LEOPARD installed no problems

ive installed leopard this morning , no problems encountered yet except MSN keeps altering refresh rate of screen and makes it flicker, other tahn at all applications that i have work flawless , and a Backup using timemachine to external hard drive was ok . installation took 35 mins start to finish

MY Hard-drive is a Lacie D2 500gb external firewire drive. just connect it up using a firewire 400/800 cable to your Mac .
once the new drive mounts on your Mac desktop,of osx 10.5 leopard you can then go into Time Machine preferences ,and configure the drive to backup your Data to it. Very Easy . Have a coffee whilst the machine backups up your main internal drive , Although this took 3 hours for me firsst time round.
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HP LaserJet 1000 problem after Leopard install

Anyone else have a problem printing after the Leopard install?
My printer and driver was recognized but I can't print. When I watch the print queue it say there are errors and fails.
Since HP never made a driver for this printer, I was using a Zenographics driver that worked great. That is, until I upgraded.
I unplugged the USB and power cords, and removed the printer from System Preferences. After plugging everything back in and adding the printer again, the printer seemed like it wanted to print, but still didn't work.
Please help.

Thank you for your answers. I was hoping someone would reply.
HP LJ 1000 is a great printer and I figured a few people had to have one. It is unfortunate as this printer hardly ever needed the toner changed, and I used it as my main printer. I swear I only changed toner four times in the last five years!
I looked everywhere for a driver and found nothing. HP said they had no updated driver for the Mac (as they told me a year ago, too) and they were not going to create one.
My final solution was to give up my printer to a good neighbor for $50 for her pc.
I researched printers from the Apple store and decided to go with the very Mac friendly HP Laserjet 1022:
http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/EducationIndividualCustom.woa/94340 03/wa/PSLID?mco=CC919B84&fnode=home/shopmac/macaccessories/printers&nplm=TC976LL/A&wosid=gG2dihO9R0Mg29v6f901bEeWNf2
Hopefully it will be a good printer. After returning the new toner I bought for the LJ1000, I thought Staples would have it in stock. However, after trying three different stores, it seems the best way to get a Mac-friendly printer is to go online.
I hope I helped you out as well.
Again, thank you.
-NdP

17 inch i7 Macbook Pro Snow leopard install problems

Got my new 17 inch i7 MBP, powered it up everythings fine. So I go to re partition the drive and do a clean system install. Middle of the install it fails. Log file shows it cant read files from the DVD.
So I grab a snow leopard install version 10.6 to install from. It will not boot the mbp i7. It hangs on the apple screen with no activity circle underneath the apple logo. Same for 10.6.2 SL install disc I have.
I then try to install SL to a external drive and update it to 10.6.3. It boots all my non i7 macs here but when I try to boot the i7 mbp it hangs again on the apple screen.
I really want to use the i7 machine and Im dreading waiting on apple to send me mbp 17 replacement disks. I have no problems buying a 10,6,3 version of the SL installer but after my experiences with 10.6 and 10.6.2 and the external disk to upgrade to 10.6.3 I have a feeling the i5/i7 machines need specific installer discs.
Is any one aware of this or run in to it yet ? Thanks.

The only OS installer that will work with your MBP is the one that came with the Mac originally so you will need to wait for a new set.

Basic Snow Leopard install with special customization: setup assistant infinite loop problem.

Hi, all,
Based on this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1395118?start=0&tstart=0, I'm assuming there's a problem with setup assistant running after a customization install reboot. But I could be wrong.
Here are the details:
MacBook Pro
Clean OS X Snow Leopard install (I was "told" by IT I had to wipe the disk and re-install OS X after backing up personal files).
Installed extras I need/want (in particular, XCode, though I went ahead with the other optional software as well).
Installed the IT supplied "Supplemental CompanyName Installation Disc" (also referred to as "CompanyName Supplemental Installation Disc" ), which is supposed to create a customized, IT supported, setup.
When the supplemental install is done, the system is rebooted.
There is then a "Welcome" screen (starscape, with almost endless bombardment of the word welcome in various languages), finally followed by:
a) select language; b) select keyboard; c) select timezone; d) Don't forget to register your Mac, with a "done" button.
Clicking the "done" button goes to a blank grey screen. and then loops back to redo the "Welcome/language/keyboard/done" sequence, ad nauseum (that is, infinitely repeated).
Per the above mentioned post, I have rebooted to the Install DVD and run disk utility, repairing permissions. No difference on reboot.
Boot to safe mode goes to the same setup assistant sequence, not a login screen.
Another Mac user here suggested checking for /var/db/.applesetupdone, since missing it, or if it's correupt, could cause this problem.
So I booted to single user and checked for this file. It is not there. On the off chance the file is a simple flag and the content doesn't matter,
I did fsck/remount and touch /var/db/.applesetupdone but this did not change anything either.
Presumably, the file must be present and must contain some data. If this is true, can it be created manually and put in place via single user mode?
Or are there other, better solutions someone could suggest?
Many thanks.
Bob

