Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

[Koyder]

Personally, I don't mind the 3D Dock, either. It's the multiple icon shadows that ruin it.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Quick question for you Leopard users! I've got a 320GB external drive at the minute hooked up to my Mini. When I finally get Leopard i'm planning on partitioning the disk into two.. one partition as a volume for Time Machine (in HFS+) and another for just sticking files on manually that I can share between Windows and OSX in bootcamp - so probably a FAT32 volume.

Can I do that? Or does Time Machine expect to be able to use the whole disk?

Thanks :)

[crazzyyfool]

^ A partitioned disk is fine. Bear in mind though, if the external drive goes down, you'll lose all partitions, including the Time Machine backup.

[divinatum]

Has anyone figured out a way to turn on the transparent menu bar? I have a 1.8 G5 iMac with a GeForce FX 5200, Core Image is Hardware Accelerated, I have the ripple effects in Dashboard, Quartz Extreme is supported... but I don't get a transparent menu bar. :(

[MasterC]

Personally, I don't mind the 3D Dock, either. It's the multiple icon shadows that ruin it.

I agree about the shadows. I've noticed that on lighter wallpapers, the icons top shadow looks almost black. It's kind of annoying. :/

Quick question for you Leopard users! I've got a 320GB external drive at the minute hooked up to my Mini. When I finally get Leopard i'm planning on partitioning the disk into two.. one partition as a volume for Time Machine (in HFS+) and another for just sticking files on manually that I can share between Windows and OSX in bootcamp - so probably a FAT32 volume.

Can I do that? Or does Time Machine expect to be able to use the whole disk?

Thanks :)

Time Machine actually makes a folder on the external drive. I set mine to backup on an external drive which I already had stuff on, and it made a new folder called "Backups.backupdb" with a subfolder called the name of my computer.

[crazzyyfool]

Anyone else got problems with the new Boot Camp drivers on the Leopard DVD? They don't appear on the disk when in Windows like they are meant to. :(

[instant.human]

oh thank you good mod... :)

[Aaron Veteran]

oh thank you good mod... :)

:whistle:

[Xero]

kraized, it appears our issue with Mail is related to the programs digital signature (a new feature in Leopard) somewhere down the line with Service Scrubber or not the Mail program loses its digital signature and therefore blocks all attempts to access Keychain. You can check your secure.log. Hopefully Apple can patch this fairly quickly.

[crazzyyfool]

kraized, it appears our issue with Mail is related to the programs digital signature (a new feature in Leopard) somewhere down the line with Service Scrubber or not the Mail program loses its digital signature and therefore blocks all attempts to access Keychain. You can check your secure.log. Hopefully Apple can patch this fairly quickly.

Hey thanks Xero. Maybe I'll send a bug report to Apple. I have noticed Safari doesn't seem to want to remember site passwords and logins anymore now. It asks if you want to save the password etc but I don't think they get added to the Keychain. When you relaunch Safari and try and login to sites it still wants you to input the data and asks again of you want to save the password to the Keychain. I've only noticed this happening recently. :blink:

[saxondale.]

Wow, screen sharing/file sharing in iChat is really unstable. It was using 1.17GB of virtual memory. Serious issues.....but it can work smoothly....sometimes. I was sharing music, videos and documents for a good few hours. When playing a song, the album art/name of the artist gets cut off and some videos dont even load. My MBP fans go into overdrive when doing all of this.

[Xero]

Hey thanks Xero. Maybe I'll send a bug report to Apple. I have noticed Safari doesn't seem to want to remember site passwords and logins anymore now. It asks if you want to save the password etc but I don't think they get added to the Keychain. When you relaunch Safari and try and login to sites it still wants you to input the data and asks again of you want to save the password to the Keychain. I've only noticed this happening recently. :blink:

That really sucks, I wonder if Safari somehow lost its digital signature too, take a look in ur secure.log there should be at least a few lines relating to the app failing when requesting the keychain. Last night I reinstalled Leopard because I got fed up, if you do venture down that road, I suggest you make a time machine backup before you mess with anything as I did. But hopefully this is something Apple will patch quickly, because if it happens again for me, I'm gunna snap lol.

