Tiger bugs discovered? List them here!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Is it just me, or has iCal 2.0 suddenly started refusing .vcs files...??? I usually add TV programs I want to see directly from vg.no's TV guide, and today iCal plainly refuses to acknowledge the vcs-files, like this one: http://interaktiv.vg.no/tvguiden/vcal.php?id=30068&f=/vcal.vcs (it doesn't matter if I try importing directly from Safari or Firefox nor if I download it first and try adding it afterwards...)

Interesting...glad you figured it out! I never had it enabled to begin with unfortunately...

I'm sorry I couldn't help you, I'm sure it has to be something similar...

 

[sockeatingdryer]

Can ANYONE confirm the software update not working on their machine?
I've read in the Apple discussions a few people with this problem.I have it too

Yeah... my Software Update doesn't work either.
And Acquisition.

Everything doesn't seem as snappy as with Panther, either.

 

[CubaTBird]

Yeah... my Software Update doesn't work either.
And Acquisition.

Everything doesn't seem as snappy as with Panther, either.

is this what you guys get? seems to say no software updates for me...

 

[macmekker]

anyone notice that the top of iCal in week or day view is chopped off so you cant see the all day items?

is this a tiger bug or just me doing something wrong?

ive sized the window correctly as far as i can tell etc.

anyone confirm?

No. I CAN see the all day items. All seems OK.

In my Mail 2 on the other hand: The top line is gone, so a mail from "Thomas" almost looks like it comes from "Inomas"

 

[wrldwzrd89]

is this what you guys get? seems to say no software updates for me...

My Software Update works - at least it did when it told me there were iLife and iWork updates when I installed Tiger. I don't think there are any Tiger updates available yet.

 

[mkrishnan]

My Software Update works - at least it did when it told me there were iLife and iWork updates when I installed Tiger. I don't think there are any Tiger updates available yet.

Yeah, I got iPhoto 5.0.2 through software update on Tiger.

EDIT: Has anyone for whom Software Update will not run tried executing it from the command line? The code would be, for example:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

 

[mkrishnan]

I took the leap during the night. Erase and intall. I'm mostly happy, but there are some bugs (so far) I woundered if anybody else have experienced:
(Haven't found any in this forum...)

1. Mail Help says Mail 2.0 should be able to nest smart mailboxes. Either in regular- or in other smart -. My Mail 2.0 can NOT. So all my smart mailboxes just stays on top of the "Mailboxes" hierarchy and will therefore use up all space quickly. (I can use "in Mailbox" as a criteria in a smart mailbox, but thats not what I'm looking for...)

2. Customizing date formats (now has a bad UI - in the first place...) zapps back to default if I make too many changes. It can accept me changing the short dat, but if I keep on changing medium, long... the short changes back by itself.

3. There is no customizing opportunity for number formats anymore !!!!!

4. I don't trust the color picker in the systems "Colors" anymore... It seems to pick a slightly darker color.

5. For those who use Filemaker 6.0 v4: Ctrl + arrows for next/previous record do not work anymore (on a norwegian keyboard anyway...)

I have a Pb G4 1GHz 17"

Anybody...?

Macmekker, I copied your post over as a quote because I wanted to respond to one of your questions here.

Regarding number (1), from my understanding, you are supposed to be able to nest smart mailboxes inside smart mailbox *folders*, and you are supposed to be able to nest smart mailbox folders inside regular mailboxes. The latter did NOT work for me either, but I am able to do the former. So have you tried creating at least a single top-level smart mailbox folder, and putting all your smart mailboxes inside? That seems like it would be slightly better than what you've got now.

 

[macmekker]

HI Mohan.

You understood me correct. This is fra the Help function in Mail2:

As with regular mailboxes, you can "nest" Smart Mailbox folders by creating new Smart Mailbox folders within existing mailboxes or other Smart Mailbox folders.

And I've tried both, with no success.

PS. Thanks for "moving" my message to this thread

 

[mkrishnan]

And I've tried both, with no success.

And you're definitely doing it with Smart Mailbox Folders, and not Smart Mailboxes? AFAICS, SMF's are basically useless for any purpose other than holding SM's. It doesn't make any sense to me why there are SMF's and regular mailbox / offline folders. But I am able to nest Smart Mailboxes in SMF's, albeit not in anything else, nor the SMF's within anything other than other SMF's.

 

[simie]

I was experiencing weird mouse problems on my Powermac G5. I have Panther and Tiger installed on seperate hard drives. The mouse initiated a double click when I was doing a single click and when trying to drag and drop a file from the desktop to a folder would loose the file half way through dragging.

The solution was very simple go to disk utility and under First Aid, first I tried to just repair permissions and that did not work. So then I used Repair Disk on the drive where Panther is located, and the same for the other partition on the drive.

