Snow Leopard issues

[Sun Baked]

In System Preferences and in Sharing & Permissions (under Get Info), when clicking on the little lock icon to make changes, it either does nothing or opens and then closes. It never gets to the point of requesting authentication.

While the OS is blazing fast (most apps bounce once in the dock before being fully functional), I've noticed quirks that makes you wonder how they made it into the final build.

I'm looking forward to 1.6.0.1 which can't be more than a week away at the rate that bugs are being found.

This is a FONT issue, same one I was having above.

Use font book and get rid of all the duplicate fonts, because the lock not opening is a font crashing the authentication window (securityagent) which asks for your password.

Likely you got a bunch of windows on first run telling you about some .dfont duplicates with the same name as a system font.

I'd try:

Use fontbook.app and trash all the system font duplicates with (.dfont) -- log out and when you come back the authentication window should work.

Not how I fixed it, since after 10 boots trying to fix it I finally got the windows again and let the OS trash the .dfont files.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

I had this issue too! I had to right click "keep arranged by" and pick an option to get them all lined up properly

Again, not a bug or glitch. If you check, the icons in Leopard are 48x48. In Snow Leopard, icons are by default 64x64. This makes for easier reading of small texts/icons. It also looks cleaner on the desktop IMHO. Bigger/smaller icons and grid spacing changes where the icons are placed. A simple fix:

1. Right click > Show View Options
2. Select Arrange by: Name or Snap to Grid.
3. Close window.

 

[motomattroy]

Whenever I click on one of the "top sites" icons/preview-windows in Safari the graphics transition when it brings up the page doesn't work anymore... in 10.5 the preview image would simply grow bigger till it filled the window, then the web page would load on top of it... now I get these random vertical lines that pop up. They disappear when the web page loads, but still... seems kinda glitchy...

I have lost all my menu bar icons, and I cannot get them back even after enabling them through system preferences.

Having both of these problems

And I don't like the new quicktime, it's not pro. Lost a lot of the export features. At least I can't find them.

EDIT: Found QuickTime Pro. Works great using both. Still have no menu bar icons and graphics seem glitchy.

 

[SchneiderMan]

My finder is crashing all the time when i go to applications, whats going on?

 

[ipedro]

This is a FONT issue, same one I was having above.

Use font book and get rid of all the duplicate fonts, because the lock not opening is a font crashing the authentication window (securityagent) which asks for your password.

Likely you got a bunch of windows on first run telling you about some .dfont duplicates with the same name as a system font.

I'd try:

Use fontbook.app and trash all the system font duplicates with (.dfont) -- log out and when you come back the authentication window should work.

Not how I fixed it, since after 10 boots trying to fix it I finally got the windows again and let the OS trash the .dfont files.

I did indeed have lots of .dfont files and used Font Book to delete the Duplicates. I double checked via the finder and found more which I trashed.

Restarted... and the issue persists. I can't Autheticate a lock

 

[ipedro]

^ I did a spotlight search and found several other .dfont files scattered around. I cannot delete them however as I get an error box that an "unexpected error occurred". Anyway to force delete these files? Cocktail - excellent for force deleting files -- no longer works in Snow Leopard.

 

[palexandridis]

I haven't had a chance to make my mbp do any heavy lifting, but I'll watch out for any temp. increase when I do. What I've just come across is that Safari and the Finder won't hide at the same time. I have no idea why, but I'm wondering if it's just me. Otherwise, I'm just glad that everything important seems to be working. All the nitpicky things I've done to the UI since Tiger are still mostly intact. I can't stress how evil arrow links to the iTunes Store are...

 

[Sun Baked]

^ I did a spotlight search and found several other .dfont files scattered around. I cannot delete them however as I get an error box that an "unexpected error occurred". Anyway to force delete these files? Cocktail - excellent for force deleting files -- no longer works in Snow Leopard.

Font book seemed to work, just selected all fonts and ran validate fonts.

