Speed issue in Snow Leopard

I upgraded to Snow Leopard the week it came out and was immediately impressed by the boot speed time and general 'snappiness'. In the ensuing weeks however, I've noticed a significant slowdown in the overall system. Where in Leopard I could open three programs 'at once', opening first one, then while it was loading go to a second or third and all three would open with a reasonable time. Now, just opening FireFox takes about five times longer than opening Safari. Opening Yahoo IM suffers a similar issue. Pages and many other programs seem to be sluggish, including the Finder.
I've run Cocktail's complete set of cache cleaners and system dusters. To no effect. My system is as described below with the addition of an Acer 24" monitor, Apple wireless keyboard and Mighty Mouse. I have generic USB 4 port hub with a couple of camera cables (no cameras attached normally) and a printer (Epson RX680). I occasionally attach my iPhone which accounts for all of the USB port attachments. I have my TimeMachine backup drive attached to the firewire port (it is a third party drive and predates my upgrade to Snow Leopard). I'm running OS X 10.6.1 on a Black MacBook with 4 GB of RAM. Any suggestions are welcome. TIA

I think I found the culprits: Three HP startup items. I've an HP scanner I got for scanning slides, but I've had difficulty with the HP updates from the first. HP has been less that stellar in their support for the Mac in the past few years (since acquiring Compaq). Once I uninstalled the HP stuff everything is back to being snappy again. Thanks for the input. Oh yes one more thing. You've both commented on the ability to control the GPU usage in Energy Savings, however, there isn't any such control in SL's version of Energy Saver that I can find. I'm just allowed to dim before sleep, put hard drives to sleep, and schedule sleep, that is, in regard to the issue at hand. If I'm able to adjust the GPU I'm at a loss on where.
Thanks again.

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Continuing font encoding and tag issues with snow leopard and CS4oI

I am looking for help with a font handling issue with snow leopard and cs4 Indesign. Despite numerous calls and hours on the phone neither Apple nor Adobe has been helpful. I have had this issue open with Adobe since oct 5 but they remain totally unresponsive to date. I need to be able to use Type 1 fonts and do the following , export a pdf from Indesign with the following attributes: 1) xml tags for stories and objects. 2) have the fonts encoded as ansi and embedded.
Some additional information - exporting to ps is not an option as it destroys the xml tags. and doesn't guarantee that the fonts won't become CID or some other odd encoding.
As it stands now,
Leopard (10.5.8) and CS3 creates ansi encoded fonts with xml tags.
Leopard (10.5.8) and CS4 creates ansi encoded fonts with xml tags.
Snow leopard and CS3 creates ansi encoded fonts and xml tags
Snow leopard and CS4 creates custom subsetted fonts and some xml tags.
If any one has any advice on how to force specific font encodings from CS4 pdf exports so that i can preserve the tags and get the correct fonts I would be grateful.

The font encoding is not a function of the OS version, but rather of how a font is internally encoded and the content you are representing with the font.
If you are seeing a difference between MacOS 10.5 and 10.6 with the same Adobe software, it probably has something to do with use of a system font that is somehow different from one version of the OS to another. InDesign does not use any of the OS' font handling software.
Assuming that the fonts are embedded, subset or not, what is your issue with whether a font is ANSI-encoded, custom-encoded, or CID-encoded? It should make no difference for purposes of workflow beyond InDesign for software that adheres to the PDF specification (including all versions of PDF from 1.3 and up to 1.7 plus ISO 32000-1 PDF and all versions of PDF/X and PDF/A).
Neither InDesign or any other Adobe application provides user choices for the encoding since it shouldn't make a difference. The encodings chosen by Adobe's core technology components are for a combination of optimization and to support proper text search, copy, etc.
- Dov

