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OS X 10.4.6 Now Available

mine rebooted twice-i think its becoming normal with the software updates as im sure its happened to me before.. ran some maintenance scripts, started up my usual apps.. seems a bit snappier.. pah - thats it till tomorrow
 
Double Reboot - Zero Permissions Need Repairing Afterwards

Did my usual Repair Permissions prior to running the 10.4.6 Combo installer (135MB PPC) with the Disk Utility. Usual long line of "repairs". Ran the combo on both 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 and the Quad. Both installed in a matter of 2-3 minutes including optimization. But here's the interesting part:

They both Double restarted after the update and they BOTH display ZERO permission repairs when running repair permissions after running the 10.4.6 Combo updater from 10.4.5 on both.

That is remarkable. I've never seen "Repair Permissions" run without correcting something. So this update must fix a ton of stuff that have been scrambled in the OS for quite a while. :) :D :p ;) :cool:
 
Did it state the double reboot in Software update, I did not notice.

I have since seen the linked document on the Apple site.
 
10.4.6 update KILLED Mail & iPod

Just installed the 10.4.6 update. After the 2 reboots others have mentioned I repaired permissions and rebooted again.

Mail will not load. After a long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full.

You must free us some space in your home directory folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume.

I have 10 gig free on the drive.

Also, my iPod will not update since 10.4.6. iTunes loads then, after another long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

The iPod "Video iPod"cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to.

Other areas of the OS now feature extended spinning beachball action too.

Any suggestions?

Chris.
 
britomatic said:
Just installed the 10.4.6 update. After the 2 reboots others have mentioned I repaired permissions and rebooted again.

Mail will not load. After a long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full.

You must free us some space in your home directory folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume.

I have 10 gig free on the drive.

Also, my iPod will not update since 10.4.6. iTunes loads then, after another long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

The iPod "Video iPod"cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to.

Other areas of the OS now feature extended spinning beachball action too.

Any suggestions?

Chris.
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"I have 10 gig free on the drive."


Get a bigger hard drive

[edit] sorry I thought you said 10 MEG..duh..[/edit]
 
Multimedia said:
Did my usual Repair Permissions prior to running the 10.4.6 Combo installer (135MB PPC) with the Disk Utility. Usual long line of "repairs". Ran the combo on both 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 and the Quad. Both installed in a matter of 2-3 minutes including optimization. But here's the interesting part:

They both Double restarted after the update and they BOTH display ZERO permission repairs when running repair permissions after running the 10.4.6 Combo updater from 10.4.5 on both.

That is remarkable. I've never seen "Repair Permissions" run without correcting something. So this update must fix a ton of stuff that have been scrambled in the OS for quite a while. :) :D :p ;) :cool:
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It states in the release notes that special permissions messages are no longer shown, they are not changes just statements - so most times when you have run it is information saying that it is using special permissions for a file, not that it changed anything.
 
Good news for Intel Mac Users

Wireless firmware is updated to 0.1.17, and I've noticed a stronger signal on my Mini (even though I never had the wifi problems that others had). Hopefully this will help a lot of Intel Mac users.
 
It looks like they've added Motorola RAZR V3c support to iSync. However, they are saying that if you have a third party add on installed to support your phone, you should remove it before upgrading or syncing won't work. That's all fine, except for one thing. There is a note at the bottom of the iSync device support page saying that calendar syncing is not supported for the Verizon version of the V3c. I have the Verizon V3c, and with Brian Toth's V3c iSync plugin, calendar syncing works fine for me. If I'm going to lose that, I'm not so sure I'm interested in updating. Anyone know anything about this? If I upgrade and then reinstall Brian Toth's plugin, do you think iSync will use it and correctly sync calendars?

There are at least two other fixes listed in this upgrade that I've been specifically hoping for, but I don't want to upgrade if it's going to break my ability to sync my phone.
 
Multimedia said:
Did my usual Repair Permissions prior to running the 10.4.6 Combo installer (135MB PPC) with the Disk Utility. Usual long line of "repairs". Ran the combo on both 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 and the Quad. Both installed in a matter of 2-3 minutes including optimization. But here's the interesting part:

They both Double restarted after the update and they BOTH display ZERO permission repairs when running repair permissions after running the 10.4.6 Combo updater from 10.4.5 on both.

