Compatability with New VM Fusion and Snow leopard 10.6.2

Any problems using the new version of VM Fusion with Snow Leopard 10.6.2

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate in VMWare Fusion and haven't had any problems with it at all. I don't print anything with it, though (I don't print much of anything on the Mac, either). It did hijack some file associations, like .doc, and wanted to launch the Windows VM with them, but that's easily fixed.

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Will Time Machine with Leopard Sync With New Hard Drive and Snow Leopard?

My computer is a 20" iMac that I bought in late 2008. The hard drive had trouble so Apple repaired with disk utility. Week later, more trouble so they did full hard drive erase. Data was backed up on Time Machine, 500GB also bought in 2008. After full hard drive erase, and reinstall of basic software, upon reboot, computer would power on then immediately off. It doesn't get past white screen. They advised a new hard drive install is needed.
A computer friend can install a hard drive just fine for me. However, I do not have the Leopard install disc. He could do it with Snow Leopard but I am scared. I'm afraid because my Time Machine last backup was with Leopard, not snow Leopard. I do not have my application discs with me, they are in storage in another state. Thus, if upon adding replacing hard drive and installing Snow Leopard my computer won't be able to sync FILES and APPLICATIONS from Time Machine because its on Leopard I will have a problem.
How can I either 1)Get a Leopard install disc and do that with the new hard drive install OR 2)make sure that a Snow Leopard install with new hard drive won't prevent my Time Machine from being able to install the saved FILES and APPLICATIONS if I don't have original APPLICATION (ie Aperture, Photoshop) with me? Thanks for any help you can provide.

thetrudz wrote:
A computer friend can install a hard drive just fine for me. However, I do not have the Leopard install disc.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
That Mac should have come with Leopard. If so, call AppleCare. They'll send you replacement discs for a nominal fee.
Once this is sorted out, make a 8-10 GB partition on an external HD or your internal HD, and use the Restore tab of Disk Utility to copy the Install disc to that partition. Then you can boot and run from it instead of the physical disc. It will boot and run much faster, too.
He could do it with Snow Leopard but I am scared.
If he does, and doesn't provide a retail Snow Leopard disc, you must buy one ($29). It's a violation of the license to share software, and you'll need a SL disc to do things like restore a Snow Leopard backup, or the Snow Leopard Apple apps, or repair the internal HD.
Your best bet is to stay with Leopard, at least until you have access to your 3rd-party software discs.
What you can do, however, is borrow his Snow Leopard Install disc (assuming it's a white Retail disc, not a gray one that came with his Mac), and use it to do a full system restore from your backups. That's not a violation of the license, since you don't install or use OSX from that disc; you just use the Installer utility on it to restore the Leopard OSX and all your data from your backups.
See #14 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum), for details.

I have a MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo and Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Want to upgrade to Lion to take advantage of icloud. Is there anything I can do without getting a new MacPro?

I have a MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo and Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Would like to upgrade to Lion but it requires a minimum of Intel Core 2 Duo. Can I get what I need or do I have to buy new MacBok Pro?

I also have a core duo MBP with Snow Leopard and it runs perfectly. There are very few things it cannot do as compared to the faster, newer MBPs, but that is attributable to the CPU, not the OS. There are some who view Lion as downgrade rather than as an improvement. If there are important applications that reqire a fast CPU or Lion features that you find essential, by all means get a new MBP.
I have an aphorism: Obsolescence is more often a perception rather than a reality. Besides the silver keys look much classier than the black ones.
Ciao.

