Recurrent freezing. Using Snow Leopard and mainly when on Safari
Any suggestions ith this. I have repaired disk permissions and recently had a failure to start with a grey box and ? flashing.
If disk utility reapir doesn't fix things here's some articles with additional ideas on troubleshooting:
Gray screen appears during startup
Troubleshooting Startup and Login Items
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We are having old home movies put on DVD's. How do we import them to MacBook pro using Snow Leopard and iMovie 8.0.6? Can watch the movies on the laptop, but they will not import.
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Need some advice
I'm currently using snow leopard, and it seems that there's no graphic driver updates for a really long time.
Snow Leopard is no longer being updated, 10.6.8, was the last update. So, a "really long time," will be forever.
Yes, ML has graphic driver updates, but since there is no way to guess whether it impacts your unmentioned hardware, there is no way your question can be answered. -
I am using Snow Leopard on a MacBook. I have an iPod touch 3G. I do not use iSync it Mobile Me. When I sync my iPod through iTunes new events on my iPod do not show up on my Mac and old events do not delete. I have read help instructions that include deleting the data on the iPod. The iPod has the correct data and the Mac does not so I have not followed those instructions. I need help as the only reason I bought the Mac was to be able to sync, back up, view and print my calendar. Currently it is useless. If only Apple could have learned from the elegance of the Palm software.
Start here:
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows -
I currently use Snow Leopard with Microsoft Word, Excel and Entourage on my iMac. If I upgrade to Mavericks, can I still use those applications?
If the Microsoft Office is 2004 then no.
Mavericks System requirements.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5842
Note I would recommend a minimum of 4GB RAM.
You need to check all you software and hardware including any peripherlas you use, printers etc that they are compatible with Mavericks.
Any software that is PPC and uses Rossetta will not work with any OS X verson later than 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
If you decide to upgrade have a tested backup of your current system in case of problems and you could return the computer to its previous configuration. -
HT201250 I use Snow Leopard and tried restore my Macbook pro using Time Machine.
After waiting a considerable time for Time Machine to restore my whole system, applications and files I had problems in that my Macbook Pro would not restart. The Apple logo appeared but then the screen scrolled down and a lot of letters, numbers and symbols appeared - not making any sense, and a box appeared telling me to restart holding down the on button. This I did. However it kept on repeating. In the end I had to reinstall the whole lot. Fortunately I had backed up all my files. I cannot use some of the programs I have because I cannot retrieve them. I do not have a disk with them on to reload because I downloaded them from the net and they are old progs and still did what I wanted. A lot of files I have saved do not open now without the old system and apps.Can anyone come up with an idea?
ds store wrote:
Ah that's good to hear, does this still work if TimeMachine updates to reflect the 10.7 drive?
There is no special update. After installing Lion, Time Machine will do a normal "incremental" backup, of the stuff that's new or changed. That will be relatively large and lengthy, of course, since OSX and the default Apple apps will all be backed-up.
But there's nothing else different about the TM drive. It stil contains all the past backups, including older versions of OSX.
In other words if a user upgrades to 10.7 and doesn't like it after a few days/weeks, has TM connected and it updated to relfect 10.7, can the user c boot off the 10.6 disk erase and restore 10.6 from the TM drive?
Yes, except you don't have to erase.
You just boot from the Snow Leopard Install disc and do a full system restore. That includes erasing the destination, so it doesn't matter what's on it. Then everything on the backup is restored, including OSX, apps, users, data, settings, etc., just as it was at the time of the backup selected.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14, especially step (g). The sample is a bit fuzzy -- it's a photo, since you can't screenprint there, but note that the last two backups were made on Snow Leopard:
Once that's done, and the system restarts, you can use the "Star Wars" display to restore selected items from later (ie, Lion) backups, but of course in some cases (Mail for one), the Snow Leopard apps won't work with the Lion-formatted files. -
Can I use Snow Leopard and Leopard on different partitions?
