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Mac OS X 10.5.2: Optional Translucent Menubar, DVD/CD Sharing

Evangelion said:
What would that do to my settings, libraries etc.? And to answer your question: no. I seem to have misplaced my Aperture install-disc, along with my serial-number when I moved houses :(. I guess I could find them _somewhere_ (they have not been thrown away or anything of the sort).
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There's a file in:

~\Library\Application Support\ProApps

This is your serial number file. You should back this up for future usage if you have indeed lost your serial number, and you can just drop this file into this folder next time prior to installing and it won't ask for one.

YMMV, this works for Final Cut Studio, it should work the same for Aperture.
 
I see people complaining about menu bars? Are you serious? I understand you may not like 100% of the OSX features, but on the other hand you can buy a PC running Vista....Or just bootcamp your OS to Vista and then you don't have to worry about the OSX menu bars...
 
AlphaAnt said:
While I would love to be able to use Airport Extreme drives in Time Machine, I think at this point I would be happy just being able to access the Airport Extreme drives at all.
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I agree. I want to believe that the Time Machines issues with AirDisk are really related to the instability of AirDisk in general. I assume they HAVE to fix AirDisk, since it is still advertised on the web site, and maybe once they have that working, it will work for Time Machine also.

Since Time Machine works now on AFP shares from other Leopard machines, I don't see why it wouldn't work on AirDisks as well.

Seems like all of the AirDisk issues are related to putting the computer to sleep with a mounted AirDisk. If you can get the AirDisk unmounted before you put the computer to sleep, I think it keep on working. Of course even getting it to unmount can be problematic. I found that sometimes I have to force quit the Finder before it will let me unmount it.

Lets hope 10.5.2 fixes some of these AFP issues, and that we get an AEBS firmware update if that would help too!
 
I cant believe how many people miss the rounded corners of the menu bar. How do you even notice something like that being gone? Like someone said before, at least all of your pixels are being utilized now. All I want is for my MBP to stop acting crazy once it wakes up out of sleep(choppy animations and mouse cursor), if it even wakes up at all.
 
finally!

network drives with time machine is a must! i mean, common, no reason to not have that. i also love that apple is listening to its customers! would M$ have changed the asthetics of Vista because their customer's asked for it (and by asking for it, meaning they've already shelled out the $$ and are no longer a potential customer). apple cares. and having list view in stacks. dude, apple is listening for sure!
 
The menu bar bothered me at first, but now I like it and changing it to white would feel like a step backwards. However, they need to fix the cluster f*** they call the dock. There are way to many reflections going on down there.
 
Avicdar said:
It doesn't seem to be listed at all that I can see, but does anyone know if any additional cameras have been added to Apples raw support as part of this release?

I would have expected if they were, it would be mentioned. Nikon and Sony users have been yelling about this for a while now (especially Sony, for the A700 which was released in September and we still can't use Aperture with its raw format).
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I have a .MTS file from a Sony HDR-CX7 that seems hard to ingest.

As for my other comments, your iPhone is your new slim client, from which you will talk to your computer, the cloud server, and other devices with bonjour clients, and wireless resources such as discs and printers, etc. Client-server is back!

Oh, and I said IP lightswitches too :)

Rocketman
 
bmk said:
You do realise that you have just broken your legally-binding non-disclosure agreement with Apple? As a member of ADC you are legally bound NOT to disclose details of forthcoming software/hardware and if you do you will most likely have your membership revoked.
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I've done nothing compared to the person who's been posting the screenshots and giving details about the features... I've been an ADC member for 6 years now and i know how it works
 
Ok

Alright, now let's get this version finished and out to customers! Come on Apple, I'm rootin' for ya! :p
I'm so freakin' anxious for this release, because I will finally move to Leopard at home once it's out. Been waiting for these things to get addressed. :D
 
I would hope they fix the only big problem I have:when changing desktop pictures the preference window often hangs, not seeing all of the images within. Sometimes if you change folders it won't see the images at all.

