Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.5

[sra. Aguirre]

to Admin: there is no need to delete my posts, as I had not broken any rules of the forum.

Here is a screenshot of the new iDisk icon that had been changed recently and it looks bad, in my opinion. Is there any way to delete it?

I haven't tried it out myself yet, but Candybar let's you change icons you don't like with a drag and a drop.....even system files.......
here's the link: http://www.panic.com/candybar/

Well you can always use CandyBar http://www.panic.com/candybar/

Then you can chance it...

wow......guess I did not read your entry cause I gave the same advice..sorry!!!

yep - like the mini, my screen looks a little crisper (should've grabbed screen shots [if I knew how... on the PC there is a key for that....]), and my wallpaper has better clarity (not as matted).

Mac screenshot: command+shift+3 or if u want to select what to capture you do command+shift+4 and drag along what you want to capture....now THAT the pc does not have.

And this thing about the screen looking bigger is that only noticeable on a MB cause I have a MBP 15" and really after reading some posts I was dissapointed mine does not have Cinema Display looks after updating OS X

Using a standard Apple keyboard Command + Shift + 3 takes screenshots.

MAN!!!!!!!!
what have I been smoking last night that I do not read posts and end up answering already answered issues....damn and now I have 4 entries...jeeeeez Now I look like some psycho b***ch....

very sorry about this....

 

[Manderby]

Problems with the .5 Update

I run into some problems while installing the Server Update via Server Administrator. On two independent Servers, the installation once stopped during copying files and during running the installation script. One server hat to be shut down and reboot till software update could have been restarted again. A manual installation via terminal worked just fine.

Now on my iMac, the Client-Update killed all my screensafers, I can't even turn them off, after 10 Minutes, the Screen starts blinking between the Finder and a black screen.

Any suggestions (already repaird permissions)?

 

[sra. Aguirre]

Thanks, like I said. I wish I would have known that, so that I could post the before and after. But here is my clarity. It was not this nice before. Also here is the side-by-side of the VLC vs QT

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow your Dock is MEGA FULL of stuff....how did you do THAT, mind you, it would drive me crazy but I did not know you could expand your dock that much, does it turn a corner when u filled up the horizontal axis? (just kidding )

Darn, now I have FIVE following posts.......to Admin: please do not remove them...it's not spam I am just now reading a lot of interesting posts.....

 

[Tosser]

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow your Dock is MEGA FULL of stuff....how did you do THAT, mind you, it would drive me crazy but I did not know you could expand your dock that much, does it turn a corner when u filled up the horizontal axis? (just kidding )

Darn, now I have FIVE following posts.......to Admin: please do not remove them...it's not spam I am just now reading a lot of interesting posts.....

You know you can quote sequentially? And if you forget, you can always edit the same post.

 

[Wombert]

Trying Installing 10.5.5 is stuck on "Configuring installation".

It is stuck on a G4 Powerbook 17" 1.5 GHz. Progress bar not moving at all.

Any idea what to do?

Cheers
Greg

Same here (1.67GHz 15" G4 PB). I tried to repair permissions, and cleared /Library/Updates, no dice. It remains stuck. Combo update doesn't do the trick either.

It's stuck in "Configuring Installation", and Console says it's currently running the preflight script.

When updating through Software Update, I see some messages in Console.app about /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder checksums differing or so, maybe that's the cause. Will need to look into it in detail when I'm back home - update worked fine on a Mac Mini (OS X Server) and a 24" Alu iMac.

 

[137489]

Mac screenshot: command+shift+3 or if u want to select what to capture you do command+shift+4 and drag along what you want to capture....now THAT the pc does not have.

And this thing about the screen looking bigger is that only noticeable on a MB cause I have a MBP 15" and really after reading some posts I was dissapointed mine does not have Cinema Display looks after updating OS X

command+shift+4 - I LOVE THAT. No more having to take an entire screen shot then crop it. Especially for my technical documents. Man, my work definately needs to get macs. Even if only for producing manuals and puplications. 2 keys strokes instead of 2-3 minutes (per picture) of cropping, etc.

 

[nsbio]

Buggy Mail

Still no fix for no new message sound for secondary accounts. How long will it take Apple to fix this???

