More ram with snow leopard?
can a late 2008 MBP 2.53 hold 8 ram if snow leopard comes out?
right now my top is 4 gigs....it would be nice if this were possible
neuroanatomist wrote:
The limitation was hardware, not software. Snow Leopard won't change that.
...which is really unfortunate for those of us who had taken the plunge in late 2008.
Apple Insider had published a great article explaining it in detail, but I cannot find it right now.
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More problems with Snow Leopard - won't restart
Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, my Pro Mac has been acting like a Windows PC - problem after problem after problem.
The latest problem is the "Restart" function. If I want to restart my computer (or even if another program has to restart the computer), the system freezes. Example: I go to the Apple icon, click "Restart" and the computer goes into the blue screen with the whirling gray wheel (as if it's going to actually restart). But that's all that happens. If I leave it alone, it will sit like that for hours. It NEVER restarts. If I shut it down, I can turn the computer back on with no problem, but the "restart" function only serves to lock everything up.
Anyone have any suggestions on fixing this? Not a workaround or a band-aid... a real fix.Usually when I run up against a problem it has a known solution - if I start up the computer and see a flashing system folder I'm going to look at the hard drive. But sometimes the problem is less obvious - like yours. I'd start by unplugging everything but the keyboard, mouse and display and boot into a new user account as I've said before. I'll run hardware and disk diagnostics and if everything checks out I'll move to the new user account for an extended test.
At this point I've learned that you've installed 10.6 more than once and that you've apparently created a new user account at least once and had that appear to at least temporarily solve your problem. What I don't know is whether you've performed the hardware test yet and if you've run the disk utility application on all three drives. Also, while it seems that you have reinstall the OS you haven't indicated how. This info would be helpful.
As to your question about a 'bad installation': Snow Leopard by default performs an upgrade which installs the new OS and deletes the old OS. Incompatible applications are supposed to be moved into a folder marked incompatible. For whatever reason every once in a while things go awry and when I've run into this issue I've attempted a reinstall using the upgrade method first. This has worked often enough that I continue to do so and recommend it. When it doesn't work I erase the drive, reinstall the OS and then use the migration assistant and again, this is my typical recommendation. Only once have I run into a situation where the problem persisted and when I did another erase and install and then manually installed the user's software and manually moved her documents etc the problem didn't reappear. I concluded there must have been some incompatible program that the installer didn't catch. -
Why is my Photoshop CS4 crashing with Snow Leopard!?
IN an attempt to make my machine work faster, an employee at the apple store said I should upgrade to snow leopard and get more RAM.
Snow Leopard upgrade--done. version 10.6.2
RAM--ordered 2 more gigs from crucial, not installed yet.
Hardware:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.30f1
Software:
Photoshop CS4 11.0.1
Since the upgrade I have had crash after crash in photoshop and bridge. Other times PS freezes and I have to force quit. My tools don't work properly. The crashes happen so often and it is hard to tell what/ if any particular sequence of events make it occur. I can only work in PS for a few minutes before a crash occurs anywhere between 0 and 12 minutes usually. (inconvenient because i am a wedding album designer, PS is my only way to do my job.)
A few examples of frequent problems are:
--my free transform tool gives an error saying it can't perform because of a program error.
--my key shortcuts become unresponsive when trying to use them to change between tools, especially when using the zoom tool or the brushes
--marquis tool doesn't show up when i make a selection
--images do not open when i drag or double click them from bridge to PS
--after saving and closing an image PS becomes unresponsive and requires a force quit
--my latest crash was PS just quit with no warning, everything disappeared and the crash report appeared, I had just hit command+s to save when it happened.
Things I have done to attempt to fix:
--ran all updates that are posted on adobe and apple for both products.
--font management: FontExplorerXPro cleaned all but essential system fonts from the directories and cleaned font cashes in every place I knew to look for them
--i do not have the menlo font
--uninstalled all Adobe products (unregistered, deleted preference files, used Appzapper, and then used the adobe uninstaller, then all remaining folders from adobe were thrown away and trash emptied, computer rebooted.) **this is just the most recent attempt at uninstall and reinstall, the first time i just used the adobe uninstaller which clearly did not actually remove the program and all files. annoying. regardless, after each reinstall, the problems continued as if nothing had been done.
--i do not use 3rd party plug-ins to my knowledge (how would I know? could these be installed without me intentionally doing it?