Seems that most all the yellow warnings were duplicated fonts for me, first time just deleted all the duplicates and didn't know which ones to keep with different names.

Took me several validation passes to find em all.

Turned out that the all the duplicate files I had left with .dfont showed up as problem files with the OS first reboot after a Safe Boot. Those the OS deleted and the authentication finally started working.

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For some reason the simple resolve duplicates didn't work worth a darn, since it turns off the true type fonts and keeps the .dfont on in some cases.

 

[ipedro]

The fonts that cannot be deleted are the system fonts:

Courier.dfont
Geneva.dfont
Helvetica.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Times.dfont

Where can I download and install the non .dfont version of these? I think if I do, I'll be able to delete the .dfont files and perhaps resolve my problem.

 

[Sun Baked]

The fonts that cannot be deleted are the system fonts:

Courier.dfont
Geneva.dfont
Helvetica.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Times.dfont

Where can I download and install the non .dfont version of these? I think if I do, I'll be able to delete the .dfont files and perhaps resolve my problem.

You can try using Safe Boot, to see if everything works, make most of the changes you need now.

And reboot, if you are lucky the OS might give you the warning to remove the bad fonts the first time you reboot.

Still got about 3 copies of each of the fonts you listed, but the OS got rid of the copies it didn't like on reboot.

 

[dL.]

I want my Widemail plugin and Onyx back

dL

 

[shuurajou]

Whenever I click on one of the "top sites" icons/preview-windows in Safari the graphics transition when it brings up the page doesn't work anymore... in 10.5 the preview image would simply grow bigger till it filled the window, then the web page would load on top of it... now I get these random vertical lines that pop up. They disappear when the web page loads, but still... seems kinda glitchy...

The other major bug I've noticed is that AVI movies I've taken with my little camera refuse to open from iPhoto. Double clicking does nothing. They open from finder just fine, but not from iPhoto.

Anyone else experiencing the same???

**I did not do a clean install, just followed the "upgrade" instructions.

I have the issue with the top sites distortion too.

 

[Morod]

Temps are better for me now

Has anyone else noticed that SL runs a lot hotter?

Having put my late 2007 Al 24" iMac (2.4 GHz) to sleep for several hours and waking it up a half hour ago, my temps/fan speeds are normal, the same as they were in Leopard. Will keep an eye on this as I hate heat in electronics.

 

[Simplicated]

Here's my list of issues.

1. System-wide: Traditional Chinese font looks really bad.
2. Spaces: Spaces no longer has slow-mo.
3. Spaces: When you go to Spaces, the grids are shifted up. (See attachment)
4. Dock: You can no longer change a stack's option by clicking and holding.
5. Finder: Texts in Action button are smaller than the texts in the File menu.
6. Spaces: Very sluggish animation while switching between spaces using Control- shortcuts.

 

[yoppie]

I want my Widemail plugin and Onyx back

dL

I'm missing Widemail dearly. I don't know why Apple haven't made this an option themselves.

 

[Carlos E]

Anyone having color sync issues? Where the color changes by itself when left idle for a long time?

 

[devburke]

Our good old friend the iTunes widget got even MORE broken!

The widget has these 7 parts the user is supposed to be able to interact with: back, play/pause, next, shuffle, repeat, scrub, choose playlist.

In Leopard, all but playlist and shuffle worked. 5/7. Not bad, but not terrible.

Well ladies and gentlemen, we’ve lost another.

Now, the repeat button doesn’t even show up! Much less function!

 

[duncyboy]

Here's my list of issues.

1. System-wide: Traditional Chinese font looks really bad.
2. Spaces: Spaces no longer has slow-mo.
3. Spaces: When you go to Spaces, the grids are shifted up. (See attachment)
4. Dock: You can no longer change a stack's option by clicking and holding.
5. Finder: Texts in Action button are smaller than the texts in the File menu.
6. Spaces: Very sluggish animation while switching between spaces using Control- shortcuts.

