Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

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Grand Master

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Has anyone encountered problems handling JPEG's in Preview? I took a photo on my D70 as a JPEG, copied it onto the Mac and was trying to resize it / adjust colour info and save it back out as a regular JPG. When I got to the Save As dialogue and tried to browse it kept crashing Preview. I could repeat it over and over again to make it do the same yet I imported a NEF and did the same thing to it last night (saved out a JPG after colour tweaking) and it was fine.

Saving out to a different format (GIF) made it not crash.

Weird.

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Has anyone encountered problems handling JPEG's in Preview? I took a photo on my D70 as a JPEG, copied it onto the Mac and was trying to resize it / adjust colour info and save it back out as a regular JPG. When I got to the Save As dialogue and tried to browse it kept crashing Preview. I could repeat it over and over again to make it do the same yet I imported a NEF and did the same thing to it last night (saved out a JPG after colour tweaking) and it was fine.

Saving out to a different format (GIF) made it not crash.

Weird.

I just tried it a couple times with different .jpgs and I get the same result. The dialog box pops down, freezes, and then Preview crashes.

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Has anyone encountered problems handling JPEG's in Preview? I took a photo on my D70 as a JPEG, copied it onto the Mac and was trying to resize it / adjust colour info and save it back out as a regular JPG. When I got to the Save As dialogue and tried to browse it kept crashing Preview. I could repeat it over and over again to make it do the same yet I imported a NEF and did the same thing to it last night (saved out a JPG after colour tweaking) and it was fine.

Saving out to a different format (GIF) made it not crash.

Weird.

You should know better than to take jpegs on your D70. Tsk tsk. :p

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Guys Leopard is running very slowly on my 1st gen Macbook. It's a core duo 2Ghz with 2gigs of memory.

All animations are slow, and I get poor battery life on leopard. Windows and programs start very sluggishly.

Is my macbook just not able to handle it?

I did an archive and install.

Do you think perhaps 10.5.1 will fix my performance problems?

Also maybe the whole os is slow because of my integrated gpu. I know on Vista if I ran on integrated graphics, the whole os was really slow till I got my graphics card back (I RMA'ed it) Could this be the problem?

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I dont think so, Tiger uses the GPU for all graphical stuff as well.

The first thing i'd say would be try a clean install by moving all your stuff to another hard drive. but if thats not an option,

Defrag.... that helped Leopards performance big time for me. Disable the dashboard and 3d dock?

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Guys Leopard is running very slowly on my 1st gen Macbook. It's a core duo 2Ghz with 2gigs of memory.

All animations are slow, and I get poor battery life on leopard. Windows and programs start very sluggishly.

Is my macbook just not able to handle it?

I did an archive and install.

Do you think perhaps 10.5.1 will fix my performance problems?

Also maybe the whole os is slow because of my integrated gpu. I know on Vista if I ran on integrated graphics, the whole os was really slow till I got my graphics card back (I RMA'ed it) Could this be the problem?

Did you just install it? It takes a while to index everything.

I have the same specs as you except 1.8 and everything is fine.

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If you browse an FTP site using the Finder, (clicked on link with Safari), you can use Quick Preview to view files on the server. It will likely need to download the file before the preview. I've been doing this with .DOC and .PDF files on a public FTP site and it works like a charm.

Coverflow even works in the FTP directories!

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Blaine

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Blaine, I've been reading around a few other forums and some MacBook users have had the same issue and with an Archive/Install setup. Perhaps going for a clean install may alleviate the issue you are experiencing.

That's really unacceptable :/ An archive and install should be exactly the same as a clean install except it creates a folder with my files in it.

Since this has happened to my macbook and with the iMac's freezing problem I hear about, I am really starting to reconsider my wanting to switch from windows to macs.

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RE: upgrade vs. clean install

My wife and I both have the same MacBooks that we purchased a few months ago. I used the upgrade method on hers and archive+clean install on mine. I have noticed hers lagging a lot when doing simple tasks. Mine has been running very smooth thus far. I personally have always preferred a clean install when moving to a new OS version on all my machines (mac, windows, & linux).

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

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This adds to my previous post about tile-types. You no longer need to fiddle with the dock.plist to add any tile type you want. Just issue this command from Terminal:

To add a tile-type in the documents section:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }'

To add a tile-type to the apps section:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }'

You can change "spacer-tile" to whatever tile type you want. You can then move the new tile to wherever you want in the Dock. Also, by using this command you can have a Recents stack in your apps section (Good for recent apps). Spacer-tiles can also be added to the documents section.

This was found over at Mac OS X Hints: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...071101055329470

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Got it today, impressed with it (even though it's a buggy .0 release, same issue with Tiger)

Some of the animations were laggy, seems to have gone away now, and iTunes would crash and lock up (and stop me logging out), but it turns out it was my iPod causing that.

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I think I may have found a bug. Today the date on my calendar icon was showing yesterdays date till I opened iCal. It seems that the icon only updates once when the system starts up (I think this because the computer was rebooted yesterday)

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i just updated to 10.5.1... is it just me or has the animation performance on Expos?/Spaces been MUCH improved on GMA950 MacBooks?:|| everything feels so smooth now. no bugs so far with the .1 update:DD

Blaine: yes the iCal icon is updated on logon, i think. if you leave it overnight it won't get updated, it seems:||

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i just updated to 10.5.1... is it just me or has the animation performance on Expos?/Spaces been MUCH improved on GMA950 MacBooks?:|| everything feels so smooth now. no bugs so far with the .1 update:DD

Blaine: yes the iCal icon is updated on logon, i think. if you leave it overnight it won't get updated, it seems:||

Spaces F8 is SO much faster now on my Macbook.

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