Actually I did a clean install....
I have default preferences set for spotlight (in regards to indexing)
I have default preferences set for spotlight (in regards to indexing)
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OK but have you done what I suggested? If there is a flashing "dot" inside the Spotlight magnifying glass in the menu bar its still indexing.
There's no dot there... Actually, haven't seen a dot there at all.
I have .Mac syncing on for mail accounts and rules, etc. I know they're having sync maintenance/problems right now so I wonder if that has anything to do w/ it, or not... ?
I have .Mac syncing on for mail accounts and rules, etc. I know they're having sync maintenance/problems right now so I wonder if that has anything to do w/ it, or not... ?
Thanks for the support! I tried do reinstall but Photoshop still does not work unfortunately. Luckily I still have an older iMac (from the G4 area) lurking around so I will use that mac from now on for my PS duties.I would attempt to reinstall, but as you said yes, I would have hoped that native OS applications would continue to work even after classic support is killed. At least you take it all in stride.
Too bad though... Apple does a much better job at backward-compatibility than Microsoft Windows on the hardware-front, but sadly the situation is the reverse regarding software (generally speaking - there are exceptions of course as you said).
Still... I am not the only one with problems (see http://guides.macrumors.com/List:Applications_Not_Compatible_with_Leopard and the corresponding thread) although there are also some apps listed there that do work on my system (like Perian for example). I assume that the way you install Leopard (upgrade, clean-install, archive and install, ...) might have to do something with it as well.
I don't like the way the dock tells you if a program is active or not. Otherwise, I can't find anything I don't like. Everything seems fast, and all my apps work so far.
Gripes--
1) When you close front row, the song stops (wasn't like this in Tiger)
2) When you click on an item in a dock it sort of does like a tiny half bounce then goes all the way up (running on an SR mbp)
3) My MBP doesn't have enough free F keys (or maybe I'm just an idiot). before I had my expose set to F11 and my dashboard to F12. Now I have nowhere to put the spaces birds eye view!
Everything else is slick, though, well worth the money imo. Some applications open instantly (safari). I'm loving it!
EDIT - OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING! In the safari 3 beta, the find function turned up with orange results...now they are YELLOW!!!!!! DAMN YOU APPLE!!! lol jks
1) When you close front row, the song stops (wasn't like this in Tiger)
2) When you click on an item in a dock it sort of does like a tiny half bounce then goes all the way up (running on an SR mbp)
3) My MBP doesn't have enough free F keys (or maybe I'm just an idiot). before I had my expose set to F11 and my dashboard to F12. Now I have nowhere to put the spaces birds eye view!
Everything else is slick, though, well worth the money imo. Some applications open instantly (safari). I'm loving it!
EDIT - OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING! In the safari 3 beta, the find function turned up with orange results...now they are YELLOW!!!!!! DAMN YOU APPLE!!! lol jks
I Have noticed this too, also when you open front row iTunes stops playing. And if you exit out of the music section of front row the music stops too.
I used to start music playing in front row, and then go to the photos section and watch photo slideshows. I can no longer do this!
Another one that's irritating me - if I empty Trash with a Finder window open anywhere on the desktop, once I okay the 'Are you sure?' dialogue, the Finder window pops to the front. Why?
Because the Trash is counted as part of the Finder (preferences are with the Finder Prefs).
Ok, more gripes.
1) I can't see the contents of my trash can. I can empty it and put stuff in it but when I click on it nothing happens.
2) If you have a stack with actual folders in it, the folders don't open when you click them. What gives?
3) My BT mm is randomly jumping around/lagging randomly.
4) I'm getting a lot of mic interference and echoing over iChat.
Any help, anybody?
EDIT: Ok, #1 and 2 have been fixed by a simple reboot. Nice.
Haven't tested 3 or 4 though...
1) I can't see the contents of my trash can. I can empty it and put stuff in it but when I click on it nothing happens.
2) If you have a stack with actual folders in it, the folders don't open when you click them. What gives?
3) My BT mm is randomly jumping around/lagging randomly.
4) I'm getting a lot of mic interference and echoing over iChat.
Any help, anybody?
EDIT: Ok, #1 and 2 have been fixed by a simple reboot. Nice.
Haven't tested 3 or 4 though...
Well, I've only been using Leopard for a few hours, but I want the old Spotlight search results window back. The new one sucks horribly. It's just a smart folder search window with no organization.
Why is the Spotlight drop down menu organized and the "show all results" window isn't?
And none of my bookmarks are showing up in Spotlight. This sucks.
The bookmarks not showing up in Spotlight is really pissing me off. Especially since Leopard disabled Inquisitor, which I relied on for quick searching of bookmarks.
We got it. You hate spotlight. Can we move on now?
We got it. You hate spotlight. Can we move on now?
- I don't like the new Spotlight results window much either. Where did the categories go, and the ability to sort within a category? It's going to make finding files much harder.
- I really miss the Slideshow feature in Mail and the Finder, or should I say, I wish Quicklook had the same shortcuts (f = full screen a = actual size i = index sheet)
- I'd like an option to specify a remote server to store images when using Stationery in Mail rather than sending half a dozen attachments
- I wish there was an option in Spaces to only show the current spaces' apps in the Application Switcher (Command-tab). I regularly have 20+ apps open and I was hoping to not see all their icons when switching
Just minor gripes really, otherwise everything seems good.
my airport is screwed in Leopard
for some reason, Leopard won't recognise any of my wireless networks... unless I force it which takes about five minutes of going into network preferences and playing with assistance and diagnostics... changing networks is hideous... and I don't know why it doesn't work.