Other than that I've been pleased with !0.5 so far, would really like to networked drives happen though.
 
I stick want stacks of Applications on the left half of the dock as previously demoed. Call it application grouping thank you.
 
Clearing the air on Network Time Machine Backups

There seems to be confusion on network backups, but if you have a Leopard (This can be OS X server or client at 10.5.1) machine with an AFP share, any other Leopard computer can use that sharepoint as a disk to backup to.
 
Anyone know if they updated Raw Camera support? I can work around all the issues except no D300 support. The list of changes doesn't mention new cameras.

P6
 
Drive Sharing

A couple comments/questions about the CD/DVD drive sharing:

1) When I was looking at the pictures and noticed it was called CD/DVD drive sharing, I though why not just call it "optical drive sharing" so that when Blu-Ray or another Hi-Def/High Capacity drive starts being used it would still be a proper title. Then it hit me, maybe Apple wants Blu-Ray etc. depreciated in favor of downloadable content (iTunes) and there for doesn't really have any plans to pack in those drive types. I know people were complaining that the MBA doesn't include an optical drive, but to be honest my previous portable mac (Powerbook G4 667mhz) hadn't had a working drive for years and I still used the machine just fine.

2) To boot from another computers drive, I'm assuming there will be a firmware update to the EFI ? I'll be interested in seeing how this works.

3) Asside from booting from a drive, can't users already access drives through sharing ?

Anyhow I am very excited for many of the features/fixes 10.5.2 will have to offer. One of the biggest problems I'm hoping it will fix is random shutdowns my MacBookPro (2.4Ghz, 4GB) has been having.
 
roland.g said:
I stick want stacks of Applications on the left half of the dock as previously demoed. Call it application grouping thank you.
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What, like this?

startmenuvt8.jpg
 
rezatayebi said:
Translucent menu bar is a mess. Also Mail is really buggy and when I send an email to myself I can`t see it in mail application. I have to go to gmail.com using safari :mad: .
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So you're using GMail over IMAP? Since Mail displays only what it gets from the GMail server, this is almost certainly a GMail issue rather than Mail. I've worked on a mail app in the past and this is the sort of thing that on every release would get a P1 show stopper bug report from QA but would turn out be something to do with how the mail server or the IMAP account is configured.

GMail IMAP is kind of funky - it took me some time to get it configured right, but I get mail sent to my GMail account in Mail.

However, what I don't get in Mail is the original message in a thread - if I send an email to user1, who replies, in GMail on Safari I see both the reply and the original one I sent. Since this isn't really in my GMail Inbox, that doesn't show up in IMAP either in Mail or Thunderbird.
 
If they put in a switch so we never have to see the horrid purple splash screen ever again, they will have addressed every complaint I have about Leopard. :)

(yes I know how to hack in and get rid of it, but it should be a setting IMO)
 
So can someone clarify on the stacks -

List view is the hierarchical way to open stacks as shown

but

the Display as: Folder/Stack - does that refer to the actual look of the icon? Have they also listened so that stacks look like their enclosing folders in the dock like in Tiger, etc)?!

What about Quick Look and stacks - does that work?
 
Mindflux said:
This is ludicrous. They disabled it right before Leopard shipped, yes you can do a hack (heck I posted it here)... but suddenly it'll work with a Time Capsule?

blah
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Dude, what are upset about? If you ordered Time Capsule because it was the only NAS solution then you can simply cancel your order and buy a 3rd party external hard drive.
If you already have an external hard drive now you can use it. What are complaining about? For heaven sake. :rolleyes:
 
Dock talk

p0intblank said:
Translucent Menubar is now optional? Thank you! :) It's good to know Apple is listening to user feedback.
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Does anyone know if you can go back to the Tiger dock without the little "table" the icons sit on? For some reason I really dislike the new dock.

Thanks.
 
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