Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update Now Available

[pjarvi]

The dock reverted back to the original. Guess TransparentDock doesn't suppor 10.4.7 yet.

What's worse, is the developer's website still shows compatiblity only being up to 10.4.5, not even 10.4.6!

 

[Platform]

What's worse, is the developer's website still shows compatiblity only being up to 10.4.5, not even 10.4.6!

Use Cleardock, that I have used since 10.4.4, and have not had any problem with any OS updates

 

[MacRumoron]

hopefully i will be able to make my dock transparent in leopard so i don't have to keep waiting for transparentdock to update everytime i update mac os x

 

[mrfop]

Safari slower?

Updated Safari crashes often when navigating www.espn.com, especially the MLB page.

EDIT - Now the scoreboard page won't load, but pages don't crash.

Since I updated Safari it seems slower, more clunky in loading pages. Might just need a little time. I've downloaded it on my Intel iMac and Macbook, the latter does seem quicker. However my Macbook has always felt quicker for browsing (I think!)

 

[Dunepilot]

Yeah. Quicktime/Flip4mac are working much much faster on my 12" PB. It used to take a good minute or two to open a 500-600mb WMV movie. Now it's down to 15-30 seconds. This was one of my biggest pet peevs, as a certain website that I purchase content from only offers WMV. Thanks Apple for fixing this.

That made me chuckle.

 

[revjay]

updated and all's well

My stock 1.9 G5 (isight) updated swimmingly...long restart time, though.

 

[nihilisticmonk]

Update has screwed spotlight on my 2.0Ghz Macbook Pro....

Only searches my bootcamp partition...have tried the usual moving drive to private then not, running onyx and deleting the spotlight file...

Have also used the unix command to block the NTFS partition from bootcamp...

It's sort of working now, but is VERY slow, and all applications end in the .app prefix, when my os is set to hide known file extentions...

Looks like my Friday Night gaming session is now my Friday night restore session

Unless anyone has any other ideas?

 

[Platform]

Update has screwed spotlight on my 2.0Ghz Macbook Pro....

Only searches my bootcamp partition...have tried the usual moving drive to private then not, running onyx and deleting the spotlight file...

Have also used the unix command to block the NTFS partition from bootcamp...

It's sort of working now, but is VERY slow, and all applications end in the .app prefix, when my os is set to hide known file extentions...

Looks like my Friday Night gaming session is now my Friday night restore session

Unless anyone has any other ideas?

If the Spotlight icon has a dot in the middle it is indexing files, which slows performance greatly !

 

[morespce54]

If you only have one volume on your drive, it doesn't matter which one you choose, and you only need to do one, not both.

If you have multiple volumes with OS X installations on them, selecting the drive will tell Disk Utility to loop through and repair permissions on each volume according to the receipts stored in the respective volume.

If you have multiple volumes and one or more of them are not OS X, you won't be able to select the verify/repair permissions buttons for the drive because it can't check non-OS X volumes. You'd have to do the OS X volumes individually.

Well, that's good to know. Thanks WildCowboy!
I used to do it twice (once on the HD on once on the volume)!
You saved half of my maintenance time

Better be safe then sorry I guess!

 

[aristobrat]

If the Spotlight icon has a dot in the middle it is indexing files, which slows performance greatly !

Yeah, I noticed that my 1.83GHz MB was running a lot hotter initially after installing 10.4.7, but relaxed when I saw in Activity Manager that Spotlight was doing a lot of work.

Once it finished, performance (and heat) went back to normal. <whew>

 

[brikeh]

The update messed up Preview for me, Ive thrown out the plist but that doesnt help it just shuts down whenever I try to view a photo. Im a noob...any1 know what to try next?

 

[iBookG4user]

This update killed my intel iMac. Now it won't reboot. I'm trying to use the disk utility to repair the disk now.

 

[boing]

I did try "sudo mdutil -E /" already, along with several other ways (like clearing out Caches, etc). Nothing has worked, so Spotlight is messed up completely. So I suggest nobody rebuild their index on 10.4.7 on Intel. But then again I might be one of those rare problems that doesn't occur to everyone.

Why did I rebuild? I notice over time Spotlight becomes really slow. In the past I rebuilt and it became fast again. Other times I noticed it would be missing files, and rebuilding it would catch them again. After the 10.4.7 update Spotlight still seemed slow and figured I would rebuild it again to speed it up. Well I guess that was not a smart idea. I even used the GUI by dropping the HD into the privacy section, which is something I could see someone doing. Doing it from the command line I see less people doing (experienced Unix/Linux users mostly).