Problems with iCal Server 2 and Snow Leopard Clients

I am currently running iCal Server 2 on Snow Leopard Server, with approximately 6 client computers connected to a single shared calendar account. I have digest authentication enabled, and am thus using Kerberos (but not SSH), as well as 3 iPhones.
Upon initial connection, I can get all the clients - computers and phones - to properly pull down all the calendar data, and match one another. However, several of the computers are having trouble updating properly when new events are added. After some troubleshooting, it seems that the computers running Snow Leopard are not properly updating with events that are entered from other computers, either Snow Leopard or Leopard. They can, however, post events to the server themselves without any errors. Interestingly, the Leopard computers can push and pull updated events just fine, and will update with new events whether they originated from a Snow Leopard or a Leopard client.
We had some recurring login/authentication issues a while back, which seemed to resolve when I disabled digest authentication; I'm wondering if perhaps that has something to do with the problems now. We're mostly using BusyCal as client software, with the iPhones obviously using iCalendar.
Just looking to see if anyone else has had similar problems, with Leopard clients working well and Snow Leopard clients having issues. Thanks!

Noby_me,
A lot of folk are having major issues with many Adobe programs and Snow Leopard. You are not alone. For many, rolling-back to Leopard has been the cure. From "word on the street," it appears that Apple is aware of these issues and are working on an OS update. I have no schedule, but that word was out about a month ago, so let's hope that the update is soon in coming.
You might want to do a Search on this, the Encore and the PS fora for "Snow Leopard." There are plenty articles.
Good luck,
Hunt

New Hard Drive and Snow Leopard Upgrade

I'm getting ready to install a larger hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I am also going to install Snow Leopard. I assume that I just boot from the Snow Leopard disk after I install the new hard drive and it will walk me through the installation. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm new to Mac.
Also, I have copied my files to an external hard drive. However, will I be able to access my old hard drive if I put it in an enclosure. This will give me access in case I missed something.
Thanks in advance for your help and advice.
Dave

I am doing the same thing... an Apple Authorized Repair facility installed my new drive yesterday. They were supposed to create 2 partitions for me, but failed to do so. Instead, they just cloned my old hard drive over to the new one. This really *****, because Spotlight and System Profiler say that my disk capacity is only 200GB and available disk space 40GB (same as original drive).
What do I need to do to create 2 partitions, one with FAT32 that is 25GB (for both Windows and Chrome OS/Ubuntu) and the other 615GB partition for OS X 10.6?
The important caveat is that my Samsung Superdrive is dysfunctional, as discussed in this long thread.
When I now try to use Disk Utility to Partition the drive, I get the error:
"PARTION FAILED Partition failed with the error: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed"
And when I try to use Bootcamp Assistant to partition the drive, I get this error:
"THE DISK CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED. Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Does this mean that Apple Computer has totally screwed me over? First they gave me a faulty Super drive, and then they install a hard drive without properly formatting the partition? What should I do now?

Installing New Hard Drive and Snow Leopard

I bought a used MacBook Pro with a 100GB drive running Tiger. There's nothing on the drive I want to keep. I have a new 500GB drive that I want to put in the machine and install Snow Leopard. I have no problems physically installing the drive. My question is, when I put the new drive in the computer, do I insert the SL disk before turning on the computer? And will it be an easy install from there? I've done this with Windows, but wasn't sure if the Macs work the same way.

Just insert the disk shortly after you power up. You may not need to, but hold down c while you are starting. You need to make sure that your disk uses the GUID partition table. After you select your language, look at the menus at the top; select Utilities; and start Disk Utility. Select your drive and make sure it uses GUID. If not, go to Partition and change the partition to GUID. Doing so will format the drive Mac Extended (journaled) (recommended). If not, then you can format again. Just use the quick format option if you need to format. After all of this, quit Disk Utility and continue your installation.
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Final Cut Studio 5.1 won't install with new imac7,1 running Snow Leopard

Howdy
I bought Final Cut Studio 5.1 (FCP5, Motion2, etc) and tried to install on a very modern machine running snow leopard.
The machine meets all the system requirements, as far as i can tell, but when i click to install, i get the following:
Alert
Your computer does not have the hardware required to run this software. See the Read Me for details.
Is this a graphics card issue?
Obviously i'm a bit annoyed because the of the costs and i thought a high-end computer would be able to run this 5-year old software package.
If anyone can advise me of a way to circumnavigate the problem using the tools i already have, i'd be very appreciative.
Thanks!
ALB

Hi, thanks for replies.
It was bought from a reseller and is version 5.1.
I was under the impression that you could only upgrade if you had a previous version of FCS installed. Since i cannot install the version i have, i cannot upgrade.
I did try the 'esc' key but it didn't have any effect at all - this is a good tip though, so thanks for the idea. I'm sure one day i'll need to use it.
I'm close to admitting defeat and selling it on again, but if there are any FCS experts out there with a fix, that'd be super awesome!