In Spaces does 'C' work to bring all windows to Space 1 on yours?

 

[Simplicated]

In Spaces does 'C' work to bring all windows to Space 1 on yours?

It does not. I wonder if it worked in Leopard?

Our good old friend the iTunes widget got even MORE broken!

The widget has these 7 parts the user is supposed to be able to interact with: back, play/pause, next, shuffle, repeat, scrub, choose playlist.

In Leopard, all but playlist and shuffle worked. 5/7. Not bad, but not terrible.

Well ladies and gentlemen, we’ve lost another.

Now, the repeat button doesn’t even show up! Much less function!

Well, I have it. Your iTunes widget seems to be broken...

 

[Halcyon]

This might come in handy for those who want to know what apps work and which don't.

http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

 

[jayducharme]

Anyone else having problems with Flip4Mac?

This is getting weirder and weirder. Flip4Mac seems to be working fine for me, as is Perian and Onyx. Someone else said NeoOffice is working fine for them, but it's not for me. Apple is supposed to have similar architecture in their computers; I don't understand how one person can have a successful SL install and another not. This is not like Apple, especially when SL is just an incremental upgrade to Leopard.

 

[Simplicated]

Another issue found.

Moving & Replacing files between Stacks do not work if a file with the same name exist in another stack.

 

[Halcyon]

Even though Apple has similar architecture in their computers, the variables amongst users is simply immense. I know of some trying to install in machines that are not Leo compatible or Hackintoshes and have the guts to complain that they are having issues. System configurations, add-ons, third party apps -specially those that tinker with the system- and even previous bugs that we where not aware of, all might be the culprit for some bug after installing Leo.

For example: Neoffice will work fine (it does on my three Mac's now) if you update to version 3.0 patch 7 installed (see my recent previous post). Before I upgraded, it run ok on one Mac, will sporadically crash on the other and would barely run on the third one. The issue was not Leo, was the software I was trying to run.

My personal thought is that operating systems are not built around apps, on the contrary, apps must conform to operating systems otherwise there would be no innovative development.

Closing argument By keeping my system and apps properly updated, ever since OS8, 9 and 10 I've had very few minor glitches...which where all properly taken care of with some maintenance, restart, permission update, extension conflict repair, etc.

I'm one happy Apple customer...as I believe the vast majority are.

 

[Andy-V]

When you rename something of the desktop it seems to show the old name for a split second a quickly fade to the new one which looks a bit funky.

 

[jayducharme]

Even though Apple has similar architecture in their computers, the variables amongst users is simply immense.

I understand this, but it seems like now we're drifting into MS territory. That was why I switched to Apple; I couldn't get software to work reliably in Windows. On my Macs over the last six years, everything worked flawlessly.

One thing that has surprised me though is how, on my MacPro, the apps that are crashing the most in SL are Apple's own -- not third party.

For example: Neoffice will work fine (it does on my three Mac's now) if you update to version 3.0 patch 7 installed

I've had that patch since it was released.

My personal thought is that operating systems are not built around apps, on the contrary, apps must conform to operating systems otherwise there would be no innovative development.

True. But with an "incremental upgrade" I didn't expect to have so many problems. If Apple had released, say, Lynx with a whole new interface, then I would have thought twice about upgrading right away. SL shouldn't have so many problems, especially considering the long testing process it's been going through.

which where all properly taken care of with some maintenance, restart, permission update, extension conflict repair, etc.I'm one happy Apple customer...as I believe the vast majority are.

I've generally been a very happy Apple customer. And I religiously perform regular maintenance on my Macs. Up until the switch to Intel, I had near zero problems with the dozen or so Apple products I've owned. But over the past year it seems like an unusual number of inexplicable problems have begun to appear. (Even the Geniuses couldn't figure out some of them.) I want a computer that "just works." If I have to start learning all the little quirks of the various machines and which software will cause which problem, then I might as well go back to PCs. I went through those same headaches for years before switching to Macs. And the headaches then were a lot cheaper.