Re: more problems after updating to 10.1.4
reinstall limewire because I did the update and mine is working fine
reinstall limewire because I did the update and mine is working fine
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OS X v10.1.4 Update Available
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yep every version apple optimises it
they have to
remember it only version #.1.4
so It has a long way to go
edenwaith
macrumors 6502a
Re: Ah...too bad!
ONLY 512 MB? Ah, too bad! And to think I settled for 32 and 64 MB on mycomputers for 5 years! Even now I have 'only' 320 MB. Seems to work great for me, but then, I'm not working with 100 MB sized images either.
I tested the startup time on my 500 MHz iBook, and it took about 93 seconds to get to the login screen. After a reboot into 10.1.4, it took about 89 seconds. If that is the 'speed' boost, it is certainly nothing that noticable. I've heard that BeOS could start up in 15 or 20 seconds. Now THAT will be cool when/if computers are able to start up in just 15-30 seconds.
ONLY 512 MB? Ah, too bad! And to think I settled for 32 and 64 MB on mycomputers for 5 years! Even now I have 'only' 320 MB. Seems to work great for me, but then, I'm not working with 100 MB sized images either.
I tested the startup time on my 500 MHz iBook, and it took about 93 seconds to get to the login screen. After a reboot into 10.1.4, it took about 89 seconds. If that is the 'speed' boost, it is certainly nothing that noticable. I've heard that BeOS could start up in 15 or 20 seconds. Now THAT will be cool when/if computers are able to start up in just 15-30 seconds.
alex_ant
macrumors 68020
I'm not a Mac weenie, but personally I don't care if the computer takes 8 friggin' minutes to boot up as long as once it's running I can put it to sleep whenever I would otherwise shut it off, and as long as it never crashes. Thankfully, OS X fulfills both of those for me...
Alex
Alex
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
For m$ word issues (especially when saving) turn OFF ALL the fast save and autosave recover features. Even turn off background saving. All of those have been known to cause longer save times as well as file corruption. I would also turn of the WYSIWYG font feature, to give it a bit better performance. All of those can be found under the word menu, preferences selection.
G4scott
macrumors 68020
is blakespot's avatar suppoused to be animated?
I think it was before, but I can't seem to remember. Someone had an animated 'atom' avatar, and i think that was it, but it isn't animated on my browser.
Maybe it's IE 5.1.4?
If so, then m$ can go FIITA (e-mail me if you want to know what "FIITA" means, or send me a message)
I'm sick and tired of m$ crap not working...
But if blakespot's avatar isn't animated, then m$ can still go FIITA because IE sucks. I think i'm going to switch browsers.
OmniWeb is looking very attractive...
I think it was before, but I can't seem to remember. Someone had an animated 'atom' avatar, and i think that was it, but it isn't animated on my browser.
Maybe it's IE 5.1.4?
If so, then m$ can go FIITA (e-mail me if you want to know what "FIITA" means, or send me a message)
I'm sick and tired of m$ crap not working...
But if blakespot's avatar isn't animated, then m$ can still go FIITA because IE sucks. I think i'm going to switch browsers.
OmniWeb is looking very attractive...
yes, but...
All this dithering about 4 SECOND SPEED INCREASES and MORE CD BURNER SUPPORT is a yawn. I can't believe we (and I'm including myself here) haven't YELLED about some of the RUBBISH that OS X puts us through. Stuff that should have been fully ironed out before X hit the shelves. Sherlock SUCKS - it runs about a million times faster in 9.x, and doesn't respond well to being stopped. Spring-loaded folders are an absolute necessity in a Finder navigation system that uses single windows by default. Stickies STILL looks crap. I don't know if this is a problem anybody else has encountered, but when my Internet connection drops out for whatever reason, the Internet Connect dialog DOESN'T NOTICE, and appears to be still connected. Where are LABELS? Why did they take away the notice in the Empty Trash dialogue that tells you how much you're trashing? Why can't you find out how many items are in a folder without COUNTING THEM?
