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[wrldwzrd89]

I was impressed by the notion of clicking on a zipped widget on a website and having it automatically download, unzip and place itself in your Widgets folder.

This doesnt work though. In fact no compressed files seem to extract automatically like in Panther, which is a shame. I can still do it manually, but part of the reason I got a Mac was because I'm lazy!

It only works in Safari 2.0. Is that the web browser you're using?

 

[DakotaGuy]

Quicktime 7 problem

Tiger was just fine for me until last night. No matter how many times I restart the computer nothing helps Quicktime. When it comes to playing MPEG's using the QT Player, it will start playing with no volume and then it will just stall after about 8-9 seconds of playtime and then it just makes my fans rev up on the computer. I can move the playhead around and it will start playing again but with no volume, then after a few seconds just stall again. It worked great for the first few days and just started having problems. Now I have to use VLC to play Quicktime files. Everything in Quicktime still works fine with the Safari plug-in however. Streams are fine, but not playing MPEG files. Anyone seen this or have any idea what is going on??? Oh yeah one other thing....when quicktime 7 stalls the playhead still moves but the picture freezes...and my CPU usage goes to 80-90% and is stuck there....AAAARRRGGHH! I hate you right now Apple! Crappy old Windows Media Player for Mac works better then your player now!

 

[Applespider]

This doesnt work though. In fact no compressed files seem to extract automatically like in Panther, which is a shame. I can still do it manually, but part of the reason I got a Mac was because I'm lazy!

Have you got the 'Open safe files automatically' (or suchlike - on a PC at the moment) checked in Safari's preferences?

And as wrldwzrd89 says, the widgets only move over in Safari. Not in Firefox

 

[mkrishnan]

It only works in Safari 2.0. Is that the web browser you're using?

Also, I believe you must have the "open safe files" preference option checked....

EDIT: Eeep, jinx!

 

[Ja Di ksw]

I'm not sure if this has been said, but every time I try to print using Word and bonjour, as soon as I move the cursor to bonjour during printer selection, Word closes. This seems like it would be a large problem for businesses / schools, so Apple should try to fix this SOON.

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm not sure if this has been said, but every time I try to print using Word and bonjour, as soon as I move the cursor to bonjour during printer selection, Word closes. This seems like it would be a large problem for businesses / schools, so Apple should try to fix this SOON.

What version of Word? And how did you install Tiger? I have Word 2004 (11.1 - 040910) and I did not have any issues printing via Bonjour to my Epson C84 on my AEBS.

In fact, I had not even set it up (but I saw this, and I wanted to test it both to help and because I was afraid that I would find out about this at 3 in the morning the night before a paper or abstract submit was due! ). However, I went to Word, opened a doc, selected Print, and my printer set up automatically via Bonjour, and no issues. No locks, crashes, freezes.

FWIW, I did essentially a clean install -- I did not import any Library files for either my printer or Office, and I re-installed Office 2004 from the install disk using the drag and drop method.

So I think that this is something you can fix, rather than something that is wrong with either Tiger or Office.

 

[jeffchapmanjc]

Noticing one thing about all these posts...

I'm beginning to see a trend here with these Tiger trouble posts. A lot of you with issues have reported installing (either via "upgrade" or "archive and install") Tiger on top of Panther 10.3.8.

I'm wondering about a few things:

1> Why didn't you upgrade to 10.3.9 before installing Tiger?
2> Did you perform a disk repair before the installation?
3> Did you perform a disk permission repair before and after the installation?
4> Would reinstalling the offending application possibly correct the issue with that application?

Thanks for checking... I too have Tiger sitting at home and am contemplating installing AFTER 10.4.1 or possibly later depending on what I read in this forum. After all, this forum is what convinced me that dumping my home-built XP box for an iMac G5 was a good idea!

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm beginning to see a trend here with these Tiger trouble posts. A lot of you with issues have reported installing (either via "upgrade" or "archive and install") Tiger on top of Panther 10.3.8.

