OS X 10.4.7 Released

MagSafe · 27 Jun 2006 at 22:19

For all the Mac users out there; Apple have just released 10.4.7

The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies. It includes fixes for:

- preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections
- saving Adobe and Quark documents to AFP mounted volumes
- Bluetooth file transfers, pairing and connecting to a Bluetooth mouse, and syncing to mobile phones
- audio playback in QuickTime, iTunes, Final Cut Pro, and Soundtrack applications
- ensuring icons are spaced correctly when viewed on desktop
- determining the space required to burn folders
- iChat audio and video connectivity, creating chat rooms when using AIM
- importing files into Keynote 3
- PDF workflows when using iCal and iPhoto
- reliable use of Automator actions within workflows
- importing and removing fonts in Font Book
- syncing addresses, bookmarks, calendar events and files to .Mac
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303771.

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798.

Comes in at 64.9 MB and is working fine for me so far

deano · 27 Jun 2006 at 22:23

cheers for the heads up - downloading now

deano

MichaelHo · 27 Jun 2006 at 22:39

cheers, downloading now, on software update it says its over £100 meg though.

fearby · 27 Jun 2006 at 22:59

Downloading............

.........for my Intel iMac and iMac G5

MagSafe · 27 Jun 2006 at 22:59

MichaelHo said:
cheers, downloading now, on software update it says its over £100 meg though.

100 quid for an update? that doesn't sound right :confused:

I guess if you aren't fully up to date it adds in other updates along with it, or your using a PowerPC processor and are using that version.

MichaelHo · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:04

was downloading the update then i suddenly got a greyish screen telling me to restart, once i had restarted it told me to send an error report to apple.
does it happen with mac osx updates? how do i find out what version im currently running?

Thanks.

p.s: lol £100, forgive me.

MagicBoy · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:34

Just done. Took a few tries of Software update for it to find it however. Update was 63.9Mb for me from 10.4.6 on an MBP.

MagSafe · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:37

MichaelHo said:
how do i find out what version im currently running?

p.s: lol £100, forgive me.

Click the Apple at the top left of your screen, then "About This Mac".

stuppy · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:38

Man,

Apple have come up trumps!

This update has already solved 2 issues I had. One being when I use automator to mount a shared drive, i used to get an error even tho the drive mounted. This no longer happens!

AND the main one, Firefox on my MBP rendered fonts really badly, smoothing them too much. This update has fixed it so that it renders the fonts the same way Safari does!

So happy

MagSafe · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:42

Yeah i've noticed a .Mac improvement since upgrading

, my iDisk used to take a while to disappear after I dragged it to the trash can, now it goes away instantly

Berserker · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:47

I'll fetch it down once the initial rush has died down - and when I've finished the current Folding@home competiton which still requires Boot Camp and means reboots = bad.

stuppy · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:54

Has anyone elses "about this mac" gone like this :

AJUK · 28 Jun 2006 at 00:23

Fine here but I am using a proper processor.

This update has killed the Pith Helmet plug in for Safari and it took a bit of cleaning up. I guess I will have to be exposed to adverts unil it is sorted.

OllyM · 28 Jun 2006 at 00:38

No, fine here too:

AJUK · 28 Jun 2006 at 07:35

^
Nice spec.

Burbleflop · 28 Jun 2006 at 07:47

Good stuff. I had the same problem in Firefox as Stuppy did, but this update has sorted it :cool:

Founder_film · 28 Jun 2006 at 09:15

OllyM said:
No, fine here too:

How does you mac run with that much ram? I am looking to add another 2GB to mine but wanna be sure its worth it, thanks.

OllyM · 28 Jun 2006 at 10:41

Very, it runs really quickly - it's the best thing I did..

I leave a lot of apps open all the time, so I can open them instantly.

It appears this update has FINALLY fixed the 'insufficient bandwidth' junk when trying to use iChat AV (as cyk and Beepcake will testify

)

punky_munky · 28 Jun 2006 at 11:23

AJUK said:
This update has killed the Pith Helmet plug in for Safari and it took a bit of cleaning up. I guess I will have to be exposed to adverts unil it is sorted.

Found this on Version Track:

"In /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Control-click on PithHelmet.bundle and and Show Package Contents. Open the info.plist file. Find MaxBundleVersion and change it to 420. It's worked in the past and seems to work now, but YYMV!

Let me know if it works for you.
I can't actually install Pith Helmet due to the update. I've been looking into it this morning since I saw your post this morning though. Looks good, hopefully there will be an official update soon.

AJUK · 28 Jun 2006 at 11:50

I ended up having to delete Pith Helmet, I found the remnants of it it lurking in that folder; I just deleted it and repaired permissions and everything works fine. I was surprised there was no application folder for it which would have made unistallation simpler.