Upgrade to Snow Leopard has killed wifi usability
Upgraded to Snow Leopard a couple of days ago and it has significantly impacted my ability to use WiFi, tried on 3 different networks; 2 personal and one carrier and I am either unable to connect or the connection falls out after a few minutes, and when it works the speed is significantly regraded.
Prior to the upgrade I've never had a problem on these or any other wifi networks. Have tried all the proposed solutions I've found on the discussion forum but nothing seems to permanently resolve the issue.
Looking for some new suggestions or a solution from Apple. Being tethered via an ethernet cable seems so old school!
I seem to be having a similar problem but the only option I have is automatic channel selection.
I have a mini with a quickertek nCard in it running at 5 Ghz. Under Leopard I could move it downstairs and everything works great. As soon as I upgraded to Snow Leopard it would no longer work downstairs (signal shows full strength though) but will still work upstairs. Something in Snow Leopard is interfering with performance of the 5Ghz band at a distance. Very frustrating. My only option now is to get the latest Airport Extreme and hope it does better because of its 802.11n at a distance improvements.
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Upgrade to Snow Leopard disabled iPhoto editing capabilities
Upgraded to Snow Leopard, using iPhoto 8.1 (415).
Problem: Scanned numerous photographs at color 600 dpi on Canon Pixma500, then exported scans to jpeg, then imported into iPhoto
Result: Many will not edit. Here are the symptoms:
(1) Using full screen edit, the screen becomes blank.
(2) If while screen blank, "resize" slide is moved, then small preview screen shows up, with the thumbnail in it, but still major edit screen is blank.
(3) On some photos, if choose "crop" then entire photo will show up, but some will "jump back" to their original size, even after being cropped.
(4) Some images show up in the edit window, but will simply not edit, e.g., no sharpness, saturation or any other change will appear.
(5) For photo that is cropped, and then "jumps back" to its original size, an export file to tiff and re-import of the tiff shows a cropped file.
(6) For some photos, if the crop is a non-standard dimension (custom), then instead of cropping the image, iPhoto actually distorts it! For example if a photo was cropped into a 1 by 7 strip, the image would stretch out into that small strip.
(7) Exporting to tiff and then re-importing to edit does not work for color photos.
(8) same problem occurs for scanned (600 dpi) black and white photos.
(9) Attempts to edit older photos imported from iPhone, which previous before Snow had beed editable, failed, with the same results.
(10) Reading the discussions, there is plenty of information on this. The following do NOT appear to have any effect on the problem: (1) rebuilding the iPhoto library, (2) doing crazy stuff like reinstalling the system, (3) building a new Preferences file, (4) Building a new library, (5) using a back up copy of the photos.
Conclusion: Upgrade to Snow Leopard has temporarily destroyed ability if iPhoto to edit.I'm glad that I'm not the only one who is having this issue.
I have iPhoto 09, version 8.1 (415) - after upgrading to Snow Leopard the editing feature if iPhoto appears to be broken.
What happens is when I edit a picture, the whole screen goes black, the tools appear to edit if I move the mouse, I even get the thumbnails across the top, but just a black screen where the picture will be. I will say that it does this 90% of the time. Every once in a while some pictures will open in the editor but if I go to the previous and then back it may or may not show back up.
I have a pretty big library with pictures from multiple cameras. It cannot be isolated to one particular camera. This problem started after I did my Snow Leopard upgrade.
Things I have tried:
-Rebuild the library
-Edit in the main window vice full screen
-remove and re-install iPhoto from disc
-I even started iPhoto holding the option key, created a new library, uploaded just a few images to the new library and experienced the same problem. So this isolates that it does not appear to be a library issue.
Any thoughts? Anyone else having this issue?
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My Creative SBS250 speakers no longer work after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Where can I find the driver? Thanks
Everyone in my household who has upgraded to Snow Leopard has had the same problems with program crashes and the computer "forgetting" registration codes.
In fact, after re-entering codes, and then upgrading to 10.6.1, we had to re-enter them again because it forgot (again) that we had bought/registered the software. It was a lot of fun digging through old emails and such looking for the codes, let me tell you.
I'm pulling a Vista and downgrading my computer back to 10.5.x. That was stable and remembered my software, at least. -
Applications fail to work after upgrading to Snow Leopard
I can't believe how poor a job the upgrade is! Ok, Snow Leopard installed ok and saved me a good bit of space. It also boots a lot quicker too. But.....
..what is the point of all of this if it no longer opens my applications without crashing every time??! I wouldn't mind if they were old but the apps are mostly the latest versions, and are even Apple products too! E.g. Final Cut Pro.
Also, the apps that do open are now asking me for the registration codes all over again. If this was meant to happen then a heads up would have been nice
Apple.
I would prefer the slower Leopard with all my apps working than this upgrade where I can't do anything!
