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Post your snow leopard flaws (The Snow Leopard bug report)
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The fix for this is to go into System Preferences and into the Trackpad preference pane. Then, set the double-clicking speed to 100%. It should fix that issue.
Snow Leopard / computer won't go to sleep
I had MANY problems when I installed Snow Leopard but what I'm left with now (that I know of) is my computer won't go to sleep by itself. I can put it to sleep manually. It still shuts down occasionally and seems to always shut down if I leave it without putting it to sleep. Anybody know what I should do?
Also, my Photoshop/Illustrator files are all messed up, things on top of one another, etc.)
I had MANY problems when I installed Snow Leopard but what I'm left with now (that I know of) is my computer won't go to sleep by itself. I can put it to sleep manually. It still shuts down occasionally and seems to always shut down if I leave it without putting it to sleep. Anybody know what I should do?
Also, my Photoshop/Illustrator files are all messed up, things on top of one another, etc.)
Sometime later with 10.5, all is well . . . for now
Several days ago I finally had it with Snow Leopard and re-installed the former OS (now running 10.5.8). What finally prompted this was establishing DSL connection with Qwest and finding Safari downloading a page in 2.1 seconds, the same page in Opera taking 1:33 minutes. Firefox worked as well as Safari. Qwest was of no help in resolving this anomaly, saying it wasn't them, and maybe it wasn't.
Since I still had no screen saver with Snow Leopard, and putting it to sleep was problematic (and a few other things) I opted for a clean install from system disks, returning selected files via Time Capsule and Time Machine. The problems I experienced in doing so may be specific to this MacBook (or me), but I ended up re-installing 10.5, downloading its updates, and returning selected files via Time Capsule 3 (three) separate times. On the last I wasn't sure it would even be possible, as this computer wouldn't accept the Apple system disk to boot from, but kicked it out of the drive, only after at last accepting it as it should. In short, one huge pain, even if only doing this once.
If the Gods are willing, this MacBook will continue to run fine now. Ever since Opera has worked without incident, the screen saver works as well, with nothing particularly untoward at the moment. For anyone contemplating returning to the former OS my advice is to prepare to lose various settings and other fine tuning, even if all backed up, or you are better at IT than I am. Expect the process to take some time as well. For anyone thinking Snow Leopard will smooth out some minor issues, better hope it doesn't do the opposite; it might be wise to wait until Apple irons out some of these problems in further updates. Otherwise, well, have you read this forum . . .?
Several days ago I finally had it with Snow Leopard and re-installed the former OS (now running 10.5.8). What finally prompted this was establishing DSL connection with Qwest and finding Safari downloading a page in 2.1 seconds, the same page in Opera taking 1:33 minutes. Firefox worked as well as Safari. Qwest was of no help in resolving this anomaly, saying it wasn't them, and maybe it wasn't.Since I still had no screen saver with Snow Leopard, and putting it to sleep was problematic (and a few other things) I opted for a clean install from system disks, returning selected files via Time Capsule and Time Machine. The problems I experienced in doing so may be specific to this MacBook (or me), but I ended up re-installing 10.5, downloading its updates, and returning selected files via Time Capsule 3 (three) separate times. On the last I wasn't sure it would even be possible, as this computer wouldn't accept the Apple system disk to boot from, but kicked it out of the drive, only after at last accepting it as it should. In short, one huge pain, even if only doing this once.
If the Gods are willing, this MacBook will continue to run fine now. Ever since Opera has worked without incident, the screen saver works as well, with nothing particularly untoward at the moment. For anyone contemplating returning to the former OS my advice is to prepare to lose various settings and other fine tuning, even if all backed up, or you are better at IT than I am. Expect the process to take some time as well. For anyone thinking Snow Leopard will smooth out some minor issues, better hope it doesn't do the opposite; it might be wise to wait until Apple irons out some of these problems in further updates. Otherwise, well, have you read this forum . . .?
My Snow Leopard experience started great, but since then, I have realized these problems:
1 - Safari crashes and hangs, and I can't listen to my sirius internet radio, instead have to use firefox.
2 - Safari and the Joomla interface again have problems inserting links, etc.
3 - The BIGGEST problem (and now I am back on Leopard)
a - Screen began flickering for 30 seconds, then would stop, and lock up computer
b - after 5 restarts, I get grey screen of death and am forced to reformat hard drive.