I have attached my most recent crash report to this.
i need this to work. this machine and program were far too expensive to be making my life this miserable. Especially when the upgrade was recommended by apple. and adobe's site had no major issues to report about snow leopard. the fact that work that should have taken 4 hours has taken me about 2 days to accomplish between crashes is a rather major issue to me. as is the fact that i have a $3000 piece of equipment on my desk that is virtually worthless right now.
please help!you have just worked a miracle in my life. I did all of the suggestions this morning. So far, so good, been running PS and bridge for 4 hours without a crash. tools also seem to be working correctly. i don't want to get too excited yet, but you might be my new favorite person in the world!
No, I didn't install rosetta with 10.6, at least not on purpose. Best guess is that I had enabled rosetta to fix an issue i was having with PS3 last year, but I had forgotten how to turn it off and on. I have been looking for that switch for days! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction for that. I had hoped that my attempts at uninstalling and reinstalling the CS would set everything back to default, but it didn't stop it from running in rosetta. Rosetta is now off in PS and in the font manager.
I don't know about the PCC code thing, where do I find that information? What does it mean? I did change a few things in my PS preferences concerning the GPU settings because there was some speculation on other threads that the video card was causing crashs. But I think I set that back to normal (enable open GL Drawings). I don't know if the things I changed concerning that might have something to do with the PCC code stuff?
I think the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist file in the user/library/preference folder might have been the golden ticket. when i opened that preference folder there were all kinds of things from my old PS3 in there too. I dumped all of those and rebooted. I have been wondering why after repeated uninstalls PS4 still had seemed to remember stuff from previous installations and also from my old PS3. (which I thought I had completely uninstalled prior to installing the creative suite 4--it was not an upgrade). it annoyed to say the least that it retained memory of the old programs. Now I wonder what else might need dumped out of that folder. Should I be checking that folder for particular things periodically?
When you say clean all caches, where do I find them? the font manager cleans the font caches, but other than that, I don't know where to look for other caches or how to actually clean them out.
Thank you so much for answering my questions/frustration. You have saved my sanity--and my computer from taking a two story plunge to the pavement. you're awesome! -
Since loading Lion, I've experienced much more instability than Snow Leopard. In particular, Mail crashes with regularity, full-screen apps seem to run slower and show the beach ball more often for longer, etc. I love the features, but I'm disappointed with the performance. Any help coming from Apple? I've been sending them so many reports after crashes, that their file must be full!
Summoning max. courage, I did what you advised. Here is the result. What does this tell you? My Lion 7.2 (mid 2011 iMac) has several annoying glitches (which I have so far tolerated through gritted teeth) but none that have actually stopped me working.
BTW, I see several items involving CleanMyMac which I did not know I had. It is generally villified as a trouble-maker. Spotlight can't find an app. or a utility of that name. How can I get rid of what's there please? Just delete?
Last login: Thu Nov 3 20:55:11 on console
Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '
com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport(4.0)
Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|com\.vix|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '
Password:
com.openssh.sshd
com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderXAgent
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.067493DB-2728-4DF3-87D8-092EF69086E8
com.bombich.ccc
com.adobe.SwitchBoard
Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '
com.sony.PMBPortable.AutoRun
uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam
com.veoh.webplayer.startup
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae
com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0
Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ ls -1A {,/}Library/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Sta}* 2> /dev/null
/Library/Components:
/Library/Extensions:
/Library/Frameworks:
AEProfiling.framework
AERegistration.framework
ApplicationEnhancer.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
FxPlug.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
PluginManager.framework
ProFX.framework
ProMetadataSupport.framework
TSLicense.framework
iLifeFaceRecognition.framework
iLifeKit.framework
iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
/Library/Input Methods:
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
EPPEX Plugin.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
Silverlight.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
/Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.sony.PMBPortable.AutoRun.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.bombich.ccc.plist
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.067493DB-2728-4DF3-87D8-092EF69086E8.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderXAgent.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes:
.DS_Store
Application Enhancer.prefPane
Default Folder X.prefPane
DejaVu.prefPane
Flash Player.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
com.bombich.ccc
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderXAgent
/Library/QuickLook:
iWork.qlgenerator
/Library/QuickTime:
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
DesktopVideoOut.component
DivX 6 Decoder.component
FCP Uncompressed 422.component
Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
LiveType.component
/Library/ScriptingAdditions:
.DS_Store
Adobe Unit Types.osax
Default Folder X Addition.osax
/Library/StartupItems:
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
Library/Frameworks:
EWSMac.framework
Library/Input Methods:
.localized
Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
com.veoh.webplayer.startup.plist
uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam.plist
Library/PreferencePanes:
.DS_Store
Perian.prefPane
WindowShade X.prefPane
Library/QuickTime:
AC3MovieImport.component
Perian.component
Library/ScriptingAdditions:
Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ -
Font issues with Snow Leopard, Adobe and more
Since purchasing my new 27" iMac with Snow Leopard and instlaling Adobe Creative Suites 4, I have had numerous font issues. Apple has created huge problems for designers and printers that must use postscript type 1 fonts for helvetica and helvetica neue. Read more about this issue and some creative solutions (workarounds) go to http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers&discussionID=1090421 4&gid=75556&commentID=9732351&trk=view_disc
Such font issues have also been discussed at some length in these forums, you can find it all by searching, e.g.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2136944&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2154431&tstart=0
A basic reference used here that you may find of value is:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html -
Hello, i have iMac 8,1 ( bought at the end 2008) with Snow Leopard. Could it bear the new OS X Lion ? iMac8,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3,06 GHz Ram 2x 2Gb. Your advice ?
