Mac OS X 10.5.2 Problems Help [CONSIDERING VISTA.]

[markfc]

Hmmm, strange now you mention it but I have a load of missing avi files since the 10.5.2 upgrade.

I wouldn't have noticed had I not gone looking after you mentioned it but I'm missing a large folder of TV Series.

I'm not too worried as they're backed up on my iMac but still.....

 

[dpaanlka]

I don't get it... what was the actual cause of the problem?

I really cant lose all my files they are so important documents.

Which you would promptly do by installing Vista.

 

[scott:mac]

Haha Exactly,
I will never in my life go to vista.
EVER!!
XP is the only os i will stretch to, and for that to happen my mac should blow up, and steve jobs will disband Apple.
I've reinstalled Mac OS X 10.5 and is running much smoother, i am now backing up my first Time Machine back up ever as i type, and ill then try to install 10.5.2.
Should i go straight to 10.5.2 or Step up to 10.5.1 and then 10.5.2?
Thoughts?

And the cause of the problem was, 10.5.2 being F'd up when i upgraded it.

Scott

 

[xUKHCx]

Did you even try reapplying the combo update, could've saved you a lot of time and effort. Anyway just use the combo update linked in the second post.

 

[scaredpoet]

I've reinstalled Mac OS X 10.5 and is running much smoother, i am now backing up my first Time Machine back up ever as i type, and ill then try to install 10.5.2.
Should i go straight to 10.5.2 or Step up to 10.5.1 and then 10.5.2?
Thoughts?

Do the Combo Update, but before you update AT ALL, do a permissions repair. then, just to be doubly sure, repeat the permission repair after the update.

 

[scott:mac]

Ive just doen a software update and a Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo update has come up shall install that one or the one thats on the second post of this forum?
Reply quickly i have the update pending...

 

[dkeninitz]

Did you even try reapplying the combo update, could've saved you a lot of time and effort. Anyway just use the combo update linked in the second post.

Heh, heh, I'd love to try that solution myself, but since installing 10.5.2 kills my Finder, I have no way to get to the update to apply it a second time. My machine functions normally after 10.5.2, except that the Finder only partially loads: no Finder menu bar - I have to open an app to get a menu bar - and the Finder icon in the dock displays the grey "application not responding" message. No icons on the desktop: hard drives and folders are all absent. I can open my apps from the dock and run them normally. I can search in Spotlight, but nothing opens when I click on it. So there's no way for me to apply the combo update again, because when I download it, it doesn't show up on the desktop, and clicking "open" in the download window merely creates a folder with the install package on my desktop that I can't see. After 2 days of mucking around with it, I'm finally back at 10.5.1. Nice job Apple.

 

[scott:mac]

This is what happens when A big company like Apple uses all its main developers on... say ... an iPhone maybe?... Apple need to focus on whats important here a $129.00 OS that has too many bugs to write.

And this is weird : Mac OS X 10.5.2 seem to have a different error/bug on each different mac.

Maybe it has more bugs on a Mac that has been upgraded again and again say a G4 from panther to leopard then a New iMac that has built on the basis of Leopard.

Scott.

 

[mr.light]

Probably because he thought a whooooole bunch of us would immediately shout Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! and desperately dive in and bend over backwards to help him.

...when in fact, the initial reaction most of us had was "BYE! Good luck with Vista! See ya in a week!"

That's funny! Because it was indeed my first reaction. There seem to be a lot of these "I'm switching.... here's why, signed Joe Troll" threads lately.🙄

I am glad he found a solution though.
BACK UP everyone!