Uprading to leopard

Going to uprade to leopard before upgrading aperture 1.5 to 2.1, is there any known problems with this procedure? I have a very large library and several aperture vaults.

I've known a couple of people that still had Aperture 1.5 installed after a Leopard upgrade, there shouldn't be any problems with that. If you're worried about any library issues then just make sure you have your vault backed up. In any case, it should be just fine.

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Canon 40D RAW Files and Leopard???

Hi all,
Haven't actually bought Leopard yet (have to wait till pay day!!) but have a pretty serious question to ask.
Has anyone tried opening the RAW files from a Canon 40D on Leopard?? Just I know that in 10.4.10 they are simply unsupported. Just in case no-one has access to a 40D at the moment, here is a link to a 40D RAW file (zipped). If someone would be so kind as to try it out and post back, I would really appreciate it!! It's killing me having to use JPG in Aperture!!!
http://www.tomfall.co.uk/RAW.zip
Regards
Tom

jpcullen wrote:
Yes, 40D raw files are now able to be opened by Preview.
I just upraded to Leopard, and in addition to confirming that 40D files are now recognized by Preview, iPhoto'08 and Aperture, I noticed another interesting new feature.
- in Leopard, you don't even need to open Preview or any other app to view RAW files.
the new Quick Look feature in the Finder views all sorts of files right from the Finder, including 40D RAW files.
Just tap the spacebar with any image file (or files) selected in the Finder, and up pops the Quick Look window. works for RAW or JPEG. you can switch to full screen view too. if you have more than 1 file selected you can view index sheet or slideshow, like the old right-click feature in Tiger. works in any Finder view - icon, list, browser and Cover Flow too. looks very handy.
p.s. the Finder Get Info in Leopard now correctly displays EXIF data, including proper shutter speed and aperture (Tiger did not display aperture, and shutter speed was awkwardly displayed in decimal, not a common fraction)

Uprade to snow leopard from 10.5.8?

I am a new apple user, my boyfriend bought an apple macbook 3,1 with os x 10.5.8 from a friend. I can't install the new version of itunes or other programs i need. As i understand i need a newer software called snow leopard? or what? where can i purchase this software? I hope someone can help me with figuring out what to do.

Hello Maca90.
Here are the basics. Assuming you currently have the 10.5.8 Combo update loaded (if not download and apply Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update )
First, check that your machine is suitable for Snow Leopard. It needs to be a Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Double check by reading the specs.
This is a paid upgrade not a download. To buy the DVD, if you are from the USA go to …
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard.
In Europe or otherwise substitute your national code in place of /us above.
In the UK see … Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (UK)
When you have your disk and before you start upgrading, back up your files. If you are unsure how best to do this, the following link is hugely informative.
Most commonly used backup methods: Apple Support Communities
Once you have upgraded to Snow Leopard, if your upgrade took you to 10.6.3 you will need to apply the Combo updater. Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 and follow with software updates to pick up the most recent security and iTunes updates.

Upgraded from TIGER to SNOW LEOPARD

Hello,
How can I uprade from TIGER to SNOW LEOPARD? Do I simply use the upgrade snow leopard to do so? Will that create any instability or issues?
thank you very much.
Alex

Yes, you can upgrade from Tiger to Snow by purchasing the SL DVD. Doing so would only create stability problems if you already have problems, so you should be sure you have a clean system before upgrading. See the following:
System Upgrade and Installation Procedure
Basic Caveats
1. Disconnect all peripherals except the original mouse and keyboard.
2. Quit all applications if this is not an installation from an Installer DVD.
3. The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation you may have to erase the hard drive and reinstall from scratch.
4. Once the installation begins do not use the computer in any way except to reply to dialog prompts or to restart when the installation is completed. This is especially critical during the installation stage known as "Optimizing the System."
System Update Procedure
A. Repair hard drive and permissions.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.) After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, 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 (4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.2 for Leopard) 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. Note that Disk Warrior will not work on Intel Macs.
B. Clone your existing system to an external Firewire drive.
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Drag the startup or source volume to the Source entry field.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the leftside list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Check the box to Erase Destination. Skip this step if you've already formatted the drive.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
C. Decide upon an installation option (This does not apply to Snow Leopard.)
You have three upgrade options. If you use the Upgrade installation option be sure you have repaired the hard drive and permissions first and made your backup. If you choose the Archive and Install option then you only need to repair the hard drive.
Neither of the above options will erase the disk. Some of your software may not work with a new system. You will need to upgrade those programs. It would be best to do the upgrades to your software before upgrading to the new system version.
Personally, I would erase the hard drive and do a fresh install of Snow Leopard then use Migration Assistant to migrate your old Home folder from the backup. This may take some extra time but is less likely to have problems that may be the result of an upgrade installation.

