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Post your snow leopard flaws (The Snow Leopard bug report)
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I still keep my mighty mouse set up as a 1 button mouse, as I always right-click when i don't want to and can't when i need to.
it would still be nice to stop it though.
no I just did the upgrade
Hi Kate, thanks for the speedy reply. No, I just did an upgrade...twice...to no avail. how does one do a clean install? I have seen someone here saying that they did a clean install and they are having similar issues...but I am game to try anything.
Hi Kate, thanks for the speedy reply. No, I just did an upgrade...twice...to no avail. how does one do a clean install? I have seen someone here saying that they did a clean install and they are having similar issues...but I am game to try anything.
photo booth
sorry if this has already been posted but did not have time to read through the 200+ comments
when i tried to use photobooth
'You can't use this version of the application Photo Booth with this version of Mac OS X. You have Photo Booth 2.0.3
am actually amazed apple would not have sorted this out
sorry if this has already been posted but did not have time to read through the 200+ comments
when i tried to use photobooth
'You can't use this version of the application Photo Booth with this version of Mac OS X. You have Photo Booth 2.0.3
am actually amazed apple would not have sorted this out
Browser crashes ...
Upgrade from 10.5.8
Safari started crashing all the time immediately after the upgrade. I don't think its a Safari issue, though. I tried FireFox and it does the same thing. I noticed that the crashes seemed to be happening while I was scrolling - further it seemed to be happening when I scrolled using the multitouch scrolling on the trackpad. I've been testing this theory by avoiding the multitouch and for the moment that seems to resolve the problem, no crashes. I'm looking for a way to trash the trackpad prefs, wondering if there is some stale pref leftover from 10.5.8, but trackpad prefs seem to be stored in the systemprefs file and I'm reluctant at the moment to trash that.
I have not noticed if it crashes on scroll in any other app than the browsers.
Upgrade from 10.5.8
Safari started crashing all the time immediately after the upgrade. I don't think its a Safari issue, though. I tried FireFox and it does the same thing. I noticed that the crashes seemed to be happening while I was scrolling - further it seemed to be happening when I scrolled using the multitouch scrolling on the trackpad. I've been testing this theory by avoiding the multitouch and for the moment that seems to resolve the problem, no crashes. I'm looking for a way to trash the trackpad prefs, wondering if there is some stale pref leftover from 10.5.8, but trackpad prefs seem to be stored in the systemprefs file and I'm reluctant at the moment to trash that.
I have not noticed if it crashes on scroll in any other app than the browsers.
Time Machine with FileVault is screwed up.
FileVault uses a sparse disk image with a maximum size of over three hundred gigabytes, seven of which are in use. Snow Leopard wants to use this maximum size to check for free disk space on the backup disk, causing the backup to fail.
I only have a 160GB disk on my MBP, needing a 310GB disk to backup is obviously a miscalculation.
FileVault uses a sparse disk image with a maximum size of over three hundred gigabytes, seven of which are in use. Snow Leopard wants to use this maximum size to check for free disk space on the backup disk, causing the backup to fail.
I only have a 160GB disk on my MBP, needing a 310GB disk to backup is obviously a miscalculation.
I have had no problems, unless you consider the vertical lines in the top sites animation a problem.
SL Clean install + PS CS4 = back to Leopard
Did a clean install of Snow Leopard and CS4 suite, activated and updated everything. Opened my current working files that I have been working on and PS choked. Got stuck with some error repeating something about Application Failure....
I don't know. I don't have time to mess with figuring it out right now. Glad I didn't upgrade so at least I can go back to work as normal.
oh well... maybe updates are on the way??
Did a clean install of Snow Leopard and CS4 suite, activated and updated everything. Opened my current working files that I have been working on and PS choked. Got stuck with some error repeating something about Application Failure....
I don't know. I don't have time to mess with figuring it out right now. Glad I didn't upgrade so at least I can go back to work as normal.
oh well... maybe updates are on the way??
SL change the ram from 4.0 to 3.5 gb on the Activity Monitor
I just upgraded to SL and now when I look at the Activity Monitor it says I have 3.75 gigs of ram and not 4.0 gigs of ram. When I was just running Leopard i would say I had 4.0 gigs of ram.
Has anyone else seen this?
I just upgraded to SL and now when I look at the Activity Monitor it says I have 3.75 gigs of ram and not 4.0 gigs of ram. When I was just running Leopard i would say I had 4.0 gigs of ram.
Has anyone else seen this?
Just an idea: Maybe it now subtracts the amount of shared RAM used by the graphics card from the total?
Screenshots
One of my favourite shortcuts is the old Cmd-shift-4 to take a screenshot of a specific location. Since I upgraded to SL, that action *seems* to work, in that the crosshairs appear and you can drag across the region you want to snap, but nothing happens when you action it. There's no new picture and Preview doesn't recognise that there's anything in the clipboard.
I had the Flash problem, but have re-updated my Flash installation.
And the scanner in my Canon MP750 no longer has a driver. Works with Vuescan but not with anything native.