1 - Safari crashes and hangs, and I can't listen to my sirius internet radio, instead have to use firefox.
2 - Safari and the Joomla interface again have problems inserting links, etc.
3 - The BIGGEST problem (and now I am back on Leopard)
a - Screen began flickering for 30 seconds, then would stop, and lock up computer
b - after 5 restarts, I get grey screen of death and am forced to reformat hard drive.
And probably the reason why your Leopard is running well is because you reformatted. You should've done that with Snow Leopard instead first.
This is the Shameful Result from my SL Upgrade
MS Office Applications freeze up with the spinning beachball when I try to open a file as well as when I try to just open the application itself.
TC WIFI connection dropped all the times and or snearling to a crawl
Safari and Firefox get the spinning wheel for up to 30 seconds and hold everything up (I was already getting this at times, but nothing like now!)
Battery drained at the speed of light...Even before I installed SL the battery was starting to drain rather quickly but since the upgrade I pretty much have to live plugged in.
Let's hope Apple gets it together ASAP
PS and I almost forgot the following:
OSX crashes and will not allow to force quit the application at the top of the queue, nor to restart the system. The only option is to do a hard reset via the power botton.
MB no longer recognises the Shift sequence to engage Safe Mode at startup.
I hope this is all....
Its bed enough as is...
MS Office Applications freeze up with the spinning beachball when I try to open a file as well as when I try to just open the application itself.
TC WIFI connection dropped all the times and or snearling to a crawl
Safari and Firefox get the spinning wheel for up to 30 seconds and hold everything up (I was already getting this at times, but nothing like now!)
Battery drained at the speed of light...Even before I installed SL the battery was starting to drain rather quickly but since the upgrade I pretty much have to live plugged in.
Let's hope Apple gets it together ASAP
PS and I almost forgot the following:
OSX crashes and will not allow to force quit the application at the top of the queue, nor to restart the system. The only option is to do a hard reset via the power botton.
MB no longer recognises the Shift sequence to engage Safe Mode at startup.
I hope this is all....
Its bed enough as is...
Ever since the upgrade to SL mail quits at any time it feels like it.
Has this been reported prior or do I have another problem?http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/confused.gif
Has this been reported prior or do I have another problem?http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/confused.gif
Are you running 10.6.1? The newer GMA X3100 driver appears to be really flaky under it compared to vanilla 10.6.
yes it is 10.6.1
and when it is happens i m restarting system to solve the problem.
and i still have a problem with Option 3G modem icon 225, when im using it with released drivers for snow leopard!! system prefernces freezes and stops to respond. after this , it is impposible to restart or shut down system. even i installed new system with just new drivers for testing , and it is same!!! and now im using huawei drivers released for SL with my huawei E169 modem without mobile connetcion.app.(this application creates hundrets entry to crash log)
you are writing that osx craches (freezes), are u using 3G modem? when im using Option modem it is creates same problem with all applications
Try This It Sounds Crazy But It Worked!
Hey there!
As crazy as it sounds-DO TRY the suggestion given earleir and diactivate the duplicate fonts. IT worked for me and I have to say that my desktop fonts went back to my usual settings as well. I had noticed the had changed after I upgraded but never thought much about it. Especially given the fact that I could not use my MB anyways...This is what I did: I disabled the duplicate fonts, Deleted the whole Fonts folder Microsoft had snuck in when installing Office, and got rid of the fonts that would not allow me to disable them.
Crossed myu fingers and guess what?!!
I tried to open and office file (a ppt presentation that would not open earlier) and it opened just fine. I suppose the rest of the applications will also work. For the time being, this is all I need and I am not going to mess with my good luck-nor spoil the feeling...
GOOD LUCK!
Elisa
Hey there!
As crazy as it sounds-DO TRY the suggestion given earleir and diactivate the duplicate fonts. IT worked for me and I have to say that my desktop fonts went back to my usual settings as well. I had noticed the had changed after I upgraded but never thought much about it. Especially given the fact that I could not use my MB anyways...This is what I did: I disabled the duplicate fonts, Deleted the whole Fonts folder Microsoft had snuck in when installing Office, and got rid of the fonts that would not allow me to disable them.
Crossed myu fingers and guess what?!!
I tried to open and office file (a ppt presentation that would not open earlier) and it opened just fine. I suppose the rest of the applications will also work. For the time being, this is all I need and I am not going to mess with my good luck-nor spoil the feeling...