It did report that errors on the drive were corrected.

Problem fixed.

 

[Peace]

Possible Flash Bug

I'm doing a bug report and I would appreciate it if anyone could go to

http://www.montereypeninsulaartists.com/site/index-flash.html

And let me know if it closes Safari.Duplicated 3 times..

Thanks!!

<edit> It stopped now...nevermind..I'll just sliver back into the background

 

[macmekker]

And you're definitely doing it with Smart Mailbox Folders, and not Smart Mailboxes?

Of cause. You are right. I used SM. Thanks.
I use a right click mouse, and the SMF is not in that menu - nor in the advanced button for the mailbox area.

This is of cause better than than nothing, but I still think this is not all they say it can do. Drag an drop of there folders/boxes also acts a little funny...

(Don't drop a SMF into itself - which is one of the few things you CAN do - then my Mail.app froze anyhow...)

 

[mkrishnan]

(Don't drop a SMF into itself - which is one of the few things you CAN do - then my Mail.app froze anyhow...)

There used to be an easter egg in Windows 95 that involved doing this...

Seriously, between the beta testers and the app developers, as much of an amazing idea as smart mail folders / boxes are, there clearly wasn't a lot of thought put into the subtleties of execution. Hopefully this will get upgraded in a 10.4.x update soon.

 

[avah12]

Safari Not Loading/Completely Loading Pages

I have noticed since installing Tiger that Safari seems to have trouble loading many webpages, including macrumors sometimes, and if it does load them there are usually some images missing which in the past didn't appear as ? marks. Sometimes a page will say that it has an invalid URL, or have a message saying "Nothing to see here" written in plain text on an empty white page, or also it might come up with a page saying something about apache web server (although this doesn't occur as often as the nothing-ness. Now when this stuff happens I have to reload the page multiple times to get it back to normal. Aside from Macrumors I have also noticed this happening multiple times when I'm on Yahoo and click on News.
That's it for my Tiger issues.

So far the only other bug on here that I can backup (aside from the iCal date issue which doesn't bother me) is the Dock zoom getting stuck after right clicking.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I have noticed since installing Tiger that Safari seems to have trouble loading many webpages, including macrumors sometimes, and if it does load them there are usually some images missing which in the past didn't appear as ? marks. Sometimes a page will say that it has an invalid URL, or have a message saying "Nothing to see here" written in plain text on an empty white page, or also it might come up with a page saying something about apache web server (although this doesn't occur as often as the nothing-ness. Now when this stuff happens I have to reload the page multiple times to get it back to normal. Aside from Macrumors I have also noticed this happening multiple times when I'm on Yahoo and click on News.
That's it for my Tiger issues.

So far the only other bug on here that I can backup (aside from the iCal date issue which doesn't bother me) is the Dock zoom getting stuck after right clicking.

I often get errors on certain ads on MacRumors. This occurred even when I used Panther. Safari told me that the file in question was a 'zero byte resource'. This also happens with other sites that use the ad servers I get errors on.

 

[Vanilla]

Apologies in advance if this has been mentioned before.

How do you safely remove a widget?

I had a look at the list of additional widgets you could download and proceeded to download one called G-Ruler. After playing with it for a nanosecond I decided it wasn't for me so chose to remove it.

Thing is I wasn't sure HOW to do this.

Figuring that Apple is all about simplicity I located the Widget folder in my user library, found the G-Ruler widget file and moved it to Trash.

This caused all sorts of weirdness.

1. The G-Ruler icon remained in the Dashboard horizontal list, but when you clicked on the icon it brought up the Widget next to it.

2. Every other widget icon then brought up a different widget than the one the icon was referring to.

3. After a series of panic clicking on widgets the icon/text description also changed, e.g. the calendar icon would now have text saying world clock

To recover I placed the trashed file G-ruler file back into the widgets folder in the same sequence I found it and restarted the computer. That sorted everything out but I am still none the wiser as to what is the correct method of properly and securely removing a downloaded widget.

Can anyone help?
Vanilla

 

[mkrishnan]

To recover I placed the trashed file back into the widgets folder and restarted the computer. That sorted everything out but I am still none the wiser as to what is the correct method of properly and securely removing a downloaded widget.

This is surely not the intended way, but I believe that if you do what you did, and then execute killall dock from the terminal, to force the dock (and with it DB) to restart, then things will be back to normal. But you're right, this is serious strangeness.

