Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

[crazzyyfool]

I think its cause when you navigate through frontrow, it uses regular key commands (up down left right blah...) well if you press em on your keyboard while you're at the desktop you'll see the cursor vanishes too.

But the cursor returns immediately when you move your mouse. I'm getting a delay after FR. :(

To 2d:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

From 2d to 3d:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

Enjoy.

Also, if anyone is not happy using the Terminal. There is DockSwitcher and TigerDock which do the same thing.

[hotdog666al]

I stayed up til 6AM playing with it last night, HAHAHA :D

It's really nice! Of course MY favourite feature is being able to change the grid size XD

[instant.human]

kinda off but then again on-topic:

we almost got the 100 pages.

all filled up with more or less constuctive posts relating to "leopard".

i think thats great. =) especially when you look at how often this thread was cleaned. =)

[saxondale.]

Anyone had problems accessing http://www.hotmail.com in Safari? Works fine in Firefox but its just constantly reloading in Safari.

[crazzyyfool]

Anyone had problems accessing http://www.hotmail.com in Safari? Works fine in Firefox but its just constantly reloading in Safari.

Mine seems to work ok here.

[+StevoFC MVC]

My friends 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 handles it well. He's got 1.25gb of ram though.

sweet. I'm considering trying it on my 1.33ghz iBook, also with 1.25gb ram.

[evo_spook]

i did an archive and install first, but NOTHING beats a clean install, super fast!

I want to do that, but I want to back-up all my applications and files, whats the best way to do that?

[craybox]

That was the first install BUT....

I installed on my MBP C2D and the install got stuck on reboot with the Apple logo for 4 hours !!! I had to reboot same again, so i went through the installation again this time i left it over night and got a login window.

But it would not recognize my password.

Booted of the Leopard DVD and used the password reset option, saved, rebooted still doesnt recognize my password even though the password reset utility found my user correctly.

I am now trying an Archive & Install to see if that works

This problem is appearing all over the net and possibly a BIG problem with the Leopard install lot of people getting a blue screen though.

If my reinstall doesnt work again, does ne1 know any terminal commands that I could run to add a user with root access

UPDATE:

This fixed the problem thankfully.

So if anyone else gets this problem do the following...

When it first boots to start the install go to the 'Options' and select 'Archive & Install' which gives you an option to retain users and network settings.

When its finished ( took about 30mins :)

you can boot back in using your original user name and whatever password you last reset it too.

when Logged back in there will be a 'recovered files' folder and an archive folder which contains all the applications that it backed up.

you can safely delete both of these folders.

hope that might help someone.

[crazzyyfool]

I want to do that, but I want to back-up all my applications and files, whats the best way to do that?

To an external hard drive.

[evo_spook]

so going by the above I am best going through an Archive & Install' and then going back through the archive for apps that I want putting back on Leopard?

Is this as good as a clean install? I wanted to do a clean install as I have a lot of junk on my machine and recently had to boot from disk to clean up some bad sectors on it.

To an external hard drive.

Yep doing that now, its not just a case of drag and drop your old applications thou is it?

I know OSX is isn't like Windows, but you'll still need to take your Library files along aswell?

[crazzyyfool]

so going by the above I am best going through an Archive & Install' and then going back through the archive for apps that I want putting back on Leopard?

Is this as good as a clean install? I wanted to do a clean install as I have a lot of junk on my machine and recently had to boot from disk to clean up some bad sectors on it.

Yep doing that now, its not just a case of drag and drop your old applications thou is it?

I know OSX is isn't like Windows, but you'll still need to take your Library files along aswell?

Download SuperDuper and do a complete bootable backup of your hard drive to an external hd. You can then boot from the Leopard DVD, wipe your internal hard drive and do a clean install. Then in Leopard you can use the Migration Assistant to transfer your info from the backed up drive back to your internal drive.

You've still got your bootable backup if anything goes ###### up.

[EDIT] WooHoo! 100 pages. :p ;)

[craybox]

so going by the above I am best going through an Archive & Install' and then going back through the archive for apps that I want putting back on Leopard?

Is this as good as a clean install? I wanted to do a clean install as I have a lot of junk on my machine and recently had to boot from disk to clean up some bad sectors on it.

Yep doing that now, its not just a case of drag and drop your old applications thou is it?

I know OSX is isn't like Windows, but you'll still need to take your Library files along aswell?

when you finish an archive install it will leave you with your normal desktop and applications in tact but you will have an archive folder in the root with a duplicate copy so there is no need to copy the apps back accross just delete the 'archive' folder when you are happy that everthing is running ok.

[saxondale.]

Not sure if this is leopard related but my wireless has been dropping out constantly

[Blaine]

Why wasn't the Leopard release featured on Neowin's main page? :cry:

[iSimx]

^ thats a good point....

[instant.human]

luckily it wasnt.

otherwise a flamewar wouldve started, i bet... like always, when something apple-related is on the front-page. ;)

[Koyder]

That's why I don't even bother reading Neowin's front page. It's a Microsoft fanboy's paradise.

[Aaron Veteran]

G4 iBook 1.07Ghz, 1.25 GB RAM -

system overall runs fine, but the dock animations (magnify and bounce) are noticibly slower... :(

Overall though, everything works great and about same speeds as before.

[NeoTrunks]

G4 iBook 1.07Ghz, 1.25 GB RAM -

system overall runs fine, but the dock animations (magnify and bounce) are noticibly slower... :(

Overall though, everything works great and about same speeds as before.

I've noticed the same thing on my PPC Mac Mini :(. The system is pretty damned fast though after the initial spotlight indexing. I still need Quicksilver, though, as I'm so used to just hitting Control + Spacebar to bring up the little bezel and type my query. Command + Spacebar for the spotlight window is a tad too slow (for the window to appear).

Also, Neverwinter Nights no longer wants to run. It just hangs after the screen fades out. Makes me a very sad person.

[hotdog666al]

Yeah, screw the front-page!! TUAW ftw for Apple News!

[Corris Veteran]

There is a hell of a lot of posts in this topic, lol, too many to read through.

Anyway, the point being, I was wondering if there was a new version of iTunes released with it?

[Blaine]

There is a hell of a lot of posts in this topic, lol, too many to read through.

Anyway, the point being, I was wondering if there was a new version of iTunes released with it?

No, but hopefully maybe iTunes 8 will be out at MacWorld?

[NeoTrunks]

There is a hell of a lot of posts in this topic, lol, too many to read through.

Anyway, the point being, I was wondering if there was a new version of iTunes released with it?

Same exact iTunes as what you have in Tiger. Probably the slowest app in this release.

[VGVL]

PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz with 2GB RAM. Leopard runs insanely fast. For a three year old laptop I have to say I'm very impressed.

I did an upgrade install without a problem.

Where did my rounded corners on the menu bar go? :ermm:

I'm not liking the transparent menu bar or square corners.

Quick Look, Terminal, Mail, and the developer tools are awesome.

In Safari the text of unselected tabs is difficult to read.

[Corris Veteran]

No, but hopefully maybe iTunes 8 will be out at MacWorld?

Same exact iTunes as what you have in Tiger. Probably the slowest app in this release.

Ok, thanks guys.

While I use a Pc and iTunes at home (I have yet to get a mac for myself) I use a mac a good 4-5 days a week and iTunes in Uni, and was hoping for an update to the software, even a 0.0.1 update.

Kinda having that freezing problem with the ipod classic.

But ah well, here's to hoping for soon!