GOOD LUCK!
Elisa
I upgraded my Rev. A MacBook Air to Snow Leopard yesterday morning and it has been more or less (everyday usage) problem free.
A couple things though:
I have the Safari top site animation issue (vertical lines) that many others have been talking about, but far more frustrating, embedded videos (from YouTube and others) no longer work in Safari, or even display for that matter. YouTube itself seems to work....sometimes. I upgraded to the latest version of Flash and still appear to be having the same issues. Also, AVI files don't work in Quicktime X. They work fine in VLC, but cause a total freeze in Quicktime.
I haven't tested battery life yet (not really at least) though on average my MacBook Air seems to be running warmer than usual. Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom 2 seem to be working ok.
Any suggestions for the video embedded issue in Safari and/or the AVI in Quicktime X issue?
edit: Could it be a Java issue?
Thanks.
A couple things though:
I have the Safari top site animation issue (vertical lines) that many others have been talking about, but far more frustrating, embedded videos (from YouTube and others) no longer work in Safari, or even display for that matter. YouTube itself seems to work....sometimes. I upgraded to the latest version of Flash and still appear to be having the same issues. Also, AVI files don't work in Quicktime X. They work fine in VLC, but cause a total freeze in Quicktime.
I haven't tested battery life yet (not really at least) though on average my MacBook Air seems to be running warmer than usual. Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom 2 seem to be working ok.
Any suggestions for the video embedded issue in Safari and/or the AVI in Quicktime X issue?
edit: Could it be a Java issue?
Thanks.
Clean install
Having an issue with screen flicker in certain sections of iTunes and other related problems with it, I visited the local Apple store on two consecutive days. Most annoyingly and perversely, this problem which worked like clockwork at home never appeared there. The first time, they re-installed iTunes. The next day the fellow had me endlessly repairing permissions, about 7 times before I gave it up, via Disk Utility, and there was a very long list of them. He finally departed on personal business and eventually I mentioned to the fellow taking over for him that the permission repair seemed to be repeating itself, exact same files listed, and in effect doing nothing. He noted this and said repairing permissions was often a waste of time anyway, accomplishing nothing. Maybe he should have told the other 'Genius' as much.
Anyway, they both knew I had reverted to 10.5 from Snow Leopard in frustration. He suggested I do clean install of Snow Leopard and see if that fixed the problem. Since I asked him how, he told me specifically how to go about it, with one aspect of the procedure something I never would have known otherwise.
When doing a clean install of 10.5, I did that from the option of the Apple system disks. But this was different. I started from the Snow Leopard system disk, holding down the 'C' key, but after the dialogue box asking language preference then opened Disk Utility and partitioned the disk, choosing 1 (one) partition. I had never done this before, or would have known to do it or how. It took but a few seconds and apparently in that time entirely erased the disk. I then continued in installing Snow Leopard, which took about 30 minutes to complete.
My feeling is this OS still isn't as stable as it should be, but issues with iTunes I had were resolved. Moreover the lack of a screen saver, and sleep issues I had when upgrading to Snow Leopard now resolved in doing a clean install of it. One anomaly just prior to all this was a purchased movie from iTunes never downloading, but that may or not be related. One issued not resolved was the Opera browser working very slowly after Snow Leopard; this only resolved in changing from the latest version of Opera to their beta version, 10.10, which inexplicably now works as it should.
One thing they told me at the Apple store is that it is problematic reverting to a former OS; that may be one reason so many permissions were out of whack. Since my files had been backed up to Time Capsule during the use of Snow Leopard, apparently infused with that OS, problematic to anything prior. I can vouch for reverting to 10.5 being one big pain, and quite possibly always an imperfect solution. If having upgraded to Snow Leopard, your best bet my lie in learning how best to live with it. That might include a clean install of it.
Having an issue with screen flicker in certain sections of iTunes and other related problems with it, I visited the local Apple store on two consecutive days. Most annoyingly and perversely, this problem which worked like clockwork at home never appeared there. The first time, they re-installed iTunes. The next day the fellow had me endlessly repairing permissions, about 7 times before I gave it up, via Disk Utility, and there was a very long list of them. He finally departed on personal business and eventually I mentioned to the fellow taking over for him that the permission repair seemed to be repeating itself, exact same files listed, and in effect doing nothing. He noted this and said repairing permissions was often a waste of time anyway, accomplishing nothing. Maybe he should have told the other 'Genius' as much.Anyway, they both knew I had reverted to 10.5 from Snow Leopard in frustration. He suggested I do clean install of Snow Leopard and see if that fixed the problem. Since I asked him how, he told me specifically how to go about it, with one aspect of the procedure something I never would have known otherwise.
