The Official Mac OS X "Tiger" Thread

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Grand Master

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I was under the impression that developers knew that the Tiger release was imminent because Apple removed the build numbers from the 'about this mac' dialog box and instead had just 10.4... maybe not though...

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You can always click on the "Version 10.x" in the About Box to get the build number (this has worked at least as far back as Jaguar, which was the first version I used). On some machines, if you click it one more time, you will get your computer's serial number.

Grand Master

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so how bad is it to just upgrade rather than clean install?

i have tons of **** on my ibook so i'd rather not have to format, but are there many more problems in just upgrading?

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Upgrade installs on both of my machines (formerly running Panther). Both are working fine.

Grand Master

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I upgraded and it messed up my anit-virus and some other software... so from *caution* on upgrading.

backup and then upgrade.

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Not surprising at all that your anti-virus would break. The other programs you had mentioned earlier are system hacks, so yeah, I'd expect them to break too.

Basically, if you have installed anything that modifies system files, then a clean install is the best bet. Otherwise, an upgrade will probably work just as well.

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Not surprising at all that your anti-virus would break.  The other programs you had mentioned earlier are system hacks, so yeah, I'd expect them to break too. 

Basically, if you have installed anything that modifies system files, then a clean install is the best bet.  Otherwise, an upgrade will probably work just as well.

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I'm still fairly new to the mac environment, so I would agree with you on that. Any changes done to the system would compromise the upgrade itself, but I have heard and experienced myself some lock ups with mac office 2004 while using entourage... this is not to say that tiger mucked it up, but still caution on upgrading.

and if you look at some of my previous screenshots you can see on my desktop that all icons now have name extension which they did not have on panther... still puzzled on that one.

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Scazza

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Like you sig Scazza and your site. :D

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thanks dude.

back on topic.

Apple screwed me over, preordered it and they took the money out of my account! lol.

I always thought that they wudnt until they had shipped the item.

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aristotle-dude

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thanks dude.

back on topic.

Apple screwed me over, preordered it and they took the money out of my account! lol.

I always thought that they wudnt until they had shipped the item.

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Took the money out of your account? Did you pre-order at a store on online? Did you use a credit card or check card?

Merchants alway put hold on funds on credit cards when they preauthorize a purchase.

Are you sure they actually took the money or is it just a preauthorization?

Merchants want to be sure your Credit card actually has the balance and it prevents you from overcharging by buying other things on the same credit amount.

As a consumer, it may "feel" like you have already been charged but you will not be charged interest on it until they confirm the transaction at the time of shipping. If, for some reason, they could not ship it to you and the order was cancelled, they would only have to request the hold/authorization to be removed rather than going through the trouble of crediting your account.

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Grand Master

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and if you look at some of my previous screenshots you can see on my desktop that all icons now have name extension which they did not have on panther... still puzzled on that one.

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Go to Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced and turn off the "show all file extensions" check mark. I think one of my machines did that too. Simple enough to fix though.

Grand Master

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Took the money out of your account? Did you pre-order at a store on online? Did you use a credit card or check card?

Merchants alway put hold on funds on credit cards when they preauthorize a purchase.

Are you sure they actually took the money or is it just a preauthorization?

Merchants want to be sure your Credit card actually has the balance and it prevents you from overcharging by buying other things on the same credit amount.

As a consumer, it may "feel" like you have already been charged but you will not be charged interest on it until they confirm the transaction at the time of shipping. If, for some reason, they could not ship it to you and the order was cancelled, they would only have to request the hold/authorization to be removed rather than going through the trouble of crediting your account.

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(Y) Yep, that is what most likely happened. I'd almost guarantee that his was a check card. I work at a hotel and we constantly have people complaining about things like this.

Listen people: contrary to what the advertisements tell you, a check card does NOT act just like a credit card. They ARE processed differently. If a business does a pre-authorization on your check card, that money is coming out of your account immediately! For places like hotels that do a pre-authorization at one time, and the actual charge at another, you can sometimes actually see TWO charges show up on your card for a few days. The second charge eventually will drop off and the money will be returned to your account, but I've seen this take a week or more.

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SYPHADIUS

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Go to Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced and turn off the "show all file extensions" check mark.  I think one of my machines did that too.  Simple enough to fix though.

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oh nice! thanks man, weird that it did that after the upgrade.

Grand Master

Southern Patriot

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oh nice! thanks man, weird that it did that after the upgrade.

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Hey, if that's the worst that happens, we can consider ourselves lucky. I think it reset some file associations on me as well (mainly AVI's were opening with Quicktime instead of VLC; again, an easy fix).

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