Detect Displays problem with ViewSonic VX2035 - VGA and Snow Leopard 10.6.6

I just bought a KVM switch (IOGEAR GCS72U) so that my ViewSonic VX2035WM can jump between my macbook (where it is an external monitor) and a linux box that I built. The monitor worked fine with the macbook, always detected automatically or by the "Detect Displays" button - before I switched from a DVI connection to a VGA connection. I had to switch to VGA to facilitate the KVM switch. The monitor has a separate built-in VGA input and built-in detection of analog versus digital input.
Now that I have setup the KVM switch and VGA connection - using appropriate Apple mini-DVI-2-VGA adapter - Snow Leopard detects that a monitor is connected, but only generically as "Display" instead of naming the display model (ViewSonic VX2035WM). Display Preferences does not provide the optimal resolution (in this case, 1680 x 1050), with the closes being 1400 x 1050, resulting in a distorted picture.
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktop-monitors/lcd/x-series/k
The KVM switch is listed as being compatible with Mac OS X, and supports resolutions up to 2048x1536.
I do see a picture. It does detect that a monitor is there. It does not recognize what kind of monitor it actually is, and it does not allow me to select the resolution/frequency settings that I actually need.
When I skip the switch and connect directly from the Apple VGA adapter to the built-in VGA input, the problem is exactly the same. No amount of putting the laptop to sleep, turning monitor off, clicking Detect Displays, is getting anything to change. An option to manually specific the resolution and monitor would be fine. At this point I would even be willing to pull a "Windows" and install a driver, so long as the problem is fixed. I'm pretty sure the appropriate driver is already included in Snow Leopard, because it was working fine and recognized this model before I switched from DVI to VGA connections.

Using the printerto manage color is worse, still magenta cast, or gray/browns. We've tried all the different settings withing Photoshop Color Setting, we've tried all the different combinations within the printer window dialogue, all either have a magenta cast or red cast...we've tried different combinations with photo papers...what is interesting is with no change in any settings if we use plain copier paper with the medium selected for Plain Paper the colors are truer but because of paper quality the image is not good enough. I'm thinking it may be something within settings for paper and ink. But since I am not techically savy enough to understand all of the color management settings we've relied just on the internal settings and only had to change the medium paper quality to get good images. Once I upgradedto Snow Leopard it appears I have to be more sophisticated in color management. At a loss. What we're going to try now is change out all the inks to fresh Canon inks, and recalibrate monitor (which I did before but maybe needs again) and try and match a Pantone Color Guide to set monitor, and experiment with paper combos...if that doesn't work quess I have to bring in some tech help....we're designers and graphic artists so havng a hard copy for clients is crucial. Thank you for any help.

TripleHead2Go DP Edition with MacBook Pro 13" and snow leopard 10.6.3

I have my triplehead2go DP edition set up, the problem is the resolution of my external monitors. If I try to set at maximum resolution, my external monitors go crazy/corrupt with graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. The work around according to Matrox is to downgrade from 10.6.3 to 10.6.1. Is there a way to do this? If you have 15" or 17" you can select high performance under energy saver, but that is not available for 13". I would like to find a way that would not require to reinstall 10.6.0. Will 10.6.4 fix this as well? I am only using two monitors (have to connect to ports 1 and 3) and should be able to set my resolution above 1880 x 900 (2 x 1400 x 900). I am using two Dell 24 inch monitors (U2410).

