OS X 10.4.2 Released

[iDrinkKoolAid]

Mail is still buggy...

Mail still has the same bugs. I select 'Organize by Thread,' and then Mail freezes and refuses to quit.

 

[machan]

Updates for all the Pro Video Apps showed up today, too.

 

[Trowaman]

w00t! expose is no longer broken for me! I'm happy.

 

[YEMandy]

NO iPHOTO FIX!?

No iPhoto fix!? What is up with that!!??

 

[HiRez]

Three questions:

1) Is Quartz 2D Extreme finally enabled?

2) Did they fix the problem with Adobe Helvetica Neue conflicting with Apple's Helvetica that causes Dashboard Widget text to render incorrectly?

3) Did they fix the problem where some people could not enable .Mac syncing ("Could not load legacy client")?

 

[superleccy]

Airport Express Problems

I have two Airport Expresses, and they were behaving perfectly well before I upgraded to 10.4.2. Now I can't see them in the Airport Admin Utility (although I can see them if I open them via "Other" and type the IP address and give the password), and worse, AirTunes doesn't work any more.

Anyone else have this problem? My version of Airport Admin Utility now reads 4.1.1.

Cheers
Superleccy

 

[CubaTBird]

redundant right here apple... hrm bad interface design?

 

[MacVault]

And when the heck is Windows Media Player going to be compatible with Tiger?

A better question is... When the heck will Windows Media Player for OS X be any good??? The OS X version SUCKS compared to the Windows version. So many codecs are unsupported and so many features are lacking -- especially when it comes to content embeded in webpages.

 

[Lucky736]

Still can't turn all widgets off, forces you to down to only one. Also can't turn off dashboard all together. Ugh.

 

[wildmac]

Thanks for the reply but unfortunately, everything is running slow. I have tried restarting several times. Nothing works. When I click an App down on the dock, it just sits their and bounces and it's highlighted blue and I eventually have to force quit. Is their a way to restore the 10.4.2 installation. I am an idiot and emptied my trash can which contained the Recovery files. Thanks, Colby.

Try going into terminal if you can and check the processes that are running. That might give you a clue to what is up.

 

[jiv3turkey748]

yes hopefully this will fix allthe little problems ive been having with 4.1

 

[Stella]

redundant right here apple... hrm bad interface design?

The OSX GUI is quickly deteriorating. I really don't know what Apple are playing at.

 

[HiRez]

A better question is... When the heck will Windows Media Player for OS X be any good??? The OS X version SUCKS compared to the Windows version. So many codecs are unsupported and so many features are lacking -- especially when it comes to content embeded in webpages.

It's really one of the worst pieces of software I've ever seen, on any platform. What a joke, and by the people who actually make the media format too...pathetic. I swear M$ puts sleep loops into every UI operation. Word does this too, sometimes it'll just spin it's wheels for several seconds while opening a 4k plain text document. This is on a dual 2.0 G5 with 1.5 GB RAM. Oughtta be illegal to peddle software that crappy.

 

[LaMerVipere]

Windows Media Player is compatible. Spotlight all references to it and remove them all. Then re-download and re-install WiMP. It'll work fine.

Nope, it still doesn't work.

 

[smitty078]

i have been having a screen saver problem. my mouse arrow will stay displayed after the screen saver kicks in.

This is caused by the divx quicktime plugin which is unsupported in tiger/quicktime 7.

It will cause no harm, it's only a cosmetic glitch.

 

[HiRez]

The OSX GUI is quickly deteriorating. I really don't know what Apple are playing at.

I agree, their UI design is pretty disjointed right now. I understand the need to push the envelope and come up with new ways of doing things and refine UI designs, but Apple is all over the map right now. Even their own software isn't consistent in any way anymore.

