Share your Snow Leopard Experience/Concerns

[jennymac]

Whew, glad I waited. Leopard is just fine for now until a new version comes out, or update or....something. I've been having enough issues as it is. Thank goodness for Apple Care!

 

[WRCfan]

Everything works fine but on my machine Safari is the biggest piece of Junk ever. Slows down, beachball comes along and spins for 2 mins then takes ages to speed up a bit then it freezes again. Unbearable.

 

[fixerman]

Quicktime Player required

I have come across a number of occasions when trying to play a video I get a message that QuickTime Player is required. When I select Quicktime X as the player it is unable to play the video.

Any ideas folks?

 

[wantok]

I have come across a number of occasions when trying to play a video I get a message that QuickTime Player is required. When I select Quicktime X as the player it is unable to play the video.

Any ideas folks?

I've encountered the same problem.

 

[DarrenK]

Hi everyone. I have had no end of problems, especially with Safari, since upgrading to Snow Leopard and now ALL MY PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN SOLVED by a simple boot into safe mode then reboot. For those that don’t know how to do it, reboot your mac and hold down the shift key until it shows the apple symbol in the middle and a grey or black progress bar starts then release. When it boots up you should notice it says safe mode, test, Safari mainly in my case, or what ever and if it all works just reboot without holding the shift key, Job sorted. What I’m told you are doing is re-writing all the permissions from scratch, mine is like it used to be, fantastic and with Snow Leopard.
Hope this helps

 

[vansmith]

I have come across a number of occasions when trying to play a video I get a message that QuickTime Player is required. When I select Quicktime X as the player it is unable to play the video.

Any ideas folks?

What kind of video file are you trying to play? It's very possible that you either don't have the proper codec installed or you don't have a QTX/SL compatible version installed.

 

[Jugdys]

I have Bootcamp with Windows XP & had no problems. Remember to put your new SL disc in when you boot to Windows to upgrade Bootcamp drivers to SL. When you do, you'll notice that Windows now recognizes your Mac partition (& Timemachine HD if you have one), too. I haven't tried it but you should be able to read & write in both directions now.
HTH

Have you tried this yet?

 

[arsalangazor]

does anyone have a solution to this:

i remember in leopard there used to be a "more actions ..." pane when you right clicked on an item where you could :send it to a bluetooth device,apply an automator action,and else....but i couldnt find this in snow leopard.do you have any idea where i could do such thing,i mean bring that pane back or any other way like it?
cause it was very handy.im sure others miss it too.

 

[nbrowser]

Mac Specs,

Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz, Combo, 2Gb, 160Gb Upgrade from Leopard which was an upgrade from Tiger (original install media). Things went flawlessly, no issues, so far and no snafus on running my main apps. still playing but so far so good.

 

[fixerman]

does anyone have a solution to this:

i remember in leopard there used to be a "more actions ..." pane when you right clicked on an item where you could :send it to a bluetooth device,apply an automator action,and else....but i couldnt find this in snow leopard.do you have any idea where i could do such thing,i mean bring that pane back or any other way like it?
cause it was very handy.im sure others miss it too.

Go to "System preferences/Mouse" and change the Right Hand button to Secondary Button on it's drop down menu. The right click function will now be available.

 

[kelpulation]

Results from putting Snow Leopard on OS X 10.4.8

As far as the inside information...maybe I do, maybe I don't!;D

As far as the $169 10.6 Mac Box set. Of course my logic makes sense. Not only are Tiger users encouraged to buy the "10.6 box set"...they MUST purchase it because it contains the "full install DVD" of 10.6!!! If someone does not have 10.5 install disks...then they must purchase the "10.6 Box Set"

The $29.95 "10.6" is an "updater" disk...NOT a full install.

Again...there are two main paths to OS 10.6:

1. If you're a 10.4 user...then you need to purchase the $169 10.6 Box Set.
2. If you're a 10.5 user...then all you need to purchase is the $29.95 10.6 update disk.