What kind of upgrade do you call this Apple??? I hate to say it but Microsoft might well have done a better job! Will Apple be resolving these issues soon?
Any one else having problems with applications?
Anyone found a solution?
Anyone know how to backout the upgrade?
Many thanks from a very disappointed Apple fan.Everyone in my household who has upgraded to Snow Leopard has had the same problems with program crashes and the computer "forgetting" registration codes.
In fact, after re-entering codes, and then upgrading to 10.6.1, we had to re-enter them again because it forgot (again) that we had bought/registered the software. It was a lot of fun digging through old emails and such looking for the codes, let me tell you.
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If anyone has any idea I'd really appreciate it. I just bought the iphone 5 and recieved the new nano as a birthday gift and now I'm up a creek without a paddle b/c I can't plug them into my laptop without the new itunes that runs on Mountain Lion.
Please help, I'm not very tech savvy.You don't need anything higher than OSX 10.6.8 to run iTunes 11. iTunes system requirements - http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
You can't upgrade without more RAM.
MacBook upgrade possibilities - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19577869 - "The Early 2006 model 1,1 Core Duo can only run a maximum of 10.6 Snow Leopard. The models Late 2006 Core 2 Duos 2,1 through Early 2008 4,1 can only run a maximum of 10.7 Lion. The Late 2008 model 5,1 Aluminum Unibody through the Mid 2010 White Unibody model 7,1 can run 10.8 Mountain Lion."
Kappy 08/2012 post on upgrading to Snow Leopard, then Lion or Mountain Lion - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19401628 - including how to get Snow Leopard and Lion since Apple removed them from the online store. (Update 11/2012: SL is now available online again http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard - USA http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard - UK) -
i just upgraded from snow leopard v10.6.8 to os x mountain lion and my scroll bar has disappeared on all my applications on the internet. does anyone know a patch to get the scroll bar to work.
Open General preferences in System Preferences. You can set the desired scrollbar behavior there.
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I had an older version of Mac OS, I upgraded to Snow leopard and then OSx Lion, most of my software has been upgraded except for Imovie. Now I can't get my projects to upload or share to iDVD or iTunes. Also to compound the situation everytime I attempt to share to iDVD or iTunes, iMovie quits unexpectedly. What do I do?
If you want to sync it to the iPad from that Mac, you need to upgrade it to at least 10.5.8.
If you want to copy the music to another Mac, you don't. Move the iTunes folder of the item in the Finder's sidebar over as you would any other folder. If you put it somewhere other than the Music folder, launch iTunes with the Option key held down and point it to that location.
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After upgrading to snow leopard my MacBook Pro will freeze when I go to system Pref or it has been running for 40 minutes-making it impossible to close app's or power off properly...so frustrated. What fix can I download?
After upgrading to snow leopard my MacBook Pro will freeze when I go to system Pref or it has been running for 40 minutes-making it impossible to close app's or power off properly...so frustrated. What fix can I download?
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I have been trying to download l OS X Mavericks to upgrade from snow leopard. I had a miss download right now in my tool bar there is a OS X Mavericks Icon that says-Waiting... this has been there for 4 hours when I click on it, cancel donwload? or (pause grayed out) or the options. I have tried this 6 times. I used the app in the Mac App Store. thanks KJG43
The installer is over 5Gb's and could take many hours to download.
Check the download status in the App Store application. -
Recently Safari has been quitting unexpectedly. I've dumped my cache several times and even upgraded to snow leopard.l I have the latest version of Safari 5.0.5. The situation has gotten quite annoying and been going on for about three weeks now. What can I do to fix this short of bringing it to someone?
I restart and it works fine for awhile and then it quits again. I either restart and/or dump the cache AGAIN! This is getting quite tedious. I've even taken the battery out and reinstalled it. Nothing seems to stop the quitting.You don't need anything higher than OSX 10.6.8 to run iTunes 11. iTunes system requirements - http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
You can't upgrade without more RAM.
MacBook upgrade possibilities - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19577869 - "The Early 2006 model 1,1 Core Duo can only run a maximum of 10.6 Snow Leopard. The models Late 2006 Core 2 Duos 2,1 through Early 2008 4,1 can only run a maximum of 10.7 Lion. The Late 2008 model 5,1 Aluminum Unibody through the Mid 2010 White Unibody model 7,1 can run 10.8 Mountain Lion."
Kappy 08/2012 post on upgrading to Snow Leopard, then Lion or Mountain Lion - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19401628 - including how to get Snow Leopard and Lion since Apple removed them from the online store. (Update 11/2012: SL is now available online again http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard - USA http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard - UK) -
Any reasons to be worried about upgrading to Snow Leopard?