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One of my favourite shortcuts is the old Cmd-shift-4 to take a screenshot of a specific location. Since I upgraded to SL, that action *seems* to work, in that the crosshairs appear and you can drag across the region you want to snap, but nothing happens when you action it. There's no new picture and Preview doesn't recognise that there's anything in the clipboard.
I had the Flash problem, but have re-updated my Flash installation.
And the scanner in my Canon MP750 no longer has a driver. Works with Vuescan but not with anything native.
P
Working here. Both the normal "crosshair" and the "space for entire window" feature. SL changed the file name to "Screen shot <date-time>", but it's still put in the Desktop folder.
Snow Leopard probs
First my mail stopped sending. Even though the smtp is correct and nothing else has changed mail willnot send. Next my TIVO Transfer no longer sees my three TIVO units. The MAC number is correct, but now nothing is able to transfer to the mac from TIVO. What do I have to do to go back to Leopard? JRC
First my mail stopped sending. Even though the smtp is correct and nothing else has changed mail willnot send. Next my TIVO Transfer no longer sees my three TIVO units. The MAC number is correct, but now nothing is able to transfer to the mac from TIVO. What do I have to do to go back to Leopard? JRC
yes, I just discovered the screenshots I made an hour ago. Duh! Still, they might have told me that they were changing the name. Thanks for clearing it up anyway.
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Check your DNS.
I had something strange since upgrading. I could not connect to my mail server, on my local network. I did an nslookup and it resolved it correctly using the local DNS server. Then I tried ping, and could not ping it. What I noticed is that in my DNS setup I had my local dns server first and then external DNS server. nslookup chose the local server, while ping for some reason chose the external dns server which resolved a public ip address, and my firewall would not let me connect to that ip address. Removed the external dns entries and all worked.
What if your settings are automatically configured with DHCP? My problems were also caused because the wrong dns server is queried.
But i did not have that problem in Leopard... I am guessing something has changed in Snow Leopard with regards to the dns servers.
I solved it by setting everything manually, but that also means i have to manually set my ip address, and i am guessing our administrator doesnt like that.
Auto-mounting network shares kind of broke, well not really but here's the deal.
I want to auto-mount a couple of shares on startup and I do this by adding them to the Login Items. For aeons this was kind of awkward because on every boot, OS X insisted on greeting me by cascading a bunch of Finder windows across the desktop, one for each mounted share.
Well, in some late version of Leopard, 10.5.8 or possibly .7, they FINALLY made it so that if you check the "Hide" box in the Login Items, the shares mount quietly without opening a Finder window for each. This made my very happy, champagne-uncorking happy.
In Snow Leopard the goddamn Finder windows are back, even when "Hide" is checked.
Other than that and LCC being broken, the only issue I've come across is weird graphical glitches from time to time in Safari. It happens when I navigate through certain websites and/or reload the pages, when a page is first rendered the graphics stutter and jerk for a moment like someone was shaking Safari like mad.
I want to auto-mount a couple of shares on startup and I do this by adding them to the Login Items. For aeons this was kind of awkward because on every boot, OS X insisted on greeting me by cascading a bunch of Finder windows across the desktop, one for each mounted share.
Well, in some late version of Leopard, 10.5.8 or possibly .7, they FINALLY made it so that if you check the "Hide" box in the Login Items, the shares mount quietly without opening a Finder window for each. This made my very happy, champagne-uncorking happy.
In Snow Leopard the goddamn Finder windows are back, even when "Hide" is checked.
Other than that and LCC being broken, the only issue I've come across is weird graphical glitches from time to time in Safari. It happens when I navigate through certain websites and/or reload the pages, when a page is first rendered the graphics stutter and jerk for a moment like someone was shaking Safari like mad.
Clean install of SL - haven't delved too far in to pick many out but first up my ZTE MF627 (OEM MF626 for 3 UK) USB 3G HSDPA modem installer fails to detect the modem and install the drivers no matter which USB port it's plugged in, or even if you wait till ages after the CD image and storage element have been detected. It takes an age trying this and you see activity on the modem which suggests the driver's broken..
Did the upgrade, now when iTunes is playing with a screen saver running and I hit the next button on the keyboard or the apple remote it stops the screen saver. Anyone else?
iCal date in dock fixed
Not sure whether this was answered. I posted the problem earlier -- a search on the forum thread doesn't turn up anything new.
The problem: iCal in the dock doesn't display the right date/doesn't change dates from one day to the next.
BUT -- there is a fix that's worked for me.
The solution: Remove iCal from the dock, then drag the icon back into the dock. Presto, the correct date and, at least for me, it also changes correctly from one day to the next.
Not sure whether this was answered. I posted the problem earlier -- a search on the forum thread doesn't turn up anything new.
The problem: iCal in the dock doesn't display the right date/doesn't change dates from one day to the next.
BUT -- there is a fix that's worked for me.
The solution: Remove iCal from the dock, then drag the icon back into the dock. Presto, the correct date and, at least for me, it also changes correctly from one day to the next.