Leopard is a problem in general

we have 5 macs but only installed Leopard on one, the new macbook (1 gb memory), because we experienced many problems. The Tiger mac book was fast, the Leopard Macbook is slow. Appleworks does not function, Quickbooks freezes (a problem for the office). The computer sleeps and does not wake up, requiring restart. Keystrokes are not recognized on the same macbook that worked great with Tiger. in general a disappointment. ii am uninstalling and waiting until the problems are fixed.

I'd agree - less than seamless upgrade. So much so that it pains me to watch the ad that mocks the Vista upgrade. My experience with Leopard:
Cannot burn CDs / DVDs from the Finder anymore (unresolved).
Toast 7.1.2 doesn't burn anymore (reinstall 7.0.1 will fix this).
HP Scan software for the hp Laserjet 3015 now hangs (unresolved).
Parallels Tools do not install - hangs (unresolved).
USB device switching between Mac and Parallels VM flaky - causes drivers to crash, device conflicts and such (unresolved).
Basically, like any other OS upgrade on any other platform. If you rely on your Mac for business, I'd recommend waiting awhile longer before upgrading. Fortunately, all of the issues you've identified I haven't experienced. Good luck!

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Possible upgrade solution for people who have HD and problems in general.

OK, for me, Leopard has been as painful as going osx from OS9, at least the upgrade has been , dunno about the retail copy., bugs, bugs, bugs with the upgrade for sure.
Here is what happens generally., you upgrade and basically you need to run disk tools from a external drive or the Leopard DVD., the problems move on still.
Solution i found was to back up to another drive, that is right guys, spend another hundred bucks no one warned you about., get a external HD or if your living it high and collect macs as Apple assumes you may just have a second Intel mac laying around with a Sata drive in it to start up in "Firewire Target Mode", (hold the "T" at start up)and start cloning your drive with SuperDuper (also need to purchase)..
Ok
1- once you clone your drive (usualy a hour for the base system alone).
2- erase it as one partition,
3- in the options make sure it is set as GUID partition (takes about a hour) and
4- then as well zero out all the data., takes about 2 hours there as well.
5- Now run disk utilities from the Leopard DVD or the computer or booted up drive you used to do all this., if you can not fix permission of th volume you seen to reformat the Drive again 7 pass!, could take 4 hours.
Finally you will be able re clone it, and run disk tools after a days work no one warned you about.
*This disk utilities operation may take about 1 hour but say 11, and look like this below;*
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/bottom.jpg", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/content.html", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/Description.plist", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DisplayName.stri ngs", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/thumbnail.png", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Butterfly.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/top.jpg", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/English.lproj/DisplayName.strings", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/bg_letter.jpg", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/bg_pattern.jpg", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/bottom.jpg", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/content.html", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/Description.plist", should be 80, group is 99.
Group differs on "Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Stationery/Contents/Reso urces/Flower.mailstationery/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DisplayName.strings ", should be 80, group is 99.
*Good luck*
*My ADVISE:* if you experienced these problems, as above, reformatting by zeroing out the data works. as for those who want Leopard. *DO NOT UPGRADE but install a RETAIL version of LEOPARD* until apple has a update,
I read posts where people who have the retail copy (full DVD) have not experienced these problems, mine was a upgrade from Tiger since i got a mac in the last 30 days.
WARNING: it has been hard to trust Apple fanatics with these things now days, many posts are denials to things not working so i could be wrong there as well, been honest saves time is all i can advise them.
If anyone has beter advise please do post it.