I'm wondering about a few things:

1> Why didn't you upgrade to 10.3.9 before installing Tiger?
2> Did you perform a disk repair before the installation?
3> Did you perform a disk permission repair before and after the installation?
4> Would reinstalling the offending application possibly correct the issue with that application?

Thanks for checking... I too have Tiger sitting at home and am contemplating installing AFTER 10.4.1 or possibly later depending on what I read in this forum. After all, this forum is what convinced me that dumping my home-built XP box for an iMac G5 was a good idea!

I did a clean install and migrated documents only (nothing from the Library folder) - I still have issues, and most of them are OS-level (bugs in the Finder as opposed to an application I've installed, for example).

 

[mkrishnan]

1> Why didn't you upgrade to 10.3.9 before installing Tiger?
2> Did you perform a disk repair before the installation?
3> Did you perform a disk permission repair before and after the installation?
4> Would reinstalling the offending application possibly correct the issue with that application?

I'm not sure which questions you're asking rhetorically, but given that my answers to 1-3 are: I did (upgrade), I did not (disk repair), I did (permissions before/after), and that I did not have trouble, I want to point out that #4 is not necessarily a panacea...in some cases, I am pretty convinced that the instability is caused by items in the library folders (a perfect example is Mail 2 and bundles from plug-ins such as httpmail, which is a pretty consistently documented issue). Re-installing the application will not always solve this issue, because, depending on how the installer was run, it may not delete / replace all of the offending files. The only panacea for that is an install method that does not involve moving over library files...which itself has serious drawbacks and is a PITA.

EDIT: Since Wrldwzrd, whom I respect enourmously, posted at the same time as me saying pretty much the opposite, I wanted to say that "bugs" which are not of the form "X beachballs on my constantly," or "Y will not run once I installed Tiger" are a completely different issue....There are certainly problems in Tiger, but outside of a handful of apps that it broke, bugs in the OS are not the explanation for people who can't run Quicktime, or for whom Safari crashes constantly....

 

[kugino]

don't know if this is a bug or not, but i like to verify/repair permissions via Terminal. i've been getting this line immediately, and then the regular repair process seems to go as normal:

"parent directory ./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist"

any idea what this means? i archive/installed over 10.3.9 on my iBook. did a clean install on my PM G5 and haven't done any permission stuff yet so i don't know if this is peculiar to this machine or if it's a wider phenomenon.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

don't know if this is a bug or not, but i like to verify/repair permissions via Terminal. i've been getting this line immediately, and then the regular repair process seems to go as normal:

"parent directory ./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist"

any idea what this means? i archive/installed over 10.3.9 on my iBook. did a clean install on my PM G5 and haven't done any permission stuff yet so i don't know if this is peculiar to this machine or if it's a wider phenomenon.

I get the exact same message when I repair permissions. I haven't the foggiest idea what's causing it. The method I use doesn't seem to make any difference (Terminal command, Disk Utility, SuperDuper!, etc.) - I get this message every single time.

 

[mkrishnan]

I get the exact same message when I repair permissions. I haven't the foggiest idea what's causing it. The method I use doesn't seem to make any difference (Terminal command, Disk Utility, SuperDuper!, etc.) - I get this message every single time.

Interesting...do you *have* a /users/shared/sc info/ folder now? I do now, but I don't think I did the first (and only) time I repaired permissions (when I also got this message) -- and it looks approximately as if that was when the SC Info directory was created. I haven't tried repairing permissions again since then, though. It stores one "SC Info.sidb" file, and that's it. Whatever that file is, it *has* been accessed since that time....

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Interesting...do you *have* a /users/shared/sc info/ folder now? I do now, but I don't think I did the first (and only) time I repaired permissions (when I also got this message) -- and it looks approximately as if that was when the SC Info directory was created. I haven't tried repairing permissions again since then, though. It stores one "SC Info.sidb" file, and that's it. Whatever that file is, it *has* been accessed since that time....