Fstab causes .dmg mounting issues in Snow Leopard

I am having this odd issue is Snow Leopard with fstab. If I use valid partition UUIDs in fstab to regulate mounting, then .dmg volumes do not get mounted properly (or at least get mounted in such a way that Finder has issues). After mounting, the .dmg volume is greyed out in Finder, but any subdirectory of the root directory of the volume can be accessed using the Go To option. After mounting, there also appear two alias for the volume on the desktop neither of which do anything.
Looking at mount after mounting a .dmg I get:
/dev/disk1 on /Volumes/Pacifist 2.5.2 (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners, quarantine, mounted by yarmola)
Which is normal.
I can access the volume through terminal without any issues as well. If I unmount the volume (via hdiutil or Disk Utility for example) it unmounts, but the two aliases on the Desktop remain and do not disappear.
My fstab simply looks like this:
UUID=6B12B7BA-4469-3344-8121-1939A6B0219F /Library/Mounts/Protected/SCUBA hfs rw
If I remove that, or change it to use LABEL or to a non valid UUID (i.e. one that is not a non-root partition UUID) then .dmg volumes mount fine. The actual partition filesystem does get mounted.
In system log I get the following error messages:
Oct 23 15:05:18 rdev-cl-19-imal hdiejectd[642]: running
Oct 23 15:05:20 rdev-cl-19-imal com.apple.KernelEventAgent[52]: KernelEventAgent: sysctl_queryfs: Operation not supported on socket
Oct 23 15:05:20 rdev-cl-19-imal mds[50]: (Error) Volume: sysctl_queryfs failed: Operation not supported on socket
Any ideas?

It's possible the dmgs are not compatible with your verson of SL or even with SL. The latest version is OS 10.6.7.
Did you read the system requirements of the files you are trying to download?

If you are having WIRELESS issues with SNOW LEOPARD.. update your software

the latest osX update seems to have fixed the wireless issue with snow leopard

I never had an issues with wireless before. Still don't. What was the problem?

Trackpad Sensitivity Issue After Snow Leopard Upgrade

I have a Late 2008 MBP/2.53 Ghz and prefer to use tap to click/2 finger secondary tap.
After upgrading to Snow Leopard (to v.10.6.6 as a clean install), linked webpages and files/folders often open when a second finger touches the trackpad accidentally even when pressed very gently.
The same happens if a third finger touches the trackpad if I am scrolling through a page with 2 fingers. Sometimes when pausing/hovering over a link, part of the page surrounding the hyperlink will highlight and can sometimes the link will activate without any additional accidental touch. I have slowed down the tracking and double click speed in preferences, but this makes no difference.
The funny thing is, some days the problems are worse than other days, the trackpad seems to have a mind of it's own! These issues never happened with Leopard, and it is very frustrating.
Post SL upgrade, I have also noticed that the Magsafe adapter sometimes needs a little wiggle before it will start charging, and occasionally, the red 'close' symbol at the top left of the page does not always activate and I have to start tapping elsewhere before trying to close the page again.
My parents have SL installed natively on their MBP (Spring 2010), and their MBP does not encounter any of these problems.
Disk Utility shows Javavirtualmachine differences, which I trust can be ignored as the differences are non critical, or could these issues be having an effect on SL?
I have AppleCare which expires in November and I want this sorted out asap. I could just revert back to using Leopard, but as I have paid £30 for Snow Leopard it would be a waste of money.
I'm not sure whether my AppleCare cover these issues seeing as SL wasn't natively installed on the Mac when purchased?
If anyone can help with these issues it would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks

After installing SL, i cannot get wellsfargo "account login" to work for any account of mine, other financial secure sites work fine, i.e. fidelity or vanguard, I can access the main screen of wellsfargo but login fails ... screen i get says Safari can't connect to the server and as follows: "Safari can’t open the page “https://online.wellsfargo.com/das/cgi-bin/session.cgi?" plus some more gibberish stuff.... i tried switching to firefox and it works fine .... never had any trouble before ..... tried safari reset, safari empty cache, and maintenace that applied ...... still no luck!! hope they get this bug fixed , my other computer an older mac mini works fine. any help????? never had any problem before SL

Continued Issues with Snow Leopard?