Ah, it seems I finally found something useful, at http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=84825
One of the responders supplied the content of their .applesetupdone file.
I was able to get this onto my Mac, in /var/db, as .applesetupdone (just to be safe, I linked that name to .AppleSetupDone, the name as mentioned on the above site). Note that both names begin with a dot (hidden, in UNIX parlance).
On reboot I was presented with the CompanyName specific login screen. It took a little bit more mucking around with passwords, but I was eventually able to login without any problem.
Bob

I just installed the new mountain lion software on my iMac. I was currently running Snow Leopard. My problem is with my mouse. Now when I scroll down the page it moves in the opposite direction. I checked system S.P. - Natural for scroll feature.

I just installed the new mountain lion software on my iMac. I was currently running Snow Leopard. My problem is with my mouse. Now when I scroll down the page it moves in the opposite direction. In system preferences I tried checking and unchecking Natural for scroll feature. Movement from side to side works fine. Has anyone experienced this problem?

I think this new scrolling behaviour was introduced with Lion. You do get used to it pretty quickly (well I did). Are you sure that deselecting Natural Scrolling in Mouse Prefs doesn't re-instate the previous behaviour, it does here.

Installing leopard as an 'archive and install' and problems!

I have just made and archive and install of leopard on my macbook and although the programme told me the installing had been accomplished without problems, the computer could not start up. Instead of starting up it entered a sort of loop where it displayed the Mac apple and had a weel spinning for some minutes, then the screen went black as if it restarted the computer and then it went back to the mac apple on a grey/blue background and the spinning weel.
Can anybody help me with this problem? What has gone wrong and how can a save my computer!

This is just my disaster day! I finally managed to get Leopard installed, but despite the fact that I did an 'archive and install' the installation process had not kept my files intact - most of my work files have gone it seems and the Leopard did start all over keeping none of my settings at all.
I have now looked in the previous systems folder and only some files and settings are seemingly stored, but I don't know how to 'reinstall' them on my computer.
I must admit that Mac very much resembles macrisoft products in this case. What a disaster!

PROBLEM WITH LEOPARD INSTALL

I just received the LEOPARD Install DVD which I purchased from the Apple Store with the intend to upgrade my iMac OS X 10.4.11 which already was upgraded to TIGER last year.
As everybody knows - after inserting the DVD - you are prompted to press RESTART which I did.My iMac shuts off,then tries to restart,the Apple Logo appears with the little wheel spinning accompanied by a loud rumbling motor sound .This lasts for at least 2 minutes.Then the screen turns into a purple gray with the color wheel spinning and that is all ! The only way I was able to eject the DVD was to connect this iMac via Firewire to my Mac Book . After this DVD was ejected the iMac started perfectly in the old TIGER mode.
I tried 2 more times to install Leopard but with the same strange and frustrating result !
Can any of you Experts be so kind and give me a hint to what the problem is and what I can do ?

I had the same problem when I went to upgrade my iMac. Which I am using right now. The way i found to do it was boot it up using target disk mode. mainly you have to have another mac. boot that other mac with the leopard disk, then with them plugged into eachother with a firewire cable start up your imac holding T. then on the other mac choose disks and choose the imac's hard drive. Install it that way and you'll be fine.