Panther and Tiger had this working and Leopard broke it. It is not a major thing, but it is annoyingly obvious if you use more than one account with Mail.

 

[phatcat]

My update choked on the mini. It was stuck at "writing 37% complete" for about 7 hours. Had to manually shut down and reboot. Fortunately it rebooted ok to 10.5.5.

mini was in standby mode prior to updating. I had a difficult time quitting messenger and had to force quit, then did the update. I guess next time I should simply to a clean reboot prior to updating. The mini was probably hung up prior to updating.

 

[137489]

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow your Dock is MEGA FULL of stuff....how did you do THAT, mind you, it would drive me crazy but I did not know you could expand your dock that much, does it turn a corner when u filled up the horizontal axis? (just kidding )

Darn, now I have FIVE following posts.......to Admin: please do not remove them...it's not spam I am just now reading a lot of interesting posts.....

One thing I always hated with Windows was always having to Start, Programs..., application, and then the actual executable may even be one more level deep. When I got my mac and saw that I had to keep clicking the hard drive and then going to applications and scroll, I said that is ridiculous. I then read where I could just drag the application from the folder to the doc. Now my apps are just one click away. Unlike windows dragging an application from its original place (Application folder) to the doc does not remove it from te original location.


Every time I add one, the icons shrink down and make room for the new entry. and unlike RKLAUNCHER which simulates this on Windows, they shrink and make room for one another. RKLAUNCHER just inserts it. I found that RKL will actually push stuff off the screen. I never had that happen on my mac yet.


That's whats nice about apple, no more cluttered desktops with icons. Now I wish I could add other stuff to my doc. But for the moment, it appears only applications from the application folder is added (hence my desk top icons for my windows apps that are in parallels).

 

[giganten]

Did they change how high the mail icon jumps .

 

[lamina]

I'll butt in on this. My last install of OS X lasted three months. Main reason was I was wanting to up the size of my boot camp partition so thought I'd go the whole hog. But in my OS X history (since 10.1.2) I have reinstalled about every six months. It definitely makes everything feel much faster again, and sometimes properly applies fixes that it just decided to skip in point point updates the time before.

I reinstall OS X far more often than I ever would Windows, because a) it's a real hassle to reinstall Windows; and b) the way I use Windows, it doesn't seem to slow down over time.

As I said earlier, I have more issues with Leopard after 11 months than I have ever had with an install of Windows. After 10.5.5, the menubar still doesn't follow application focus, the iTunes dashboard widget still doesn't work properly; sidebar behaviour is not correct in open/save dialogs, I'm still getting a fully dimmed screen on wake from sleep occasionally, just randomly, and I assume all the other wacky wake-from-sleep issues persist .. time will tell.

I have not had any issues at all with my Vista 64-bit boot camp install. I prefer to use OS X, but it has been a lot less pleasant than it should have been this last 11 months!

I agree with all of this. Normally I'd cut off a quote to save space on a page, but I fully agree with what this guy is saying.

Tiger was so much more fluid and stable-feeling than Leopard is. I feel that Leopard is still a rush job, and even after the .5 update, it feels that things still haven't been fully addressed.

 

[netnothing]

to Admin: there is no need to delete my posts, as I had not broken any rules of the forum.

Here is a screenshot of the new iDisk icon that had been changed recently and it looks bad, in my opinion. Is there any way to delete it?

See this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/521250/

-Kevin

 

[Baffles]

Thank you for this! Nice to see figures representing the improvements of Leopard over Tiger, and moreso in 10.5.1 and 10.5.2. Quite a difference from Vista's regression in speed from XP, with SP1 barely catching up to the benchmarks of XP, in only some areas.

Tiger beats Leopard in the Thread tests and also the User Interface tests.

Anyway, I run vista here, and it runs faster than XP on my quad core box. If you're running it on modern hardware, it can take advantage of it better than XP can, and run faster. But there was no regression in speed, the only time it's going to bog down is if you have less than a gig or two of ram or a crappy hard drive or trying to run Aeroglass on a crappy video card or similar.

 

[Baffles]

Not bashing, just curious... why would you reinstall a mac with mac os x? For AFAIK you only need to do that with windows or sometimes with linux when package repository is messed up or something like that.