And what is yaml all about, shows up in disk utilities for hundreds if not thousands of issues?
showed up as a user as well.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/proxybasicauth-i.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/ProxyAuthenticator/cdesc-ProxyAuthenticator.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/ProxyBasicAuth/cdesc-ProxyBasicAuth.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/ProxyDigestAuth/cdesc-ProxyDigestAuth.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/ProxyDigestAuth/check_uri-i.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/UserDB/cdesc-UserDB.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/UserDB/get_passwd-i.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/UserDB/make_passwd-i.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPAuth/UserDB/set_passwd-i.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
Group differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ WEBrick/HTTPProxyServer/cdesc-HTTPProxyServer.yaml", should be 0, group is 99.
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Leopard/Dreamweaver/Flash Problems

Although Dreamweaver and Flash will both start, i cant get them to display any of my files or any new files- is this another Leopard/CS3 compatibility problem? Anybody have a solution? I can run Photoshop CS3 no problem.

Hi Murphy101;
I have Dreamweaver and Flash on my Macs and have no problems with opening my files in Leopard. Have you repaired permissions?
Allan

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.

I have just purchased an iMAC. O/S is Lion. I just cannot access the files in my Microsoft network drive which my macpro snow leopard has no problem. Looks like it is just the Lion O/S has the problem. The file I needed to access are my photo files.

I have an iMAC running Lion cannot access my Microsoft Network drive. It sees it on Finder but said connection failed. By other Macpro Laptop which run Leopard has no problem at all. It lreads and load my photos from the RAID Drive. I am sure some asked the question before but it is new to me. That was the reason I am not upgrading my Macpro to Lion yet. was it a bug in Lion networking area?
Thanks for the help !
H5N1

You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

Did Snow Leopard aggravate heating problems?

Since installing Snow Leopard I have noticed the following on my otherwise perfectly functioning MBA:
1) Temperature is constantly at 50° even when idle,
2) A few minutes of YouTube and system becomes unstable and unresponsive, with fans kicking in at full blast reaching temps of 70-80°C.
Prior to the upgrade, temps were much lower and I never experienced a single core shutdown.
I was wondering if anyone had the same experience.

Hi Felix,
I figured both of your topics (posted 2 minutes apart) could probably just be answered in one thread. I've upgraded both of my MacBook Airs (1.6GHz/80GB Rev A & 1.86GHz/SSD Rev B) and have noticed no change in day-to-day system performance, cooling/overheating. I've done all the usual "testing" in running YouTube, launching Parallels, playing a game or two and stressing the CPUs in software generated stress tests.
YouTube was always a bit of an issue for my Rev A, from day one. I've always contributed that to the Intel GMA X3100, I find the my Nvidia 9400M machine handles a lot of the struggles found in the Rev A. Unfortunately, a lot of the GPU features of the new OS do not include the Intel GMA X3100 (only the Nvidia 9400M). The Rev C models that I've used/tested are behavior pretty much the same as my Rev B as "under the hood" they're the same machine... just cheaper in the MSRP category.
So no... I wouldn't say Snow Leopard is the problem, at least not inherently with the MacBook Air. One thing you might want to try is running Safari in 32-bit mode, as I noticed when it came to flash intensive pages that Safari was using a lot more system resources in 64-bit mode (when translates into heat, CPU load, etc.). You can toggle Safari by doing a "Get Info" in the /Applications folder on Safari.app and checking the "Use in 32-bit mode" box.

Leopard Mail! Problems?...heck, it launches and the ball starts spinning...

Yup.
God bless all of the early adopters.
I installed Leopard the other night. First just the update....hmmm, things were buggy. So I archived and installed.
Mail.....will launch, and then the spinning ball of death starts. Nothing else. I have to force quit it.
I have read through the threads here, and many seem to have specific problems. Mine is a bit more generic...I cant get to first base.
Suggestions?
Another observation. I am using Firefox to post this. When I start to write or type anything into a Safari window......the spinning ball of death happens in Safari as well.
I dont mean to sound surly, but I am a bit disappointed in this upgrade to say the least.
Thoughts or suggestions on my malady?

This is what I would try in your situation...
Obviously it is always good to have a backup to start off with...
I would reinstall Leopard using Archive and Install but do NOT preserve user settings...
After the installation and Leopard starts, you will be presented with a new install and you will have to fill in all the information just like a new computer...
Do not move any of your files or preferences over at this time. They will still be in a folder called "Previous Systems" as you probably already know..
See if Leopard runs for you this way... If it does, then start moving some of your things back a little at a time.