Guess I will have a broken Spotlight until the next 10.4.x, or most likely until 10.5. Didn't think that would break things since it always worked in the past. Guess I was wrong.

The best way to rebuild the index is to do:

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/[Name of Volume]

in the Terminal. I don't know about the method you mention. Rebuilding the index is not recommended because Spotlight really 'learns' over time. It imporoves the index as you open files, for example. When you erase the index you basically destroy information that has been built over time and it may take a long time to get to where it was. Why did you 'rebuild' the index for?

 

[mrzippy]

Grrr.... Mail hide bug still in 10.4.7 !!!!!

Again, can anyone please check whether mail.app hides on start-up now?

I reported this on the Apple bug reporter against 10.4, ie. the initial release of 10.4.

This is a joke that a simple bug like this has not been fixed, it also affects iChat.

In addition to this Mail.app still shows BDT as the summer time in the UK, when it's BST, I reported this against 10.4 as well.

What a joke.

I am sure if Steve Jobs knew about this he would not be happy.

 

[mduser63]

Ugh. I waited on the 10.4.7 update for my Intel Mac for a few days "just in case". I updated it today. Now the news is that Apple messed up the update for Intel and some files related to OpenGL performance are missing. Guess I get to update again.

 

[eva01]

Ugh. I waited on the 10.4.7 update for my Intel Mac for a few days "just in case". I updated it today. Now the news is that Apple messed up the update for Intel and some files related to OpenGL performance are missing. Guess I get to update again.

If you use the combo update then you wouldn't need to update again as that has the files while the small download doesn't

 

[aristobrat]

Good lord, the one I saw for my MB in Software Updates was 133MB ... was the "full one" bigger?

 

[iGary]

That made me chuckle.

Hah, yes, pr0n.

 

[ShavenYak]

Anyone else seen positive results from the AFP fix for Photoshop?
Preliminary tests seems to indicate it is fixed. Can't tell you how happy I am about that. 10.4.6 would crash repeatedly when saving Photoshop files to our server.

I don't use Photoshop, but I've had lots of trouble with my new MacBook accessing shared files on my Mac mini. Every so often it would just refuse to read or write a file and claim that there was a permission problem, but I could look at the permissions on the mini and see no reason for the problem. Sometimes retrying would work, sometimes not. Made it a real pain to use iTunes since all my music is stored on the mini.

Since updating both machines to 10.4.7, I haven't had a problem yet, and I just backed up my 22.5GB iPhoto library and consolidated my iTunes library from where I had ripped about a dozen CDs to the MacBook's drive. So there are definitely some good fixes to AFP.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I reported this on the Apple bug reporter against 10.4, ie. the initial release of 10.4.

This is a joke that a simple bug like this has not been fixed, it also affects iChat.

In addition to this Mail.app still shows BDT as the summer time in the UK, when it's BST, I reported this against 10.4 as well.

What a joke.

I am sure if Steve Jobs knew about this he would not be happy.

I have not experienced the hide bug you mention. I don't think the second thing is a bug, though. BDT = British Daylight Time, or the time zone London is in when Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Otherwise, it's BST (British Standard Time).

 

[mrzippy]

I have not experienced the hide bug you mention. I don't think the second thing is a bug, though. BDT = British Daylight Time, or the time zone London is in when Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Otherwise, it's BST (British Standard Time).

The hide bug shows on both my Mac's with factory installs of 10.4.

Also BST is British Summer Time, winter is GMT.

Neil

 

[mheekowh]

I used Software Update the other night. How can I tell if I've got the right version?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

The hide bug shows on both my Mac's with factory installs of 10.4.

Also BST is British Summer Time, winter is GMT.

Neil

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Regarding the hide bug (for me):
Hiding the application while it's running: (Mail - works, iChat - works)
Hiding the application as soon as it's launched on login: (Mail - haven't tested, iChat - haven't tested)

 

[mrzippy]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Regarding the hide bug (for me):
Hiding the application while it's running: (Mail - works, iChat - works)
Hiding the application as soon as it's launched on login: (Mail - haven't tested, iChat - haven't tested)

We are talking launch at log in here not working when set in system preferences, accounts. Normal cmd h works fine.

Neil

 

[StudioGuy]

Display problem too

Well everything was fine (better actually)

But after my machine goes to screen saver mode/display shuts off, it won't respond anymore?

All I can do is to reboot by holding the power button, it has now happened twice
The second time (now) when I try to open some apps they open but don't show the window only the menubar ?

Same here with my iMac 2GHz PPC.
Thought it might be an energy saver corruption, so reset that. We'll see.
Seems like no one else but us, however.