My new MacBook Pro did not include a Snow Leopard installation disk, and I desperately need to use Boot Camp to install Windows asap. I do have my old Leopard disk. Will using the previous OS with Boot Camp cause a cat fight that will produce problems, or should I suffer the serious inconvenience of waiting until I can get a SL disk?
Thanks.Cat fight will ensue.
Order replacement installer disks from Apple as it includes the free iLife that comes with a new Mac.
The $29 Snow Leopard retail disk does not. However it's possbile to install Leopard from the installer disks then upgrade to Snow Leopard, thus getting your iLife. -
It has worked fine until recently. Now at less than 100%, the first page is reduced normally but pages 2 etc seem to be not reduced and pushed up and off the upper right of the page with header and page text completely missing on top and entire right of page. What happened? It is doing this on multiple web pages. No problem printing in any other program. Safari doesn't have scaling so I can't check that. It has been going on for several weeks and it is very irritating, and a waste of paper.
Usually, where there are issues like that, it has to do with incompatible programs that may be loaded at system startup. So, in System Preferences, look at your login ID, and login items, and see if any programs listed there should be updated to run with Snow Leopard. While in System Preferences, look at the bottom of the window where you may find some programs listed also. Check them too.
On your scanner, HP changed the way the scanners work under Snow Leopard. See this HP document: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01846935&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en &os=219&product=3739150&sw_lang=#N377 . Scroll down and click the scanning twistie. -
Using snow leopard and can't get it to stay in 32 bit mode so I can watch movies on Netflix
Anyone know how to get Snow Leopard to stay in 32 bit mode so I can watch movies on Netflix? I tried holding down the 3 and 2 on startup and it doesn't work.
Hello mlbeverly
Try setting the kernel in terminal by following the steps below if you want it to start in 32-bit mode.
OS X: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773
Regards,
-Norm G. -
I have searched Finder, Trash and the applications folder but i can't find where it is kept. I want to put the icon for Dashboard back in the dock - how can i do this?
The combo update may replace anything you have inadvertently deleted.
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1
You can reapply it over the top of any previously downloaded version. I see that your profile says 10.6.8.
Then software update to pick up any new security, iTunes updates. -
Print to PDF - using Snow Leopard (Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose
i have a PDF form that i created that is used as a custom proposal that my company sends out to potential clients. the form in its editable state is only used internally. we recently upgraded to snow leopard, but prior to the upgrade, we were able to fill the custom proposal form out using adobe reader, and, as you well know, we weren't able to save that edited document as a PDF with the custom form fields filled out. our work around using adobe reader was to print to a pdf using the adobe pdf printer in the printer dialog. with the addition of snow leopard, however, instead of choosing the adobe pdf printer, we were to choose PDF from the bottom left corner, then Save As PDF, and it would spit out an uneditable pdf that then allowed us to email it to the potential client without them being able to edit it as well as have an internal, digital copy for our records instead of having lots of paper floating around (i know this is also doable using security that disallows the client certain editing privileges, but printing to a pdf is much quicker and more efficient, and the pdf security isn't really that secure at its best).
in any case, i came across this gem of a post here on the support forums that installs another option from the PDF drop down on the bottom left of the print dialog menu that reads Save As Adobe PDF and is supposed to do exactly what i am trying to get it to do...print to a pdf file from adobe reader.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
once i updated to acrobat 9.2 (as the link above suggests 9.1), however, the Save As Adobe PDF does appear in the print dialog menu, but it still gives me the same error that acrobat 8 - 9 gave me while using Snow Leopard — Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save — and as i've already explained, you can't save an edited pdf form in reader (as i am the only one in the office with acrobat) and still keep the fields as you've entered them in. the only work around is to print to a pdf but is apparently having some recent problems.
