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Tiger bugs discovered? List them here!

Maybe I can get away with calling this a bug: If you told the shift key, the Command-R "twirl" effect on a Dashboard widget does not happen in slow motion.
 
MarkCollette said:
This thread is totally scaring me away from installing Tiger.
Please, someone, tell me that I can trust my data to it.
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I'm solidly backed up and only installing it on one Mac. I don't trust Spotlight one bit: it keeps missing things, and has no internal logic. It finds less under "inv" than it does under "invo", and less under "invo" than under "invoice". What kind of crap is that? Also, I opened multiple jpegs in Preview, and it scrambled all the thumbnails. I had to "save as" in PS to generate new thumbnails.
 
MarkCollette said:
This thread is totally scaring me away from installing Tiger.
Please, someone, tell me that I can trust my data to it.
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My system's been unstable in the sense of lock-ups and crashes, but a lot of them were semi-controlled. Especially this dock locking thing, I could save and quit in all open apps, but I couldn't open a terminal or anything to try and fix it without holding down the power button (and I couldn't log out or shut down). Now I keep a hidden terminal open at all times. ;)

I've been thinking about this, and I'm more and more convinced that at least part of what makes my system unstable is that I keep reading threads here and seeing posts that say -- hey, does doing xxx work on your computer or is this a bug? None of the lockups specifically happened while trying one of these things, but if I didn't try all that stupid stuff, I still bet I wouldn't get as many lockups! :rolleyes:

But in terms of losing data...depends on how mission critical. I don't think anyone with truly mission critical hardware would be wise to upgrade for a month or two. That's standard operating procedure for all OSes....
 
MarkCollette said:
This thread is totally scaring me away from installing Tiger.
Please, someone, tell me that I can trust my data to it.
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My PB has been very stable under Tiger (compared to other reports on this thread). But if you are nervous, I would wait for the imminent release of 10.4.1 and see how things shake out from there. Best of luck!
 
Tiger is a trainwreck

Tiger has completely crippled both of my machines, a dual gig Power Mac, and my G4 powerbook. Both of them are on their knees, its ugly. The Power Mac, running on a clean install, will not shut the monitor off when I sleep the machine, any firewire hard drive access freezes the entire machine, and widgets half the time do too.

The powerbook is near dead. It has a fatal freeze every 10 minutes or so, not even enough time to re-install panther back on it. I have run all the diagnostics, nothing comes up. Effectively useless, I am taking it back to the Genius Bar this weekend, its still under Apple Care.

Stay away from this trainwreck at all costs! Or regret it!!
 
tokyotripper said:
Tiger has completely crippled both of my machines, a dual gig Power Mac, and my G4 powerbook. Both of them are on their knees, its ugly. The Power Mac, running on a clean install, will not shut the monitor off when I sleep the machine, any firewire hard drive access freezes the entire machine, and widgets half the time do too.

The powerbook is near dead. It has a fatal freeze every 10 minutes or so, not even enough time to re-install panther back on it. I have run all the diagnostics, nothing comes up. Effectively useless, I am taking it back to the Genius Bar this weekend, its still under Apple Care.

Stay away from this trainwreck at all costs! Or regret it!!
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*ponders* how can software cripple hardware?
 
Trouble is that you only get those with problems posting on these threads. And not all the things in this thread are 'blockbusters' on the bug front.

Only one problem here in day to day use which is editing pictures in iPhoto. Everything else is fast and peachy.
 
Applespider said:
Holding option while over the widget will bring up the x close button
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Very nice tip! I was getting tired of having to bring up the Dashboard bar on the bottom to see the close buttons on all the widgets when I just wanted to quickly close one. :p
 
iChat Video problems

Tiger's iChat won't VideoChat with PCs running AIM. This may also be true of Panther or any non-Tiger machine. When I try to make a VideoChat I am able to receive or initiate but once it says it is starting the chat I inevitably get an error message saying that the chat has failed because I did not respond. I am quite frustrated because the whole reason I got my iSight was to talk to my boyfriend through, who has a PC running XP. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this within Tiger or if there is another software application that would let us talk?