Multiple issues with Leopard (Network, Pages, iPhoto, iTunes, General)

It's been so much fun.
I have 3 macs right now, per my profile.
I started updating the G4 because it's the experimental system, the MacPro is production, and the MacBook is for the kids and for me to wander the domain and still be productive. These Macs and some other things sit behind a Linux/iptables firewall.
1st issue: After updating the G4 certain web sites have been inaccessible, including just about any apple sites behind SSL, ADC, iTunes Music Store, iPhoto Store (calendars, books), Network Solutions, Newegg, etc. However, as of 10.4.11 on the other 2 Macs, 10.5.1 and 10.4.11 had parity, or close to it, in networking.
2nd issue: The other problem I had right off the bat was remote printing to the MacPro which has an Epson Stylus Photo printer hooked up. At the time this was first noticed, the MacPro was 10.4.11 and the computer I was attempting to print from was 10.5.1. I erroneously thought that had to do with the disparity on OS versions. Not so. The result of trying to print anything to the remote printer is the immediate cratering of the app you're printing from, Safari, Pages, Firefox, Preview. I can reproduce this at will.
3rd issue: Straight from the previous 2 issues, I can't log any problem reports. This is frustrating.
I initially didn't see the problems that I saw a lot of people registering on here, other than the ones I noted above, and as far as the networking thing went, 10.4.11 and 10.5.1 were equally cr*y. So, I bit the bullet and upgraded several things, iLife '08 (which I couldn't adequately check out on the G4), iWork '08 which I hadn't had any problems with, and Leopard on the remain 2 macs.
Issue 1 was, as expected, no better or worse, and more and more talked about on these discussions. I thing that helped, notably to allow me to finally login to the discussions, rather than just read them, was:
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.pathmtudiscovery=0
Thanks to mreckhof for that little gem
This helped with the login here, but didn't help with anything else. And in retrospect, 10.5.1 is much worse then 10.4.1 as far as the networking goes. When/if I expose the mac by putting it outside the firewall, it's actually much much worse than it used to be. There are several places where any of the Macs directly connected to the internet are completely useless for talking to websites, DNS, and other things. The web site problem is that more than a handful don't load. Most of these make heavy use of akamai, as apple does. The Linux Firewall and exposed Linux desktops don't have this problem.
Right now, I can't buy or use a few of the bought things from iTunes Music Store. I could not order calendars from iPhoto, which shot holes in several of our holiday gifts to friends and relatives. I can't purchase or update several things with other online vendors from the mac, where I would usually do such things. There is a veritable litany of things, real monetary that I also can't do to earn money as well now that we've upgraded, but I'll get to that.
Issue 2 and issue 3 were unchanged.
4th Issue: iPhoto lost, on import, several photos and movies. This happened just recently. Currently the iPhoto library has around 30,000 photos and videos in it spanning the last several years. it's around 500GB. The problem was that after the import was "done" and it was cleaning off the memory card, it crashed. The imported items were not successfully imported, that I can find, and the memory card was successfully cleaned off. The images and movies appear to be lost completely. The problem is that we derive some of our income from the picture. There backed up in 2 different ways, but we have to be able to trust that they'll arrive safely for the backup to work. I'm rethinking that. I can't trust I photo so memory cards are filling up.
But I thought we still could do things with iPhoto with what is there. Woe is me.
Issue 5: Using Pages 3.0.1, and dragging photos from iPhoto to it, something that has brought good success in the past, and produced some great results, stopped working reliably, in a big way.
The document in question is about 80 pages long and contains a couple hundred photos, dragged and dropped from iPhoto. On or around page 62, Pages started throwing up a "Image file ****.jpg is corrupt and cannot be used, all other photos already imported blah, blah, blah." I'm paraphrasing at the moment because 1) Pages crashes, when you're lucky, soon after this and 2) when you're not lucky, the whole computer freezes in a non-recoverable way. The system log is littered with:
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] Pages(173,0xa0748f60) malloc: * mmap(size=3051520) failed (error code=12)
* error: can't allocate region
* set a breakpoint in mallocerrorbreak to debug
2008/01/07 23:00:16 Pages[173] CGContextSetShouldSmoothFonts: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextConcatCTM: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextConcatCTM: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextSetFlatness: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextRestoreGState: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextScaleCTM: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextClearRect: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextSetLineCap: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextAddLineToPoint: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGBitmapContextInfoCreate: unable to allocate 3047424 bytes for bitmap data
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextTranslateCTM: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextSaveGState: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextSetFlatness: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextRestoreGState: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextScaleCTM: invalid context
2008/01/07 23:00:17 Pages[173] CGContextClearRect: invalid context
There were around 100 instance of the above error in at the same timestamp.
I'm not sure where it's trying to malloc this from, but the machine has 8GB of physical ram and plenty of space for swap. It normally reports 34GB of VM and when pages is started, 6+GB of real ram is available to it.
And the image isn't corrupt. I'm able to start a fresh document up and put a few pictures into it.
I am unable to cut and paste, use the media browser or otherwise to add more than an image at a time into the document. The same is, I still have the old pages around, and we had done a very similar thing with it, several times, but this one was started with 3.0.1 and saved as a 3.0.1 document. The amount of time put into it, at this point, is non-trivial.
When things go very badly, iPhoto and Pages conspire together to lock the computer up wholly and completely. I'm unable to kill Pages, at all, from the command line. I have been able to kill iPhoto from the command line, but it doesn't change anything, and I really hate to do it. If I issue a shutdown from the command line, it doesn't something is preventing us from getting a clean shutdown.
And I've had varying degrees of success registering my products, but they're all recent purchases and I've got serial numbers that appear to all them to work even if I'm unable to send in the registration over the internet. They're family versions.
Issue 6: Now that frequent hard restarts, I have mds and mdworker tacking up several CPUs on restart for an extended period of time. I've never been able to get any clarification on what these 2 processes do, but they keep my from doing anything useful for a good long period of time. Looking at the process listing, they appear to be in the MetaDataService suite of OSX apps, and that's about all I've been able to determine looking at man pages and several searches of apple sites.
Issue 7: Only on the G4 Mac, periodically I'll get the gray overlay of "You must restart your computer now." The thing is, things still appear to work somewhat, and what I've been able to see is that one of the CPUs appears to be offline in the activity monitor, which I always have up. I'm able to quit cleanly, AFAIK, out of most of the things I have running, but can't issue a normal shutdown, always requires hard reset (power button for 8 seconds or whatever the timeframe). spindump appears to be the culprit, or instigator. The CPU going offline is troubling. Not sure if I have a CPU going bad or a software problem with an app. The logs are riddled with all kinds of errors, but nothing indicative of what the problem is in fact.
This probably won't all post, and I don't expect everyone to take a stab at any and all of the issues. Just a less than gruntled user, and long time supporter, less than impressed lately. The features are big sellers and instigated a lot of the upgrade. For instance, I love spaces, some of the new themes in iDVD, and a lot of other things. I could do without the instability.