using acrobat, however, i know that i can save the editable pdf as a new file with the fields customized as i have left them, but it still saves it as an editable pdf and the print to a pdf option still remains the best option...that way we have digital copies internally that are uneditable that can be printed at any time or emailed to the client.
how can i do print to a pdf, based on what i've written above, using snow leopard and acrobat and reader?A simple way is to flatten the form fields, which converts the field appearances to regular page contents. You can do this with JavaScript or PDF Optimizer (Advanced > PDF Optimizer > Discard Objects > Flatten form fields). A very nice script that adds a custom menu item can be found here: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/
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Using iCloud mail in Snow Leopard - AND restoring old mail system
I use Snow Leopard and cannot upgrade to Lion since my MacBook Pro is too old.
Apple discontinued my traditional Mail service last week and said it is now transferred to iCloud.
1. Is there any way I can get my traditional Mail service restored since I like it better than the "improved?" iCloud-based mail service.
2. What I don't like about the new iCloud-based mail service is...
a. Sent mail does not always appear in my Sent folder.
b. When wanting to file a recent mail message away, I have to scroll thru all the folders AND many, many sub-folders. The system does not let me hide the sub-folders so I don't have to scroll so long.
c. It seems as if the iCloud mail speed is much slower than the old non-iCloud mail service.
d. It is very hard to make to Contacts for ease in sending mail
3. IF there is no way to get my traditional mail service restored, is there a way to get the "classic" look if I am forced to use the iCloud mail system?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
ValuemanTomovich wrote:
But the archive and junk files are not shown like that online.
Display differences are cosmetic, ignore it. -
Failed upgrade on snow leopard and windows 8 on bootcamp
I'm using macbook pro early 2011 and using snow leopard and windows 8 on bootcamp. After updating to the latest version of snow leopard, I upgraded to Mountain Lion. On the end of the installation, the installer/bootloader can't boot the mac OS or Win 8 bootcamp. I tried using option key only recovery partition can be boot. Also I've tried reinstall from command-R menu, but the installer can't find the mac partiotion.
I tried using disk utility from recovery menu but it says "invalid BS_jmpBoot in..." Verify or Repair has failed successfully. I think the partition information is mismatch or can't be read by bootloader.
I have put the problematic harddrive to external case, using it as external drive and put an unused harddrive and install snow leopard. When I plugged in the external drive the os won't load/mount the drive/partitions. I've tried it on linux, the mac partition can be mounted but the win 8 bootcamp still can't be access.
How can I recover the partiotion or data on the win 8 bootcamp partition? Thanks for the help.
FYI the result from sudo gpt -r -vv show disk1:
gpt show: disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 397430960 2 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
397840600 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
399110144 1554413568 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT headerWindows 8 is not supported in Boot Camp. To get back to a supported configuration, boot from your installation disc and partition the internal drive with the default choices (wiping all data on the drive.) Then restore the OS X startup volume from the last Time Machine snapshot or other backup you made before trying to upgrade. You should then be able to upgrade to 10.8. If you wish, run Boot Camp Assistant and create a Windows 7 (not 8) installation.
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Hi,
Any other developers trying to develop using idsdk5 for CS3 using Snow Leopard and XCode 3.2.1 ? Adobe says it is an unsupported configuration.
I don't like to downgrade, and am wondering if there are others with the same issue and possible solutions?
Thanks,
Remco>> SLow Leopard (the old one)
LOL!
Thanks for the other tips - most are news to me.
Let's comparing some more notes!
Here's a few things I believe (I won't say 'I know' - I have no hard proof, and I don't have a budget to investigate getting hard proof )
I had extremely frustrating debugging issues with Xcode 3.1 - most of the time breaking into assembly code instead of showing the source code. No clear pattern: same breakpoint hit the first time shows the source code, second time assembly code. Fiddling with 'back arrows' sometimes got the source code to show up. It got so bad that I often had to revert to command-line debugging using gdb. Also a lot of 'mumble mode' - things just ................ coming to a pizza-colored cursor for no ................ apparent reason.