Thanks!


munkle said:
There is a significant bug in Tiger's iChat. You cannot make voice calls to machines running Panther.

Tiger-Tiger iChat voice calls work, Tiger-Panther do not. The person making the call gets the error message, "There is insufficient bandwith to maintain conference." and the recipient a "There was a network timeout starting the conference.".

I tried again on another machine, which was running Panther 10.3.9, and the chat worked perfectly.

I don't know if this applies to Video chats as well or not.
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Trekkie said:
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.
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I had the same problem. Here's the solution that worked for me. Rename your Mac in the Sharing preference pane to something shorter. I had the same trouble, and after I renamed my Mac to a shorter name, the problem went away.

I'm still experiencing bugs with the Dock. Hiding hides it permanently - it doesn't appear when the mouse move near it. Also, magnification is EXTREMELY choppy. Like one update every 15 seconds. It doesn't even display the names of the apps as I mouse over. The Alt-Tab view also won't let me use my mouse to choose.
 
this is the second time this has hapened.... i've left my PB running with a few apps open, and the screen dims as it should. but then i come back anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours later and then i can't bring the screen back on! :eek: no matter what i do... also the volume controls don't make that little *pip* *pip* noise. so of course a force shutdown is needed.

then when it reboots and i log in i get a message saying "Mac OS X has unexpectedly quit". :confused: damn. how does OS X 'unexpectedly quit'? well i've sent a crash report to Apple both times... i hope an update will fix this.

apart from that Tiger's been all good for me. :D
 
iDisk is really started to annoy me now, its keeps on crashing finder when I try to delete anything of the iDisk. Apple sort it out, 20 restarts in the the last day!!!
 
Abercrombieboy said:
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!
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Hello

Have the same problem, installed Tiger again yesterday, worked fine for a few hours, then the same. Its 7-8 seconds here.
Plus, Tiger is freezing complete sometime if i play fullscreen with Quicktime 7 or run slideshows with Preview 3.0. Works often fine, then freeze.
 
At the end of my tether...

As documented here, I've been having major problems with Tiger on my iBook and now a friend is experiecing the same things on his iMac!

Can anyone help!?

~cel
 
Software Update error!

I recently installed OS X Tiger on my both Mac mini.
On First mac mini, when I finish installing Tiger, I immediatly ran Software Update and installed all Updates, then installed some apps, iLife, etc. updated them also...So, no problems with this mini.
On Second mac mini, after finishing installing, first I installed some apps, iLife, Microsoft Office, and then run Software Updade and discovered, that it's not working!
In the middle of checking progress Software Update just crashes(unexpectedly quits)! :eek:
Anyone having the same error? Anyone knows how to fix this?!
:(
P.S:Now Software Update crashes on my First mac mini as well.
 
cb911 said:
this is the second time this has hapened.... i've left my PB running with a few apps open, and the screen dims as it should. but then i come back anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours later and then i can't bring the screen back on! :eek: no matter what i do... also the volume controls don't make that little *pip* *pip* noise. so of course a force shutdown is needed.

then when it reboots and i log in i get a message saying "Mac OS X has unexpectedly quit". :confused: damn. how does OS X 'unexpectedly quit'? well i've sent a crash report to Apple both times... i hope an update will fix this.

apart from that Tiger's been all good for me. :D
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I'm having the same problems with my powermac g5...It just doesn't seem to want to come out of sleep. It happens a bit less after 10.4.1, but it's still there on occasion.
 
PowerBook Sleep Issue

While I've found that my new PowerBook appears to occasionally not want to wake from sleep when I open the top, I've also found the solution is to close it again, wait for the sleep light to come back on, then open the case again.
 
Is anyone's finder locking up on them. Every time I insert a Data cd it locks up. and i have to force quite.....
The cd has a lot of pictures on it, and i want some on my HD so i'm using the column view to see the preview. But when i look at the picture and go to the next it just freezes. I tried it on my bro's G5 and it works fine....
 
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