Re: 10.5.2 out - better but still having growing pains

Posted by Neal on 2/29/08

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Permissions repair is long, and reports errors that apple tells
you to ignore when you contact them. (What's up with that? - your
own app misdiagnoses your own system??).

Time machine is funky, It is recommended that large files such as
a didk image or Parallels Desktop virtual machine disk images be
excepted from Time Machine and backed up some other way! (so you
need TWO backup strategies)

On 2/28/08, Jean Bullock wrote:
> It's sound really good and I am getting tempted. The only thing
is that I heard you
> can't run classic apps anymore on the Leopard. I can still do
it in Tiger.
>
>
>
> On 1/23/08, Don Luck wrote:
>> I have been using Leopard on an Intel iMac and MacBook as well
as an older G4
>> MacBook. There have been a few application hangs but very few.
Keeping
>> current with the software upgrades of both the system and
application seem to
>> help. I run the entire Microsoft Office Suite (not the most
recent), Adobe Suite
>> (CS3) and Apple software and really have very few problems.
>>
>> I use Time Machine with the iMac and Cover Flow was OK but the
new feature
>> that has helped the most has been Quick Look. I can open a
folder of student
>> work and although they are instructed to always save a file
with their name in
>> the file name they often forget. I can Quick Look through files
quickly and find
>> theirs in a small percentage of time it would take to open one
in word.
>>
>> Spotlight is fast enough to be useful. I avoided it in Tiger
but it could be used as
>> an application starter in Leopard (though I would never give up
Butler). Safari's
>> ability to grab parts of pages and turn them into widgets has
left me wanting a
>> larger screen for more widget space. The built in Dictionary,
which also ties to
>> Wikipedia is nice as is system level spelling and grammar
check. Even the Trash
>> has improved with an Empty Trash button within the directory
when you open
>> the Trash.
>>
>> One other things that has helped lately, Text Edit will now
open the new
>> Windows Word format.
>>
>> There were a few things a little different at first but overall
it has been a stable
>> and worthwhile upgrade for me.
>

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Leopard - what does everyone think of it?, 12/22/07, by Jean Bullock.
• Re: Leopard - what does everyone think of it?, 12/23/07, by sc.
• Re: Greenest (unripe) AppleOS I have seen in 20years! Wait until, 12/23/07, by 2nd service patch is out-1st was still pretty buggy Neal nfm.
• Re: Leopard - what does everyone think of it?, 12/24/07, by Jean Bullock.
• Re: Leopard - what does everyone think of it?, 1/23/08, by Don Luck.
• Re: Leopard - what does everyone think of it?, 2/28/08, by Jean Bullock.
• Re: 10.5.2 out - better but still having growing pains, 2/29/08, by Neal.