Oh, well that was a whole other kettle of fish:
Oh the G4 I attempted to install iLife '08 before Lepoard was available. About the only thing that installed cleanly was iPhoto. I ended up reinstalling everything back to iLife '06, and then upgrading back to the current stable version of the iLife '06 version. I didn't attempt a reinstall until after I upgraded to Leopard.
When I did reinstall, I made a iLife '06 folder, copied all iLife apps into it, and upgraded. Seemed to work, except for the part where iMovie gets left behind and iDVD is only mostly functional.
When I installed on the other 2 machines, it was after installing Leopard and all upgrades. On those 2 machines, I didn't bother with the copy, I just moved everything to the iLife '06 folder I created, and did a fresh install.
I didn't have to do anything with the iPhoto Libraries, that I can recall.
I always do an upgrade, never an archive and install. I've never had a problem with this back to 10.1 or 10.2.

Upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard - now have problems with basic apps?

I have a 2007 iMac (5.1, 2007) dual core. It's capable of running Snow Leopard and Lion (but not, I believe ML).
I just bought the upgrade SL discs from Apple and installed them as an upgrade, moving up to 10.6.3 (from the discs). After running software update I'm now on 10.6.8.
Since upgrading I've successfully run Time Machine. However I have the following problems:-
A bunch of emails were present in the Inbox, but contained no body text - just the subject line. I have managed to since find most of them successfully from TM. This is a minor annoyance but I thought I'd mention it.
ITunes won't boot up. It booted the first time I tried it, but since then the little icon just bounces up and down.
Certain apps won't quit properly. I quit from the top menu, but the little blue light remains under the icon in the dock. I then have to 'Force Quit - Application Not Responding' *every time*.
Safari frequently won't load up bookmarked or seach pages, the progress bar gets stuck part way across and I stare at the rainbow pinwheel for ages, before having to quit, then Force Quit, then restart Safari and try again.
Now, I'm tempted to do a Clean Install, but after four international moves (Singapore-Australia-UK-Canada) I no longer have any of the original discs, and thus as I understand it will lose iLife. And iLife 11 needs Lion.
I've done a disc permissions repair thing via the Mac Disc Utility. I've run a few clean-up operations via Onyx.
Any suggestions gratefully received. My Mac as been running great for years, but this upgrade has been extremely disappointing thus far.
thanks
Feargus

Hi baltwo
Many thanks for your advice. I've read all the links and will be buying a 2nd external HD to do a SuperDuper back up. I already had a 1Tb drive with Maxtor back up on it, and I also managed to get a Time Machine back up as well, so at least my data should be safe.
Qn - If I back up the System and Utility folders as well as the Home folder, I don't suppose I can restore them after an install and everything (eg iLife) will 'just work'?
Anyway, I went straight from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I don't have any Tiger discs either (see reasons above) so now have no way of restoring original set up. I tried to boot from the SL install CD and then hold 'C' but must be getting something wrong as I don't get the Disk Utility pop up. It just boots as normal to the desktop.
Anyway, via the normal Disc Utitlity I've done a Repair Permissions again with no major issues. However, my Onyx software now won't run at all so I can't clean any caches a second time.
I've contacted the Apple rep who sold be the SL discs but she's not got back to me yet re iLife.
This weekend I'm going to try a fresh upgrade. If that fails I'll try Erase and Install, if I can get the 'C' button timing right. I'll update if I have any successs.
cheers
f

My Snow Leopard upgrade: zero problems, applications tested so far

I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6 from 10.5.8 on Macbook Pro 17" unibody (mid 2009) yesterday. I had cloned to external drive before upgrading. Installation went fine with no problems....took about 50 minutes.
I've had zero problems. My printer's working fine (HP 5850), time machine/time capsule is working.
Software I've tested so far: VMware Fusion 2.0.5, Parallels 4.0.3844, Adobe Creative Suite CS4 (Photoshop CS4, etc.), CIsco VPN client 4.9.01.0180, Microsoft Office 2008 Pro 12.2.1, Aperture, Adobe Lightroom 2.4, FireFox 3.5.2, Thunderbird 2.0.0.23, Canon Digital Photo Professional 3.6.2 (plus ImageBrowser, EOS Utility, etc.), iWork 09, FooBilliard, iPod Touch sync, X11 for remote X via XDMCP to linux Ubuntu 9.0.4.
The new Microsoft Exchange 2007 support works really well. Mail automatically found my exchange server and authentication settings and it worked immediately. Really cool to see my outlook calendar appointments and contacts from work automatically populated into iCal via the new exchange support. It was really easy to setup.
Thats about it. Everything does appear to be faster...especially Safari loading of web pages and Apple Mail too.
I'm really pleased.

