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Mac OS X 10.5.3 9D29, Time Machine on Battery Power

maybe with the update time machine will stop doing unnecessary backups, like re-backing up my entire Dcuments folder for no reason...
 
I don't want the front application to stall with

kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!

showing several times in the log.

No, it doesn't work to force quit.
Everything just beach balls. Can't switch apps or anything.

Please tell me that this doesn't happen in 10.5.3! :)
 
Only thing I want....

...is a macbook graphics driver update so I stop getting horrible graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (which persist after Warcraft finishes).

I'm a man of simple tastes.
 
i'm hoping we get some new drivers too to get the 8800 cards up to the same speed as the Windows ones.
 
Anyone else notice something in that screenshot? It's a subtle change, but the text behind the options pane isn't blurred like it is in 10.5.2. I've attached a screenshot to show what I mean.

But it could be that the blur effect only shows up on Macs with support for Core Image. I don't have a Mac running Leopard that doesn't support Core Image, so can someone who has confirm this?
 

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Voidness said:
Anyone else notice something in that screenshot? It's a subtle change, but the text behind the options pane isn't blurred like it is in 10.5.2. I've attached a screenshot to show what I mean.

But it could be that the blur effect only shows up on Macs with support for Core Image. I don't have a Mac running Leopard that doesn't support Core Image, so can someone who has confirm this?
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Good eyes! That IS odd. Maybe a non-Core Image thing, or a quirk of single-window grabs on non-Core Image Macs? Even weirder, the one line of text ("Hourly backups..." within the red circle IS blurred--and only there. (Could be JPEG artifacts caused by the red circle, but it really doesn't look that way to me.)

Still, I can't think how a real window OR a fake window would end up looking that way. So I don't take it as a sign of a fake necessarily. (Someone faking that pane would start from the existing pane--with blur and all.)
 
Gotta wonder about Hackintoshes...

What with all the press surrounding the "Open Computer" and the Hackintosh communities out there, I gotta wonder if Apple's planning on implementing something to "break" non-authorized installs.
 
Timemachine

I wish they would include an option to select the disks you want to back-up and not the ones you dont.. that would be much more simple IMHO...
 
knewsom said:
What with all the press surrounding the "Open Computer" and the Hackintosh communities out there, I gotta wonder if Apple's planning on implementing something to "break" non-authorized installs.
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I doubt they will spend time or money on that. Things will break without them trying--maybe not with every update, but over time it will happen.
 
scottishwildcat said:
It's not hard, it's possible today, there's just no built-in GUI for it. If you want one, try Time Machine Editor.
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I saw this and appreciate it, but it should still be built in.

/dev/toaster said:
I know ... but, if my laptop is running on battery that means the power went out. I don't want it to start a backup because it won't finish before my UPS gives out. (Resulting in a corrupt backup)
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I get this point, I'd prefer Apple make it possible to quit backups quicker, without having to backup for ten minutes then quit.

UPS were meant to power the computer until the power comes back on, or you shut the machine down.
 
Any fixes for FileVault? It still doesn't work with HFSX (case-sensitive) filesystems. Odd, really, since it takes actual work to break an app in that way.
 
BWhaler said:
I find it interesting that Apple continues to make changes like this.

On the one hand, it's good that Apple is adding functional enhancements and re-engineering poorly designed and thought-through components of Leopard.

On the other hand, Apple had two years between releases, and clearly Leopard was a more poorly designed and buggier than any release we have seen in a very long time. 10.4, 10.3, 10.2...none of them needed patches this large or some massive re-thinks like Leopard.

I just hope Apple learns from the Leopard experience. Some components were very poorly designed, and Leopard was--and still is--way too buggy. In general, Leopard has some very poor engineering.

Apple is going through some interesting changes. I hope it is learning and growing into a great company at "the next level."
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Actually I like the new direction :apple: is heading with Mac OS X. Reason being for all the little additions and changes is to please customers and Leopard has to run a longer course when compared to Tiger. Think about it we will not be seeing another update (10.6) for another couple years. So all these minor changes are a positive IMO. :)
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
Actually I like the new direction :apple: is heading with Mac OS X. Reason being for all the little additions and changes is to please customers and Leopard has to run a longer course when compared to Tiger. Think about it we will not be seeing another update (10.6) for another couple years. So all these minor changes are a positive IMO. :)
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SJ said that from Leopard, they will get back on track with faster OS refreshes.
 
iEdd said:
So still no backup scheduling? Well at least now my iMac won't backup when it's running on batteries. :rolleyes:

Edit: This is priceless, got this message a few weeks ago. (It's been working fine since then though.)
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MrCrowbar said:
Yea, I had this one too. Really puzzling. :)
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All this message is stating is that it require 192 MB more information and your HDD only has 1.9GB remainder.

