Logitech Mouse Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Experience

I have a Logitech MX Revolution mouse and after updating to 10.6 & 10.6.1 only the basic two buttons worked. This is an awesome mouse so it was frustrating. But did an internet search found fix (Work Around). Logitech does not have an update for 10.6 yet but this work around will get you going until then. I give credit to Megan Lavey from Sept 1, 09:
Logitech has not updated its drivers -- usually bundled with its Logitech Control Center application -- for Snow Leopard yet, and an upgrade to the software will take some time, Alan reports. In the meantime, you can work around this issue by doing the following:
Re-download Logitech Control Center 3.0
( http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/494/3129&cl=us,en) if you do not still have the installation package on your machine.
Unzip the download, then right-click on the installer package. Select "Show All Contents."
Navigate through the package to the Contents folder, then the Resources folder. There, you'll find the Logitech Control Center.mkpg. Double-click on it and install it.
Once your system has rebooted, you'll find that you regain full access to customizing your Logitech mouse (and it works for keyboards as well.) It even carried over all of my customized keyboard button settings from Leopard, so you shouldn't have to go through much hassle to reconfigure your equipment. The only thing I had to readjust was the scroll speed on my mouse.
If you have Exposé as one of your mouse/keyboard button settings, copy (do not move) the Expose.app file from /Applications/Utilities to the /Applications folder. Then Exposé will work properly again.

LargeAl wrote:
If you have Exposé as one of your mouse/keyboard button settings, copy (do not move) the Expose.app file from /Applications/Utilities to the /Applications folder. Then Exposé will work properly again.
I wonder if you would be better creating an 'alias' by dragging Exposé.app with the Command & alt keys held down. It would mean any software updates to Exposé will be provided to Logitech Control Center (LCC).
An alternative to LCC is ControllerMate. I switched to it when Logitech were using 'Application Enhancer' hacks for the LCC driver, it seems Logitech have stopped doing that nasty hack now, but ControllerMate & SteerMouse are alternative drivers.

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Snow Leopard problem 3 - Three/Four finger trackpad gestures not working.IMP: Not able to go back pages in Safari.

All of my Mail accounts began intermittently failing--with the exclamation point next to them.
Parallels 3 won't run, and if you have any suspended virtual machines when you upgraded to Snow, you'll be unable to shut them down to install Parallels 4. Of course, you can just rename the Parallels 3 folder. Parallels 4 is such a slow beast, I will be going back to 10.5 and 3.
System font conflicts leaving login windows with just squares for letters.
Safari is acting funky--fumbling CSS. Sites that looked fine before the upgrade were jacked up afterwards.
The good of all of this is that I was able to do a full restore from a Time Machine backup, and it worked perfectly!

Will Snow Leopard enhance my GarageBand experience?

... or are GB users to far down the food chain to notice any differences?
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If Snow Leopard isn't needed for anything else you do, just hold back a bit and wait to see what happens. I am sure we will get the good and the bad on this forum.
Just don't be too concerned if a bunch of new posters come on saying "Snow Leopard Broke Garageband!" While there may be particular hardware/software configurations that may break under any new OS release, the vast majority of users usually don't have problems. The few with problems usually show up here and complain. 8^)

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No. That is normal behavior. If you don't want the movement to wake up the computer, then turn off the mouse before putting the computer to sleep. There should be an on-off switch or button on the bottom of the mouse.

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Just a quick word...you well get more knowledgeable advice here than on Apple support.
I actually I was pleasantly surprised by how knowledgeable Apple support was.

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Several threads on Apple Discussions are describing problems with some display profiles after upgrading to Snow Leopard. My own experience is as follows:
I upgraded 2 machines, a 2007 MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz, and an early 2008 Mac Pro octo 2.8 GHz with Apple 30 inch Cinema Display. I use the Eye1 Display2 hardware calibrator, and have been calibrating to Gamma 2.2 for years as recommended in the Adobe Photoshop Mac Forum. The MacBook Pro has no issues with display profiles, and looks the same as before. The Mac Pro, however, was a different story. As soon as I upgraded, the display just looked wrong to me. The screen lacked contrast and looked quite soft, almost blurry. I immediately booted back into a clone of my old Leopard installation to check, and sure enough, there was that punchy contrast & solid color I'd grown accustomed to. The comparison was run using the same profile on the same hardware. Only difference was Snow Leopard. I went back to Snow Leopard and selected Apple's new default profile for my display, and this looked better, but nowhere near my custom profile on my old system. I actually took a screen shot of Apple's red, yellow & green interface button controls to show the difference. Totally noticeable as follows: Screen shot taken in Snow Leopard captures washed out interface elements. Same Screen shot opened in Leopard allows comparison of the interface elements in Snow Leopard with those in Leopard. I'd post it here, but it's back at the office & I'm at home today.
I reported this to Apple Feedback, and am posting here in case anyone else has seen this, or has suggestions. Obvious next step is to recalibrate in Snow Leopard & compare, but that doesn't explain why the same profile on the same hardware looks quite different under Snow Leopard. Apple's documentation specifically states that those using custom profiles will see no difference after upgrading.

