Snow Leopard bugs

[henryk1]

Is there anyone who HASN'T encountered problems running Snow Leopard with software and hardware that ran fine with OS X 10.5.8? Over on Macfixit.com there seem to be a lot of irritated folks, as there were here recently. I haven't yet received my SL upgrade and am wondering if I ought to wait for 10.6.2 to be released, whenever that might be, before installing it.
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[tgreenw900]

Install it on a clone drive and see what's up. First you should make a list to see what stuff you will have to download drivers etc. I did it but failed to get my Epson 2200 going and it's not working well on SL so went back to Leopard. YMMV If I had an newer printer Everything else worked but that was a deal breaker for me.
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[henryk1]

Thank you, but I have no idea what a clone drive is.

I do have three Macs -- a new 2.26 Mini, a three year old 1.66 Mini, and a 2.0 Macbook. I was thinking about doing a clean install on the 1.66 (which I am saving for use at our summer cabin next year) and then adding all my software, one by one, as well as two printers and a scanner, one by one also. Maybe doing that would be most revealing.
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[jfelbab]

Yes, I'm one who has not experienced any issues. I can run all my legacy software just fine. I even kicked up MS Office X, a 2001 vintage and AppleWorks which has not been updated in years. They ran just fine.

Both iMac and my MBP are faster under SL.

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Jim
'There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.'

• • Ansel Adams

 

[webfrasse]

Just to be clear. These are NOT SL bugs.

It's hardly Apples fault that 3rd party vendors didn't fix their software during the 14 month beta that SL had. The OS is the reality that software running on it have to adopt to. Not the other way around.

Not to say that there aren't bugs is OS's but what we see here for the most part is 3rd party software not compatible or supported on a new OS.

Nikon, DxO, Adobe and others need to fix their stuff.

Is there anyone who HASN'T encountered problems running Snow Leopard with software and hardware that ran fine with OS X 10.5.8? Over on Macfixit.com there seem to be a lot of irritated folks, as there were here recently. I haven't yet received my SL upgrade and am wondering if I ought to wait for 10.6.2 to be released, whenever that might be, before installing it.
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Mikael

 

[henryk1]

Thanks for pointing out that the bugs aren't SL's fault. All the same, I wonder if future iterations of SL might contain new drivers for hardware and software late for the release party. Often the third-party vendors do not answer emails for help to their support people. Adobe and Brother, for instance, each have blown me off more than once.
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[R Valentino]

Gene

 

[anuragyagnik]

no problems
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[Rich Gibson]

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[Daniel Bliss]

This has been the easiest update for me since Panther. Even Jaguar, which I installed on the first weekend and gets extra credit for liberating me from 9.2.2 doesn't quite match it.

The main task was systematically going through all my applications -- I have way more than I used to -- and applying updates and patches. I didn't even try to work in anything without it. As for the applications that haven't had Snow Leopard patches, MS Office and Adobe CS3 have not caused me any trouble so far, and Aperture 2.1.4 and Capture NX 1.3.4 are significantly faster. Netflix movies also do much better; once you go to full-screen mode with them, processor use drops by more than two-thirds so my laptop isn't nuking the battery with heat like it was.

Overall outcome, more speed, more efficiency. The only thing SL seems to struggle with so far is that Flash-based online games seem jerkier. At least it keeps me from wasting any more time playing them. The only other problem is that certain websites with Flash seem to trigger heavier processor usage -- unless you can escape that by going to full screen mode. So the ongoing mess that is Mac Flash support is still a work in progress despite the obvious success with full-screen playback.

 

[F16jetjock]

No problems here with SL.

Two Macs (iMac & MacBook) both with Aperture and a handful of plugins.

I'm very "anal" about keeping me system running smoothly.

Good luck...
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[Matt Shelton]

For me, I have had bugs, but they've only been minor bugs, and they're bugs that I fully anticipated as being an early adopter. Overall, I'm very pleased with Snow Leopard.

 

[webfrasse]

A clone is just that, a cloned copy of your harddrive. It's probably one of the easiest and most important backups you should run on any mac system

Lots of software packages that will this for you, SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner are the two most frequently used. Both free (SD! with basic functionality).

What they do is to create a bootable backup that is an exact clone / copy of your mac's boot volume. This is my main type of backup and I would NEVER patch a system without having a fresh clone that I verified that I can boot from.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

http://www.bombich.com/index.html

Thank you, but I have no idea what a clone drive is.

I do have three Macs -- a new 2.26 Mini, a three year old 1.66 Mini, and a 2.0 Macbook. I was thinking about doing a clean install on the 1.66 (which I am saving for use at our summer cabin next year) and then adding all my software, one by one, as well as two printers and a scanner, one by one also. Maybe doing that would be most revealing.
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Mikael

 

[webfrasse]

Also, drivers can be released independant from an OS patch. SL does not install all drivers as Leopard did. SL will download drivers and update as needed.

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Mikael

 

[Lee Beasley]

I've installed it on three Macs--one aluminum iMac and two laptops--and everything is running well with no glitches. I have a Kodak AIO wireless printer (it was cheap) that I felt sure wouldn't work, but in fact, it did just fine. I had forgotten that I was running an old version of MS Office, and I did have a problem with the automatic updater giving me some strange message or another. It was fixable, but I haven't opened Office for several years anyway, so I just trashed it.

 

[PB PM]

I've had fewer problems than with 10.5.8. My Macbook Pro was freezing a lot, then I upgraded to 10.6.1, problem is gone.
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[Spiros Liolis]

Hi,

I guess one needs to differentiate the two.

A Bug is s s/w malfunction that will make your application or whole system unstable/unusable.

An incompatibility is the lack of "collaboration" between two different system components (h/w, s/w, OS, etc).

So far I haven't encountered any bugs.

I have encountered some incompatibilities but this is to be expected. With every release of an OS some vendors may not have updated their s/w.

Cheers,

Spiros

 

[henryk1]

Thanks to everyone for their encouragement -- I feel a lot better now. Also, thanks for the clone drive explanation. I've been trusting to Time Machine on one 500 gb hard drive and my files (photo, text, etc.) on another 500 gb hard drive. I have a third 500 gb portable hard drive serving as a backup-backup and I think I'll get one of the clone programs and use that for a clone.
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[Mustafa]

It may be coincidence, but my Time Machine backups have failed since I installed Snow Leopard. I get an error message saying an unknown fault has occurred and I should check my external drive -- which Disk Utility then shows as having no faults.

I've abandoned Time Machine now and installed Super Duper instead. This backs up to the same drive with no problems.

 

[James Gordon Patterson]

Cyberduck now works with SL. HP came out with a SL driver for the HP P1006. Onyx now works with SL. If you have a Safari plugin that doesn't work, go to the Safari.app and check "run in 32 bit mode." I found that true to get something with Shockwave to work. All in all, a fine and FAST operating system.

Jim Patterson
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