Thanks. It's hot today. Going up to 22ºC today, 24ºC tomorrow, and 26ºC the day after. Almost like summer.
Have a good one, too. -
Tons of problems with Snow Leopard
Made this post over at my blog but I figure this would be a better forum for it in hopes we can get some of these issues resolved... it seems like Apple has pulled a Microsoft and released what appears to be a beta version of Snow Leopard! Inexcusable bugs are appearing left and right, and the supposed "improvements" have actually hindered my computer performance and productivity...
This really surprised me. After years of releasing amazing OS upgrades that seemed to make the best OS even better, it seems like Apple has taken 2 steps back with Snow Leopard. I can't tell you how upset I was to realize I was experiencing many problems that I previously only saw on PCs.
After one of the many bugs popped up again on my computer, I got frustrated and started combing the internets for a list of known bugs in the OS and the inevitable slew of Apple users registering their disgust. Unfortunately, my search didn't turn up anything but positive reviews of the OS and very limited complaints on a few message boards. To this end, I'm posting this entry to try and help other users who are experiencing similar issues and hopefully get Apple to clean up this mess of an OS.
Below I've created (and will be adding to) a list of problems I've experienced in OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. I encourage everyone to list your Snow Leopard issues in the comments as well, in hopes we can create a master list of problems.
I am using a 2 GHz Black MacBook (Core 2 Duo) with 2GB of RAM. Keep in mind Leopard (OS 10.5) was running flawlessly on this more than capable machine. I am currently running the latest Snow Leopard build, 10.6.1. I upgraded 10.5 with the retail version of Snow Leopard, integrating my current apps into 10.6 (did not do a clean install). I've organized my issues below by application. This post is less about third-party applications and more about Apple apps/built-in OS features, as Apple is fully accountable for these pieces.
APPLE APPS
Airport:
• Airport is now incredibly slow getting past the "searching" status message and into what was known as "scanning" status in 10.5 (now called "Looking For Networks…" status message). This issue occurs most often when I revive the computer from sleep. I have to turn Airport off and on again, then wait an inordinate amount of time to get past the useless "Searching…" message.
Volume and Sound:
• I rely on my volume control icon on the toolbar. I change my system volume dozens of times every day (due to my job)... previously, I could click the volume icon then simply roll the scroll wheel on my two-button mouse to adjust the volume. Now, I have to actually move my mouse down onto the volume slider area before my scroll wheel works! What gives? In allowing the user to fine-tune the volume levels, Apple removed this functionality for some reason? This is a real pain for me as the extra second it takes to do this really adds up by the end of the day.
• Sound now starts stuttering for no reason? When I wake my computer up from sleep and I have headphones or speaker plugged in, the audio stutters greatly. I have to unplug then re-plug my speakers or headphones to fix the issue! This is a problem I saw on many PCs due to sound cards not playing with Windows nicely, but was NEVER an issue I experienced using OS X.
• The Mac OS startup chime plays on my MacBook external speaker when I startup, even though I have speakers or headphones plugged in! It also does not matter if I had my system volume on mute when restarting • the OS seems to now decide what volume my system should be at when I start up!
