NEWS)

Originally thought to have been caused by a deadly computer virus developed by some mad Belgian (Flemish) software design student caught by INTERPOL hiding in the Italian Alps, it is called "assassino degli azionamenti duri" (non-fatal on Macs) the condition actually has a technical name in Latin: Discus Fantasmus; or in
Italian: Malattia fantasma del disco, as recently reported in a European technical publications through Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI).
http://www.agi.it/news.pl?doc=200403151020-1020-RT1-CRO-0-PC91
I assume the drive you have is fast USB 2.0 and that it does not have a FireWire port. Correct?

Making physical changes to the USB connection/system is what does it for me. Change ports, front, back, 1, 2, turn the cable around, switch ports with your USB mouse or keyboard, etc. If you have a USB 2.0 hub, check the power connection, and check its source cable downline.

Be sure to let us know what you have done that results in a resolution or cure for Malattia fantasma del disco

Besides looking for the USB Drive in System Profiler,
1. open System Preferences > Startup Disk (just to see if it is there or not).
2. open Disk Utility and run Repair Disk Permissions on "Macintosh HD" or whatever you have named your OS X primary drive
3. open Disk Utility and run Repair Disk on the external USB Drive, if you can see it listed.

While physically checking all your USB connections,
The following is an authorized Apple™ Support instructional video:

CLICK here: PHANTOM DISK PHLASH ​

which may help put you in the mood for "success"; power of positive thinking, and all that you know.

Thanks for all the advice but i'm still stuck. I'm in my home office with no network or AirPort card.

have tried unplugging, replugging, swapping usb cables and reinstalling the update without success. i can't see the drive in disk utility or startup disk

might take my drive round to my mates house to see if it works on his G5. could the update have physically damaged the disk?

 

[rdowns]

YES!

Conspiracy Theory: You, specifically, are being punished for sins accrued during your previous PC-dark life
Now that you have been reborn as a Mac user,
you will henceforth be granted a normal i L i f e
(However, expect to get egged by the Ethernet Bunny this year on Ether Sunday)

CAUTION: beware of any Devil Inside! requiring a full exorcisim through further OS X updates
(Yes, we can tell if you have been PC-using...just by looking at you).

My 'tar is not royalty free. Where should I send the bill?

 

[markjones05]

WHOOHOO! Frame rates are up in everything ive checked so far! A LOT!!! and even normal OS stuff seems to be perfect. better scrolling, window resizing.....finally. this is awesome! what are your results ?

I really dont notice a difference at all. It works just as good as the last panther.

 

[sweetandsour]

mac wont wake after sleep

I have the same type of Mac that you do. Wanted to wait on the upgrade to see what happened to others. What type of monitor do you have?

My wife installed the update on her 15" PB, no problems so far.

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Monitor is a 17" Apple Studio Display. Have not had any problems before, and there are no other problems other than unable to wake when the monitor sleeps. Have to reboot every time after energy saver turns it off.
Obviously I could turn energy saver off, but whats the point of that????

 

[MacRAND]

BLACK as Tar

My 'tar is not royalty free. Where should I send the bill?

I'm making you famous, do I have to make you rich?
I want one too.
...and I'm close to getting my training wheels removed at the 500 mark.
Got any ideas?

Did you click on the ...

The following is an authorized Apple™ Support instructional video:
CLICK here: PHANTOM DISK PHLASH

in the prior post?

For fun, most of my posts are filled with an Ether Egg or two.

 

[vrapan]

is prebinding supposed to use my hard drive for a long long long time? i am running my PB from an external Firelite and it has been running for the past 15 minutes or so non stop. also there is a 3.3GB virtual memory file - as seen from top. is that normal for prebinding or something ot 10.3.3 screwed up something?

 

[MacRAND]

USB Hard Drive damaged? Not likely

Thanks for all the advice but i'm still stuck. I'm in my home office with no network or AirPort card.
have tried unplugging, replugging, swapping usb cables and reinstalling the update without success. i can't see the drive in disk utility or startup disk
...might take my drive round to my mates house to see if it works on his G5. could the update have physically damaged the disk?

NO, I do NOT think that your drive has been physically damaged, or your data destroyed. There's a FIRMWARE problem or something like that.

Even if you had to remove the drive from the USB case, you could either try to mount it inside your Mac as a 2nd drive, or put it in a good FireWire case and I bet you would be able to see the drive on your desktop when placed in an IDE/ATA or FireWire environment.

What we cannot discuss is the physical characteristics of the HD - brand, size, age, etc. Until you disclose it, so there is no telling how that plays into the picture.

Take some blank DVDs with you so your friend can BACKUP everything on that drive for you.

I'll bet the problem is related to how you formated the drive originally, or how it was formatted by someone else before you received it.

Quick, get your DATA off and protected, before he updates to 10.3.3 and get your mate to re-initialise the drive using 10.3.2 and be careful what format you select. If you don't ever go into OS9 anymore, then you don't need its driver.

Once you have re-initialized and re-formatted the drive, you can safely dump all your data back on to it.
When you plug it back into your Mac, it should be able to read it and see it.

This is weird with a USB drive because all the problems I've seen have to do with older FireWire drives and their type of Oxford bridge that needed to be updated.

Maybe your HD needs a FIRMWARE update. Check with the manufacturer before you do anything to re-initialize it.

