Leopard: Office and CS2 Flawless

I loaded Leopard last night with an erase and install because my system never really seemed to run as fast as I expected. Especially, when the systems at work are faster and have slower CPU’s and 2 less gigs of RAM. But I have 2 HD’s and I moved all my files to the slave drive. Installed the OS and then loaded MS Office 04 and Adobe CS2. Went ahead an added all updates to both applications and they run smoothly. I am currently building a catalog in CS2 and it runs flawless. My system is quite faster, but I think that is attributed to never re-installing Tiger in the past for optimization. So for those who wonder, “YES” Office and CS2 run fine in Leopard. Leopard is solid, great job Apple.

loribwith wrote:
When I launch the program, it gets to the end and force quits.
What do you mean by "force quits"? Force quit is when you force an application to quit. Programs don't "force quit" on their own. Do you mean the program crashes? Any error message(s)?

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I have Cs2 andOffice for Mac 2004 installed on an Os 10.6.3 system. This weekend my computer did an auto pdate to Os 10.6.8 and now I cannot save or print from any office or CS2 Apps. What happened. Office also freezes and I have to force quit.

I had Cs2 and Office for Mac 2004 installed on an OS 10.6.3 system. Worked fine. This weekend my computer did an auto update to OS 10.6.8 and now I cannot save or print from any office or CS2 Apps. What happened. Office also freezes and I have to force quit. Any advise. System or Software problem?

Bad timing. Reapply the security update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1489
What happened is that version 1.0 of the security update was available for a bit of time this weekend, and that disabled Rosetta. Version 1.1 brought it back.

If I upgrade from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion, will I lose Microsoft Office and iMovie?

If I upgrade from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion, will I lose Microsoft Office and iMovie?

Check to make sure your applications are compatible. PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
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Hi, having old macbook pro intending to upgrade my os from snow leopard to lion but negative reviews on lion just put me off..i have ms office and photo shop installed on my machine..my question is will upgrading to lion stop me using those application?

Hi, having old macbook pro intending to upgrade my os from snow leopard to lion but negative reviews on lion just put me off..i have ms office and photo shop installed on my machine..my question is will upgrading to lion stop me using those application? thank you.

htfromgrantown wrote:
Hi, having old macbook pro intending to upgrade my os from snow leopard to lion but negative reviews on lion just put me off..i have ms office and photo shop installed on my machine..my question is will upgrading to lion stop me using those application? thank you.
Negative reviews are common place here as it is a trouble shooting forum. If you want to read the advantages, improvements and new features then go to the Apple site. If you are running Word 2004, Early Adobe suite, etc which are PPC programs, then don't update. Go to Apple logo in upper left menu bar, open About this mac > More Info > Software >Applications and sort by 'Kind' and look what PPC programs you have installed. If you are not prepared to upgrade these programs, then do not update to Lion.
There are plenty of threads to read up on about this here. But remember that 99.9% of comments will be negative, even though the forums represent only a tiny fraction of the Millions of Lion Downloads purchased and installed with no issues at all. So basically it's your call.
Good Luck

Is snow leopard compatible with microsoft office and with quicken 2007?

Is snow leopard 10.6.3 compatible with Microsoft office and with quicken 2007. I am about to upgrade to snow leopard and wanted to see if there are any problems with interfacing with non apple applications. Any help is appreciated.

Yes. Snow Leopard includes Rosetta, which will allow Office 2004 and Quicken 2007 to run. Office 2008 and 2011 are Intel native and will also run under SL.

Will quark 6 and cs2 work on snow leopard

Want to update to 10.6.8. Will my old Quark 6 and CS2 still work?

CS2 was working in 10.6.8 but now crashes hard (especially Indesign/Illustrator) as of latest updates. Can't reinstall it either. A wonder it had worked as long as it did. Had migrated CS2 from an older imac to a newer imac last year.
I had purchased Photoshop Elements 8 right about the time Elements 9 came out, and soon after received a Great Deal offer via email to purchase a full version of Photoshop CS5 for about half price. I jumped on it; also received free upgrade to 5.5.
Since Photoshop was all I was using anyway, worked out perfect.

I transferred files from a NAS server to the Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server and now some of the files have Custom Access and can't be opened by some users. How do I fix this?