Is there a way to do this?
Reinstall 10.6 and install the 10.6.1 update only.
Will 10.6.4 fix this as well?
Nobody here would know that.
Also note, that this forum is for troubleshooting compatibility issues between Mac OS and Windows. You should really post your question in the MacBook Pro forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190

Top sites and video problems with Safari 4.0 and Snow Leopard

Since installing Snow Leopard, I've had problems with Safari 4.0. My Top Sites page doesn't load anymore, I get a blank white page. Also, video tutorials from Apple's own site will not display the video. I hear the audio portion but do not get video. When I load the same pages in Firefox, they run as they are supposed to. In Leopard, everything was fine. Any help resolving these issues would be appreciated.

Nevermind. After restarting a couple of times, it worked itself out.

Compatibility issues between Office 2004 and Snow Leopard?

Hi,
Received and installed Snow Leopard today and I seem to be having issue after issue.
I've managed to sort a few issues but Excel 2004 keeps crashing my mac. When I say crashing, the screen turns blue and reverts back to the log in screen without warning.
Anyone else experiencing this?

Try Neo Office, if you can't follow the directions already supplied:
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/patchmirrors.php?file=NeoOffice-3.0-Patch-7- Intel.dmg

Issue with Adobe Reader 9 and Snow Leopard

I can not seem to open any of my pdfs on my new MacbookPro.
Looking at version Adobe Reader 9 it does not show this OS 10.6.1 as system option
Any suggestions? I have a ton of pdfs I need to review for work and did not anticipate this problem

Same here... 9.1.3 works just fine on my Macbook as well... Originally after downloading 9.1.0, I had a few issues downloading the update in but nothing otherwise.

Problem using text to speech with Pages 09 and snow leopard

Hi,
I am writing a large document and use the start speaking function often to hear parts of it read back after I write it.The speech sounds great for a page or two and then starts to become choppy and skips words and eventually becomes inaudible except for a few sputters. I would like to be able to listen to the entire document when I am done and would like to either solve the sputtering problem or find a new app that will allow a long paper to be read back by the computer. This problem is consistent on my macbook(2010) as well as my iMac(2009).
Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

I have to constantly reboot/restart between Lion on my New Thunderbolt Mini and Snow Leopard off and External Drive.
Why? There is no good way to do what you're doing.

Using one program Application on both Lion and Snow Leopard

I have to constantly reboot/restart between Lion on my New Thunderbolt Mini and Snow Leopard off and External Drive. What is the recommendation for using programs (which are built to run on both) such as iwork pages. Should I use one program off the Main Lion Internal HD? or as I have now - Maintian two programs, one on each hard drive. I can see Lion is having difficulty as it can see the other program and sometimes it launches the version on the SL drive. When in Snow Leopard the OS cannot search and therefore not register items not included in the Main Boot Drive.
I am a single user, so I'd like consistency in maintaining templates (and now version!?!) when I want to draft a letter and can't waste time to reboot. All my documents on both OS's are directed to a 3rd Drive to effectively keep my sanity. I was syning the preferences previously for mail and passwords,etc but recently the functions of Lion have expanded so much beyond SL as that I had to swtich off this sync to avoid conflicts.
Should I keep using two programs or when available use a single version. Noting this wont be on the boot drive of one of them. If I go to one. Can I keep the other on its boot drive in case of transporting it to another machine. Is there a way to park it so it's not referenced to use when I launch by opening a file? I though about zipping it? What happens when a version update might excel beyond SL? The current programs known already have 2 versions residing on each boot drive. If I go to 1 and a software update comes along, that would be a problem.
Any and all experinces and suggestions are appreciated.

I have to constantly reboot/restart between Lion on my New Thunderbolt Mini and Snow Leopard off and External Drive.
Why? There is no good way to do what you're doing.

New iPod Touch won't sync with computer - have latest version of iTunes and Snow Leopard. Computer won't even acknowledge the iPod.

New iPod Touch won't sync with computer - have latest version of iTunes and Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Computer won't even acknowledge the iPod. Have restarted both, changed ports, etc. What's do I need to do?

Have you tried here:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
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Compatability with New VM Fusion and Snow leopard 10.6.2

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