The only other thing I can think of is to do a CLEAN I/O over-write when you initialize the drive, but that's more security than anything. However, if you de-fragment your drive with the old stuff on it, at least the empty space will be in one location, while the old data is bunched up in another - that's what I would probably do. It's cleaner that way.

What do you think?

 

[midiman]

I rated this "negative"

because apple has been so slow to update system 7. I mean, who needs all these "modern" features when your mac doesn't smile at you?


[\end sarcasm]

who are these morons anyway?

negative...

my blood type may be negative, but this update sure aint!

 

[mangis]

My $400 HP Laserjet 1200 is still an expensive paperweight after this update. Now I can get it to show up in the "add printer" dialogue box, but it still won't print anything.

Does anyone know if there's something I can do to fix this?

Yes, my hp printer had the same problem a while ago. The fix was to delete the CANON drivers from the library. It did work, don't ask me why.

 

[Maclicious]

Ghz 17" PowerBook Won't log in

10.3.3 update has hosed my ability to log in after restart. Repaired permissions, still nothing. I guess I'll reinstall panther. Crappity crap--I was lured by all the good reviews, don't 'cha know? I have back ups of my mission critical files, but didn't fully back up things like address book and so on. I guess it takes being burned once to learn this lesson. Maybe I'll get lucky and archive and install will save my bacon.

UPDATE: I've revered to 10.3.0 from disc. Every time I try to upgrade, I go back to going to a black screen called bsd console, asking me to log in. Well, 10.3 seems fine for now. I've lost my whol day to this, so I guess I better get back to work.

 

[Matrix9180]

My biggest complaint is that they still haven't solved the scroll wheel problem in Safari. With my Intellimouse optical explorer, in other applications like Mozilla, a quick turn of the scroll wheel moves the screen down 1 page. In Safari, no matter how fast I scroll the wheel, it just moves a 1/3 page at most. It is so annoying that I rarely use Safari because of it. Maybe it's a cocoa app thing.

In System Preferences under Keyboard and Mouse, there's a Scrolling Speed setting, upping that will make safari scroll faster. Mozilla probably ignores that setting.

 

[xStep]

Fixing Password Install of Re-Install

10.3.3 update has hosed my ability to log in after restart. Repaired permissions, still nothing. I guess I'll reinstall panther.

I believe you should be able to boot from one of the supplied CDs and change your password that way. I'd look into that before reinstalling.

 

[numediaman]

I did a search here but did not come up with a notice of another important update: Fan Control Update 1.0.

Here is a link:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/fancontrolupdate.html

The update supposedly gives G5 users greater fan control. Sounds good -- has anyone downloaded the update?

 

[jouster]

because apple has been so slow to update system 7. I mean, who needs all these "modern" features when your mac doesn't smile at you?


[\end sarcasm]

who are these morons anyway?

negative...

my blood type may be negative, but this update sure aint!

Well, not for you. But assuming that you've read the thread, you'll have seen that there are many who are having problems they didn't have before.

 

[visor]

how can they

act so tremendously unlucky on SMB network browsing?

It was good on 3.2 - leave a network, be prompted that its gone, klick disconnect - no more problems.
Just did that now with 3.3 - no popup, finder stalled just like all the VERY BADLY BEHAVING versions before 3.2 .
I can't believe it.
I really can't believe they downgraded a good behaviour into a bad one.
I really cant believe the supidity and incompetence of the guy in charge.
I feel like kicking some balls. This is angering me so much!
I can feel the adrenaline rising, my fist is about to smash the display, and if I wasn't so well behaved and calm by nature, I'd throw that ****ing iBook out of the sodding window.
What the **** do they think they are doing?

Damn, damn, damn!

 

[TorbX]

Back at 10.3.1.

So much for the X.3.3.

Due to the fan running constantly on my PowerBook rev. A 12" 867 MHz, I decided to do a clean install and return to 10.3.1. Its hot, yes, but I was used to that.

Again the machine is nice to my ears. The fan went on my nerves!

When I first got this machine, it came with 10.2.6. The first thing my mac-sceptic buddy commented, was that it was such a quiet machine. I intend to keep it that way!

We'll meet again at 10.3.4 or 10.4, Apple.

 

[dcentity2000]

Installed update on my iBook 900MHz G3 (White) and no problems. Seems a bit more stable with various glitches from 10.3.2 gone. Also slightly faster. Note: Slightly.

 

[MacRAND]

Stable & Snappy

Installed update on my iBook 900MHz G3 (White) and no problems. Seems a bit more stable with various glitches from 10.3.2 gone. Also slightly faster. Note: Slightly.

I've noticed on my iBook 700MHz (max RAM) that both the STARTUP and SHUTDOWN are faster. I agree that it appears to be more stable, and the redraws, scrolls, and such are just plain snappy, fast. I like it.

 

[Windowlicker]

running it now..

running it now.. seems to work fine. can't really notice any difference, but i guess it's quite an update if the size is what it is..

 

[michaelrjohnson]

Who was having problems installing with SoftwareUpdate?

To the poster who found that SU failed mid-install, Apple recommends downloading the stand-alone installer and installing over the partial-update.

HTH,
AppleMatt

thank you very much for replying to my post!! i didn't think of that.