Post your snow leopard flaws (The Snow Leopard bug report)

[craig1410]

I'm having the same problem.
I can't figure out why. At first I thought it was a bad graphics card, so Apple swapped it out with a brand new GEForce 8800 GT for Mac. It's a great card, but the problems still there. The lines only show up during the Top Sites animation. Also, when I open spaces and drag a window from one space to another, it lags big time. If anyone has a solution for either problem please let me know!

Hi,
Did you ever solve this issue? As I've mentioned in another thread a friend is having this issue on his iMac (8800GS GPU, SL 10.6.1) and I have heard of other people having this issue on a variety of machines and GPU's. Do you use any third party screensavers by any chance?

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Ja Di ksw]

Spotlight finds almost nothing now

So spotlight now sucks in Snow Leopard for me. I will search for something simple, like .JPG in a folder (with nested folders) that have hundreds of JPG's, and it will pull out 20. It almost never finds all my files anymore. This is really, really annoying as I use to use Spotlight all the time.

 

[Eidorian]

So spotlight now sucks in Snow Leopard for me. I will search for something simple, like .JPG in a folder (with nested folders) that have hundreds of JPG's, and it will pull out 20. It almost never finds all my files anymore. This is really, really annoying as I use to use Spotlight all the time.

This is an issue I was having under Snow Leopard as well.

Everything worked under Tiger and Leopard. I was only able to get it to work under Snow Leopard using the upgrade process. I tried so many methods of clean installation and migration with no luck.

 

[Aumakua]

Clamshell Mode in Snow Leopard

Is there any fix to the problem of not being able to go into clamshell mode with Snow Leopard? Clamshell worked beautifully in Leopard. Is there any fix available?

Thanks guys!

 

[Ja Di ksw]

This is an issue I was having under Snow Leopard as well.

Everything worked under Tiger and Leopard. I was only able to get it to work under Snow Leopard using the upgrade process. I tried so many methods of clean installation and migration with no luck.

Hmm, what's the upgrade process? I don't know about that. Do you mean actually upgrading to a new computer? That would be a bit extreme.

 

[MickyMac60]

Printer Issues Snow Leopard

I cant get my Kyocera FSC5015N to print using Snow Leopard. After installing the driver, it says that it was not installed correctly. Any ideas?

 

[Eidorian]

Hmm, what's the upgrade process? I don't know about that. Do you mean actually upgrading to a new computer? That would be a bit extreme.

I have Leopard on my Macbook. It works just fine. The only way to get Spotlight in Snow Leopard to work with my files was to upgrade. I was having problems with a clean installation of Snow Leopard no matter how I tried to migrate my files.

 

[buchmaze]

Snow Leopard: The Kitty is Sick

I installed over leopard and got most of the same bugs everyone is reporting. Safari is a mess with rubbish screens upon opening and closing. Also, one I haven't heard of yet is the dashboard client looping and taking up all the CPU power. It started happening after installing Adobe CS4 Master, and a window with Adobe Flash Security hangs at the top of the screen until I wipe out the client.

Spaces is doubling the actual number of Spaces chosen, but otherwise seems to work alright.

 

[three]

Everything went great when I got Snow Leopard a while back, installations on both my MacBook Air and my Mac mini went great and quickly. I was a bit disappointed that it was the same introduction video. Oddly enough after updating to 10.6.1, my trusty Mac mini had the wireless issues and the MacBook Air (which had the 10.5.8 wireless death) didn't.

 

[davepar]

Spotlight indexing issues

I have some spotlight issues related to the fact that I keep a fair bit of numeric data in ascii files. The behavior of mdimport has changed in snow leopard (10.6.x) so now all these numeric data files are being parsed and indexed using RichText.mdimporter. A better description of the problem is given here:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=106703
and a summary here:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6126_102-0.html?threadID=366184

 

[Eidorian]

I have some spotlight issues related to the fact that I keep a fair bit of numeric data in ascii files. The behavior of mdimport has changed in snow leopard (10.6.x) so now all these numeric data files are being parsed and indexed using RichText.mdimporter. A better description of the problem is given here:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=106703
and a summary here:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6126_102-0.html?threadID=366184

I don't think my Spotlight Comments would be covered under this.

 

[davepar]

I don't think my Spotlight Comments would be covered under this.

I cannot actually find your spotlight comments in this thread. While you may not be indexing as many numbers, ALL ascii files are being indexed now which is a big change from previous versions.

 

[Eidorian]

I cannot actually find your spotlight comments in this thread. While you may not be indexing as many numbers, ALL ascii files are being indexed now which is a big change from previous versions.

Snow Leopard won't pick up the thousands of Spotlight comments I have on thousands of my files.

They work just fine under Tiger and Leopard though.

 

[davepar]

Snow Leopard won't pick up the thousands of Spotlight comments I have on thousands of my files.

They work just fine under Tiger and Leopard though.

What does mdls or mdimport say?

i.e. in the terminal use 'mdimport -p -n -d 2 <filename>' where <filename> is the name of one of your commented files.

This works ok for me... using get info from the finder and setting the spotlight comments of a file to 'thisfilerocks' I see the following attribute with the above
":EA:kMDItemFinderComment" = thisfilerocks;. Searching for 'thisfilerocks' in spotlight returns the file on my machine.

