Bear in mind this is the first version. There'll be updates coming so it's likely their $129 investment hasn't shown all its capabilities yet. Let it grow into a nice mature Leopard. It is but a strong cub at the moment.
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Bear in mind this is the first version. There'll be updates coming so it's likely their $129 investment hasn't shown all its capabilities yet. Let it grow into a nice mature Leopard. It is but a strong cub at the moment.
And who put the shrinkwrapping on the box? OMG!!! It's awful, just simply awful.... I'm going to run off and make sweet love to Vista Home Basic
That sucks of course, but you are several versions out of date. Not all that surprising.My Photoshop version does not work anymore:
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Not a nitpick at all IMHO
If you were used to fast searching of Bookmarks, you would be pissed off if you couldn't do it at all (since Leopard borks Inquisitor as well).
And I don't want my friggin web history indexed. Only my bookmarks. So far Spotlight is doing the former, but not the latter. And there's no way to turn off the history indexing. The person responsible for this elementary error must pay with his miserable life.
And wrecking what was a perfectly good Spotlight interface and replacing it with something that is slow as muck and impossible to search through was a very bad move.
Spotlight is taking ages to index my machine and is currently saying that there's -2147483648 hours remaining until it finishes. Won't 10.6 be out by then?
Also, I don't know if it's related to this, but my CPU is running warmer than usual. It usually sits around the 45-50 mark, but it's been at 55-60 for the past couple of hours.
Finder. It's still bollocks. Sorry, but it is. Coverflow and QuickLook are nice when you're watching vids and looking at pics, but simple tasks like moving and copying files are still a pain in the ass. What would it really have taken to add a Cut/Copy/Paste to the Option-Click menu or even a command-C/V key combo? Windows may suck, but Explorer is much easier for dealing with files.
If we're allowed to say positive things : the install is an absolute breeze and totally without issue. I did an Archive and Install and it finished in an hour. Lovely.
Oh, and I like the 3D dock. Sorry!
Also, I don't know if it's related to this, but my CPU is running warmer than usual. It usually sits around the 45-50 mark, but it's been at 55-60 for the past couple of hours.
Finder. It's still bollocks. Sorry, but it is. Coverflow and QuickLook are nice when you're watching vids and looking at pics, but simple tasks like moving and copying files are still a pain in the ass. What would it really have taken to add a Cut/Copy/Paste to the Option-Click menu or even a command-C/V key combo? Windows may suck, but Explorer is much easier for dealing with files.
If we're allowed to say positive things : the install is an absolute breeze and totally without issue. I did an Archive and Install and it finished in an hour. Lovely.
Oh, and I like the 3D dock. Sorry!
Great, so only mine are screwed.
Upgrade or Clean Install? Mine was a Clean Install then I used Migration Assistant to move over my data.
Spotlight is taking ages to index my machine and is currently saying that there's -2147483648 hours remaining until it finishes. Won't 10.6 be out by then?
Also, I don't know if it's related to this, but my CPU is running warmer than usual. It usually sits around the 45-50 mark, but it's been at 55-60 for the past couple of hours.
Finder. It's still bollocks. Sorry, but it is. Coverflow and QuickLook are nice when you're watching vids and looking at pics, but simple tasks like moving and copying files are still a pain in the ass. What would it really have taken to add a Cut/Copy/Paste to the Option-Click menu or even a command-C/V key combo? Windows may suck, but Explorer is much easier for dealing with files.
If we're allowed to say positive things : the install is an absolute breeze and totally without issue. I did an Archive and Install and it finished in an hour. Lovely.
Oh, and I like the 3D dock. Sorry!
Surely if your CPU is running warmer than usual its because Spotlight is indexing your drive?
Upgrade. A clean install would have taken time that I just don't have.
I'm beginning to think that .mac is to blame. I have bookmarks set to sync as well as contacts, and neither are showing up in Spotlight. I haven't put Leopard on my Powerbook yet, so that might be causing some weird behaviour when it tries to sync.
edit: that solved that particular gripe. Now how can I stop it from including web history. There appears to be no option.
A Clean Install took 23 minutes on my Mac. It took no more than an hour in total to move my data over. Thats including install time.
Numbers + Spaces
If I have a 2x2 spaces setup - and I am using numbers in screen 4 - when I'm typing data into a cell and it wants to pop-up with suggestions, spaces slides back to screen 1, shows the popup screen there, and then slides back when I'm done. Utterly annoying.
Doug
If I have a 2x2 spaces setup - and I am using numbers in screen 4 - when I'm typing data into a cell and it wants to pop-up with suggestions, spaces slides back to screen 1, shows the popup screen there, and then slides back when I'm done. Utterly annoying.
Doug
Something to hide huh?
Actually no. I just don't want it in the searches. The results I get in the Spotlight menu are always history first rather than static bookmarks, which is exactly what I don't want.
Now that Apple has wrecked the Spotlight interface I really have to get rid of the history results coming up and cluttering everything.
Agreed. For the most part these are just niggles that should be worked out in the 10.5.x's.
I do feel for you guys that are having troubles though
But hey, whats the term; 'paid beta'?
seems no serious problem yet. at least nothing that makes your mac unusable. i guess that is a good sign. so i might update my G4's aready with 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 instead of waiting till 10.5.3.
They've really dropped the ball on Spotlight. What on earth were they thinking?
Not only can you not exclude your web history like you could in Tiger, but you have to include your library in Spotlight or you won't get any bookmarks indexed. But that means you get all the rest of the crap in the library indexed, and who apart from a few people wants that junk in their search?
It's just awful. Spotlight in Tiger was good. This is no better than the crap search available for Windows or for Linux distros.
Not only can you not exclude your web history like you could in Tiger, but you have to include your library in Spotlight or you won't get any bookmarks indexed. But that means you get all the rest of the crap in the library indexed, and who apart from a few people wants that junk in their search?
It's just awful. Spotlight in Tiger was good. This is no better than the crap search available for Windows or for Linux distros.
Well, I'm off to bed and leaving my Spotlight running with over 2,000,000,000,000 hours until it completes indexing. Might be done by the morning...
You've been able to command-copy/paste files in Finder for a long time. I think only Cut is disabled by default.