I was hesitant to install Snow Leopard when it was released late summer of last year. I just bought the family pack to install on my Macbook Pro 09 and MacBook 07.
Has Apple offered an update to the OS since it was released to fix most of the common issues/glitches? I remember hearing people last year complaining that it crashed iMovie and Garage Band during exports, etc.
If problems still plagued the OS, what are the most popular? The apps I use most of the time are Adobe Acrobat, Adobe CS4 - mostly Photoshop, iMovie, iWork, iPhoto, iDVD, MS Office, and mail. Everything works perfectly in Leopard 10.5.8.
Should I upgrade now or continue to wait?

There have been problems with fonts in various versions and extra bugs have been added to how Preview converts .eps, ai and .ps files to .pdf.
ColorSync problems remain unresolved/ignored.
Others have reported standing unaddressed issues in some of Apple's Pro apps.
From what I understand the speed increases have been mostly apocryphal and the installation has shrunk only because less was installed, as people with printing problems have discovered.
My AppleCare contact claims Apple gets less support calls with SL but then seemed to be ignorant of most of the issues I had previously reported back to Apple.
Hard to know what to believe.

Laserjet 8000DN issue with Snow Leopard 10.6.2

Hello,
I am having a connectivity issue with a LaserJet 8000DN. The previous iMac was connected to the printer via a D-Link switch, and I assume it was using AppleTalk via Ethernet to read the printer. The OS installed on that machine was OS X Leopard.
We had to replace the iMac, and the unit we purchased is a new Intel iMac 21.5" with 10.6.2 fully updated. In doing my research, I understand the drivers are already installed and need not be updated.
My steps thus far:
1) Print the configuration file from the printer.
2) System Prefs>Print and Fax>Add Printer
3) Choose JetSocket
4) Select IP and enter the IP Address from the configuration file.
5) Click Add.
The dialogue indicates that it's trying to connect and shows a configure or cancel button. I choose configure and the printer appears in my list with a green indicator showing that the iMac sees it.
However, when I send a job to the printer, I continuously get the "unable to connect to the printer, will try again in 30 seconds" message. I have tried every possible combination, i.e. LDP etc., to no avail.
A phone call to Apple did not provide a solution, even when we connected the printer directly to the Ethernet Port which really isn't an option anyway.
Other Information:
a) I suspect my problem is directly tied to the unavailability of Apple Talk in Snow Leopard.
b) I have a static I.P. address assigned to the Mac from our ISP in the 176.xxx range - and The I.P. for the printer shows as 192.xxx - Is this a conflict?
c) I am not using an Airport - We are stuck with a Westell DSL Router that has no ports available.
d) Someone suggested a Print Server connected to the D-Link so that the iMac and the Dell on the network could use the printer.
Any enlightenment will be extremely appreciated - This is a crucial operation for our business, and if it requires that we look for a new printer solution, we will need to move ahead swiftly.
Thanks!

a) The reason you cannot configure as you have been able to do in the past is because of the lack of AppleTalk, but you should be able to reconfigure things to work.
b) If your printer is at an address which is outside of the subnet mask of the router, that is a problem.
c) If you have a router, but not enough ports, the switch provides more ports.
d) The printer is network capable, so you do not need a print server.
So it looks like your problems are from your network setup.
I take it that your ISP has provided you with a fixed IP address. You should have the output of the modem connect to the WAN port of the router. The LAN ports should be connected to your computers and other network devices, and if you need more ports, connect one port to the switch, and connect the other devices to it.
The router should be configured to connect to the internet through its WAN port. From that, it should distribute that connection to your computers, to the addresses it is configured to provide. Those are usually in the 192.168.xxx.xxx range, but could be different. You should be able to change them. If the router LAN address is 192.168.1.0 and subnet mask is 255.255.255.000, the things that you connect to it can have address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255.
You should be able to change the address on the printer if you need to. The instructions should be in the printer documentation, or available on the HP website.
You probably have all the hardware you need, but you need to look at your network configuration, decide whether it is correct or not, and make adjustments to get this working.
A word of warning: If you have a fixed IP address because you have a server connected directly to the Internet, you need to configure your router appropriately. If you do not understand all of this, you may need someone familiar with network setup to help you.