[crazzyyfool]

That really sucks, I wonder if Safari somehow lost its digital signature too, take a look in ur secure.log there should be at least a few lines relating to the app failing when requesting the keychain. Last night I reinstalled Leopard because I got fed up, if you do venture down that road, I suggest you make a time machine backup before you mess with anything as I did. But hopefully this is something Apple will patch quickly, because if it happens again for me, I'm gunna snap lol.

Is your Mail working properly now since your reinstall?

[nomis_nehc]

again, i haven't looked through all the pages so don't know if this has been brought up...

airport is seemingly infinitely better. connects practically instantaneously from sleep, and no more connection/drop problems.

[MasterC]

again, i haven't looked through all the pages so don't know if this has been brought up...

airport is seemingly infinitely better. connects practically instantaneously from sleep, and no more connection/drop problems.

I noticed the same thing too. There's do delay like there was in Tiger. (Y)

[Xero]

Is your Mail working properly now since your reinstall?

Yep everything is working fine, only thing I didn't install was the Keychain 1.0 update, I'm a little nervous to do anything Keychain related at this point lol.

Btw another nice feature is in quicktime to stretch to fit the screen on some videos that lack the widescreen support.

[Timan Veteran]

So is a reinstall the only current fix for the mail/password issue? It just randomly popped up on me. Pain in the ass too cause I check my email so often.

Edit: Found a fix, I read on apples forums to go into keychain assistant and repair your keychain. But instead of pressing repair once, press it about 5-10 times and you'll notice in the log it finds something to fix. Very weird/random but that did the job.

Edited October 31, 2007 by Timan

[crazzyyfool]

So is a reinstall the only current fix for the mail/password issue? It just randomly popped up on me. Pain in the ass too cause I check my email so often.

Edit: Found a fix, I read on apples forums to go into keychain assistant and repair your keychain. But instead of pressing repair once, press it about 5-10 times and you'll notice in the log it finds something to fix. Very weird/random but that did the job.

Hmm. Think I might try that. I did repair my Keychain before but only once. :rolleyes:

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

I finally got my copy of Leopard this morning. I can't wait to install it but am at work all day and busy most of the evening!

*bangs head on desk*

Might have to be a late one to get it installed and tweaked! :)

[ineedsleep]

No?

Does anyone know how to go about changing this highlight color to the "blue" color used by finder and most other apps?

[giga Veteran]

Does anyone know how to go about changing this highlight color to the "blue" color used by finder and most other apps?

Sys Pref - Appearance

[ineedsleep]

Sys Pref - Appearance

both my "appearance" and "highlight color" are set to blue, and I still have the purple mail highlight.

[Timan Veteran]

both my "appearance" and "highlight color" are set to blue, and I still have the purple mail highlight.

Its actually blue when its active. But the problem is the sidebar is inactive when any other area of the window has focus. (select a mail box on the left and press tab a few times and you should see it select blu.

You can fix this by going into the mail.app resources and changing the graphics.

Seems they changed that, used to be able to do that in tiger.

[ineedsleep]

Its actually blue when its active. But the problem is the sidebar is inactive when any other area of the window has focus. (select a mail box on the left and press tab a few times and you should see it select blu.

You can fix this by going into the mail.app resources and changing the graphics.

Seems they changed that, used to be able to do that in tiger.

Oh ok I see. After pressing tab a couple of times, it does change the focus to the sidebar causing a blue highlight color. I have been looking through mail.app resources, but how do I figure out which graphic is the purple highlight color?

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Hm.. well i'm all installed and up and running.

Actually its not blowing me away quite how I hoped it would. I appreciate my Mac Mini is on the 'low end' of the hardware ladder for Apple but things like the magnify effect on dock are now stuttery slow where they were smooth in Tiger (thanks to the pointless reflections I guess) though I already do like some features that have become obvious.

I suppose I should just get cracking with it and see how it appeals after a few weeks!