Of course if you're a 10.5 user, and you want the full install of 10.6 + iLife 09 + iWork 09...then these folks could buy the $169 10.6 Box Set as well.

Finally...if you're a 10.4 user...you could purchase 10.5 @ $129 + 10.6 upgrade disk @ $29.95 which comes to roughly $160 bucks.

Surprise, surprise that's only $9.00 cheaper than the 10.6 Mac Box Set...so of course folks are going to buy the box set instead...because if you go this route...you're basically getting iWork & iLife 09 for just $9.00 more!!!

Disagree if you want...but on Friday or Saturday when folks start getting their 10.6 items...you will see that I was correct back on Tuesday!;D

- Nick

Hello all, this is my first post.

My airport card recently died and I went to my campus computer store.

I saw the 30 dollar Snow Leopard and decided to get it but I did ask if it would go ontop of 10.4. The computer store lady said yes and I got my airport card replaced then my system backed up and upgrade. Now my computer runs ok but the airport does not behave the way it should. I ran an airport grapher and instead of 54/54 bits/s I saw that it read -2405/0 and was basically flat lining while working properly. On occasion it drops me off all networks and cannot find them. This is the first of many problems I believe I will encounter if I continue to use the computer. I am gonna phone Apple Support this morning and ask them about it. Im sure they will give me the same sort of answer you posted above.

I just thought everyone would like to know.

Cheers, kelp

 

[qwert97]

the upgrade went good. The skype and the SIP does not work ...darn it!

 

[ddines]

Snow Leopard has been a disaster for me - can someone tell me how to roll back?

All apps work but word closes unexpectedly several times an hour.

Any help doing a roll back to Leopard would be greatly appreciated.

 

[arsalangazor]

Go to "System preferences/Mouse" and change the Right Hand button to Secondary Button on it's drop down menu. The right click function will now be available.

i didnt mean that.i have done that before and setting the button to right click is not my problem.you see,when we right clicked on an item there was a drop down menu,and in that drop down menu,at the bottom thre was a "More Actions ..." option which allowed us to do more.now thats what were missing in snow leopard.see if you can do sth about that?

 

[joleneloetscher]

Fusion Problems since Installing Snow Leopard

has anyone had trouble with Fusion not booting since they installed snow leopard?

 

[Borix]

I am a new user and have no probs with 10.6 (.1) on my mbp 13". I think lots of probs can be overcome by a clean install and checking 10.6 compatability before installing apps.

 

[mmaslarpsyd]

multiple snow problems

It seems that since I upgraded to snow leopard, I have experienced multiple problems, including difficulties with my iDisk syncing properly, and with my computer being unable to access the internet through my airport, despite the airport connnecting with my computer, and with my modem separately.

 

[dcap]

I cloned my HD and eagerly upgraded to SL. I've noticed a big difference. Love it. Best upgrade yet! Swapped back to the original to see if there was a noticeable difference- there is as far as I can tell! SL seems snappier..

 

[jaskaeyes]

Anyone here using adobe cs2?

I got an Imac running on osx tiger. I just want to find out if there are any issues with cs2 on SL.

Thanks

 

[DarkDTSHD]

For me the quirk that bugs me is that when I go to shut down an app the Apple drop-down menu is activated. It switches back and forth between the Apple menu and the app menu. It's like SL is unsure which menu I want. Tempted to switch back to Leopard. Didn't have a problem there at all.

Though, having read some of your posts, I think it's because SL is a new OS that most apps haven't been fine tuned to work smoothly with SL yet. Which is usually the case. It just depends in what way. Is it obvious (as in my case) or subtle.

And I can't do a "restore" using Time Capsule now. Some one told me to pop in the MBP install disc. Will try that. Might install SL again later. When they've worked out most of the issues. Which are many. I'm a bit surprised.

For the poster with AirPort problems. Have you tried unplugging and re-plugging in your modem? I had to do that recently. Though on my MBP it would see that I have a connection. Just would be stuck in "loading" mode. When I tried to load any webpage or internet based client. Fixed by resetting the modem.