Well, unless anyone else has ideas, maybe I'll have to try a fresh install or something. I've tried everything I can think of. I've had a ton of problems with SL. Luckily, I've managed to work through all the other ones and get everything working again except for this one thing. Sadly, after four years of bliss since switching from Windows, I now find my heretofore unwavering faith in Apple a little shaken. Don't get me wrong, I'd never go back to windows or anything silly like that, but I guess I can no longer brag that I've never had any problems with my mac and turn up my nose to all my windows friends like I used to. Perhaps it's just my comeuppance for all my mac snobbery.
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Well, unless anyone else has ideas, maybe I'll have to try a fresh install or something. I've tried everything I can think of. I've had a ton of problems with SL. Luckily, I've managed to work through all the other ones and get everything working again except for this one thing. Sadly, after four years of bliss since switching from Windows, I now find my heretofore unwavering faith in Apple a little shaken. Don't get me wrong, I'd never go back to windows or anything silly like that, but I guess I can no longer brag that I've never had any problems with my mac and turn up my nose to all my windows friends like I used to. Perhaps it's just my comeuppance for all my mac snobbery.
Same here. Try adding and signing into a different user account, and try the clipboard function there, using Text Edit. If it does work, then this would likely point to a corrupt preference file, or to a conflicting 3rd party extension, which could easily be deleted.
I'm beginning to believe that a clean install with a new clean account might be the only way to get Snow Leopard to completely work for me.
I booted from the SL DVD and did the default upgrade and have had zero problems.
The only issue I came across was not a Snow Leopard issue at all. I wanted to boot into safe mode and you can't do that with a software RAID boot volume. I didn't know that when I did it. Since I had a RAID 1 setup, it was easy to go back to a non-RAID setup.
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The only issue I came across was not a Snow Leopard issue at all. I wanted to boot into safe mode and you can't do that with a software RAID boot volume. I didn't know that when I did it. Since I had a RAID 1 setup, it was easy to go back to a non-RAID setup.
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Well I cannot believe I read this entire thread. While doing so I lost 13% of my battery this is my only complaint with my SL upgrade on my 13' macbook 2ghz 4gb ram 320gb HD ..
What is is up with the battery consumption.. it's driving me nuts,
I am a full time student and need my 4 hour battery back!!! I had a few other very minor issues I fixed the 1st night! As soon as I get a handle on this battery thing I will be a happy camper again
I did 3 computers just like mine (upgrade)... the other 2...my moms new mbp 2gb ram and my husbands macbook 2gb ram also.. both of the others have a standard 160 HD
What is is up with the battery consumption.. it's driving me nuts,
I am a full time student and need my 4 hour battery back!!! I had a few other very minor issues I fixed the 1st night! As soon as I get a handle on this battery thing I will be a happy camper againI did 3 computers just like mine (upgrade)... the other 2...my moms new mbp 2gb ram and my husbands macbook 2gb ram also.. both of the others have a standard 160 HD
i'm running the iPhoto screensaver. leopard never did this; i'm only running iTunes and Firefox.
Had to try the installation 2 times since the first time I had to restart.....Other than that Safari 4 is a bit buggy when I have a lot of tabs open.
Overall I would say that for a first version of a new OS (10.6.0) it is very stable and I'm very surprised about that, very satisfied....but waiting for 10.6.1 .....
Overall I would say that for a first version of a new OS (10.6.0) it is very stable and I'm very surprised about that, very satisfied....but waiting for 10.6.1 .....
Installed on first gen Macbook. Besides the occasional finder crash, the only consistant bug I can replicate is a little advanced.
I use Portable Home Directories serviced by my Xserve running 10.5 server. Running a PHD via an external drive hooked up to the 10.6 Macbook runs correctly except for one bug. If you try to access the mobile account settings under System Preferences>Accounts>'PHD user', System Preferences will crash every single time. Sometimes it will take a few seconds, sometimes it's instant.
I use Portable Home Directories serviced by my Xserve running 10.5 server. Running a PHD via an external drive hooked up to the 10.6 Macbook runs correctly except for one bug. If you try to access the mobile account settings under System Preferences>Accounts>'PHD user', System Preferences will crash every single time. Sometimes it will take a few seconds, sometimes it's instant.