In total you require ~2.0GB for the back-up to be completed. The wording is not confusing to me, however I can see some might be. ;):)
 
from an outsider

i am still on 10.4.11 for various reasons. not because i feel tiger is the best but mainly as i do not have a backup medium in the meantime to put all my stuff. well two days a go my lacie tough aluminium drive came. great fw800 device.

but, tiger was not a disaster but it was not good till 10.4.3 but that seemed to come faster than leopard. at least from all the complaints i hear about leopard. it seems to be longer in between good releases and rubbish ones. oh well...

cheerssies
 
shigzeo and others

i have stayed with 10.4.11 and have iphoto6 and ilife6......now i know from many threads and posts that many of the mac owners transitioned easily from Tiger to Leopard, I know others have the skill level to cope with up's and down's.
But I have tried to look at the larger/largest overall picture of this Leopard and how many have had little difficulty, some, and others it has been a total disaster- as well as problems some have had with iphoto08 and ilfe08.....I do NOT have such mythic god like adoration for Jobs...frankly I think he conned and hustled what have been/are loyal, intelligent Mac "family", that at this time there STILL IS A "DEVELOPMENTAL LEVEL OF 10.5.3 IS A SIGNATURE OF HOW MUCH THIS JOBS HAS SUCKERED SO MANY ........way too much has been made of this jerk and thats exactly what I think of jobs....a g****** a****** for suckering so many to buy his products.....and up until 10.4.11 I was also one of these persons because I like all the rest of you simply know that Mac's are the best, that their design is the best--the powerbook design could just as well be a PERMANENT mode as far as I am concerned...that this "leopard" has turned out to be a turkey for too many and jobs had no business releasing such a s***** OSX, it should never have been released until it was ONE HUNDRED PER CENT!!! with updates only improving things.....at this point I have NO respect for him at all, he's as much a hustler as that Gateway crap was, or the Lexmark brand of products or the Iomega products that were utter crap--that I stupidly bought and like Lexmark within a week or two of the one year warranty for each product and both brands totally crapped out with the drives actually ripping into the CD or as in the case of Lexmark printers (3 total) that the carrier within a week over its warranty suddenly began slamming back and forth until they crapped out.....what really lost my respect for Jobs has been his total indifference to the problems across the board of what he comes out with that have been having this and that problems...and while many Apple stores and employees have been 110% helpful...the apology needs to come from Jobs!
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
All this message is stating is that it require 192 MB more information and your HDD only has 1.9GB remainder.

In total you require ~2.0GB for the back-up to be completed. The wording is not confusing to me, however I can see some might be. ;):)
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I'm pretty sure it meant 192MB total, because the hour before that I hadn't really changed anything or downloaded stuff, so an update to the backup had to be small. Also, when I restarted and it backed up without error, NO old backups were deleted.
I also find it hard to believe they would word it so grammatically incorrect. ;)

Edit: Also when you burn a disc in toast or finder, it says "800MB were needed when only 700MB is available" for an 800MB file, not 1500MB.
 
nice little addition the time machine while on bat :)


lets hope that apple does spend enough time beta testing this release [ as they didn't with 10.5 n 10.5.2 - releasing for commercial reasons ].....

its seems they r doing the right thing this time [ as they hav released numerous ADC versions so far... well done apple :apple: ]

nothing is better than testing testing testing :)
 
badNameErr said:
Based on that incredibly detailed bug report, I'm sure they'll be right on it!
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Heh, though I have filed a genuine bug report and posted on the Apple support forums (where you it got totally lost in the ether thanks to the number of people who all have the same or similar issues with wi-fi).

It's unfortunate because I bought my first Mac to replace an ageing but amazingly reliable HP workstation that my wife and I used at home. I sold it to her based on the 'it just works' mantra, but all it has done is drive her mad. Every now and again, the network just stops. We have to use the Airport icon to turn Airport off and back on again, which gets it going again. Mail seems to cause this to happen a lot, and you can never be sure if it is sending/receiving properly, but even without Mail it just happens on its own once every couple of hours or so.

Windows XP, under boot camp, doesn't have any problems with wi-fi. Even 10.4.11 works perfectly (but I wanted the Mac for iPhone development so I'm sticking with Leopard).

I've wondered about taking the airport kexts from Tiger and seeing if they work in Leopard, but I suspect that's just asking for a hiding to nothing.

The worst thing of all is that I would run a cat5 cable and wire it in properly, but my house is designed such that I can't get easy access to do it neatly, and I'd have to run bare cable/ a conduit along the wall next to the Mac.
 
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