It's not like these are innovations, they're useful components of the OLD operating system that absolutely should have been included from the word GO with X. The fact that they're going to make us PAY for 10.2 (or at least, I'm pretty certain that they will), and that we're all going to go out there and PAY because at the moment the whole thing isn't perfect and it annoys us, is unbelievably disrespectful. I am an Apple nut, i've been a devoted and loyal follower for nearly 20 years, and there are lots of people out there like me. How about they start looking after us a bit better, and making us scrabble for tiny, tiny crumbs like this latest OS update?
Sorry about this rant. I know I'm only a baby-Macrumorist. But some of this stuff makes me kinda mad.
😡
All this dithering about 4 SECOND SPEED INCREASES and MORE CD BURNER SUPPORT is a yawn. I can't believe we (and I'm including myself here) haven't YELLED about some of the RUBBISH that OS X puts us through. Stuff that should have been fully ironed out before X hit the shelves. Sherlock SUCKS - it runs about a million times faster in 9.x, and doesn't respond well to being stopped. Spring-loaded folders are an absolute necessity in a Finder navigation system that uses single windows by default. Stickies STILL looks crap. I don't know if this is a problem anybody else has encountered, but when my Internet connection drops out for whatever reason, the Internet Connect dialog DOESN'T NOTICE, and appears to be still connected. Where are LABELS? Why did they take away the notice in the Empty Trash dialogue that tells you how much you're trashing? Why can't you find out how many items are in a folder without COUNTING THEM?
It's not like these are innovations, they're useful components of the OLD operating system that absolutely should have been included from the word GO with X. The fact that they're going to make us PAY for 10.2 (or at least, I'm pretty certain that they will), and that we're all going to go out there and PAY because at the moment the whole thing isn't perfect and it annoys us, is unbelievably disrespectful. I am an Apple nut, i've been a devoted and loyal follower for nearly 20 years, and there are lots of people out there like me. How about they start looking after us a bit better, and making us scrabble for tiny, tiny crumbs like this latest OS update?
Sorry about this rant. I know I'm only a baby-Macrumorist. But some of this stuff makes me kinda mad.
😡
Dunepilot
macrumors 6502a
To be perfectly honest
I understand all of your frustration Macette.
maybe someone should start a petition for Apple to get these features back into the OS (if this hasn't been done already).
The baby was thrown out with the bathwater when Apple moved to OS X.
Until spring-loaded folders are back in, I'm sticking with 9.2
I understand all of your frustration Macette.
maybe someone should start a petition for Apple to get these features back into the OS (if this hasn't been done already).
The baby was thrown out with the bathwater when Apple moved to OS X.
Until spring-loaded folders are back in, I'm sticking with 9.2
speed and Mac OS X
I went into a Finder list view, and a 92 item folder might usually take 5 to 7 seconds to list. Now takes only a second with 10.1.4. This on a Flat Panel iMac G4 800. And yes I've run update prebinding which improves speed in other areas every so often. But not as much as 10.1.4 did. Then again having 768 MB of RAM may have something to do with it.
By the way, if you want to know of ways to speed up Mac OS X, visit http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
I went into a Finder list view, and a 92 item folder might usually take 5 to 7 seconds to list. Now takes only a second with 10.1.4. This on a Flat Panel iMac G4 800. And yes I've run update prebinding which improves speed in other areas every so often. But not as much as 10.1.4 did. Then again having 768 MB of RAM may have something to do with it.
By the way, if you want to know of ways to speed up Mac OS X, visit http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
rainman::|:|
macrumors 603
Okay, just random thoughts in reply to the thread:
Blakespot, that's a cool tattoo 🙂 It'd be interesting to see a Macs & Tattoos forum, again not really relevant to computers but a good "get to know you" thread. I have a cute little lizard on my right ankle. His name is Roger.
What does updating prebindings actually do? I've got several utilities that do this, and it sure takes long enough... I don't know if I actually notice a speed increase, but it's the thought that counts... i don't know what a prebinding is 🙁
As for OSX problems... Sherlock does bite the big one, i wish you could turn off indexing... in 9, you could just disable the FBC Indexing extension. I've stopped using Sherlock unless forced to, it's just too much of a pain. Searches take minutes instead of seconds and are next to impossible to stop.
Spring loaded folders would be nice. I keep trying to use them, and getting pissed when it doesn't work. I'm confident it will be in a future revision tho. I hope.