Just noticed that the problem reports you can send to Apple when an app crashes are reporting drive sizes in base2, not base10. For example:
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-41YGA0, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST31500341AS, 1.36 TB
Serial ATA Device: SAMSUNG HD753LJ, 698.64 GB
They should be 500GB, 500GB, 1.5TB and 750GB.
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-41YGA0, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST31500341AS, 1.36 TB
Serial ATA Device: SAMSUNG HD753LJ, 698.64 GB
They should be 500GB, 500GB, 1.5TB and 750GB.
Time Machine
Did an erase-the-disk, install-SL-from-CD, restore-from-Time-Machine type upgrade because the just-upgrade wouldn't recognize the RAID disk.
Everything seems to be working except the initial backup of Time Machine has been running for 3 solid days. First, it made an "in-progress" file that Finder is reporting as 538G (there's only 352G total on the disk with only 279 that will be backed up). That took two days. Now it is at 14G transferred, as reported in the TM Pref Panel.
By the way, this is on a MacPro Quad with 8G RAM, 1.5T Raid boot, and a 1.5T Time Machine disk internal. And, the upgrade worked flawlessly on my MiniDuo (I don't use Time Machine with it). I will wait on my other two minis and my MacBook pending the outcome of the TM backup.
Did an erase-the-disk, install-SL-from-CD, restore-from-Time-Machine type upgrade because the just-upgrade wouldn't recognize the RAID disk.
Everything seems to be working except the initial backup of Time Machine has been running for 3 solid days. First, it made an "in-progress" file that Finder is reporting as 538G (there's only 352G total on the disk with only 279 that will be backed up). That took two days. Now it is at 14G transferred, as reported in the TM Pref Panel.
By the way, this is on a MacPro Quad with 8G RAM, 1.5T Raid boot, and a 1.5T Time Machine disk internal. And, the upgrade worked flawlessly on my MiniDuo (I don't use Time Machine with it). I will wait on my other two minis and my MacBook pending the outcome of the TM backup.
Anyone who considers themselves a techie should be doing things right in the first place by doing a clean install. Upgrading is never a good idea.
I can't install my HP Laserjet 1015 printer that is connected to my Airport Extreme base station. It won't even detect it when trying to add a printer.
Backwards step Apple.
Backwards step Apple.
-- Mail -- Right-clicking in the left column of the Mail window gets no response unless you are hovering right over a mailbox or folder name in the column. Right-clicking in open space in the column has no reaction.
-- Mail -- The search window sometimes doesn't allow you to drag and drop an email contact right from the header of an email, forcing you to have to right-click and copy an address then paste it in the window. Also, when leaving the search set to "Entire Message" it appears to ignore the "To" and "From" columns completely now, often generating zero results unless you select either "To" or "From" separately - no way to see a combined search of all messages.
-- Address Book -- Adding or editing a picture in a contact is only possible if you double-click a contact to cause their card to pop out into its own window, then clicking in the pic box for editing works normally. Trying to edit a pic while the contact remains in the list view with the others has no reaction.
-- Mail -- The search window sometimes doesn't allow you to drag and drop an email contact right from the header of an email, forcing you to have to right-click and copy an address then paste it in the window. Also, when leaving the search set to "Entire Message" it appears to ignore the "To" and "From" columns completely now, often generating zero results unless you select either "To" or "From" separately - no way to see a combined search of all messages.
-- Address Book -- Adding or editing a picture in a contact is only possible if you double-click a contact to cause their card to pop out into its own window, then clicking in the pic box for editing works normally. Trying to edit a pic while the contact remains in the list view with the others has no reaction.
So far things run fine, but I notice that my fonts panel (command+T) no longer has the text shadow effects options. That's annoying because I have a Geektool script running that had a shadow set in Leopard. The shadow works, I just can't adjust it.
Also, some of my quicklook plugins seem to be broken.