Safari:
• Defaults to 64-bit mode silently, and this breaks most plug-ins (my issue was with download manager iGetter, specifically). I had to manually Get Info on the app, then switch back to 32-bit mode, which it seems Apple has not designed Snow Leopard to support properly?
• Freezes and crashes more often, most often when running Flash video. This occurs when I open multiple videos on YouTube, for example.
• Hogging memory even more than it used to (1GB of RAM to run the app?? Really?)
Stacks:
• Apple seems to have completely removed the functionality or sortable sub-folder listings? For example, if I choose to sort my stack by "Date Modified", the initial list of folders in the stack appear by date, but all my sub-folders appear in Alpha order, and there is no way to change this! Come on Apple, why remove this?
iPhoto:
• Freezes completely when I go to "Export…". My Export opens on the Facebook tab of the dialogue box, and it seems the issue occurs when iPhoto can't find the source image. Rather than an error message though, I get the color wheel of death.
Spotlight/Search:
• When I search from a Finder window, sometimes I get the new feature of sortable results columns to work, but sometimes I don't. Seems arbitrary when it works and when it doesn't.
System Preferences:
• More of an annoyance, System Preferences now has to restart the first time I click on any third-party preference in "Other". Some work, most don't.
Install:
• In previous OS X upgrades, Apple gave me the option to "Backup and Install". This option was not present on Snow Leopard, so not sure what a user can d if they do not have a Time Machine backup and their install fails.
Preview:
• Preview slows down considerably when opening multiple files.
THIRD-PARTY APPS
Entourage:
• Entourage froze up when I tried to simply delete one of my email accounts. The Accounts window went blank and the application froze.
CS3:
• Slower than ever, Photoshop is running at a snail's pace.
I hope everyone can contribute to this string and get Apple to fix these problems.I can address some of these:
Safari defaults to 64-bit mode silently, and this breaks most plug-ins (my issue was with download manager iGetter, specifically). I had to manually Get Info on the app, then switch back to 32-bit mode, which it seems Apple has not designed Snow Leopard to support properly?
All applications, to the best of my knowledge, will run in 64-bit if they include 64-bit code. With most you'll never notice, but if an application supports plugins, then you have to pay attention to whether the plug-in is available in a 64-bit version. More and more are becoming available, but not all. If you have plug-ins that aren't, you need to set the app - Safari or whatever - to 32-bit mode. This is not a bug; it's necessitated by the conversion to full-time 64-bit support. The developer of iGetter claims that an update for compatibility with Safari in 64-bit mode is under development but no time frame has been given.
Snow Leopard is perfectly capable of running 32-bit apps. You just can't mix them, running a 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit app.
Freezes and crashes more often, most often when running Flash video. This occurs when I open multiple videos on YouTube, for example.
Have you installed the latest version of Flash? Flash is almost always a bit problematical, but I've had no problems running Flash content on any site with SL.
Hogging memory even more than it used to (1GB of RAM to run the app?? Really?)
This may just be an issue of not being clear on how Mac OS X allocates memory. This article may provide some insight:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
More of an annoyance, System Preferences now has to restart the first time I click on any third-party preference in "Other". Some work, most don't.
This is normal if a preference pane has not been provided in a 64-bit version.
In previous OS X upgrades, Apple gave me the option to "Backup and Install". This option was not present on Snow Leopard
Actually it was called "archive and install" and was removed as an option as no longer necessary. The normal installation creates all necessary new files and more robustly replaces old ones, so having an archive of the old system folder was deemed to no longer be needed.
so not sure what a user can d if they do not have a Time Machine backup and their install fails.
To restore completely from a full Time Machine backup, you erase the disk using Disk Utility from the menu in the Installer, then choose to restore from a TM backup.
Preview slows down considerably when opening multiple files.
Seems to work OK for me. I've had as many as twenty open with no noticeable slowdown. But you may be opening much larger documents than I have.
Entourage froze up when I tried to simply delete one of my email accounts. The Accounts window went blank and the application froze.
Impossible to offer any advice here without knowing what version of Entourage you're using, whether it's been fully updated, and what type of email account this was.
Regards. -
I have a Macbook pro 2009 with Snow Leopard. Which system can I install without running into complicated problems which I will not be able to solve by myself- a person with limited problem solving abilities. (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite?)
It will make it easier to help you w/ your problem to know the size and RAM installed.
"Yesterday I couldn't update the maps on my Garmin because it said the OS I had wouldn't work"
What OS will your Garmin work with? Funny there was someone else that did that and upgraded to Yosemite and regretted it.
