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Snow Leopard is EXTREMELY buggy.

Snow Leopard is still crashing a burning, even though I did a clean install on another disk, with repaired permissions, etc. Good Lord you'd think it would work on a three year old Mac Pro.

PS CS4: crashes when saving
MS Office 2004: won't launch at all (Rosetta installed)
Quicktime X Player: crashes
Desktop pictures: crashes

I changed my main drive back to OS X 10.5.8 last night. Thank God for time machine.

So yes, Snow Leopard is as bad as people have been saying. :mad:
 
melissarae said:
noo... firefox has been crashing on both machines (bb and iMac) since we installed... but just yesterday safari started crashing (i was on macthemes2.net) constantly on my iMac. AND iWork has been crashing since the install on saturday. :(
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Sounds like the same bugs are still there from Leopard. Firefox hangs all the time on me and I have yet to upgrade to SL. I have even already disabled Growl because I thought it was contributing to the hanging. :(

I don't have any iWork crashes so that suggests you have a major issue somewhere. You will have to reinstall. Two OS installs to solve problems is not all that unusual. :eek:
 
Fuchal said:
Finder has an issue with moving files where it doesn't seem to move all the way or it leaves parts of packages behind. Not quite sure what's going on but it's certainly annoying.
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i coppy about 18 gb worth of video files i think like 20 videos and like a dummy i didnt check to make sure all of them were copied (to time capsule) and del. the originals and lost one:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
I think I found the problem.

I've disabled Paragon NTFS, and the freezing has stopped completely.

Just something to think about.
 
lamina said:
I think I found the problem.

I've disabled Paragon NTFS, and the freezing has stopped completely.

Just something to think about.
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That's the thing. How many of the people complaining about crashing, freezing, etc, have Macs with tons of legacy applications and they have not tried a clean install to see if they are still having issues?

There's a bit much whining going on by a relatively small number of individuals.
 
I agree that it's a little complicated to sort this out: the depth of the hardware checks and the precise details of how the software was installed are often unclear. For example, does a "clean install" mean that the OS was installed but all the buggy apps and their preferences were migrated in?

As I type on my 3 year old MBP (HDD once replaced already), I am aware via Volitan's software that the hard drive already has reallocated one sector despite the fact that disk utility and Seatools tell me everything's fine. Here, I'm letting the 10.5.8 go until the next major crash, then installing a new HD and 10.6 at the same time.

By contrast, my 2008 MacPro is getting a boot disc zeroing, clean install from the 10.6 DVD, and app by app reinstallation. We'll see.
 
It's buggy for me too

I just installed SL on a year-old iMac. I have no "legacy" or unusual applications. Firefox crashes every time I click the Help menu, but I did not have to reboot. Firefox never, ever crashed before under Snow Leopard.

Now I'm worried about what else will go wrong... :confused:
 
The thing is, Snow Leopard is both a '0 new features' release, as well as basically a complete code rewrite.

I wonder how long it will be till either Apple or the third parties address the 'small' issues, like the ones I'm having.
 
Buggy...

I get the same problems on Snow Leopard too. I'm getting a few crashes and a good amount of freezes. I'm hoping its just because its 10.6.0, and they'll start releasing updates and patches.
 
iPostpone said:
I just installed SL on a year-old iMac. I have no "legacy" or unusual applications. Firefox crashes every time I click the Help menu, but I did not have to reboot. Firefox never, ever crashed before under Snow Leopard.

Now I'm worried about what else will go wrong... :confused:
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firefox never crashed for us either before SL... we're using safari now on all 3 macs in our house :( which sucks cause i use firefox with foxmarks on my PC at work and i hate not being able to sync my bookmarks.


also, iWork 08 keeps crashing... apple fixed one issue with it last night when i called them, but then after i hung up it would still crash. i think we've narrowed it down to it crashing when certain shortcut command keys are used to perform a task. :( like the save as short cut mostly... going to install iWork 09 tonight to see if that fixes the problem.
 
I cannot complete a Time Machine Backup, my SL keeps freezing and saying I need to restart my computer. I have had about 8 freezes so far, all have been using time machine and Safari.:(

This is the first time my 13inch uMBP has frozen ever!
 
Still running smoothly after removing that NTFS program. I think it's pretty safe to say that was the problem.
 
dlewis23 said:
It doesn't quite work like that, One thing is not specifically installed on one portion on the drive, its sprayed all over the drive. So it can't really be a HDD problem. it sounds to me like its just a bad install.
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Normally when people think it's a hardware fault, it's a software fault :)
 
I'd second (third? fourth?) the issues about incompatible apps that more than one person in this thread has raised.

After an annoying hang in my first attempt at installing on a newly erased HDD, I used the original reinstall disks from my 2008 MacPro to erase the boot drive and reinstate a clean 10.5.1. Then added 10.6 on top of that with no other offending apps on board.

It works pretty much perfectly as I slowly reinstall the other apps originally present. Even Mozy managed to figure out that I had manually dragged 42gb of iTunes files from a SuperDuper backup and actually opted out of reuploading the whole library. It's been a great excuse to clean out the remains of other apps that proved useless and that AppZapper failed to catch, as well.

Sure, there have been some glitches. Growl failed to install properly (see now-current disclaimer on their web site to wait for a new version), an older game (OSX Skyfighters, from the late Don Hill) hasn't made the transition, and over two days there has been one Firefox hang that required a force quit. But that honestly was probably as much operator stupidity as anything else: I'm still as impatient as I used to be with slow web sites.

I haven’t pushed that hard yet with other apps like an earlier Photoshop Elements: installing older Adobe software is just asking for hangs and crashes.

You could argue that both the Apple developers and the outside people had enough time to sort this out before the release, but perhaps responsibility could be apportioned to both sides. It’s clearly going to take time to sort out what really works and what doesn’t.

Overall, though, a speed increase in the system is easily noticeable to me and my best guess is that this is not just reformatting and reinstalling the OS
 
azboricua said:
I cannot complete a Time Machine Backup, my SL keeps freezing and saying I need to restart my computer. I have had about 8 freezes so far, all have been using time machine and Safari.:(

This is the first time my 13inch uMBP has frozen ever!
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Have you solved this? I get freezes when copying (specifically rsync) lots of files.
 
Buggy doesn't begin to describe it

So - less than 24 hours after a clean install of SL on my Pro I find that:

1. I can't access the internet
2. I can't open any iWork or Microsoft Office apps
3. mobile me keeps crashing

These problems (and more) are causing me to spend hours in forums like this attempting to fix what should never have been broken in the first place.
10.6.1 can't come fast enough.:mad:
 
I've found Snow Leopard plain sailing!

It's quicker than Leopard, it feels more like Tiger was (but better obviously).

I always felt Leopard was a step forward in features, but a step back in performance and reliability compared to Tiger.

Thank God we have Snow Leopard now instead of plain Leopard!!!

:cool::apple:
 
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