Also zooming (universal access) has varying speeds depending on the level of zoom. The closer zoom is to 100% of the screen, the slower it moves.
I had to erase and install because a straight upgrade caused my color profile to go wonky and I couldn't change it. After clean install the settings are fine.
EDIT: Turns out my font panel was not set wide enough to show the shadow settings. 1 down, 2 to go.
Also, some of my quicklook plugins seem to be broken.
Also zooming (universal access) has varying speeds depending on the level of zoom. The closer zoom is to 100% of the screen, the slower it moves.
I had to erase and install because a straight upgrade caused my color profile to go wonky and I couldn't change it. After clean install the settings are fine.
EDIT: Turns out my font panel was not set wide enough to show the shadow settings. 1 down, 2 to go.
I didn't do a clean install so i had all my files just as before I have encountered so far are:
1. In Spaces i can no longer select a space using my middle mouse button while in spaces i have to right click it instead which is annoying because i am used to just clicking with he middle and it take me to that one, instead it takes me to my previous space
2. Quicktime controls sometimes do not show up when the mouse is moved in full screen or non full screen mode. You can press space to bring them up but then they stick until you click your mouse on the video and move off but then it does not return when you move back over with the mouse. Update: When i move my mouse over they are usable but not visible so if i can click in the correct place i can play/pause/skip/rewind but they aren't visible to see where to click
3. iStat menu cannot access the data to work properly E.G CPU usage Ram Usage etc
4. A few minor freezes lasting a minute maximum which sorted them selves out
1. In Spaces i can no longer select a space using my middle mouse button while in spaces i have to right click it instead which is annoying because i am used to just clicking with he middle and it take me to that one, instead it takes me to my previous space
2. Quicktime controls sometimes do not show up when the mouse is moved in full screen or non full screen mode. You can press space to bring them up but then they stick until you click your mouse on the video and move off but then it does not return when you move back over with the mouse. Update: When i move my mouse over they are usable but not visible so if i can click in the correct place i can play/pause/skip/rewind but they aren't visible to see where to click
3. iStat menu cannot access the data to work properly E.G CPU usage Ram Usage etc
4. A few minor freezes lasting a minute maximum which sorted them selves out
screen shots to clipboard won't paste into Apple apps!
Command-Shift-4-Control no longer works in Snow Leopard when pasting into Apple applications Mail, Stickies, Text Edit, or Preview! This is really a serious problem. Now you must save as .png on your desktop and drag it into your application. No more Command-V to paste!!! Hugely bothersome!
Command-Shift-4-Control no longer works in Snow Leopard when pasting into Apple applications Mail, Stickies, Text Edit, or Preview! This is really a serious problem. Now you must save as .png on your desktop and drag it into your application. No more Command-V to paste!!! Hugely bothersome!
i am trying to clean out my trash. when i hit "empty trash", pop up telling me it's permanent...blah blah.
i click OK, then apparently i have "locked items" in my trash....so i'm asked to choose from "cancel", "removed locked items" or "remove all". i've choosen both removed locked and all.....it runs for a sec, then disappears w/o ever emptying the trash? i'ver never had this issue prior to upgrading to SL.
how do i clear my trash bin? i have over 8k items in there.
thanks!
i click OK, then apparently i have "locked items" in my trash....so i'm asked to choose from "cancel", "removed locked items" or "remove all". i've choosen both removed locked and all.....it runs for a sec, then disappears w/o ever emptying the trash? i'ver never had this issue prior to upgrading to SL.
how do i clear my trash bin? i have over 8k items in there.
thanks!
Can't quite tell whether you're serious...Is that really such a big problem for you? I'm honestly curious. I'll readily admit that my workflow is often suboptimal...
Oh - and it works fine here, too. Never knew about that - thanks!
Dictionary opens a new window with each look-up of a word (right click Look Up in Dictionary) instead of using the same window. Also you can't use the back and forward arrow keys. It also remembers all these windows if you close the program and opens all of then the next time.
MS Office Bug (or 10.6 bug)
The problem in saving files is well-described at the following URL
http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Office/4117/2
The problem in saving files is well-described at the following URL
http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Office/4117/2