I had a question I wanted to bring back up from a few pages ago. update_prebinding is definitely different than it was in Panther. It provides less output information, but it turns out that -debug gives a more detailed output. However, this detailed output is still a lot different. In Panther, I had about 1700 successful prebindings and 80 or 90 ones that could not be. In tiger, I have more than 450 unsuccessful prebinds. Almost all of these are blocked by the settings of of dyld, with a message like this:

dyld: environment variable disabled use of 
prebinding in /System/Library/Frameworks/
ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libRadiance.dylib

This is definitely something new. What changed with the way the dyld works that has changed this. Should I no longer ever do this command?

 

[Applespider]

Figuring that Apple is all about simplicity I located the Widget folder in my user library, found the G-Ruler widget file and moved it to Trash.

I think if you do this that the widget will still appear in your Dashboard 'Add Widget Bar' when you first go back to 'Add Widget'. Once you scroll to the end of the widgets (last page) and then back again, the 'lost' widget should be gone. I've had this problem occasionally when adding them, Dashboard seems to need to go to the end of the widgets before dropping the new ones in/out of the widget bar.

I posted about this Widget Manager earlier today which can enable/disable/delete Widgets for you.

 

[Vanilla]

I think if you do this that the widget will still appear in your Dashboard 'Add Widget Bar' when you first go back to 'Add Widget'. Once you scroll to the end of the widgets (last page) and then back again, the 'lost' widget should be gone. I've had this problem occasionally when adding them, Dashboard seems to need to go to the end of the widgets before dropping the new ones in/out of the widget bar.

I posted about this Widget Manager earlier today which can enable/disable/delete Widgets for you.

Cool. I just downloaded this and ran it. It does exactly what it says on the tin. Perfect. Thanks for the link.

Vanilla

 

[matticus008]

I often get errors on certain ads on MacRumors. This occurred even when I used Panther. Safari told me that the file in question was a 'zero byte resource'. This also happens with other sites that use the ad servers I get errors on.

The AdBlock extension for Firefox is your friend. I've blocked all the major ad-hosting domains (you can use the * wildcard and block things like ads.yoursite.com/* or *.macrumors.com instead of blocking the individual ad images). It works especially great for Flash ads. Is there something similar for Safari? If so, you can lose the ads and stop the errors at the same time.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

The AdBlock extension for Firefox is your friend. I've blocked all the major ad-hosting domains (you can use the * wildcard and block things like ads.yoursite.com/* or *.macrumors.com instead of blocking the individual ad images). It works especially great for Flash ads. Is there something similar for Safari? If so, you can lose the ads and stop the errors at the same time.

I use Safari exclusively. I don't worry about such things because I'm using a modified hosts file - this works no matter what browser I'm using. Even if I was using Firefox, my hosts file would block most of the junk anyway (by redirecting requests for it to 127.0.0.1, where it obviously won't be found since my personal web server isn't running).

 

[ravenvii]

Well, second-day Tiger user here. Adding another post to the bugs thread: now my GUI has lost all it's mouse-over dynamics. Meaning, my Dock no longer displays the name over the icon when I move my mouse over them, my bookmarks menu no longer highlights the bookmark upon moving the mouse over them, and mouseover links in webpages no longer respond. I'm almost 100% sure this will be fixed upon a relaunch, but it's still a hassle, and weird too.

EEK! Just saw a bug crawl over my screen! Oh wait, it's just a Tiger bug.

 

[ravenvii]

Ok, something's definitely wrong. About 10 minutes after a restart, it happened again. Note that this bug covers ALL GUI elements. Even items in menus don't highlight when I move my mouse over them. No mouseover works in Dashboard either. Nothing. I'm posting a new thread on this so it could get more attention.

 

[sphereboy]

I have noticed since installing Tiger that Safari seems to have trouble loading many webpages, including macrumors sometimes, and if it does load them there are usually some images missing which in the past didn't appear as ? marks. Sometimes a page will say that it has an invalid URL, or have a message saying "Nothing to see here" written in plain text on an empty white page, or also it might come up with a page saying something about apache web server (although this doesn't occur as often as the nothing-ness. Now when this stuff happens I have to reload the page multiple times to get it back to normal. Aside from Macrumors I have also noticed this happening multiple times when I'm on Yahoo and click on News.
That's it for my Tiger issues.

So far the only other bug on here that I can backup (aside from the iCal date issue which doesn't bother me) is the Dock zoom getting stuck after right clicking.

This happens to me all the time as well.
Sometimes images just don't even appear. Without anyindication that there actually is an image there.

I'm sure the next update will take care of that small bug.

 

[mkrishnan]

Has anyone had the issue in Safari 2 that suddenly, all tabs will refuse to load new sites (just keep "trying" without timing out or failing or doing much of anything!), which can be resolved immediately by closing Safari and re-opening it? I have had this happen to me a few times now. Nothing was ported to Safari from the 1.3 install except the bookmarks.html, and I haven't seen this in any previous Safari. Also other internet functions are not impaired during this, and neither is FF.