I'd say Lion if your Garmin is compatible.
Both Lion and Mountain Lion are downloadable from the Apple Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
The OSs will get more resource hungry the higher you go. -
Imac not starting up, keep getting white screen. Using snow leopard. Able to get to disk utilities with snow leopard installation disk. Tap on had disk, not given choice to certified disk or anything else. Information on disk states that smart status is certified. Partition map I formatted. Also tried to restore from back up, but get error: not enough disk space. Tried to erase disk, but unable. What do I do next to get mac to start up?
Thank you. That's what I thought will need to happen.
One more question. I tried using the Apple install disk that came with the computer. It's an OS 10.5.6 disk. It does not see my 10.6.8 system internal hard drive to repair. All it see's is itself 10.5.6 disk. Do you think I can use a 10.8+ disk utillity since that is a higher system it will see the 10.6.8. Where the 10.5.6 does not?
I don't want to turn the computer off for fear I'll get the question mark again. P-Ram got me going last time but for how long I don't know? It would be nice to be able to turn the computer off for the night and startup as usual to give it a rest and try to reset itself.
Thanks for your help, I know I will eventually need to re-install. But I am in the middle of a project with tight deadlines and all I can do right now is back-up. Trying to migrate to another computer temporarily to finish the job. That's a lot of extra work in the short time also.
Just trying to put a band-aid on it for another couple weeks. -
Hi, I have Mac with Snow Leopard and was trying to purchase Lion , so I can move to I cloud, when trying to buy the app I get a message that a minimum 2gb of memory is required. I went check the hard disck info and it says available memory 20gb :-(
Apple Logo, left hand side of the menu bar, About this Mac. It should be right there. If not then More Info, Sys Info.
But it would seem you don't have 2GBs installed and more then likely both RAM slots are already filed. So you just need to buy more RAM in a pair. That could be 2 1GBs chips or if your Mac can have more then that then 2 2 GB chips or 2 4GB chips.
Get your model # and go to Crucial.com and use their memory search to find out how much your Mac can have installed and the price for it. I suggest you install as much as it can take. Cost is very low on RAM these days. -
Is there a way to make Silverkeeper work with Snow Leopard?
I use a computer "given" to me by my school. I do have administrative privileges, but IT installs all OS software and configures it per the network on campus. Last February, they installed Snow Leopard and I began to restore all my files from my external backup. I'd been using Silverkeeper for years, I prefer the way it works (basically, it copies all files, then, with subsequent backups, can be set to only update changed files and add new files into the backup. In other words, there is only one folder. As a designer, I have the "v1,v2" so deeply ingrained in me that I never loose the early versions of documents). In short, Silverkeeper works for me. Time Machine is an interface that does not.
So, IT installed Snow Leopard, I bring my machine home, and start bringing files over. For every single file, I had to type in my password. The drive, every folder and every document was suddenly marked as "Read Only". I tried changing permissions. Didn't stick. I repaired permissions, tried changing, still wouldn't take. I contacted IT, one of the guys opened Terminal and typed in something (he never gave me the line of code, so I can't tell you what he did. I asked him what he did, he just said, "It's ok, I just gave you full permission. Don't sweat it." I got home, tried to bring over some files, and they still asked for my password. Nothing had changed. Except that the machine started sending urgent error messages. I disconnected my hard drive, rebooted, and could not get past the grey screen.
Even longer story short, IT wiped my computer, reinstalled SL, I brought in my hard drives, they worked with them to have them all "Read Write" again, and said I had to use Time Machine as a backup. They blamed the entire mess on Silverkeeper.
So, the semester went on, I've been using TIme Machine ever since and I hate it. Hate it. I want my Silverkeeper, or some other such backup that gives me one file, and all my records kept in that file, in a visual manner. I hate these dates, with the multiple folders, and the threat that it will throw away old files (I just resurrected a file from a Quark doc made in 1994!). But IT has me too afraid to use Silverkeeper. Personally, I think something went wrong with the first install, then IT screwed it up even more by opening up Terminal and "fixing" the code, and they refuse to admit they have ever made a mistake. BTW, I've been using Macs for 22 years and have never experienced anything like this. I have done more system upgrades myself than I can remember, I have troubleshooted my own machines for years, and kept them humming beautifully.