I have had a (mostly) similar experience installing SL on my 15" MBP (Early 2008). I first installed on a cloned external drive to test and troubleshoot and then moved it to the main working drive.
Printers working: HP Laserjet 2100 connected wirelessly to a remote Windows machine and Epson R280 via usb. (note: I can only use the Epson "lite" utility which is not quite as good as the previous utility under Leopard but it gets the job done).
All my applications work except Nikon View NX v1.4 which will require an update from Nikon.
As for hardware I will need a new driver from M-Audio before installing SL on my Mac Mini music server. My generic eSata express card 34 works much better under SL than under Leopard. Under Leopard hot plugging would freeze the OS and boot ups from an external drive attached to it often didn't work. No problem under SL.
The only problem I seem to be experiencing right now under SL are more frequent tap-click freezes. Not sure this is a purely SL issue as it happened under Leopard as well. BTW, the way I unfreeze the tap-click is to go into system preferences and toggle the tap-click off and on; minor but annoying.

Updated to Snow Leopard, now having problems with Java??

I've had my MacBookPro for five years, and I'm thrilled it's lasted so long with no bugs. However, since I updated from Tiger to Snow Leopard on my MBP, things have been running slow, hiccuping, etc. I've run the disc utility app a couple of times, and each time there is a long list of problems in the log under the categories "Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Drives.icns", and
"System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/management- agent.jar".
This feels a lot like a virus. Can anyone advise? I'm real worried.
Thanks,
Nancy

Nancy... there aren't any Mac viruses.
Your profile shows you are running v10.6.3. If that is the case, you need to update your system software to v10.6.7.
Click your Apple menu (top left in your screen) then click Software Update.
And check the startup disk in case it needs repairing.
Launch Disk Utility. /Applications/Utilities. Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left then select the First Aid tab.
Click: Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions). if the startup disk needs repairing, follow the instructions for Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
And how much free space there is on the startup disk... not enough and the drive will slow down. While you have the Disk Utility window open, at the bottom of the window see: Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have 15% free disk space.
Another way to keep an eye on free disk space, right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available.
"Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Drives.icns", and
"System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/management- agent.jar".
Those are just messages from verifying disk permissions. Nothing to worry about. I see the same ones.
One key thing to remember with computers. Always backup your important files on a timely basis.

Snow Leopard mail.app problem

I just upgraded 2 iMacs at home with Snow leopard and am having a problem with mail.app. I have 13 e-mail accounts on my box, and my wife has 6 e-mail accounts on her Mac. We have never had problems with e-mail before and Leopard and Tiger would go through the POP accounts in order, 4 at a time, until all the mail was downloaded in all the accounts.
What is happening now is that the mail.app is trying to get ALL the mail at once and trying to access all 13 POP accounts on my Mac, and all 6 on my wife's. It will only grab the first 4 POP accounts and show errors for the rest (and take them offline). I get the "*Unable To Receive Mail - There may be a problem with the mail server or network...*" error for the remaining accounts. The only way I can get the rest of the mail is to go through each account, control-left click, and select "Get New Mail from "[email protected]". Needless to say, this is a real pain in the butt as I do get a lot of mail and prefer it to come in properly in the background.
This is happening on both iMacs so it can't be an isolated thing. Anyone know of a fix for this??

I'm having the exact same issue. I've spent hours rebuilding mailboxes, passwords, and keys. I can often go days before the mail will actually be seen in these offline boxes. Apple - we need this fixed!

Snow Leopard MAIL SMTP problem...