That is remarkable. I've never seen "Repair Permissions" run without correcting something. So this update must fix a ton of stuff that have been scrambled in the OS for quite a while. :) :D :p ;) :cool:
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No, it just doesn't show the messages any longer.
 
T-Minus 9 Months And Counting

boncellis said:
Ah, so this refutes my previous suspicion that everyone at Apple had spent this weekend binge drinking, at least we get an update! Could this be a necessary precursor to something Apple plans to release in the near future?

10.4.6 is a pretty high number, I really wonder if we'll get all the way 10.4.9 with the anticipated release of Leopard creeping up. I, for one, can't wait.
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Well it's onlny been 6 weeks since 10.4.5 came out. With 9 months left until MacWorld SF and the SteveNote January 9, 2007, we should only expect the last three updates to flow with the beginning of each season. 10.4.7 for Summer, 10.4.8 for Fall and 10.4.9 sometime just before Leopard ships in January (or sooner). :D :eek: :) :cool:
 
Update trashed my computer (I think)

On a PowerBook G4 I was applying the update - and it failed. It said that
it had moved the package to the trash and that I should rerun it.

I tried rerunning it - no good - nothing would start on the Mac.

I had a terminal open - CPU was at 100% - tried top, no commands
would work, some sort of exception in every case.

Had to reboot - nothing else I could do.. and has been stuck on the
spinning beachball for 10mins..

This does not sound good :(

Maybe I should have shut down my apps when running the installer - never bothered in the past, Apple has been real good about doing it for you if it needs to.

Cheers, Ed.
 
aegisdesign said:
So you missed the completely new interface in Mail? RSS built in to Safari? New Preferences? Finder Smart Folders? Burnable Folders? Fast updates in Finder if you update a file in a shell? Built in Slideshows? Migration Assistant? And those are just the obvious ones.

Here's the rest...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/over200.html

Equating that with an XP service pack is wrong. Up until XP SP2, I don't think I ever came across a new feature being added in a Windows service pack and I've been using Windows 2.11. SP2 added features that should have been there from the start and still missed out features like burning DVDs.

We've had more features in a minor OSX release than some full Windows releases.
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Well you kind of missed my point. I was talking about what I noticed. I don't use Mail. I don't use Safari. I use Entourage and Firefox. Migration doesn't help me. I have nothing to migrate from. The built in slide shows don't display pictures in order, so I use third party software for that. I hardly ever use the shell.

But I shall shut up now. It's like walking into a mosque and shouting 'Praise Jesus' in here sometimes hahah...
 
a couple of thoughts....

Some things to think about:

1) This update is huge for Mactels...(Preparing for Windows Virtualization...?)
2)It's a Monday, are they preparing for a new macbook tomorrow? (or other computer announcement?)
3)The computer boots twice, while that may mean nothing to some people, I think it has something to do with my first point (virtualization of windows apps on mac osx).
4)Apple can still come out with something and please the mac faithful on their 30th!:rolleyes: (come on MacTablet/iPhone)
 
PCMacUser said:
It looks like the update hasn't reached the UK yet? I'm getting 'your software is up to date'...
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It has already arrived in Cambridge, don't know how long it'll take from here to Oxford ;-)
 
This update was a little scarry. It was good of Apple to warn us about the double boot,but the time it took to load everything was very unnerving.
 
MacOS is toast after update..

Well after 25mins I gave up and rebooted this time with verbose on.

Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 88, trying /sbin/mach_init
Load of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88
in6_ifattach_loopback: failed to configure the loopback address on lo0 (errno=55)

I think I can safely say that my OS is toast..

eddyg said:
On a PowerBook G4 I was applying the update - and it failed. It said that
it had moved the package to the trash and that I should rerun it.

I tried rerunning it - no good - nothing would start on the Mac.

I had a terminal open - CPU was at 100% - tried top, no commands
would work, some sort of exception in every case.

Had to reboot - nothing else I could do.. and has been stuck on the
spinning beachball for 10mins..

This does not sound good :(

Maybe I should have shut down my apps when running the installer - never bothered in the past, Apple has been real good about doing it for you if it needs to.

Cheers, Ed.
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