10.4.3, Is it stable yet for Software Update?
My Mac clients are waiting for me to tell them if I have upgraded to 10.4.3 from 4.2.
I have not. Still reading all the horror stories and wonder if I have missed the "good" stories, where a PBG4 had NO problems upgrading.
Has Apple addressed all the issues with 4.2 to 4.3 ?
Also, I noticed in my SU the security updates are gone, I did not upgrade, so they should still be there. Interesting??
Having a few .mail crashes and Safari crashes, but nothing major.
Answers anyone?
Hi Patti,
Yes, many improvements came with 10.4.3, but the only good way to update your OS without calling for trouble is to start with a problem-free 10.4.2.
Personally I am very happy with the update, no problem at all. See my method, for preventing file corruption and keeping your Mac healthy:
All you have to do:
- Back up.
- Keep enough free space on the boot volume (10-15% is fine).
- "Repair Permissions" with Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder), after you used Software Update or after you used an Apple application installer.
- Run the three nightly Periodic scripts (Yasu) — once a month is fine — as they are not yet completely automated.
More prudent:
Before an OS Update or Upgrade,
- Disconnect all periphericals.
- Run a "Disk Repair" with Disk Utility from the install DVD.
- Much better: rebuild Directory with DiskWarrior.
- You can also clean all (each separately) user account's User, Browsers and Fonts caches (Yasu), and
- Check for corrupted Preferences (Preferential Treatment).
Software and general Maintenance approach:
In theory we should not need any extra utility, as we already have Terminal and Disk Utility.
But some small applications like Yasu, OnyX, TinkerTool System or Cocktail for example, offer a nice, friendly GUI to many useful Terminal commands.
File defragmentation is not really needed in OS X
— Even (very rarely needed) free space defragmentation is more risky than a simple (and quite fast since Tiger) OS reinstallation —
but DiskWarrior has a very good approach of rebuilding the Directory.
- Read the Readme and Help files, and do not run a task if you don't know what it does.
- Do not install an application before you know how to uninstall it.
(example Anacron or Macaroni: they work well but redundant and about uninstall (???), or some Microsoft apps that too often gets us used to unnecessarily give our admin password...)
- Software Updates: no hurry! Do not download too much at a time, install the OS updates separately, and note that there is (in menu Update) an option "Update and Keep Package" that can fit to your backup strategy.
Good luck!
Axl
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