I have a Mac book with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard to be able to run a piece of software that requires it. But, I'm nervous about doing the upgrade and breaking my machine in any way. My wife would kill me if something went wrong. Will Snow Leopard run well on my machine?
How to Install OS X Updates Successfully
A. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions:
Boot from your current Tiger Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and later.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
B. Make a Bootable Backup Using Restore Option of Disk Utility:
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
C. Important: Please read before installing:
If you have a FireWire hard drive connected, disconnect it before installing the update unless you will boot from this drive and install the update on it. Reconnect it and turn it back on after installation is complete and you've restarted.
You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system software modifications, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. (This does not apply to normal application software installation.)
The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Downloads to update. While the installation is in progress do not use the computer.
D. To upgrade:
Purchase the Snow Leopard Retail DVD.
Boot From The OS X Installer Disc:
Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
Restart the computer.
Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
Wait for installer to finish loading.
E. If updating:
Download and install update(s)
Use Software Update, or
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HT4759 Recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Any way for iCloud to run on it?
Running an iMac. Recently upgraded to OS Snow Leopard. Just recently bought my wife an iPad-3 with which I'm syning. Any chance that iCloud will run on Snow Leopard? Wife will be using iCloud on OS5.1/iPad. Will I experience any problems regarding syncing iPad and iMac?
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Update your Java 6 as previously instructed as it's supplies security fixes.
Java 7 and above is for 10.7 and above, Oracle is dropping support for Java 6.
However all versions of Java have been HIGHLY insecure, so it's advised not to use them at all
If your using Java based programs (like the free LibreOffice) then certainly disable Java in all web browsers and applets in Java Preferences.
Apple has a now annual OS X upgrade cycle that is causing havoc and disqualifying older, but perfectly working machines from running necessary software and dragging third party developers along.
So one shouldn't be running Safari (outdated and no Safari 6), Java 6, very possibly Chrome on OS x 10.6.8, but if you upgrade to 10.7 or above, your machine will perform slower and all your PPC based software will no longer continue to function.
It's sad, because OS X Snow Leopard has 1/4 OS X market share still and many can't upgrade because developers are not issuing 10.7/10.8 versions of their software because of AppStore and Gatekeeper signaling the closing of the operating system in the future.
The 10 year support cycle of Windows versions sounds like blessed relief compared to Apple's annual OS X upgrade nightmare.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still -
Adobe through a monkey wrench into my plans to sit comfortably with OSX 10.6.8 and not rock the boat with something that works. I'm a Creative Cloud member and utilize many of the CC apps including After Effects. The new After Effects CC now requires OSX minimum of 10.7.4. Lion).
I've been reading many of the comments about upgrading from Snow Leopard and am now quite uneasy about attempting it due to all the conflicting remarks about it. I do have AE CS6 and can operate on it for a while, but the new features in AE CC are not offered as updates to CS6 programs.
Questions:
Is there an automated approach to determine if my current NON APPLE applications will work with either Lion OR Mountain Lion ?
I have NO power pc applications
I do not use Boot camp, parallels or anything similar. Windows software does not exist on this machine.
I do use MS Office for Mac 2011, including Outlook.
I assume that Apple is probably working on the next OSX incarnation to succeed Mountain lion and that It may be timed to be coincident with the new Mac Pro release which is a hazy mirage of "sometime later this year". Point being, is it worth it to wait until that future incarnation settles down with the inevitable bugs blown off?
Any help would be appreciated,
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Adobe through a monkey wrench into my plans to sit comfortably with OSX 10.6.8 and not rock the boat with something that works. I'm a Creative Cloud member and utilize many of the CC apps including After Effects. The new After Effects CC now requires OSX minimum of 10.7.4. Lion).
It's B.S. like this that is forcing me to switch to Windows 7 which remain as is and get updates until 2020.
On a good monitor, Win 7 doesn't look nearly as bad as OS X, longevity and stability is key asset, I can always restore from System Restore Images if it gets seriously hosed, else System Restore reverts back to the last updated state.
Since it's expected that by 2015 tablets will outsell traditional computers in the consumer space, doesn't bode to well for many Mac's which chiefly target the consumer market and the professional market to a lesser degree.
Apple has already discontinued the MacBooks and the 17" MacBook Pro, so it might be shortly that only PC laptops will be the choice of professionals for their more versatility than consumer tablets.
Anyway the future isn't looking too bright.
I've been reading many of the comments about upgrading from Snow Leopard and am now quite uneasy about attempting it due to all the conflicting remarks about it. I do have AE CS6 and can operate on it for a while, but the new features in AE CC are not offered as updates to CS6 programs.
A professional setup is a whole different animal than a consumer machine where they can care less as it won't cost them money if the machine is down for some time.
It's likely best you buy a new MacPro and ease into it rather than take your chances on the Lions because they take some getting used to their strangeness.