Leopard Install problem on iBook G4: Can't mount iBook as FW device anymore

I'll try to very briefly describe my situation and problem, and I appreciate your thoughts ahead of time.
I have a later model iBook G4 (1.2 Ghz, 1.2 GB RAM) that was successfully installed with Leopard about a year ago. It worked great but lately the computer significantly slowed down where basic processes were intolerantly slow. Not having any essential information on it (as I have an iMac Intel as our main home computer), I decided to do an Erase and Install of Leopard onto the iBook, thinking I could just start from scratch. The install was fine and the iBook was very fast again. Ignorantly, I thought if I zapped the PRAM (option-apple, P-R), the computer would run even more efficiently, and that's when I started having start-up problems. It then froze on the gray Apple logo page with the spinning dial. I was too greedy; I should have been content with how it was running to do a random thing like that.
I tried to boot up from my Leopard install disk; I did the restart-option thing and got to the page to choose the HD or the Install Disk, but the install disk never booted.
I read about using the iBook as a firewire device connected to my iMac via the restart-T function. I was able to mount it successfully and reached the point on the installer disk where it came up among other options of drives to install the OS. However, the install disk said it could not install Leopard on the iBook/FW because it needed to be repartitioned as a GUID Partition Drive via Disk Utility. I had no idea what this meant and after exploring options, I decided to erase the iBook HD and see if that enabled me to load Leopard; it didn't help. And then I stumbled across how to make the drive a GUID Partition, and then ala, I was able to start loading Leopard. Unfortunately, about 10 minutes into the load, my iMac went to sleep; I woke it up and realized that the Leopard install had froze. I had to do a hard reset of the iMac, and tried to get back to where I left off, but now I'm unable to get my iBook read as a FW device on the iMac; in other words, the restart-T on the iBook no longer works. When I start the iBook now, there is only a gray screen with no apple logo.
By erasing the iBook HD and incompletely installing Leopard, did I kill the ability to do the restart-T command? Or is it still in there some how? After multiple attempts, it's currently not working.
I have already resigned myself that I've killed it and plan to buy a new Apple laptop, but I thought I'd try y'all for one last try.
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Thanks for the suggestions, Lyssa.
I was able to reformat the drive back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Apple Partition map via the iMac.
And as you suggested, I put the iMac in Target Disk Mode with the Leopard disk installed. I even got the iBook to recognize the Install Disk; however, upon selecting it, it would freeze at the gray screen with the Apple logo.
I put it away for several hours and decided to try the original Panther install disks. I put the Panter Install Disk #1 into the iBook optical drive and did the restart-option think and selected the install disk. Lo' and behold, I actually got past the apple logo and spinning dial into the start-up screen for installation where I am asked to choose a language! This is the farthest I have got in 24 hours! I proceeded to select English and continue . . . but then the system froze.
After a few more attempts, I am getting less and less progress. It seems that giving the iBook a break from troubleshooting seemed to help; repeated successive attempts only seemed to freeze me at consecutively earlier steps.
I'll try again in the morning with the Panther disks.

Leopard install problems on G4 AGP with processor upgrade

Hi,
I've got an olde PowerMac G4 (AGP 450 or so Mhz) that was upgraded many years ago to a PowerLogix 7455 Dual 1.3 Ghz processor. It has Boot ROM version 4.2.8, and has been running Tiger 10.4.11 faithfully, but I thought I would bring it up to speed with Leopard and get it in line with the rest of my machines.
The Leopard install disc (10.5) won't boot the machine. After I run the installer and the machine re-boots, the drive churns, spits out the disc and then re-boots.
So I looked into the whole "disc pops out issue" in the KB and this G4 AGP does NOT need the firmware update listed in the KB to solve a similar problem on Quicksilvers (FYI, its a MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8585 r1A28)
The machine meets all Leopard requirements, so thinking it was the drive (since the disc kept popping out) I booted into target disc mode and installed 10.5 from a PowerBook G4.
But now when I boot the G4 from that drive, it does not get past the grey Apple screen with the spinner... the machine shuts down just as it would normally get to the blue screen.
The G4 boots fine from the clone I made just before I started all this (Phew!) so I am back to square one, just wish I could bring the G4 up to Leopard.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Dave

After I run the installer and the machine re-boots, the drive churns, spits out the disc and then re-boots.
I booted into target disc mode and installed 10.5 from a PowerBook G4.
I am getting confused your your use of "installer". Being able to run an Installer implies that you actually got the computer to boot from the DVD so you are actually able to run the Installer program. In the second instance when the other computer was in TDM did you actually install 10.5 and now the grey screen issue is when it is booting to 10.5 on your computer, or are you still hanging on booting to the DVD?
The G4 boots fine from the clone I made just before I started all this (Phew!) so I am back to square one, just wish I could bring the G4 up to Leopard.
I assume this is some pre-Leopard OS.
Are you using a retail version of Leopard (black color) or gray discs that will only install on the machine with which they originally came and in particular if they came with an Intel computer will not like a PPC?