MacBook Pro Snow Leopard battery life

Okay, I've been poring through the threads for days now to try to find a solution to this . . .
I have two different MacBook Pros (a 15" 4,1 and and a 17" 1,2). I've upgraded both to Snow Leopard. Each is now running 10.6.6.
After uprading, both started suffering extremely poor battery life, losing nearly 1% each minute, even when the Mac is sitting and doing nothing.
I've done all the fixes I've found (recalibrating the battery, resetting PRAM, checking for rogue processes, etc.), and so far nothing has fixed the problem. I even bought a new battery for the older Mac, and that had absolutely no effect.
Some of the threads I've seen here go back for more than two years.
Has anyone solved this problem? I'm at the end of my rope!

1% a minute?
You're quite right - this problem has existed for years. Apple bases its power estimates on a device half intensity, using Energy Saver, and SL is supposed to have better battery performance than Lion.
Something is causing your battery to die on you. Check off the following one by one to make sure there isn't another problem:
1. Are you attached by USB? If you leave your MBP attached to a USB device or Firewire cable, you can lose battery power even if your computer sleeps. Disconnect all devices when you're not using them.
2. Are you using Energy Saver? Your machine may be sapping energy by being at high intensity. Instead, opt for a monitor at half or three-quarters brightness.
3. Losing battery even while sleeping? That problem can be addressed by going to System Preferences/Bluetooth and disabling Bluetooth.
4. Are you losing battery through heat? You can lose battery capacity with a system that's hot all the time. Keep your machines as cool as possible, through energy management, getting a laptop cooler, or using free applications like Fan Control.
5. Limit your losses. Use a power cord whenever convenient to increase your real-life battery time.
6. Some applications, like Skype that are on all day, sap battery power. If one such application is on all day (or close to it), this may be part of the issue.
7. Don't upgrade to Lion. This OS demands twice as much power as SL.
I don't want to minimize the significance of the issue, but take a look at which processes are drawing power. You might want to go to Utilities/Activity Monitor at take a look at which applications are consuming your CPU.

Frightened: is the new Muse Update (Nov.) still working on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 exactly like before?

I'm truly afraid about my months of work, I have to start from the beginning - because any little changings which is shifted in Moevement or works differently than before.
Over all my most fear is to need to uprade my mac from 10.6.8 up to 10.7 or 10.8 But i can't i spend a lot of money for lot of music stuff i need to work with, which is not working with 10.7
i tried to find information about at adobe but somehow they makes me uncertain at all
Do you have any experiece with the new Muse update and how it's working?
unfortunately I have no time to test yourself and start all over again
Thank you for any information ;-)

I assume you have working installer discs? If so here's a suggestion:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc. Insert the disc into the
         optical drive and restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the
         "C" key. Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the
         dark gray Apple logo.
     2. 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.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, set the format type to Mac
         OS Extended (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Partition button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.

Just bought FSC2 and Tiger... should I go Leopard?

This was kind of inspired by the "Upgrade to Final Cut Pro 5" post
Finally got a project that justifies me buying FCS2. I've been using FCE,iLife 5 and older Photoshop on 10.3.9 forever. I never upraded the OS cause everything worked. Now I have to upgrade to run FCS2 .. right? I bought myself Tiger (yes, I know I will have to add all the upgrades) but I'm wondering if there's any value to returning it and getting Leopard? Anyone know how that may affect my other, older apps?
I'm kind of concerned with the Tiger uprade, actually (OK, so I don't take to change easily) simply because my business is small and I like things to run smoothly
Any ideas? Should I just take a deep breath and move on?
Thanks
Victor

I wouldn't jump to leopard or any os on a v1.0 on a work machine...EVER. By the time that other early adopters get through the issues, and apple get 'em fixed. You might be actually tempted to get leopard, but once it's settled down a bit. Apple is great but they are on a tight schedule so things get ...well...how do I say this without getting this post taken down ^^
I'm actually running fcs2 on a tiger quad with all the latest updates and having no problems. I did hear of some issues, but I didn't encounter them and things seem to have been cleaned up now.
tiger = yes, fcs2 = nice, Leopard = wowowow ^^
hope it helps

Upgrading tiger to snow leopard

My Macbook currently runs on OS X.4.11.
I've just purchased an iMac running snowleopard.
Can I use to OS disk that came with my iMac to uprade the OS on my Macbook? Any issues I should beware of?