Other than that, everything is groovy.
for some reason, Leopard won't recognise any of my wireless networks... unless I force it which takes about five minutes of going into network preferences and playing with assistance and diagnostics... changing networks is hideous... and I don't know why it doesn't work.
Other than that, everything is groovy.
Just upgraded... loving it and everything is screamingly fast even though it wasnt a fresh install... everythings working fine...
but I'll be honest.... I hate the new front row, I really liked the simplicity of the old swivelling carousel of icons and the way the desktop zoomed in and out when you activated it. Making it the same as the
TV interface just makes me wonder if I need to get that TV box I had my eye on
I have found a bit of a bug though, I had the 'Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs' option turned on in 'Universal Access > Hearing' which I used to make the screen flash whenever a new email arrived in my inbox... but if this is turned on whilst in front row it causes the screen to flash on every single action and every single selection.
Since browsing options is hardly a system alert I guess that qualifes as a slight bug, so I guess I cant use Universal Access and Front Row until there's a fix for that...
but I'll be honest.... I hate the new front row, I really liked the simplicity of the old swivelling carousel of icons and the way the desktop zoomed in and out when you activated it. Making it the same as the
TV interface just makes me wonder if I need to get that TV box I had my eye onI have found a bit of a bug though, I had the 'Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs' option turned on in 'Universal Access > Hearing' which I used to make the screen flash whenever a new email arrived in my inbox... but if this is turned on whilst in front row it causes the screen to flash on every single action and every single selection.
Since browsing options is hardly a system alert I guess that qualifes as a slight bug, so I guess I cant use Universal Access and Front Row until there's a fix for that...
- sluggish on my MB
- dock looks tacky
- menu bar requires just the right desktop brackground
- Mail has broken some vital plugins
- Stock widget is broken for non-US stocks
- dock looks tacky
- menu bar requires just the right desktop brackground
- Mail has broken some vital plugins
- Stock widget is broken for non-US stocks
Stacks is the worst feature (aside from Photoshop 7 not working)
In Tiger if you had a folder in the dock you could view the nested folders by ctrl-clicking and seeing your folders hierarchically. Now you cannot do this at all and there is not currently a way to fix it. This severely limits people who use their dock for applications, documents, and photo folder management with subfolders and is a big downgrade. So much so that I am sticking with Tiger for now.
In Tiger if you had a folder in the dock you could view the nested folders by ctrl-clicking and seeing your folders hierarchically. Now you cannot do this at all and there is not currently a way to fix it. This severely limits people who use their dock for applications, documents, and photo folder management with subfolders and is a big downgrade. So much so that I am sticking with Tiger for now.
This is a user forum. If you don't like gripes and complaints, go the the Apple site for your information.
Personally, I come here to see what people are complaining about. It helps me understand the system better.
As for my Leopard complaints, my biggest one is that networked drives (for me via AEBS) just do not work well at all. This is a major bug and a major problem! I have read others complain of this as well.
Since I'm a relatively new Mac user, I haven't developed alot of habits in OS X that would make me annoyed at Leopard. But that said, I have an SR Macbook Pro, and Leopard, while visually elegant, moves a little slowly. The dock is a little choppy, folders are not smooth when they open....
Call me a whiner, but many of us switched to Macs because of the elegance and usability of the OS, and because OS X had a good reputation as a powerful, yet stable system.
Windows was scorned (especially Vista), although I never had any problems with XP SP2. Yes, Vista is a monster of uselessness, although it's prettier than XP. But we had faith that Leopard would be different.
Well, my clean install of Leopard was buggy. The interface did not move as smoothly as what we saw in the demos on the Apple site. Major things don't work well (the networked drives again). My laptop has crashed 4 times since I installed Leopard (again, a clean install), and I've had to reboot countless times to recover from the network drives issue.
I'm sorry, but with all the hype from fanboys, assurances from Apple, reviews, and personal experience with XP and Vista...I know first releases are a leap of faith for first-adopters, but simply put, I expected better than this.
Oh...and lest we forget, release of this OS was DELAYED.
Personally, I come here to see what people are complaining about. It helps me understand the system better.
As for my Leopard complaints, my biggest one is that networked drives (for me via AEBS) just do not work well at all. This is a major bug and a major problem! I have read others complain of this as well.
Since I'm a relatively new Mac user, I haven't developed alot of habits in OS X that would make me annoyed at Leopard. But that said, I have an SR Macbook Pro, and Leopard, while visually elegant, moves a little slowly. The dock is a little choppy, folders are not smooth when they open....
Call me a whiner, but many of us switched to Macs because of the elegance and usability of the OS, and because OS X had a good reputation as a powerful, yet stable system.
Windows was scorned (especially Vista), although I never had any problems with XP SP2. Yes, Vista is a monster of uselessness, although it's prettier than XP. But we had faith that Leopard would be different.
Well, my clean install of Leopard was buggy. The interface did not move as smoothly as what we saw in the demos on the Apple site. Major things don't work well (the networked drives again). My laptop has crashed 4 times since I installed Leopard (again, a clean install), and I've had to reboot countless times to recover from the network drives issue.
I'm sorry, but with all the hype from fanboys, assurances from Apple, reviews, and personal experience with XP and Vista...I know first releases are a leap of faith for first-adopters, but simply put, I expected better than this.
Oh...and lest we forget, release of this OS was DELAYED.