I advise you also to join the chorus and complain on the Adobe forums about what they are doing to force upgrade you for their purposes.
Slightly over 25% of OS X version market share is on Snow Leopard and many of them because they are running PPC based apps they can't get anymore.
So I'm assuming there will be quite a uproar on the Adboe forums over this, or else you can be the first to kick it off.
Adobe is trying to push, but if enough people push back and start to look for alternatives, Adobe will have to cave in because their sales are down big time as the print media industry is dying, thus less need for artists and the CS suite.
Is there an automated approach to determine if my current NON APPLE applications will work with either Lion OR Mountain Lion ?
I have NO power pc applications
I do not use Boot camp, parallels or anything similar. Windows software does not exist on this machine.
I do use MS Office for Mac 2011, including Outlook.
Not automated, but user submitted information here.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
I assume that Apple is probably working on the next OSX incarnation to succeed Mountain lion and that It may be timed to be coincident with the new Mac Pro release which is a hazy mirage of "sometime later this year". Point being, is it worth it to wait until that future incarnation settles down with the inevitable bugs blown off?
I would if your planning on buying a new MacPro.
Don't kill your present money making machine with the Lions, it's just not worth it.
Now you CAN clone your present boot drive to a external powered drive, option/alt boot from it and upgrade that to the Lions to get you by until the new MacPro is released and you can get fully up on that.
Most people need Snow Leopard for some reason or another, installing it on a paritition or via a virtual machine is a bit of a pain.
Snow Leopard is really fast, the Lions are fully 64bit and act more like dump trucks, RAM gobblers 4-8GB+ and a SSD on a newer issue Early 2011+ laptop or 2010+ iMac/Mac Pro is better suited for them.
I think the new MacPro + Mavericks is the way to go, keep the Snow Leopard machine working while the bugs and Adboe issues are worked out, then of course is the new OS XI version coming after that is the more pernament solution for longterm.
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Plan your moves carefully, don't let the arses at Adobe push you off a perfectly working machine into a OS X upgrade that can fail horribly and brick your logicboard/firmware with no AppleCare coverage to fall back onto.
I had 10.7 kill a 2007 MacBook Pro I upgraded from 10.6, it was 4 years old and Apple wouldn't fix it.
So don't upgrade OS X out of AppleCare unless it's a spare machine, certainly not your working machine. -
Losing connection to time machine since upgrading to snow leopard
My wife's mac mini has routinely started saying 'no connection available' since we upgraded to snow leopard. It also keeps asking for the network password, which it has never done before on my time machine. I thought it was a fluke with the mini, till my macbook started doing the same thing.
Please have someone look at the issue between the dual band time capsule and snow leopard.
Thanks.You're not talking to Apple here -- this is a user-to user forum.
Try just re-selecting the Time Capsule in TM Preferences. If that doesn't help, try restarting both the Macs and the TC.
To contact Apple directly, call AppleCare at (800-275-2273), or make an appointment at the Genius Bar at your local Apple store, and take your TC and one or both Macs along.
This appears to be a Time Capsule problem, not a Time Machine problem, so you'll probably do better in the +Time Capsule+ forum, hiding in the +Digital Life+ section, at: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253 -
This morning, I upgraded to Snow Leopard from v10.5.8. Then, I exported 11 contacts from our old Now Contact database, intending to import that info into Address Book. It was an experiment, as we have 1199 contacts in 20+ categories and want to eventually get them into Bento from Address Book. The export automatically created a file called Export.vcf on the desktop, after I highlighted the 11 contacts. I tried to look at the info, but when clicked it opens Address Book, which then simply asked if I wanted to import the 11 contacts to it. I clicked yes. Then in checking Address Book 7, not 11 contacts appeared. I clicked on "All Contacts" and there were 1630. We only have 1199, so where did the extra 400+ come from? Since I had already clicked twice on the Address Book window, I couldn't undo the import. So I thought 'Ok, I'll trash Address Book and go to Time Machine, find Address Book, go to right after the upgrade to SL, hit Restore and bingo. Nope. I keep getting the post-import info, not pre. Con someone direct me to a solution? I want to get rid of the import contacts plus the extra 300 or so ( I already had a hundred or so in several categories)? Then, I need to figure out (1) why ALL the old records were exported from Now Contact, (2) where they were hiding in that .vcf file when Address Book recognized that I only wanted to export 11, (3) why Address Book showed only 7 imports in the "Last Import" group, but showed ALL my contacts in the "All Contact" group, even though they should nearly all have been safely untouched in the Now Contact DBase file. PS, I am not especially computer savvy. Thanks for any enlightenment.
Booting From Snow Leopard Installer Disc
1. Insert Snow Leopard Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
Drive Preparation and Installation
1. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. After formatting is complete quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
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