The disks that ship with a Mac are machine specific....you would need a retail copy of Snow Leopard for it to work correctly....drivers for the hardware in the iMac won't be correct for the MacBook...sorry

Wanting to downgrade to Snow Leopard. Can you help?

I like Lion in many ways and it has some nice features, but I have been having wifi trouble, programs not working, safari acting wonky, etc. since installing Lion. Can someone give the tips, etc needed to downgrade to Snow Leopard until Lion's bugs are ironed out? Is it doable? Will it cause other problem? Is it very time consuming? Thanks!
I got into Mac's in 2006 to escape all the Windows troubles... Lion so far is giving me flashbacks. Whew!
Appreciate any help!
Al
P.S. BTW, my iPhone 4 has no wifi since uprading. I did the Lion upgrade and the iPhone 4.3.4 upgrade on the same day.

Backup ALL your Users folders manually to a external drive and disconnect, your going to be wiping the entire disk (Windows files too)
Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP.
Look at the Utilities Menu for Disk Utility.
On the left is the name of your hard drive maker, click it and Erase (format HFS+ Journaled), give it the same name as before, and click Erase...
This should wipe the drive of all three partitions (GUID, OS X and 10.7 Recovery)
When it's done, quit and install OS X 10.6. Then install all your programs from fresh sources and validate/update.
Update OS X to 10.6.8 using the Combo Update for best results.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
When you setup a account, use the same user name as before, this way you can simply drag and drop your Users folders right back in and everything should work peachy.
If your original machine had 10.5 and you want the free iLife that comes with the disks with the computer, then you'll have to install 10.5 first, then 10.6, then Combo Update.
A lot of people use a Carbon Copy Clone of their boot drive to a HFS+Journaled external drive as a "hold the option key" bootable backup in case something goes bad. (in addition to TimeMachine for more immediate backups.)
If the above doesn't work, then I would suggest trying to restore your machine to a TimeMachine saved time without Lion. If that doesn't work then I would try doing what the above directions state, but going to the Apple Icon and selecting StartUp then choosing your bootable disk.

Is it unsafe to keep Snow Leopard?

Hi everyone,
Is it unsafe to keep using Snow Leopard given that it is no longer supported? I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro, so I know I could easily run Mountain Lion, but there is not much that attracts me to it other than the security updates. I use Safari, so I'm slightly worried about it not receiving updates. I've also noticed that iCal appears to have been killed in favor of Calendar (it always crashes at launch after telling my it can't recognize my username/password), but I'm not losing much sleep over it.
Bottom line: I'm happy with Snow Leopard but am not sure it's wise to not upgrade. Thoughts?

Albert.D wrote:
... I'm mainly just afraid to play around with my OS when it's working quite well for me as it is.
If it ain't broke... etc...
If you do decide to Uprade in the future...
Be sure to make a Bootable Clone Backup of your current drive...
and because SL is the Last Mac OS to support Rosetta...
Check here for compatibility of 3rd party Software you may be using...
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

I have been installing the Snow Leopard upgrade for 3 hours. Is this normal?

I have been trying to install the Snow Leopard uprade that I received from Apple Inc., but it has said that it will take 45 minutes for the last 3 hours. Is this normal?

Are you referring to the Snow Leopard DVD? What specific model are you installing it on? Are you upgrading an earlier version of OS X? Did you do this before attempting to install the upgrade:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. 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. 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.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro 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.
An upgrade can take a couple of hours but usually 45-50 minutes would be normal.

When I sync my iPod to my MacBook through iTunes new events do not show up and old events are not deleted. I am using Snow Leopard and not iSync.

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

Previewing videos in Quick Look isn't the same in Snow Leopard.

Does previewing videos on Quick Look in Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer allows you to use the two finger gesture to move forward or backwards in the video, or is it just me?

I can not do that either, then again, I never tried it in Leopard so... hope that helps

When i login to my banks online access point a new browser is opened and it takes up the full 27" display. ca i restrict the size of web browser screen used by tme online banking service? imac 27" OSX snow leopard 10.6.8

Intel iMac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I logon to bank via its internet portal and next screen takes up all 27" display.
Can this be controlled in any way or do I just put up with it, it is really annoying.

Thank you for your response. Whew...i omitted to say I use Firefox... tried to logon using Safari... same
result Installed Chrome ...same thing Installed Opera... this browser actually has in its Preferences menu
the capacity to set JavaScript Options under the Conent submenu... DISALLOWED all of resizing of windows,
moving of windows and ability of script to hide menu bar ... this fixes the screen to available browser size...
so my issue has at least this resolution. Thank you Flet Cheryl

Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard mac It hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise m

Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard Mac It even hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise me
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I tried to update firefox add-ons ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

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