As a result, I've gotten into the habit of doing my coding and debugging on Windows XP with Visual Studio - once you get rid of the C-compiler RSP files and put the include paths into your project file instead, it works rather nicely, and to me it feels much faster than Xcode, even in a virtual machine.
I still do a lot of coding and debugging with InDesign CS on Windows/VS2003 - turnaround times (launch/debug/exit/...) are so much faster.
With Xcode 3.2.x on Snow Leopard things seem to work much better - so I might start to gravitate back to Mac-based debugging; time will tell.
CodeWarrior is over for me - I only use it to generate release versions (I still have some PowerPC macs around 'just in case' I need to debug something with CodeWarrior, but it's not been necessary).
As to Windows debugging: I use both Parallels and VMware, and my gut feeling is that Parallels seems to work quite a bit faster. Totally subjective, and probably unfair (the virtual machines have different histories, etc...) - but currently I find myself a lot in Parallels, with a virtual machine stored on an external USB drive connected to my laptop - I have heaps of virtual machines around, too many to store on the internal HD. Even with the slow USB bus 'underneath' it all, it works well.
With VMware I get a lot of mumble mode - machine non-responsive for minutes at a time, even with the virtual machine on the internal HD. Parallels has not done that to me (yet).
Another thing (might be fixed in Snow Leopard) - but have you ever had it happen that your InDy CS3 and CS4 plug-ins suddenly get a folder icon instead of a plug-in icon? Typically, all plugins will exhibit that behavior when it happens.
It's something with the package/bundle stuff, and the Finder getting confused. This is my unconfirmed theory: the Finder accepts a whole host of bundle formats, and the bundle structure used by the Adobe sample projects is 'iffy' - the Finder supports it, but occasionally, the Finder gets confused, and shows these plug-ins as folders (and that then further leads to customer support requests).
Now, if you go into the plugin package, it looks different from most other packages I've seen.
Here's how I fixed it: I added another build phase to the target - a 'Run Script' called 'Restructure Bundle'. I've put in the following shell script (using /bin/sh):
rm -rf $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
mkdir $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
echo InD3InDn > $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents/PkgInfo
mv $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Resources/Info.plist $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
mv $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Versions $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
mv $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Resources $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
mv $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/$PRODUCT_NAME $TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.InDesignPlugin/Contents
That 'restructures' the plug-in bundle and makes the problem go away - AFAIK the Finder has never gotten confused with one of my home-grown bundled plug-ins.
The whole point might be moot, though - for all I know the original problem of the Finder getting confused might be long fixed... -
IP Address Conflicts - iMac and Airport Express, Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion
In our home we have an iMac, two Mac notebooks, an iPad, an Apple TV and a Sony Playstation that all use wi-fi. I have a recurring problem. When several devices are connected to the Internet through Airport Extreme (wi-fi) downloads really slow down. Since the Airport Extreme is connected directly to a Motorola cable modem that also has wi-fi, I often shift my iMac wi-fi connection to the Motorola cable modem to speed up the Internet. Lately I have been getting an IP address conflict message in a pop-up box when I shift to the cable modem wi-fi. The system preference shows the IP address automatically assigned via DCHP. It also offers the option of DHCP plus manual.
I am now using Snow Leopard and intend to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
How can I resolve the conflict? Or, should I consider some other wifi network configuration? Is the upgrade to Mountain Lion likely to resolve the problem or make it worse? Can I use the DHCP plus manual to manually assign an IP address to the iMac to resolve the IP address conflict, and, if so, what it the procedure?Is the DHCP assignment being done by your cable modem or your AirPort Extreme?
What is the exact text of the conlict message, and where does it pop up?
If your cable modem and your AirPort Extreme are both running DHCP servers for the same subnet (which they really should not be allowed to do), they must be set to assign addresses from disjoint pools.
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