The thing is, I don't believe that Apple changed the UI for Snow Leopard. I think I'm seeing a difference in the whole screen, using the same custom profile as before on the same hardware. I am pretty sure we are looking at the same old UI elements being displayed improperly. To support this, my MacBook Pro UI and screen look the same as they did before the Snow Leopard upgrade. Only my Mac Pro with Apple Cinema Display is showing the issue. Both machines were previously running Leopard 10.5.8 with custom display profiles. After the upgrade, using the same display profiles, the MacBook Pro looks the same as before, while the Mac Pro looks washed out, not just the UI elements, but the whole screen. Also, I've been unable to generate a satisfactory new custom profile for the Mac Pro using my Eye1 Display2 hardware calibrator.

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Anyone else have &/or solve this problem?

I also upgraded to Snow Leopard, and work with Photoshop CS2 extensively.
- intel Mac 2.16 ghz 3GB RAM, btw.
Let me tell you, my problems:
It worked fine after installing Rosetta. It worked for a couple of weeks, with some blue screen crashes and Photoshop quits. but ran ok.
Then on a weekend that I had to finish up some work, Photohsop stopped working. Yikes! First it said I had to activate the product. Weird. Well I did, then basically CS2 stopped working and gave me an error message: "A Serious Error has occurred. Please reinstall the software"
Weird again. I reinstalled it. It still would not work. the same "Serious Error..." message. After diggin around on the internet, I found out about all the compatibility issues with ALL the Photoshops and Snow Leopard. I followed different paths/workarounds on deleting, reinstalling I could find on the net, all to no avail. It would always give me the "Serious Error" message. I called Adobe, but the Tech Support is not open on the weekends!
Bottom Line is I eventually had to clean reinstall Leopard OS, which wipes out the whole HD, And then I restored from a Time Machine Backup. BUT - I didn't want to restore from a 10.6 Time Machine Backup, so I had to go all the way back to an Aug. 10.5.8 backup on Time Machine. Good thing I kept my most recent work on another external drive or else I would have lost my work.
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Problems with wireless mouse/keyboard after upgrade to snow leopard

Hi!
I am wondering if someone has some insight for me. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger. I have been using a Logitech S 530 wireless keyboard/mouse combo for a few years. I am now having problems with them irratically.
1. When on line and the page is large, I often cannot move the blue bar at the bottom of the screen to scroll to the right. What happens is like a stutter; as I am dragging the bar, it and the page shake rapidly side-to-side. Sometimes, I can drag it to the right, but as soon as I let go, it snaps back to the left. This does not happen in Word.
2. When in boxes with dropdown options, only occasionally does that happen. The dropdown either doesn't show, or it flashes quickly. Sometimes it will work after clicking many times. This happens with dropdown menus as well as search boxes that have dropdown choices for previous searches or suggested searches a la Google.
3. When I use my function key or mouse to display all windows, I can't choose the one I want. Regardless of which one I put my cursor over, only the left-most one is highlighted and comes to the front when I click.
4. There is a varying lag. Sometimes the system is responsive, and other times there is a lag of varying lengths before the system responds to the mouse action (click, drag, zoom, etc.)
5. For a while, my left mouse button wouldn't work. I reconfigured it, that seems to have done the trick.
6. Today, I can't open any of the menu items on Firefox. I can move the cursor there, but when I click on any of them, nothing happens. This is okay in Safari.
I have disconnected and reconnected the usb, restarted the computer, and tried to reinstall the software for the mouse and keybord. When I did that, I got a message saying it couldn't install on the current OS, so I went to Logitech and dowloaded and installed the latest version (which indicated it is for OS X 10.6.8.)
I don't know if this is a Snow Leopard problem, but it started sometime after I upgraded. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Update all your third party software or uninstall and reinstall 10.6 versions.
If your going to 10.7, be warned a lot of software will not work at all and your 10.5 era machine will be slow, perhaps even have problems as 10.7 is problematic on older hardware.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
IMO save for a new 10.8 machine after this summer.
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My Snow Leopard Install Experiences