Hi,
I have a friend using Snow Leopard MAIL. And he reported to me that all of his outbound emails were (all of a sudden??) being bounced back from his ISP (Hargray.com)
I was able to determine that the problem lies in the SMTP protocol bering issued forth by his iMac/Mail.
Using WireShark I can see that the EHLO being sent out is similar to:
EHLO ricks-printer-2/.001/
By comparison what comes out of my machine is:
EHLO [192.168.0.111]
I have already modfied his HOSTNAME in the /etc/hostconfig file but his EHLO computer name persists!
I have NO IDEA where its getting this 'ricks-printer-2' from nor why the SMTP process attaches the even worse junk on then of that.
The ISP comes back with "EHLO ricks-printer-2/.001/ Bad MIME TYPE"
I've scoured the web for solutions and REALLY thought the fixing up his HOSTNAME would do the trick, but no joy. {It did make the COMPUTER NAME in a terminal session prompt come out correctly though....}
Any ideas?
thanks,
tob

I'm having the exact same issue. I've spent hours rebuilding mailboxes, passwords, and keys. I can often go days before the mail will actually be seen in these offline boxes. Apple - we need this fixed!

Anyone has a remedy for mail/leopard sending emails problem ?

I just spend hours on my MBP trying to set up MAIL and on various forums trying to find a cure for what seems to be a common problem on Leopard, not being able to send emails. I like many others are getting the "can not send message using the smtp server verify that you have addressed this message correctly. Check your SMTP server settings in Mail Preferences and verify any advanced settings with your system administrator"
Ok I verified till I was blue, all settings are ok, info provided by ISP and checked, I tried various other combinations and I keep getting the same message. I can receive emails no probs and I can also send emails to myself . I looked on Apple site and it just tells me to check everything, yes it's a known problem but no cure in sight.They simply can't be serious and expect people to be without such an important function? So this means that I cannot send emails until someone gets off their a**e at Apple and fixes this problem ? Can any of you kind folks help, what else should I try ? I have been on Apple now for half a year but encountered same problems and grief as I had with windows for years.

found problem
im using aol still
aol just implimented a image verification (stupid) i downloaded the new aol desktop for mac and tried sending a test email.. it asked me to verfiy myself and now it works... dumb
so if you have same problem, download aol desktop for mac and send a test email, it will tell you do a image verfication.. do it and then it will say you can now send email...
how stupid... like the login/password wasn't enough...
and now i just can't even imagine why they are loosing money and almost gone (aol)

Leopard client login problem (Tiger server)... why can't I authenticate?

I look after a number of Macs and PCs at my company. Most Macs are running the latest version of Tiger but the newest machine came with Leopard. All users log into network accounts on our Xserve, running OSX Server (Tiger). However, the Leopard client machine refuses to log in to any network account, including the one I set up specifically for the machine's user, shaking its login window at me.
Users connect using Open Directory Master on the server and none of the Tiger clients have ever had problems logging in.
On the troublesome client machine, I have bound to the server correctly in Directory Utility which declares that the server is responding normally. At the login screen I get a green light and "Network Accounts Available" when I click through the options above the user name field so I know the machine can see the server.
I can successfully log in to a local account and subsequently mount the server volumes using the new name and password I've set up for the user.
What have I missed?
So far, in my attempts to resolve this I have done the following:
Removed the password from the new account;
Unbound from the server, changed the short name of the computer, re-bound to the server;
Tried logging in to other accounts known to be working;
In WGM checked that the NFSHomeDirectory entry shows the complete path for the user's home directory;
Trawled through endless forums for clues.
Kerberos is not running. Does it need to be for authenticating Leopard users?
Is there an issue with clear text passwords in Leopard? Seemingly eliminated through a no-password test account.
I'm sure that I logged in successfully once after setting up the machine but, after installing Leopard updates, logging in has consistently failed.
Anyone else having similar problems? Better yet, anyone have any answers?

No need to apologize. I learned the same way you are...
I think you may end up re-binding the 10.4 clients if you kerberize the server.
You may want to go to the server forum for folks with more definitive annswers.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96
In any case, make sure you have a reliable backup before you do anything.
Jeff
Message was edited by: Jeff Kelleher

Leopard is a problem in general

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