We're setting up our Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server, and in the process transferred files that had been stored and accessed from our Blackarmor NAS server over to the Mac. These files were all created on PC's and are Office Excel files, WordPerfect files or PDF's. When you look at the files on the Mac from the Mac and bring up Get Info for the affected file, it says that the file has Custom Access. The files that work properly don't have that configuration. I can access and open the files on some computers, but some users can't open the files from their computer even though they can see it. We're all using PC's and they get the Error: Access Denied-Contact your administrator--or something similar. I've seen on the web similar issues and it may have something to do with ACL permissions. I don't know enough about Mac OS to understand this, but what is baffling is that they can be opened from some PC's but not others, and all of the Users have the same accessibility to the files. Thanks for a solution!!

Oh, on the losing Internet, try this...
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7 & 10.8…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
Instead of joining your Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.
For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
PS. Your English is quite good & completely understandable.

Best Practice - Leopard Server and a Windows Server/Application

Our family owns an accounting practice in Northern California. We all use MacBook Pros running Leopard as our client machines.
Our customers all use QuickBooks for Windows for their accounting software. We currently host and store our customer's QuickBooks company files on a Windows 2003 SBS Server. Our staff connects to the Windows Server to launch QuickBooks and perform our accounting services. We do not use any of the features of the Windows Server besides the ability to log in with multiple user sessions to launch QuickBooks from both internal and remote office locations.
Since we all use MacBook Pros, we'd like to use Leopard Server and implement mail, calendaring, wikis, etc. My dilemma is figuring out if this is technically possible because we need to continue to log into a Windows PC, Server, etc with multiple staff's sessions to perform our accounting services with QuickBooks for Windows.
Can someone suggest a way we can do this? I'm not very technical since I am an accountant! We're hoping this can be done somehow!
Thanks for any suggestion and assistance!
John

We also have Quickbooks as our legacy Windows app.
Quickbooks files for several companies are stored on our Mac OS X Server, which is accessed by a Windows 2003 Server.
I considered using Parallels or VMware, but the administrative overhead seam excessive. (One installation of Windows is too many). Windows Terminal Services seamed the best fit. Additional client access licenses were required from Microsoft as Windows Server only comes with two administrative RDP licenses.
Our staff and staff from accounting and tax consulting firms connect to Quickbooks on the Windows server via RDP. Internally, we have a couple of diskless thin clients, and iMacs with RDP software installed. Externally, both Windows and Mac OS X clients connect to our 10.5 server IPSec VPN, and then to the Windows server, again via RDP.
Performance is acceptable, as here in Australia we now have ADSL service with 1-2Mbps upstream. On my 23" display (Mac OS X 10.5), situated 1200miles away, a RDP connection at 1280x1024 works seamlessly.
On the Mac Server side, we have recently upgraded to Leopard Server, and thus haven't implmented all the fabulous new features such as calendar sharing and wikis, but we are using network spotlight, and of course the Mail server. Additionally, we have a Fujitsu SnapScan which scans documents that are then automatically OCR'd, and made available by network spotlight. All very cool.
Further work to be undertaken;
- Have the Windows server logins authenticate with our Mac OS X Open Directory. Currently account credentials are duplicated.
- Implement public key cryptography for the VPN, so that we can revoke individual client VPN installations
- Implement two factor authentication (probably CryptoCard)
- Batten down the permissions on the Windows server. The default Quickbooks installation required an unacceptable level of user rights.

Snow Leopard Server and FCServer

Hi.
I'm running FCServer on an iMac, and I'm currently looking for the best solution for giving co-workers outside of our office network remote access to our FCS database. The main purpose for this is for remote users to screen and download episode segments and movies from our database.
I was initially thinking VPN would be the only solution, but then I saw Snow Leopard Server has 'Mobile Access Server' built right into the OS, which appears designed to help users avoid having to use a VPN.
Before I go out and buy SLS for the company, I want to be sure it will work. Am I correct that Snow Leopard Server, and the built-in Mobile Access Server, will allow users outside of our network remote access to our FCSrvr database?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. And if this question is better suited for a different forum please let me know as well.
Thank you!