Mail and Gmail issues in Snow Leopard

I've used Gmail with Mail for years, and it has suddenly stopped behaving. Mostly it takes *forever* for a message to be sent, but downloading messages can also take it's sweet time. I have several Gmail address I check, all are doing this. iPad and iPhone both work fine, so the issue seems to be isolated to the laptop.
I'm running Snow Leopard on a MacBookPro from mid-2009.
Many thanks for help.
marie

Yes. I'm having a whole series of problems with Mail.app and GMail. The problems are pretty well documented (links below), but I haven't seen any good fixes or heard any indication that Apple is taking them seriously.
http://www.maclife.com/article/news/os_x_mavericks’_mailapp_not_playing_nice_gma il
http://tidbits.com/article/14219
In addition to archived emails returning to the inbox, I'm seeing significant delays in new mail appearing in my inbox: sometimes as long as hours after the mail appears on my iPhone and in the GMail web console.

Windows 7 install issue with Snow Leopard

Hey Guys!
Just upgraded my Macbook Pro (Unibody Late 2008) to Snow Leopard and did all software updates. I then partitioned the drive to install Windows. When installing Windows it would only install if I reformatted the partition I wanted to install it on. So I did that. After hours of installing and udating Windows 7 I found that I did not have bootcamp on the bar at the bottom. I tried to upgrade to BootCamp 3.1 but it says Bootcamp 3.0 is needed and not present.
How do I install Bootcamp 3.0 from Windows?
How do I get back to Mac OS? I have been stuck (ugh!!!) in Windows since Friday...
I tried to download the pdf file to read about installing Windows 7 but Windows will not install Acrobat Reader (I really hate windows), fought with it for 1 hour trying to install it.
anyways thanks in advance for the help
KK

Hey Guys
I eventually solved the Boot Camp Problem but then shortly after that had a different problem crop up.
It will not boot my Mac OS, it says the partition is corrupted. Even if I boot from an install disk, it will not mount the Mac portion of the Hard drive. Best info I can get on the issue is that part of my B Tree is too large? Mac Repair utility will not fix it.
Suggestions? Even if I cannot use the partition as a bootable drive I would like to get my data from that disk. Unfortunately I do not seem to have a backup of the data on that drive.
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KK

Adobe CS3 Issues with Snow Leopard 10.6.1

After spending an initial $1,800.00 for CS3, I'm not dropping another $40
0 to $500, just so I can use them under Snow Leopard. Although, I'm hearing a lot of issues with CS4 and Snow Leopard, too.
The problem I have found so far is that when any one of the CS3 applications attempts to check for "Updates...", they crash. I'm unable to update each of the CS3 applications from the original versions on my DVD.
I receive a dialog box that states that "Adobe Updater" quit unexpectedly.
Apple and/or Adobe MUST fix this. I have a newer Intel-based iMac. I completely reinstalled the Mac OS X to Snow Leopard and installed the Adobe apps on a clean computer. ALL of my other applications from other manufacturers are running fine

Can you get your updates from, say, [here|http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=adobe%20upda tes%20photoshop%20cs3&cat=support]. Check fast these are search results. To reproduce what I found, I went to Adobe.com and searched on Adobe updates Photoshop CS3. That's the only CS3 program I searched on.
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Cintiq 21ux Color Issue with Snow Leopard

I just recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger. I have a Cintiq 21ux tablet that is noticeably "faint" now on the new SL. It appears hazy and the colors just don't pop like they did on Tiger. I didn't have this issue with Tiger. Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct the issue? I'm a graphic designer so color is EXTREMELY critical in my day to day operations.
I adjusted the gamma and that showed some improvement but there is still a dramatic difference between my Apple monitor and the Cintiq.
I noticed this was posted earlier but no resolution provided and it was archived.
Please help!