 

[Eidorian]

What does mdimport say?

i.e. in the terminal use 'mdimport -p -n -d 2 <filename>' where <filename> is the name of one of your commented files.

Are your comments in kMDItemFinderComment or kMDItemComment?

kMDItemFinderComment

You confused me when you went on to explain what filename was. I was wondering what "where" had to do with anything in this situation.

 

[davepar]

kMDItemFinderComment

You can reindex the file by removing the '-n' from the mdimport statement.

So you get no results from:
mdfind "kMDItemFinderComment == 'thisfilerocks'"

 

[Eidorian]

You can reindex the file by removing the '-n' from the mdimport statement.

So you get no results from:
mdfind "kMDItemFinderComment == 'thisfilerocks'"

Well I'm under 10.5.8 right now. Any reason to keep going right now?

This works ok for me... using get info from the finder and setting the spotlight comments of a file to 'thisfilerocks' I see the following attribute with the above
":EA:kMDItemFinderComment" = thisfilerocks;. Searching for 'thisfilerocks' in spotlight returns the file on my machine.

I set the comments for the most part using Get Info in Finder.

My comments are under ":EA:kMDItemFinderComment" = thisfilerocks; as well.

 

[jasmine84]

My screen had a really bad flicker with snow leopard, to the point that the Mac guy put me back to Leopard. So far no flicker!

 

[nickage81]

program crashes

since upgrading sl mail, itunes, any MS office app, viacad and handbrake all crash constantly. incredibly disappointed.
i've tried to downgrade back to leopard by reformatting and backing up from time machine but it wouldn't let me, said i had to upgrade back to sl before it would load my preferences.
for now stuck with sl hoping they fix this bug AND FAST!!!
releasing a product with such a disgraceful bug reeks of microsoft incompetence.

 

[Benjamin Rossen]

upgrade problems and slow startup

My issues were: I was not able to upgrade from Leopard on my MacPro. This turned out to be the result of my RAID 0 installation. The problem was finally solved with some technical assistance and a workaround from the local Apple agents (icteam in St. Oedenrode, Brabant, NL: very helpful people).

Now, SL is working, but is very slow to start up and shut down programs. The system seems to hang - the spinning ball is not visible - sometimes for as long as a minute or so. This is enough to be a constant irritation. Does anyone know if this is related to the RAID installation or just another SL bug?

 

[RubbishBBspeed]

Haven't had too many problems, although loading of webpages now takes a good few seconds (I'm partly thinking that that's because broadband provider are crap at the best of time).

Safari crashes all the time, again though I'm wondering if this is more to do with the websites than the program. I hear there are groups working on programs to bypass advert blocking software and this can cause trouble for browser programs.

I have noticed though that everything has slowed down, and switching between application windows now is almost always accompanied by a momentary hang and delay plus that bloody beach ball is forever on the screen, before snow leopard upgrade I hardly ever saw it, now I feel like it's part of me.

I'm also assuming that Apple have there spies keeping an eye on this site so may I express my opinion. If Snow Leopard was my first impression of a Mac then I could see someone justifying giving windows a second chance. Please apple sort out Snow, I hate windows way too much to.

 

[palsword]

SystemUIServer kills CPU when changing from daylight saving

hello,
SystemUIServer process was consuming 80-90% of my CPU last night at around 1:00 am until 2:00 am when it went down to 0%
I looked around and it seems to be a widespread problem.
check it out here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2218024&tstart=0

 

[Tim018]

exposé is getting on my nerves

the new expose is really getting on my nerves. stupidest thing ever, leopard/tiger had a great expose and it was very easy to find and pick what window you wanted to switch to, snow leopard now re sizes them all to the same size so you cannot use relative size as a visual que to pick which one you wanted like before, you now have to stare at little tiny icons that look all the same to figure out what application you want, i end up picking the wrong one so many times. and like the photo below, i have two windows open and one minimized, so what does it do? it creates two little tiny icons one above the other instead of putting them side by side much larger, stupid. this is my #1 to be fixed since its such a simple function that has worked brilliantly for the last like 5 years and is now has gone backwards in functionality and usability, not foreword.

another complaint is i get a very short battery with sl, my umbp 15" gets 2 hrs maybe 3, and with 10.5 it got around 5, and with the short battery life its hotter which means the fans are on more and its very noisy.

i thought apple was above this, sad.

 

[iEdd]

I've noticed 3 things so far:

1. When you ctrl+click a document then go to open with -> other, then scroll down the list of applications, if you enable "all applications", the window scrolls you right back to the top of the list. I don't remember if this happened in Leopard, but it's pretty annoying.

2. The new Quicktime X doesn't change the "last opened" date of files in finder, but VLC and Quicktime 7 do.

3. Also in the open-with dialogue, sometimes the application icons aren't loaded, but if you click away and then do it again, suddenly they are back.

Is there anyway to get Apple to listen to a lot of the criticisms in this thread and fix it for the next release, or are most things like this completely ignored? It would seem with all the emails they get, that not much would get through...

 

[macaaronb]

So spotlight now sucks in Snow Leopard for me. I will search for something simple, like .JPG in a folder (with nested folders) that have hundreds of JPG's, and it will pull out 20. It almost never finds all my files anymore. This is really, really annoying as I use to use Spotlight all the time.

Exact same issue here.