Hmmm... Thanks for the replies.
I posted this question in the OS X Server forum and got this response:
+"I haven't used Final Cut Server, but I'm pretty sure the Mobile Access Server wouldn't work with it. MAS works with plain HTTP, and the Address Book, iCal, and Mail (SMTP and IMAP) services; but FCServer is only partly HTTP-based, and I don't think even the HTTP part will work due to how MAS authenticates HTTP clients. Also, you might be thinking about using MAS as the same computer as FCServer, and it won't work that way -- MAS needs to be on a separate (internet-facing) computer from the actual origin server (which should be firewalled from the internet).+
+I'd go back to thinking about VPN... "+
Can anyone offer any more insight into this for me? I'm just an audio/video post-production guy, so this is all a little outside of my training.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Mini and Adobe CS3 vs G4 tower and CS2

Graphic artist is using
tower G4 Dual 1GHz
2mb L3 cache per processor
1.5 gb RAM with Creative Suite 2
I am suggesting we move on to a MacMini 1.66GHZ with 1 gig Ram using CS3...
Any opinions on relative speeds - I have CS2 on a Mini and it is slower than the G4, but I'd reckon CS3 on Intel would be quicker? All we would install would be Office and CS3.
(more RAM is an option, but just out of the box - what do you think?)

CS3 would indeed be quicker on an Intel mini since it's Intel native, thus runs without the memory and performance hit caused by Rosetta. I'd expect a 1.66 mini with 1Gb RAM and native software to outperform a dual 1GHz processor G4 by a notable margin, suffering only from a slower hard drive. However, since you note the intention to also use MS Office, which is NOT yet Intel native, I'd expect running that to cause the system a significant slowdown because it would require Rosetta to run in the background. Under that circumstance, I'd urge the system to be upgraded to the max of 2Gb RAM, which should allow enough room for CS3 to run well, and still provide sufficient RAM to get reasonable performance from MS Office. Alternatively, you could perhaps download Neo Office instead (it's fully MS Office compatible, free and Intel native) in which case 1Gb would be sufficient (2 would be better).
And just to add to the possible complications, I'd also want to throw in an external, faster, FW drive, which could be set up to boot from and squeeze even more performance out of the system.
Ooops - ON EDIT: Neo Office can be found at http://neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Leopard server and windows users

We run a mac + pc environment with some users on macs, many on pcs, and our office server is a windows exchange for email etc. As a multi-location consulting firm, we need to set up a good collaboration system that is hosted internally (to preserve confidentiality) and allows us to create a web-based knowledge creation, sharing and collaboration environment. We have looked at some of the new web services offers, but all are hosted by the providers.
We are considering buying a mac leopard server and have the following questions:
1/ will windows users be able to use the wiki, chat, calendaring and podcast facilities from their laptops without any problems, and will they have the same easy user interface?
2/ does the wiki server enable group collaboration like:
2a/ sending out email notifications on new posts (without changing our exchange server)
2b/ allowing groups to create project and team specific areas
3/ The problem we face is one of adoption. If we can make this as easy as facebook, then lots of people will migrate within 48 hours. But is this possible with the leopard server?
4/ finally, we are based in Singapore and our offices are all in Asia? Do we need a lot of experienced Apple-savvy technical people to create any of these applications, or is leopard server as easy to use as a mac is for a home user?
Any thoughts or inputs would help. FYI, alternatives we are evaluating are jive software's clearspace or basecamp or zoho's web based suites.
thanks / Suresh
Message was edited by: suresh Venugopalan Shankar
Message was edited by: suresh Venugopalan Shankar

suresh Venugopalan Shankar wrote:
1/ will windows users be able to use the wiki, chat, calendaring and podcast facilities from their laptops without any problems, and will they have the same easy user interface?
Yes, the web based interfaces work just fine for both OS's, the chat server is using jabber (clients on about every OS) and the calendaring is using the standards based iCalendar format.
2/ does the wiki server enable group collaboration like:
2a/ sending out email notifications on new posts (without changing our exchange server)
2b/ allowing groups to create project and team specific areas
I don't know of functionality to send out e-mail notifications on new posts, but you can subscribe to RSS feeds of things posted in the blog section of the wiki server. I'd need a little bit more information to understand what you're looking for as far as creating project and team specific areas.
3/ The problem we face is one of adoption. If we can make this as easy as facebook, then lots of people will migrate within 48 hours. But is this possible with the leopard server?
On the front end most of this stuff is very easy to use, and is in my opinion even simpler than facebook and such.
4/ finally, we are based in Singapore and our offices are all in Asia? Do we need a lot of experienced Apple-savvy technical people to create any of these applications, or is leopard server as easy to use as a mac is for a home user?
It's pretty easy to set the server up as long as you read the documentation. There's also a lot of resources online if you have problems (like this forum). It would probably be helpful to have someone familiar with LDAP systems and at least some command line usage on the server, but like I said, the documentation is pretty good. You can go read it to get an idea at http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/
Hope that helps out some.