It's summer, and I want a different backup. Please help, or let me know if I dare brave my old favorite once again. If there is a utility that I have to buy, I will. I'm so fed up and frustrated with the interface on Time Machine, I'm ready to go back to the bad old days of manual backups.Are you using the latest version of Silverkeeper? - v.2.0.2 is stated to be compatible with Snow Leopard.
http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/
If it's messing things up you could try asking LaCie Support for assistance. -
I have an imac with snow leopard. I do not have enough memory to get lion.
I switched my mail to icloud and now my ipod touch has icloud.
i can receive mail on my ipod touch and through the icloud web site, BUt I cannot receive mail on my mac directly any more. There is an exclamation point on my mail in box and also an ! on .mac.
Can anyone help me with settings so I can receive mail again directly on my mac?
Thanks
Mathmarv
<Edited by Host>See this Apple note on troubleshooting icloud mail: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4002
You may have seen this page already: http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/mail-notes/ -
Ichat no longer works with snow leopard
i recently installed Snow Leopard on my macbook pro and ever since, when I try to open iChat, a window opens and says "You can't use this version of the application iChat with this version of Mac OS X. You have iChat 4.0.8. I thought that the new version would have installed with Snow Leopard. What do I need to do?
Hi,
Go to the Applications folder.
Do you have two versions of iChat in there ?
If so, Click on to Highlight it.
Use the Apple Key (CMD) and I key together (Get Info)
In the panel that pops up what version number is it ?
What is the version number of the other one ?
If one is iChat 5 and one is iChat 4, drag the current iCon for iChat Off the DOCK and let go. (Puff of Smoke animation)
Drag the iChat 5 icon to the DOCK (It does not move the App just links to it.)
If you only have iChat 4 then post back and let us know as there will be more steps.
Please note the time of my post as I may not reply for some time.
10:31 PM Monday; September 7, 2009
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HP Color Laserjet 3600 with Snow Leopard
I know this model of printer (HP3600n) does not have a good reputation. But I have to deal with that because our school bought them before I started working there. The printers had been working 70% well with Leopard/Tiger last year. This year we upgraded our machines to Snow Leopard and now they only work 30%. In Leopard I used to add the printer through the "More Printer". With Snow Leopard I don't have "More Printer" option any more, so I added the printer though IP (LPD).
The problem:
1. When I print the 1st document, it prints sometimes. But, it still sits in the queue so the 2nd document could not print. I have to log in as administrator to use the "cancel -a -" command to clear the queue before I can print the 2nd document. It's so frustrate.
2. Sometimes the document seems to print out, but when you go pick up the print out, it's not there. I have to power off the printer and power it back on and then the print comes out.
Any clue?
Thanks much!RabbitSF wrote:
So my question is: Is there a simple way to just install the 3600 driver for the snow leopard?
It all depends on the driver files used by the LJ3600. If it uses only a PPD, then you could simply copy the PPD to the /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources folder for the Mac's that don't have the driver already installed.
If there are other files required by the PPD, such as plugins and filters, these are probably located in /Library/Printers/HP. So you could also copy this folder with the PPD to the other Mac's to reduce your setup time.
Hope this helps you.
Pahu -
Canon MP620 print driver does not work with Snow Leopard
Bought a Macbook & bundled Canon MP620 printer in Dec 08. Two days ago upgraded to Snow Leopard, and I can no longer print (the printer is not recognized), it only sees "Bonjour scanner" (the printer is a multi-function printer, copier, fax, scanner). Spent more than two hours with two different Apple tech support people over the phone; talked to Apple personnel in store. My printer is connected via Ethernet cable to a wireless modem, and I connect to the wireless modem via Airport. The phone tech person insisted that this printer is supported by Snow Leopard, but we reloaded the print driver from the Snow Leopard installation disk with no results. Finally my last resort, which worked, is to go to Radio Shack and get a cable that has a USB-A (printer) to USB-B (Mac) attachment. I was able to print. It is unacceptable for Apple to have this problem, as I went into the store four different times to discuss whether I should upgrade to Snow Leopard, and was told on every occasion that Snow Leopard will make everything run faster, more smoothy, etc. NOT! I want Apple to post a notice on their web site to a) confirm their print driver problems with Snow Leopard and b) to confirm WHEN new print drivers will be released.
Have a look at my last posting re Canon network printing.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2128186&tstart=0&messageID=100 97438#10097438
i got my MP980 working via Ethernet and wireless. The same procedure should work for your MP620.
Pahu
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