Thing is, this shouldn't prevent the update from being applied. A lot of us want the ability to clear out the language files we dont need or use.
One of our senior developers has a blog post that walks through all of the technical reasons why these impact our ability to update the software. It's called Leave those bits alone!. Read the comments thread, too -- Schwieb answers several questions in there.
If you want to save space, you should use the custom installation. For example, I know that I'm not going to need the proofing tools for other languages, so I don't install those. You can also use the custom installation to avoid installing applications that you won't use (for example, I see that Achiever mentioned not using Messenger, so do a custom install so that you don't install it).
illegallydead said:nadyne, if the Space hopping issue is a "known issue", why is it not fixed?
Knowing that there's an issue doesn't mean that we can fix the issue. This issue isn't entirely in our hands. We've been working closely with Apple to get it fixed.
illegallydead said:also Nadyne, why is it that '08 boots so painfully slow?
We've made a pile of performance improvements, specifically on boot time. If you've got a lot of fonts installed, you might find some slowdown associated with that. The Entourage MVPs have some information about font issues; check out the list of troubleshooting steps at the bottom of the page that's dedicated to speeding up Word to see if that helps you at all.
RichardI said:My auto update is not finding it
We've got lots of servers. Our web servers go live with the update first. It takes some time for the update to propagate out to our auto-update servers -- it's usually less than 24 hours, but sometimes it takes longer (sorry, no idea why -- I'm on the technical team, I have nothing to do with our server farms). Downloading the update manually isn't different from letting the auto-updater do its thing.
wetrix said:Does anybody know if a combo update including all the office updates is available? Each time I install Office 2008 on a new/reformated machine, I have to go through each update individually (.1,.2,.3), which takes about half an hour all up :-(
If you're doing a fresh install off of the CD, you need to install 12.1, then 12.1.1, 12.1.2, and 12.1.3. We'll have a combo updater available on a future update. It's just a question of balancing needs -- folks who keep up with their updates don't want to re-download bits that they've already got, folks who are installing fresh don't want to have to download a bunch of updates.
joeconvert said:Anyone besides me not able to send calendar invites or respond to calendar invitations via exchange after this update?
Which version of Exchange are you on? Have you tried restarting Entourage?
Regards,
Nadyne.