Fan problem after Leopard install

PowerMac Dual G5 - after Leopard install, fan between hard drive and optical drive revved up like the computer was going to blast off, faster and faster until I powered down by holding down the power button. Leopard seems to be working fine, but with the fan continuing to go at high speed at all times. I've tried reboot, reinstall, pull plug for a few minutes, remove CMOS battery, and zap PRAM, all to no avail. I haven't put the panel cover back on yet, and that may work, but I won't have time to mess with it for a few days and hope for some insight before I try that.Ideas?

Problem went away. Must have been a ghost in the machine.

Safari 3.2.1 update - installed on 3 Leopard systems - no problems

I have recently installed the latest Safari update, 3.2.1 on a brand-new Leopard install, and two previous Leopard systems - a G5 and an MBP, without any issues to date.
My only point, if there is one, is that it can be done. Any issues have to reside with other software that is installed. Three out of three are good odds.

Hello nerowolfe,
I've noted you post many fine hints and tips for Macintosh users on this site. But, your success with Safari and Leopard is based around the fact that Safari 3.2/3.2.1 under Leopard only exhibits minor incompatibilities.
If you do aggregate web-wide searches for defects in the latest two Safari updates, you'll find that in the majority of serious cases the issues revolve around Tiger compatibility.
The "Frameworks" corruption issue, centering around prebinding, does not occur in Leopard. It is one of the core code problems that Safari 3.2/3.2.1 brings to the cleanest Tiger system.
Within the Tiger OS aggregate, removing/updating third-party software, removing add-on's/InputManagers, clearing caches and .plist(s), etc., and deselecting the new, faulty fraud-protection feature, only symptomatically fix about seventy percent of the Tiger cases listed on this site alone.
Safari 3.2/3.2.1 was optimized for Leopard, not for Tiger; and the permanent loss of prebinding proves that. I've run numeous tests on Safari 3.2/3.2.1, and the loss of prebinding is irreversable under the Tiger platform. At a programming level, the effects of prebinding - or its loss - are not apparent to the user under Tiger. But, systemic weaknesses - including security concerns - crop up if the Tiger OS loses it ability to prebind. Leopard is the first Apple OS to utilize ASLR in concert with prebinding - together they decrease OS permeability.
Safari 3.2/3.2.1 is a relatively successful update for Leopard users. But, simple fixes will not correct the underlying code errors currently torturing about thirty percent of Tiger users. Simply reading the high level of anger and frustration from users on this site - after they've applied every good suggestion available - proves that Safari 3.2/3.2.1 is adversely affecting a large segment of the Safari-using Tiger community. Apple QC is the only one that can correct the code faults.
I've spent many hours on this issue, and it is the last time I'll play unpaid beta-tester for any software company. But, I wanted to see how much care Apple was putting into Tiger-based applications, as a direct reflection of their commitment to loyal customers. This informs my long-term buying decisions, and recommendations to clients who are considering switching to Macintosh. To date, Apple has come up short.
Regards,
J.C.

Big problem with plain blue screen on boot (not related to Leopard install)