First of all, let it be known that I’m a relative newcomer to the world of Macs, having bought my first last December. However, I’ve been around computers for fifteen years and class myself as pretty sad on the geek scale and run two Windows and two Linux machines here.
With that in mind, it should be noted that I may have missed something obvious when I upgraded, or that computers really can be annoying sometimes and mileage really does vary.
I’ve got a Macbook Aluminium, upgraded to 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD. It’s been running perfectly since the day I bought it, but being a newbie I added and removed countless applications until it got pretty close to what I thought was ideal for my day to day use.
Before I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I did two backups. A block level backup with CCC, and my usual Full+Incremental backups to another external drive, again with CCC. The first drive was stashed for emergency purposes, after both were tested bootable.
*Standard Upgrade *
Went well, apart from a couple of apps that weren’t on any of the problem lists I’d looked at before the upgrade. I accepted defaults, including all the languages I’d never need, and likewise the printers.
On reboot, it was fine and everything seemed significantly faster, but putting the machine to sleep took an age; minutes in fact. Returning from sleep, ejecting external media, and connecting to wireless weren’t improved either. In fact, I’d say that returning from sleep and the wireless connection actually took longer.
Embedded Flash had the fans on my laptop kicking in within seconds, even though I’ve had to push the machine pretty hard in the past to hear the fans at all.
It just didn’t feel right at all, so safe in the knowledge that I have backups that can be quickly restored, I tried a clean install from a running machine.
*Clean Install from Desktop *
Easy, and this time I opted not to install any of the printers or extra languages. Machine absolutely flew on reboot.
However, sleep and resume problems remained. Wireless connections were sluggish and even disconnected once; not something I’m used to.
Plugged my printer in - HP C4380 - and drivers were duly downloaded and installed. Printed a test page and the drivers crashed!
Flash problems remain, even after repairing permissions on a Flash update.
Battery life was down to two hours!
Didn’t get as far as re-installing old apps or data.
At this point I was pondering going back to Leopard, but I had another couple of hours to spare, so I tried a clean install from boot.
*Clean Install from Boot *
Booted from the install CD. Deleted the existing partition and recreated and formatted.
Installed all the printers, none of the languages I didn’t need, Rosetta (NX requirement until they release V4 native).
After every major software package install, I’ve done a permissions repair and the only update that’s caused any problems is Flash.
Other than that, this is perfect. Copying my data back from the CCC backup was a piece of cake, and being a clean install meant I could be selective about what apps I put back.
No fans, no jittery Flash videos, four hour battery life, instant connections to wireless, fifteen seconds to sleep with more apps open than I care to count. No printer crashes, either network or local drivers. Machine has been running for a week without a reboot.
Today I formatted the drive containing my old Leopard block copy backup and backed up Snow Leopard.
Conclusions
 Well, none that are immediately obvious because I’m fully aware that the final solution which worked for me makes very little sense from a logical point of view.
I just wanted to share this in case there are those out there who are deeply frustrated and want to try something else before giving up and going back to Leopard.
Of course, this really is only for the people who have the time to mess about like this, and of course it’s only safe to play around if you have the backups available.
I’ve never been a fan of OS upgrades in general, but I have to say that I probably could have lived with the very first upgrade I did and researched the problems I met with or waited for fixes.
However, that I took the third option did make me wonder about a few things, and it’s also been a good learning experience.
As we say in the UK, this is just my two bob’s worth, and I certainly wouldn’t advocate taking this approach unless you have time, patience, and more time. Particularly in light of the fact that the third options being such a massive improvement makes no immediate sense whatsoever.
Unless you know otherwise...
PS: Just one annoyance for me. Those bloody icons in the expanding grids are *FAR TOO BIG*, so let’s please have the option to change them.
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The big deal that I see in the 3rd install was that you wiped the drive and reformatted. Maybe the drive had issues exaggerated with the Installation of SL.
Did you ever use Boot Camp when you were playing around with installing and uninstalling apps? Some folks have found that the installer does not like HDDs which had a previous BC partition that was later removed, especially if it was not removed properly.
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Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
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