Leopard 10.5 & CS2

Recently, I purchased the Mac Pro with Leopard 10.5, but the software I have, Creative Suite 2 Premium, says (when I try to install it on the new machine) that I need a new serial number. However, when I called Adobe, they said it wasn't a re-serializing issue at all, but that the CS2 software isn't compatible with the new OS, and that I'm forced to upgrade my software! What a gimmick! Is this really true? Isn't there a way to get CS2 to work on my new machine?

I dunno about all that. I'm running Photoshop CS1 in Leopard just fine. The problems (which were minor) were mostly solved by the 10.5.2 update. Of course, the big deal is that CS1 and CS2 do not run natively on my new Intel machine, so using it is no faster than it was on my old machine. To run natively I would have to upgrade to CS3.
Personally, I think Adobe was lying to you. Or the person you spoke to simply didn't know what they were talking about. I was recently involved in trying to upgrade both the Mac and Windows version of Photoshop (and Photoshop only) from the full CS2 version to Photoshop CS3, and failing with serial number problems. The photographer attempting the upgrade had called Adobe before purchasing and asked what they had to buy, followed the advice, bought what should (according to Adobe) have been the correct thing, and it failed on both the Mac and her Windows box with serial number problems.
Do you still have your old machine with Tiger and the CS2 install? If so, and you have your personal files backed up, you should be able to reinstall Leopard, then use migration assistant to get your old account and programs into Leopard. Check in the Install forum for detailed instructions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1219
Or try calling Adobe and ask to speak to someone higher up the food chain. Many people are running CS2 in Leopard.
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What type of microsoft office and home do i buy for my imac g4 v10.4.11

which type of microsoft office and home can i buy for my imac os x g4 v10.4.11 also what type of antivirus do i buy.

taurosboy wrote:
imac os x g4 v10.4.11 also what type of antivirus do i buy.
That's a valid question as your OS is somewhat vulnerable, although most modern malware will only execute on an Intel Mac, there has been at least one that is PPC savy. Your best defense against that would be to keep Java turned off in all browsers.
The problem you will find is that most A-V software these days is also Intel only or requires Leopard.
ClamXav requires OS X 10.5 or above, but you can still find a Tiger version here.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition looks like it will still work.

Microsoft Office and Mac OS X 10.6 Issues

Two weeks ago I installed Snow Leopard to my Mac hoping it would be an upgrade. Everything works well other than my Microsoft Office, and as a student, this is a huge problem. I have Word 2004, and now it freezes all the time. What can I do to fix this?
Thanks,
Amanda

Hi, Amanda & welcome to the forums.
I'm not going to lecture you about software compatibility - I'm sure you can do the math between 2004 & 2009, but I will warn you about a common issue with fonts that old...
The general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Be sure to find and remove all duplicates also.
Start there to be sure all fonts that are in play come out with a clean bill of health.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from any MS Equation Editor installation and good luck.
I would also suggest you take a look at iWork '09 with Pages. You can download a trial version. I think it would be a good step in concert with your new OS to get current with a new word processor as well.

How to restrict Sales office and Sales Group.

Hi All,
I want to restrict the users from changing the sales office and sales group in the sales order.
Is there any standard way to achieve this or do we need to do with User exit??
Please help.
Thanks,
Pavan.

hi
there is no standard settings for estrict the users from changing the sales office and sales group in the sales order
so you have to write the logic in userexit
DATA: lt_user_list   TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF tvarvc,
       lw_user_list   TYPE tvarvc,
       lr_user        TYPE RANGE OF syuname,
       lw_user        LIKE LINE OF lr_user.
IF screen-name EQ ' VBAK-VKBUR' and   VBAK-VKGRP.
* IF sy-tcode EQ 'VA02'.
**Get list of users who are allowed to change SO - only they can change payment terms
     SELECT *
       FROM tvarvc
       INTO TABLE lt_user_list
      WHERE name = 'ZSD_VA02_ALLOWED'
        AND type = 'S'.
     IF sy-subrc = 0.
       LOOP AT lt_user_list INTO lw_user_list.
         lw_user-sign = lw_user_list-sign.
         lw_user-option = lw_user_list-opti.
         lw_user-low    = lw_user_list-low.
         lw_user-high   = lw_user_list-high.
         APPEND lw_user TO lr_user.
         CLEAR lw_user.
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**    If user is not in the users listed for change allowed
       IF sy-uname NOT IN lr_user.
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ENDIF.
go to STVARV t code here you check the NAME and give the user ids who need to change

Leopard: Office and CS2 Flawless

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