Apple won't charge for 10.2? I had assumed they would. Does anyone know more one way or the other? I don't even know how much those things cost, when I upgraded to X, 10.1 came in the box...
😀
pnw
Blakespot, that's a cool tattoo 🙂 It'd be interesting to see a Macs & Tattoos forum, again not really relevant to computers but a good "get to know you" thread. I have a cute little lizard on my right ankle. His name is Roger.
What does updating prebindings actually do? I've got several utilities that do this, and it sure takes long enough... I don't know if I actually notice a speed increase, but it's the thought that counts... i don't know what a prebinding is 🙁
As for OSX problems... Sherlock does bite the big one, i wish you could turn off indexing... in 9, you could just disable the FBC Indexing extension. I've stopped using Sherlock unless forced to, it's just too much of a pain. Searches take minutes instead of seconds and are next to impossible to stop.
Spring loaded folders would be nice. I keep trying to use them, and getting pissed when it doesn't work. I'm confident it will be in a future revision tho. I hope.
Apple won't charge for 10.2? I had assumed they would. Does anyone know more one way or the other? I don't even know how much those things cost, when I upgraded to X, 10.1 came in the box...
😀
pnw
Turning off indexing
Go to Sherlock menu in Sherlock, and select preferences. Uncheck the two checkboxes there.
If updating prebinding doesn't work for you, you may want to partition and reinstall after copying everything over to a backup. Putting Mac OS X on a 60
GB hard drive is much slower than putting it on a 25 GB partition. The amount of disk seeking that takes place for the swap file is much less when the partition is much smaller.
Go to Sherlock menu in Sherlock, and select preferences. Uncheck the two checkboxes there.
If updating prebinding doesn't work for you, you may want to partition and reinstall after copying everything over to a backup. Putting Mac OS X on a 60
GB hard drive is much slower than putting it on a 25 GB partition. The amount of disk seeking that takes place for the swap file is much less when the partition is much smaller.
Help!
I tried to get the update and the OS updater util keeps telling me
that it can not connect to the internet? I have internet connection
or I would not be able to type this now. What's the deal? Are any
of you guys getting this? I went to Apples support site and downloaded
it and installed it manually. But I would like to get the IE update if I could.
Please let me know if you are having the same problem.
ooartist
I tried to get the update and the OS updater util keeps telling me
that it can not connect to the internet? I have internet connection
or I would not be able to type this now. What's the deal? Are any
of you guys getting this? I went to Apples support site and downloaded
it and installed it manually. But I would like to get the IE update if I could.
Please let me know if you are having the same problem.
ooartist
rainman::|:|
macrumors 603
Re: Help!
I've heard a few others having this problem... Last night, SW update didn't check as it usually does at midnight, so I did it manually, and could not get it to work... Tried for a half hour, nothing. I'm on dialup.
But this morning SW update started automatically and was it's usual chipper self, trying to get me to download Airport 2 once again 🙂
pnw
I've heard a few others having this problem... Last night, SW update didn't check as it usually does at midnight, so I did it manually, and could not get it to work... Tried for a half hour, nothing. I'm on dialup.
But this morning SW update started automatically and was it's usual chipper self, trying to get me to download Airport 2 once again 🙂
pnw
ClassicStartup not showing?
The way I did it was clicka Classic app, and when the ClassicStartup icon began to bounce in the Dock I ctrl-clicked it and chose "Show in Finder". A window opened showing me the ClassicStartup icon. If I doubledclick that icon afterwards Classic environment starts up without having to open Photoshop or whatever other thing with it.
Maybe I misunderstood you and you knew where ClassicStartup is, only that it does not starts the classic environment for you (which I guess is weird, but I am not techy enough to know why).
The way I did it was clicka Classic app, and when the ClassicStartup icon began to bounce in the Dock I ctrl-clicked it and chose "Show in Finder". A window opened showing me the ClassicStartup icon. If I doubledclick that icon afterwards Classic environment starts up without having to open Photoshop or whatever other thing with it.
Maybe I misunderstood you and you knew where ClassicStartup is, only that it does not starts the classic environment for you (which I guess is weird, but I am not techy enough to know why).