When doing a clean install of 10.5, I did that from the option of the Apple system disks. But this was different. I started from the Snow Leopard system disk, holding down the 'C' key, but after the dialogue box asking language preference then opened Disk Utility and partitioned the disk, choosing 1 (one) partition. I had never done this before, or would have known to do it or how. It took but a few seconds and apparently in that time entirely erased the disk. I then continued in installing Snow Leopard, which took about 30 minutes to complete.
My feeling is this OS still isn't as stable as it should be, but issues with iTunes I had were resolved. Moreover the lack of a screen saver, and sleep issues I had when upgrading to Snow Leopard now resolved in doing a clean install of it. One anomaly just prior to all this was a purchased movie from iTunes never downloading, but that may or not be related. One issued not resolved was the Opera browser working very slowly after Snow Leopard; this only resolved in changing from the latest version of Opera to their beta version, 10.10, which inexplicably now works as it should.
One thing they told me at the Apple store is that it is problematic reverting to a former OS; that may be one reason so many permissions were out of whack. Since my files had been backed up to Time Capsule during the use of Snow Leopard, apparently infused with that OS, problematic to anything prior. I can vouch for reverting to 10.5 being one big pain, and quite possibly always an imperfect solution. If having upgraded to Snow Leopard, your best bet my lie in learning how best to live with it. That might include a clean install of it.
Anyone having massive memory leaks at all? And when I say massive I mean to the tune of 1GB or more. My 2GB on my Macbook goes from 1.4GB in the green to 40MB!!! So far I suspect Skype, but can't actually confirm 100%. Safari may be playing a role as well as it seems to even happen when I am not using Skype.
EDIT: Hmmmm it now seems to be happenign with video in general. I found a culprit, something called custsrvdiag or something similar to that name. I'll work on this further later.
I caught you, you rat devil!
EDIT: Hmmmm it now seems to be happenign with video in general. I found a culprit, something called custsrvdiag or something similar to that name. I'll work on this further later.
I caught you, you rat devil!
Attachments
I'm sure these have been mentioned elsewhere:
Firewire with LaCie external DVD burner = no go, and I don't want to mess with the work around.
LaCie SAFE external HD software hasn't been updated and it doesn't work with SL.
And the biggest problem for me: no detection of external display.
Firewire with LaCie external DVD burner = no go, and I don't want to mess with the work around.
LaCie SAFE external HD software hasn't been updated and it doesn't work with SL.
And the biggest problem for me: no detection of external display.
I'm not sure I ever had any OS get worse with each upgrade and update. 10.6 compared to 10.5.8 takes up 1-1.5GB more RAM and certain apps tend to crash quite frequently. And then 10.6.1 instead of fixing anything also screwed up the graphics drivers and now I'm experiencing slow downs with most animations (spaces, quicksilver fade-in/fade-out, expose etc.). At this point the Windows 7 ads from Apple seem like a slap in the face.
A lot of people who did upgrades are having these problems, doing a complete clean install should solve them, I upgraded and did a clean install on a new drive and both went great.
10.6.1 didn't really say it fixed much, few printer drivers and so on iirc, 10.6.2 will be the one to look forward to.
I wonder how people upgrading from Vista will go
10.6.1 didn't really say it fixed much, few printer drivers and so on iirc, 10.6.2 will be the one to look forward to.
I wonder how people upgrading from Vista will go
Is it an Apple display? that shouldn't happen
A lot of people who did upgrades are having these problems, doing a complete clean install should solve them, I upgraded and did a clean install on a new drive and both went great.
10.6.1 didn't really say it fixed much, few printer drivers and so on iirc, 10.6.2 will be the one to look forward to.
I wonder how people upgrading from Vista will go
Is it an Apple display? that shouldn't happen
Sorry, when you say "clean" you mean reinstall all apps from scratch, no restores of any kind? How do you get all your address book data back into the system and such?
Yes that's what I mean by clean install, I think you can export them all and re-import them, but I have MobileMe, I just input my MM e-mail/password and all my Safari bookmarks, contacts, iCal stuff got updated to what it should be.