Something just occurred to me that has happened in the past that when I've upgraded the OS that the ColorSync profile that was previously selected for the Cintiq and/or my main display for whatever reason gets unselected. You may want to look in the System Preferences/Display/Color Tab to make sure that the color profile you previously had selected is in fact still there and selected. Make sure that "Show profiles for this display only" is unchecked so that all profiles are visible. More than likely it should be named something like Cintiq 21UX or Cintiq 12WX which was installed when you set up the tablet.

External LCD TV issues with Snow Leopard

Ever since I updated to Snow Leopard, my LCD TV is overscanning the image. If I Maximize Firefox, the outside controls are cropped off. This never used to happen in Leopard. I go to the display settings and disable "Overscanning" and it underscans the image leaving an inch of black space on the screen all around the image, which is more underscanning than it ever used to it.
Also, the image on my LCD seems a bit blurrier. I read about this issue and tried the Text Smoothing tip here http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leo pard/ but that didn't change anything either.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

There should be an underscanning slider in the Displays preference you can fiddle with (or is that what you were referring to?).
Does your TV have a "full pixel" mode (or similar words)? Does your TV have it's own overscan/underscan settings?
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Help: Unicode issue in Snow Leopard not in Leopard?

Hello All,
I've finally switched from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
I'm loving the improvements.
But, I do have one issue.
I like to keep things tidy and orderly on my computer.
In Leopard I had been using a number of characters from the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictorgraphs block (U+1F300-1F3FF) in the names of my folders and files, to make them easy to organise and quickly identify (a book for books, a family for family, a plane for travel, etc).
Under Leopard, this system worked very well.
Under Snow Leopard, it's not working at all. Even though I've placed the correct font in the System folder (Symbola).
Is there something I can do to fix the problem?
Why did it work under Leopard and not work under Snow Leopard?
I'm including a screenshot of the problem in just one folder on my computer.
But the problem is everywhere.
Incidentally, the airplane is actually from a different Unicode block (well within the BMP).

Looks like a bug. You can report here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Aperture Upgrade Issues (since Snow Leopard Install)

I upgraded the OS on my 2007 iMAC7,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz to Snow Leopard a couple of months ago. Afterwards, when I tried to start Aperture, I got a message that my version of Aperture (1.5.6) was not supported under the new OS.
So today, I went to the Apple store and bought an upgrade to Aperture 2. The upgrade version is 2.1.1. I installed this and when I start Aperture, the app appears to start, the "intro" white screen comes up with the version / serial number, etc, and then the Welcome Screen starts up.
No matter what I choose from the Welcome Screen (Usually I pick Start Using Aperture), the SW appears to be stuck. The welcome screen disappears as expected, and the command bar across the top of the screen appears, but that's it - the normal aperture screen that shows your projects, etc. never comes up. Most of the commands in the sub-menus on the command bar are grayed out.
To make matters worse, when I try to quit, nothing happens. No message, no nothing, it just sits there. I have to do the Option-Cmd-Esc sequence and kill Aperture.
I checked for SW update and updated everything that was available (OS and Aperture to 2.1.4), rebooted, etc. However, there was no change in behavior.
Everything else on this machine works fine, no other issues or even behavior changes in my machine. The only problem is with Aperture.
To summarize: Aperture 1.5.6 quit working after I installed Snow Leopard. I bought the Aperture upgrade and installed, which allows me to start Aperture but doesn't let me do anything further.
Has anyone else seen an issue like this? Any suggestions for what may be wrong?
Thanks.

You may want to try rebuilding the library or doing a consistency check. Hold command-option when you launch Aperture and choose the relevant options.
Note that Aperture 2.x will have to upgrade the library from 1.x to run. You should get a dialog box to kick this off (and it does take some time), but it sounds like you haven't even gotten that far.
You do need to be running Aperture 2.1.4 on Snow Leopard, but from your description it sounds like you're already on that version.

MobileMe Sync Issues after Snow Leopard Upgrade

After installing Snow Leopard, MobileMe has been acting up specifically with syncing.
I have tried to reset it via the instructions found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497
I am hoping it will be corrected and stays corrected. If you have the same issues, please let us know.
Thank you.

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1. Close all programs
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