I'm sorry, but you're flat out wrong here. If windows is properly maintained, it doesn't need to be reinstalled often at all, same with OS X. And OS X is based on similar (not the same though) underpinnings as Linux. If you know what you're doing with Linux or can ask for help, a messed up package repository doesn't mean you have to reinstall, just fix the repository.

 

[9822737]

Tiger beats Leopard in the Thread tests and also the User Interface tests.

Anyway, I run vista here, and it runs faster than XP on my quad core box. If you're running it on modern hardware, it can take advantage of it better than XP can, and run faster. But there was no regression in speed, the only time it's going to bog down is if you have less than a gig or two of ram or a crappy hard drive or trying to run Aeroglass on a crappy video card or similar.

Good points well made!

Vista SP1 runs well on newer hardware with 3 or 4 GB of RAM.

And this is coming from a soon-to-be-switcher..

 

[ninshubur]

Sounds like a placebo effect to me.

I usually would have agreed with that, but I do also think that on my Core Duo MacMini (which had an annoyingly muddy picture on my CRT connected via the VGA adapter) the screen looks a lot crisper. Maybe they finally changed the gamma curves to something better suited to the combination of certain screens with some of the video hardware they use?

Anyway, the best thing besides that for me: Mail finally doesn't die a horrible death anymore if you dare to drag an attachment to its dock icon. Took them nearly a year to fix that annoying issue...

 

[mari0]

I just want the X3100 drivers sorted out. Surely that's not too hard for you Apple to make a smooth interface to run on your perfect OS.

 

[gigissh]

Do a deeeep cache cleaning!

Started having things like this happen with 10.5 and still having problems. I had my Graphics Card swapped out and have since upgraded. A reboot fixes every time. See the degeneration:

You may want to try iceClean or Onyx and do the deepest (root) cache clean! I am almost sure that it'll fix it!
Have fun!

 

[tuinte]

command+shift+4 - I LOVE THAT. No more having to take an entire screen shot then crop it. Especially for my technical documents. Man, my work definately needs to get macs. Even if only for producing manuals and puplications. 2 keys strokes instead of 2-3 minutes (per picture) of cropping, etc.

Also: Type Command+Shift+4 then, before selecting anything, hit spacebar, and it'll take a pic of a single window of your choosing (it even saves transparencies and adds a drop shadow). Try taking a pic of the dock, too.

 

[840quadra]

This is now the fourth OS X Leopard update in a row in which the Xbench benchmark scores did not change all that much. Leopard 10.5.0 showed an overall improvement over Tiger 10.4.11, while 10.5.1 further improved the overall scores.

<SNIP>>>>

Interesting test results, nothing beats lots of raw data .

Curious as to what configuration you used for this testing. Is this a separate partition that has only OS X on it, or is this your normal day to day system?

Without a controlled (read canned) environment, these tests are only somewhat helpful. Factors such as disk space, applications loaded, caches (disk and processor) , etc, will cause more fluctuations than just the OS.

 

[UFOGoldorak]

Startcraft works again!!

Its play time..

 

[ibwb]

command+shift+4 - I LOVE THAT. No more having to take an entire screen shot then crop it. Especially for my technical documents. Man, my work definately needs to get macs. Even if only for producing manuals and puplications. 2 keys strokes instead of 2-3 minutes (per picture) of cropping, etc.

Isn't it Alt+Print Screen or Ctrl+Print Screen or Shift+Print Screen or something like that on Windows, to copy just the current window to the clipboard?

 

[phrac]

command+shift+4 - I LOVE THAT. No more having to take an entire screen shot then crop it. Especially for my technical documents. Man, my work definately needs to get macs. Even if only for producing manuals and puplications. 2 keys strokes instead of 2-3 minutes (per picture) of cropping, etc.

uhmm, to take a screenshot of just a window in Windows its ALT+Print Screen

 

[BigTRQ]

Updated last night at home. Came in to work this morning, plugged in the Time Machine drive, and now it's doing a 3.8 GB BACKUP! What on earth changed for that much to be backed up??? Weird.

 

[Paradigm]

Office 2008 ISSUE

Office 2008, so far specifically Word 2008, launches then crashes since 10.5.5 update! MS and need to work on this fix NOW!