Goodbye to Leopard - downgrading back to Tiger

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I have done both a clean install (on my MB) and a A/I instal on my MBP and thankfully have had no problems thus far. I am very sorry you are having the problems you are. :(
 
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Did a clean install here, works just great.

Oh btw, I wanted to let people know that CS2 works just fine on Leopard.
 
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Clean install here... PERFECT!!!! no issues!
 
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Clean install as well as Simple install. No issues thus far.
 
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My upgrade failed so I did an archive and install on my mac pro. The only problem I have had is a strange line that appears at the bottom 3rd of some browser and finder windows. It goes away after i minimize and restore the window.
 
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I had some issues on my install. Tried archive and install then clean install nothing worked. I brought it to apple and they put in apple ram and everything worked fine. So I bought the ram there. I had compusa ram in it and guess it didnt like it.
 
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interesting to hear about the different issues and ... the good and the bad... so I'm guessing it's not the OS that's the problem??? perhaps it's each users machine that might have some sort of conflict in regards to "how" you get leopard installed........ *shrugs*

I might take a day and try a clean install... see how it goes
 

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I installed Leopard yesterday and everything is perfect (even faster/snappier). I performed a clean install. I love it! :D
 
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i'm gonna wait a while before i pick up leopard.


maybe i'll just wait until i get a new mac. my Tiger works great... i guess 'if it ain't broke...'
 
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Switching back to Tiger from Leopard

Being the sucker I am for new releases I just had to to be among the first to clean install leopard on my new maxed-out macbook. Here are the top ten reasons I'm switching back to Tiger until the next few major 10.5 updates and 3rd party updates pass.

1. incompatible with many 3rd party software packages (e.g. filemaker)
2. dot mac is seriously bugged (too many errors to list)
3. new mac firewall won't stealth ports (option doesn't work)
4. keychain doesn't like leopard so far (buggy with long passwords)
5. mac mail won't remember passwords under leopard
6. airport networking bugs (requires manual connection every boot)
7. intermittant long boot and shut-down (rare, maybe 1 in 15 cycles?)
8. don't like context menu changes (new "more" submenu stinks)
9. menu transparency effect can't be shut off
10. love stacks, hate new dock
 

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I'm having some of those issues as well. What bugs me most is a password issue with Mail/keychain. It seems to forget the password I want saved. Make double sure to check the box to have it saved in the keychain.

Tried doing a repair in the keychain access, but that didn't help. Not sure what else to try.

The thought of going back has crossed my mind as well.
 
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Yeah, I'm not going to install Leopard on my iMac, but am keeping it on the MacBook. MacBook is mostly for schoolwork, which is less important ;) , iMac is for everything else.
 
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robbym.. so you just bought it and now going back to Tiger? waste $129?... I'm sure Leopard comes with several bugs, but you can just wait for an update. I haven't had any troubles so far, I don't like the transparency on the menu bar, and the dock not so much, i can't tell very good whether a program is running or not, i have to take a good close look at the dock! but the dock can be changed, i've found a site to do that. I love the new Finder and Front Row, i use my MB for school mostly, don't use .mac nor Mail.app so i can't help you with that.. Good luck tho!
 
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I've got some irritations, but I won't switch back. The good out weighs the bad and the ugly for me.

Any bets on a 10.5.1 release before the end of 2007 though?

I have discovered another 'bug' though and can replicate this any time. If you watch an iTunes video in full screen, and have your dock set to 'hide', after you finish the video, the dock will not reappear unless you shut down or 'kill all dock'

Anyone else notice this?
 
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I had some of these same things happen to me. Apple had me install my disc and go to disc utilities/erase and than zero out my hard drive and install Leopard. It worked...so far no issues...
 
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Going back to Tiger...

I just bought Leopard, and around these forums there's a lot of negativity surrounding it... so what if I install and it ends up being not so wonderful? Would I have to buy Tiger in order to go back? Because my MBP came with Tiger installed so I don't have a disc...
 
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you must have bought your MBP from a 3rd party... right?

You can (should) do a full bootable backup of your current system then install Leopard... if you don't like it you can restore from the backup.
 
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... again sounding like a complete idiot, how do I make a back-up of Tiger? Lol
Thank you.
 
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... again sounding like a complete idiot, how do I make a back-up of Tiger? Lol
Thank you.

I didn't really read all of the info at this link but I'm fairly sure it'll answer your question and more ... Scroll down the page and read the paragraph titled:

Get Serious About Your Backups

Now is the time to use your external FireWire hard drive to make a complete bootable clone of your current hard drive. The easiest and, in my experience, most reliable way to do so is to use good old Carbon Copy Cloner once again. The default settings should be fine--make sure that the "Make bootable" checkbox is ticked in the Preferences sheet, though.
 

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