I don't - I'll have to create one myself. It strikes me as odd that, if some part of Mac OS X uses that SC Info directory, the program that uses it doesn't create it if it isn't there.

 

[mkrishnan]

I don't - I'll have to create one myself. It strikes me as odd that, if some part of Mac OS X uses that SC Info directory, the program that uses it doesn't create it if it isn't there.

Hmmm...I got curious and did some Googling. I only found a couple of references to this file, but both of them implied that it is somehow involved in iTunes' authorizing a computer to play protected AACs.

 

[Diomedes]

Much to my happiness, the Motoral V600 was finally added to bluetooth sync'able with iSync, but iSync crashes now!! Any ideas???? It shows the iSync for about 1 second, and then it's gone.

Similar situation here..iSync stays open for a few seconds, but if I do anything (like, oh, say, click "Sync") it crashes. I opened up an incident with Apple Care which supposedly has been escalated.

 

[Diomedes]

iChat conversation windows aren't "sticky"

I was pretty excited about using the new iChat. However, every time I start a new conversation, the conversation box is never the way I left it, even witht he same person. I usually stretch the IM conversation window, but every single time I begin a new chat, the window is back to its small size. I don't recall this happening in iChat 2.1...

 

[MarkCollette]

I'm having weird network issues with my airport.

The only thing I can find in the log is this:



but I loose my IP Address and nothing works for a while, turning on/off the Airport on the machine doesn't seem to fix it, or if it does it is only temporary. Trying to find if there are any logs of value on my Airport that might tell me what is going on.

On another thread it was mentionned that Tiger defaults your computer name to FirstnameLastName-Computer or something to that effect. If that string is larger than 20 characters (yours is 21) then a bug in D-Link, and potentially other, wifi routers causes them to crash. Try shortening your computers name, and then reset your wifi router.

 

[beatle888]

I just have a folder on my desktop, but spotlight found stuff in that...

well this is what happens when i search for something on the desktop...please note the file sitting right there on the desktop and the file name entered in spotlight. if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

 

[Stella]

Spotlight no longer works in System Preferences - to highlight the various components.

I've tried re-indexing the drive, but still no joy :-(

 

[beatle888]

Spotlight indexed the contents on my Desktop just fine.

well that was helpful.

 

[zap2]

i said ical did not work but tha twas my fault so as of right not tiger is flawless for me

 

[beatle888]

Spotlight no longer works in System Preferences - to highlight the various components.

I've tried re-indexing the drive, but still no joy :-(

well then, maybe i'll just kick it and wait for the upgrade/fix. it's obvious that theres something wrong.

 

[e²Studios]

FW Drives Unmount after fast user switch

Seems a lot of people are having this issue, looks like another FW HD bug, atleast this one only unmounts the drive and i didnt lose all my data..

Essentially when i login to my profile im fine, but once i switch users and that user logs out the drive will fail to exsist in my profile anymore

Here is how to reproduce the problem

Login with User A, FW HD there
Go to Login screen or Switch
Login with User B
User B Logs out
Log back in to User A, FW HD Gone (have to use disk utility to re-mount the drive)

Arrrgggh.. annoyed

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@706.ouDqawnKRa9.4@.68ad8326/58

Ed

 

[mkrishnan]

well this is what happens when i search for something on the desktop...please note the file sitting right there on the desktop and the file name entered in spotlight. if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

Did you try the roxy without the rest of it? Did that work? I tried to mock up your scenario -- I found a journal article on PubMed and saved it on the desktop as "behavioral_impulsivity_anorexia_nervosa.pdf" -- it was found immediately with "behavioral," but not with "behavioral_impulsivity." "Behavioral Impulsivity" (no underscore) also worked. Helps?

 

[Lacero]

well this is what happens when i search for something on the desktop...please note the file sitting right there on the desktop and the file name entered in spotlight. if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

Why search for it when you can see it right below on the desktop? Maybe Spotlight is mocking you.