10.5.3 hows it for you?

Hamish · 29 May 2008 at 17:53

They've fixed the jerky animation on stacks Grid view. (got all my applications in it) \o/

Ol!ver · 29 May 2008 at 23:02

Anyone had any problems yet?

SentineL-X · 29 May 2008 at 23:03

Nope!

Ol!ver · 29 May 2008 at 23:22

All updated. Am I imagining things or are the apple logo and the search icon on the bar at the top different? Skitch isn't working now either

Will_3rd · 30 May 2008 at 02:05

bah 10.5.3 caused my 802.11x connection to keep forgetting its username and password

good thing I won't be on the uni network for much longer

Ol!ver · 30 May 2008 at 08:36

Well I'm having all kinds of problems. Skitch crashing when taking a screenshot, Numbers crashing when loading, can't access time machine without a complete lock up. Looks like a complete Time Machine restore for me ! :eek:

superplay · 30 May 2008 at 09:01

Do you know if this resolved the Graphics glith issue on the MacBook?

This was reported in this months MacWorld Mag (July)

I have seen graphics corruption when MacBooks come out of sleep

NickK · 30 May 2008 at 09:16

The only thing I have noticed is a perpetual beachball. That is the pointer forgets it should be a pointer and sits with a static beachball.. although the new "pointer" works as normal..

Feek · 30 May 2008 at 09:54

Working fine for me

(see what I did there!)

Pez · 30 May 2008 at 10:24

All ok here, Skitch is fine too

Ol!ver · 30 May 2008 at 10:41

Pez said:
All ok here, Skitch is fine too

I've got all kinds of things not working so something's gone nipples up.

NickK · 30 May 2008 at 12:03

I'm tempted to do a complete reinstall (I have everything on TM). I've got numerous old applications installed, at least 2 GCC compiler source trees - with their compiler & libraries installed along with lots of stuff from MacPorts etc as well as the Xcode GCC compiler set installed..
I also have a load of old applications that I've got lying around too.

With it being the effective original install from Tiger then with Leopard 1.5.0+ on top maybe it's time to do just straight Leopard + combi-patch fresh install.

I can then restore email, firefox bookmarks etc after..

Anyone performed a straight Leopard install without just upgrading? I remember there were issues with new installs when Leopard first came out.

Will_3rd · 30 May 2008 at 13:43

I Installed Leopard on an old iBook G4 overwriting the previous Tiger install worked fine

z3b3dy · 30 May 2008 at 14:08

NickK said:
I'm tempted to do a complete reinstall (I have everything on TM). I've got numerous old applications installed, at least 2 GCC compiler source trees - with their compiler & libraries installed along with lots of stuff from MacPorts etc as well as the Xcode GCC compiler set installed..
I also have a load of old applications that I've got lying around too.

With it being the effective original install from Tiger then with Leopard 1.5.0+ on top maybe it's time to do just straight Leopard + combi-patch fresh install.

I can then restore email, firefox bookmarks etc after..

Anyone performed a straight Leopard install without just upgrading? I remember there were issues with new installs when Leopard first came out.

Did the upgrade last night from Tiger, took 90 minutes including all the updates to get to 10.5.3 and it's absolutely fine.

NickK · 30 May 2008 at 15:08

z3b3dy said:
Did the upgrade last night from Tiger, took 90 minutes including all the updates to get to 10.5.3 and it's absolutely fine.

Ok.

I was thinking starting at the bare wiped disc:
1. Leopard DVD
2. Nuke MS trials etc
3. 10.5.3 Combo patch
4. iTunes
5. Run update (incase I've missed anything)
6. Xcode 3.0
7. Add firefox, etc etc

itsallaboutyou · 30 May 2008 at 15:32

Well, after all my posturing, it broke my macbook... grrr!

On the upside, first full time capsule/time machine backup worked perfectly..

itsallaboutyou · 30 May 2008 at 15:33

NickK said:
Ok.

I was thinking starting at the bare wiped disc:
1. Leopard DVD
2. Nuke MS trials etc
3. 10.5.3 Combo patch
4. iTunes
5. Run update (incase I've missed anything)
6. Xcode 3.0
7. Add firefox, etc etc

Thats pretty much what I did - set a restore point marker and it worked fine... I wonder what the problem is!?

z3b3dy · 30 May 2008 at 18:08

NickK said:
Ok.

I was thinking starting at the bare wiped disc:
1. Leopard DVD
2. Nuke MS trials etc
3. 10.5.3 Combo patch
4. iTunes
5. Run update (incase I've missed anything)
6. Xcode 3.0
7. Add firefox, etc etc

Well I didn't have the time to do a clean install so just went for the upgrade. Honestly I haven't noticed any issues so far though I'm going to do another bootable backup this evening just in-case.

Ripper · 30 May 2008 at 18:13

Just got my mac yesterday and i'm completely new to them, can someone explain to me how downloads work?

For example, I just downloaded VLC player. When it downloads it seems to mount it as a drive, what i've been doing is dragging the main executable and putting it in /applications and then deleting the downloaded file. Is this the normal procedure or am I missing a trick?

Doug · 30 May 2008 at 18:37

Ripper said:
For example, I just downloaded VLC player. When it downloads it seems to mount it as a drive, what i've been doing is dragging the main executable and putting it in /applications and then deleting the downloaded file. Is this the normal procedure or am I missing a trick?

Congrats, you're doing it right

I'm in the middle of a full Time Machine backup, fingers crossed I won't need it.

I don't usually sweat an update, but I've got a ton of stuff I can't afford to lose right now

[edit] All seems well

My PowerMac "server" is going to be getting a fresh install of Leopard soon, so I'll hold off on its update 'til then.