Strange behaviour of Snow Leopard in small things

Hello everyone,
after upgrading from Leopard everything was OK. I don't know if that's being lucky, but I did not have any of those major problems some people found in Snow Leopard.
Nevertheless, there are some small behaviours that still innocuous, I dislike:
1. I usually have 2 icons in my desktop, placed in the top right corner as usual. When I used to have an extra icon (pendrive, mounted DMG file, etc.) in Leopard, it showed right in the next place on the grid as the third icon it is. Now, since I run Snow Leopard it apears always in the fourth place... I mean, the Desktop always leaves a blank icon space between my usual 2 icons and the new one. Why does this happen? Is it normal for all of you? Is there something one can do to 'solve' this 'issue'? (I know it's a really petty thing)
2. As it did already in Leopard, Finder tries to remember where did you leave a folder as watching items when this folder is quite full of them. So it's normal and it's OK that sometimes a folder opens directly in the middle or so because there was some file I opened several times. That was so in Leopard and keeps the same. Fine.
Nevertheless, since I upgraded to Snow Leopard another 'new feature' appeared: When I open a folder full of items which I never opened before (or not that often) it always shows it *from the end* and not from the beginning (as logical). For example if I unzip a file containing numbered files for each document, the first thing I shall see when opening that new created folder is the last one. (Again a trivial 'issue', but quite annoying, is it not?)
Thank you for reading, I hope someone can guide me to solve these. Many thanks in advance.
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Hi Thanks for the suggestion. Got into work this morning and everything was ok! So I'll save trashing the prefs for another time.
Thanks
Simon

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Also, thanks to Tim Harris, you need to make an edit to the source as described here:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Make sure iChat server is running and login.
*KNOWN ISSUES*
*You must register!*
You still need to use an application like PSI to register for the transport. That's beyond the scope of this tutorial. Note that you need to use an older version, discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2159145&tstart=0
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http://groups.google.com/group/py-transports/msg/f3cdd998a5c7a97a
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This computer used Snow Leopard with no problems at all until it got upgraded to Mountain Lion (Lion was skipped), and then the crashes started and stuff. Since more than a couple years had passed from the adquisition of the computer, it was not eligible for a free repair.
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As things have moved on there now seem differences with Apple applications such as iPhoto (library gets updated/upgraded) and I am left wondering whether to upgrade the iMac from Snow Leopard?
If so, to what? If I go to Mountain Lion then I am on an OS that my Macbook cannot use but if I only go to Lion I may find issues that others on forums have indicated whereby they ended up downgrading. Are these unlucky downgraders victims of in-place upgrades rather than re-installs? I really like SL and see no reason to upgrade as I am no fan of the iOS appearance of the system in Lion (and ML). However, the security patches have stopped, the World has moved on, and I also cannot access those FileVault encrypted drives.
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Lion - keeps both systems the same, may have issues with upgrade as indicated in forums (were they early adopters? in-place upgraders?).
Mountain Lion - latest and greatest, said to be improvement on Lion, may end up with backwards compatibility issues in iPhoto just like Lion -> SL

Hi, panto74.
It looks like you're in a little bit of a spot, and you ask some good questons.
I know this doesn't directly answer your questions, but here is some food for thought.
Consider this option... upgrade your iMac by way of an external HD. By that I mean, purchase an external drive and install OS X 10.8.1 Mountain Lion on that. Then migrate your user accounts and data onto the the new drive, use System Preferences to set it as your startup drive, and use it for a while - an evaluation period, if you will.
By doing this you get to determine if 10.8 is what you expect - see how it behaves for you. And, if you don't like it, you haven't yet wiped your startup disk and can simply reselect that drive and OS as your boot and go about your day using SL. Very little muss and fuss. If worse come to worst, you haven't munged your original setup, and now you have an external HD that you can use for other purposes, such as data backup or external storage.
Another option that comes to mind... since you have already interrupted the feng shui or balance of your two machines by upgrading the MacBook... why not upgrade the MacBook to the next level? This way you still have the comfort of using SL on your iMac, and you won't have moved BOTH machines into the realm of the unknown. You can even upgrade your MacBook with an external startup hd as I described above.
As for the question of why some users have poor luck when upgrading/downgrading... the answers are about as varied as the problems are. There are so many things that can affect the process.
Of course, whatever you do, PLEASE make sure you have backed up your data before you make any move on your iMac... or MacBook, for that matter.
I hope this is helpful.

Ipad plus reconnu par iTune sur iMac suite à installation de osx snow leopard

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Suite a installation de osx sono léopard version 10 6 3, mes ipad et ipodtouch n apparaissent plus dans iTune et donc plus de synchonisation possible.
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My first recommendation would be to update all the way to OS X 10.6.8 using Software Update.
When I updated my older MacBook a couple of years ago to Snow Leopard the same thing happened to me when I first plugged in my iPad. iTunes would not recognize it. I wanted to take a few days with 10.6.3 before I fully updated the OS, but I made the decision to just update all the way and see what happened. After I updated all the way to 10.6.8, everything worked fine.

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Hi,
I have a strange issue with Snow leopard, recently I'm facing with application crash.
First it started with my Aperture Application now all my application crashes.
I have Aperture, firefox, directmail, skype and some My finder also get stuck.
All the applications crash when i'm working with it.
Please help.
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

try booting up in _*safe mode*_, then reboot normally.
JGG

Is Snow Leopard worth a $129 upgrade?

I am looking to buy a MacBook Pro of some kind, probably with a Core2Duo Intel Proc. Some of them if they are used have Leopard, and some Snow Leopard. Only thing I know (and it's precious little) is that with Snow Leopard you can add the Mac App Store which I think would have some benefit. Are there many other benefits? Would Snow Leopard run any better/faster on say a 2.xGz Intel Core2Duo system? Would 4gb ram be enough or would 8gb really be needed?

More to the point; you don't need to spend $129 unless you want iLife '11 and iWork. The $29 10.6.x install disc will do the job perfectly well.
Having said that, I do find iWork very usefull and pretty **** good in spite of a few glaring ommissions still to be addressed.
4GB RAM should be perfectly adequate for most people; go for more if you do a lot of movie making and processing, or are heavily into audio production.
The App store requires 10.6.6, which you can update to from the basic installation with the combo update from the support page; http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
Opinion on the app store is somewhat divided, but no harm in trying it for yourself.
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00700 2 104 count log logamount 100 tcp from any to any dst-port 22 in setup
00701 1888 250506 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 22 in setup keep-state
And yes, the appfirewall.log is also empty which seems to have now taken over the local0 log facility... (the App firewall is not enabled)
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Frank

piknyc wrote:
I had the same problem and can't remember exactly what I did to fix it but I think this was it.
I added the below to /etc/syslog.conf and restarted:
put this at the top
!ipfw
this at the bottom
\. /var/log/ipfw.log
This had strange effects in snow leopard. It had no effect on the output of appfirewall.log, but now ipfw.log fills up with everything.
All i want is a clean logfile with my ipfw logs not spammed by the appfirewall. I've tried changing /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/com.apple.alf.plist loggingenabled key to 0 and restarting but it had no effect.

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