 

[powerbook911]

On my current generation Powerbook G4 12-inch, when I go to my name in the upper hand corner of the screen and select, "Login Window," then from the login menu when I select "sleep," it wakes back up after 3-4 seconds, but the second time I push "sleep," it goes to sleep for good. This began for me after 10.4.1. Does anyone else have this happen? It doesn't do it, if I put it to sleep without going to the login window, but I like to go to the login window.

I was really hoping 10.4.2 would fix this, but no

 

[ITASOR]

By disabled, do you mean not having them on the Dashboard screen? And turning them on, you mean putting them on the Dashboard screen?

I can't see why you would have to do that...

 

[Stella]

I agree, their UI design is pretty disjointed right now. I understand the need to push the envelope and come up with new ways of doing things and refine UI designs, but Apple is all over the map right now. Even their own software isn't consistent in any way anymore.

Apple need to bring back the HCI group, like they used with Pre OS-X versions of the OS.

 

[g4cubed]

Damn, I was ready to jump to Tiger 10.4.2. Especially since 10.4.1 was so buggy, but from what I'm still hearing I'll just wait a little longer to upgrade. Panther is still working fine.

 

[kakashixs]

QT Quality Problems

Well speed and performance for almost all apps are much better now (safari and mail seem so much faster yay).

However a weird thing has happened since I upgraded. Movie files in general seem to have quality problems when playing, especially .mov files. Many appear far more grainy than in 10.4.1. I tried playing the videos in VLC media player (most current released version of it) and their too they seem screwy.

Is anyone else having similar issues with video quality?

(Ironic, my screen saver grainy issue is now gone with this update but a far worse grainy issue arises)

Also, while im on the topic of video... in 10.3.x i think they introduced QT having the ability to play even when minimized in the dock. Which was awesome but that appears to be gone in 10.4.x. Instead the files just freeze frame and wont maximize usually when I click it again. If it ever DOES maximize the files minimized state remains in the dock until I close that movie file.

If anyone else has a similar issue like this (or a solution) please lemme know thank you!

System Specs:
iMac 800 mhz 15" Flat Pannel Display
768 MB Ram
OS X 10.4.2

 

[wildmac]

Did it get pulled?... It's not showing up on my vanilla 10.4.1 install....

 

[afields]

Mail still has the same bugs. I select 'Organize by Thread,' and then Mail freezes and refuses to quit.

The bug I kept having was that items I deleted kept reappearing as new, that seems to be fixed now.

 

[simply258]

Speed Download Enhancer, located in InputManagers folder in Library, causes Safari to crash when closing a tab or window. To solve, delete Speed Download Enhancer folder.

 

[FoxyKaye]

I hope this fixes widgets eating massive amounts of memory. The Apple-supplied weather widget was eating 80mb of real ram yesterday, as was the weather radar widget. I couldn't figure out how I was using 700mb of real memory with only Mail and Safari open.

I'll install now, and watch what happens over the next couple of days. The widget memory leak has been my only gripe with Tiger so far.

One of the many reasons why I don't use Widgets and wish there was a way to turn them off entirely.

I'm going to play with this as well, I'll be interested to see where we're at in a week or so...

Still can't turn all widgets off, forces you to down to only one. Also can't turn off dashboard all together. Ugh.

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one out there that feels this way.

On my current generation Powerbook G4 12-inch, when I go to my name in the upper hand corner of the screen and select, "Login Window," then from the login menu when I select "sleep," it wakes back up after 3-4 seconds, but the second time I push "sleep," it goes to sleep for good. This began for me after 10.4.1. Does anyone else have this happen? It doesn't do it, if I put it to sleep without going to the login window, but I like to go to the login window.

I was really hoping 10.4.2 would fix this, but no

Happens occasionally on my iMac too. I'll set it to sleep it will pop awake for no apparent reason, then I'll set it to sleep again and everything will be OK. I've taken to turning my mouse upside down as the computer is going to sleep - sometimes I wonder if micro-movements or floor vibrations will pull it out of sleep if the mouse picks up on them.