Hi - eventually I have worked out how to post to this forum!
I have had a major disaster with my iMac this weekend. It began with a lock-up when I was working happily away in Blender. I got a beachball and the machine froze. I had ssh set up so I tried to go in from my iBook to kill a few processes to try to get it back on track, but without success, so eventually I had to hold down the power button to power off the machine.
When I tried to reboot, I got the grey screen and the spinning wheel, then a plain blue screen with no mouse, no beachball and the machine just seemed to stop. I could hear the CPU going like the clappers and was able to ssh in again and check top to see what was going on, and the WindowServer(?) process was maxed out at 100%. I wasn't able to kill it and again nothing happened and on a further reboot I just had a plain blue screen.
I have since spent a few hours trying various things to sort this out, so far to no avail.
- Single User mode, fsck -fy: reports everything fine, no change
- Reset PRAM, no change
- Tried booting off my backup Firewire drive (SuperDuper) but it won't boot to it, same blue screen hang
- Ran Disk Utility from Leopard Install DVD - permissions, checked disk, etc - no change
- Ran DiskWarrior in Target Disk mode from iBook, no change
- Ran Tech Tool Deluxe, no change
- Removed RAM (not third party), put it back in, no change
- Reinstalled Leopard using Archive & Install, no change
- Reinstalled Leopard again, using Erase & Install, no change
- I think I'm running out of options.
I'd have been on the phone to Apple by now but it's Sunday tomorrow and a Bank Holiday in the UK tomorrow so it will be Tuesday at the earliest, and I know I'm going to be frustrated by having to go through all this with them again!
A weird thing is - I CAN get logged in in Safe Mode now and again, and when I do, the mouse pointer has a small, almost transparent rectangular graphic attached that follows the pointer around. Barely perceptible but it's there - it looks like a Leopard icon for a txt file but barely visible. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?? It really feels like something has corrupted, but with a totally clean OS install, is that possible?
As it stands, I'm sure this is a hardware issue but I'm not sure. I had a couple of power outages lately which I suspect are behind this.
I'd be really grateful for anyone's thoughts on this - it's been a really frustrating couple of days.
Cheers.

As far as I can see, resetting the power manager on this model of iMac involves resetting the SMC, which is unplugging all cables for 15 seconds, plugging back in and powering up. Tried that too, same result. In terms of third party software, nothing. Clean Leopard install is the lot.

Clean Leopard Install - Can't get Photos back in Right (tripling, etc)

Hi. I did a clean Leopard install then loaded my iLife '06. I have my "iPhoto Library" on my external. This contains folders 'originals', 'modified', 'data', and other accoutremonts. In iPhoto, I selected "Import" and thought things were going well till I saw 1) triple copies of each photo 2) no import of my tags for each photo, albums, folders, etc. I see 2000, 2001, 2002, etc. but no 'Canada Vacation', etc.
So, knowing I still had them on my external, I deleted over 10,000 photos from iPhoto to start anew. Then I figured the triples were coming from 'originals', 'modified', 'data' so I tried just importing "originals". This put only 1 copy of the photo in iPhoto, but it's a jumbled mess with no tags, sections, etc.
I checked the help section but am still not 'getting it'. Could someone point me in the right direction or explain what I should do here to get my iPhoto back to where it was pristine/organized? I'm befuddled.

I fixed my problem by accident. I merely dragged my "iPhoto Library" from my external to "pictures" in my home directory.

Creating a backup before Leopard install

Is it possible to back up my entire 80gb imac startup drive to one of my firewire drives with assurance that I can go back to that system if my Leopard install goes haywire? My first attempt to install Leopard failed with some un-useful error message and I was concerned that I might have gotten too far to go back. It seems to have rebooted fine back to 10.4.10, but my other startup drive is 10.2.8 and I'd hate to have to startup from that

Make a bootable clone backup on the FW drive. I use LaCie Silverkeeper 1.1.4.
Most important! Test the bootable clone. Restart your computer with the Option key pressed and your external drive should appear as one of the bootable options. Select its icon and click on it. Only after you boot up and see that the clone is indeed a clone, do you really know that you are safe from any kind of installation problem.
I would also strongly suggest removing the external drive connectio from your computer before installing Leopard to be absolutely sure nothing can happen to it.

Is it possible to make a copy of the Leopard install DVD?

Is it possible to make a copy of the Leopard install DVD? If so, is there a special way this has to be done? I just found out that we needed to use the Leopard install DVD to recover a complete backup from Time Machine after a recent hard drive failure. We have the family pack of Leopard, so I would like to keep the original at home and send a copy when my daughter goes off to college in case she needs to recover again. Her machine was originally a Tiger MacBook, so those install disks will not work. If it is not possible to copy the DVD, is there a way to create a bootable utility to do a time machine recovery?

This half-solved my problem. I have had no problems creating a backup copy for my intel based computers, but non-intel based computers are problematic; a G5 powermac tower and a G4 Powerbook. Both with super drives for single density burning. Both have Leopard running, installed from an install disc purchased from Apple. However, neither will mount the copy, but intel based computers will. have burnt/burned with both toast 9 and Disc Utility. Discs won't mount and are "spit out" by the drive.
Power Mac G5 OS X: 10.5.4
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,3
Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7
Any thoughts?
-Jim

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