Share your Snow Leopard Experience/Concerns

[cwa107]

Well, 6 hours without a beach ball. I'd say that was the culprit (knock wood).

 

[RNDdave]

So far all is well - the 3g modem from Vodafone worked straight away. Now for iWork 09

 

[Lycoming]

Had to download the latest driver for my Epson R2400. The system recognised the printer, but told me the drivers were unavailable. It's working, as is th eall in one 8450.

Next?

 

[hugtheslug]

OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs - The Linux Foundation for HP and other printer problems, worked for my Deskjet F380.

Covers a massive 776 printers of various make - including most HP printers

Download all 3 packages, install ghostscript first, then foomatic, lastly hpijs drivers.

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Hugh

 

[GARoss]

Took 45 minutes. Will update XP Bootcamp with new drivers as soon as Time Machine is finished with back-up. Everything seems to be okay, so far! Then on to my wife's Mac Mini that uses an HP p1006 printer that isn't (so far) supported. I'll do a test on my iMac 1st before installing SL on hers.

 

[vansmith]

HP LaserJet P1006 drivers for OS X here. As with many other drivers, it lists 10.5 as the highest supported version but it may work.

 

[gomez1018]

For me most of the time it is running great, except for a few things.

1. When I boot/reboot I have to have all my externals off our it just sits on the grey screen.
2. My headset sometimes gets messed up and jsut give me static in which I have to unplug it and then replug it back in.
3. Now whenever I export from Aperture it crashes after about 50 pictures.
4. I cant have a cd in my drive when booting/rebooting. It ejects it and then again stay on teh grey screen.
5.Some of my USB ports seem to have lost the ability to provide power for jump drives (this could be something else)

Other than I like it. I am thinking of doing a clean install to see if that fixes anything.

 

[GARoss]

HP LaserJet P1006 drivers for OS X here. As with many other drivers, it lists 10.5 as the highest supported version but it may work.

I was referring to this;
Snow Leopard Drivers for laserjet p1006 - Mac printing and scanning - HP Support Forum
and this;
Apple - Support - Discussions - HP LaserJet P1006 ...

HP's v1.0.7 does not work in SL. However, this drive for the P1005 does;
HP LaserJet P1005 Full Feature Software and Driver v.1.0.4 download for Mac OS X
so the fix is in!

On another note, I'll update a slight problem that those of us who use Bootcamp may run into.
After installing SL, I booted into Win XP to update the new SL Bootcamp drivers. Afterward, it wanted to restart the computer but I didn't want to restart into XP at this time (I wanted to checkout SL some more!) so I rebooted into Mac. To my surprise, the internet quit working on Firefox & Safari. I restarted Mac again. Same thing!
Finally, I rebooted back to XP to check if the internet was working there. It worked fine. So, I booted back into Mac again; this time everything worked fine. Somehow, maybe it was just a coincident, not restarting Win XP effected the internet in Mac.

 

[wantok]

Hit my first major snag. I've been able to configure Mail to receive mail from my Exchange server, but it cannot send mail via the same. The IT group that handles our account said that they are having the same problem with a number of corporate clients. Apparently (or at least according to them), the communication between Snow Leopard/Mail and IMAP servers seems to work well but it isn't fully compatible with POP or other servers. They said I should just wait for Apple to publish an upgrade or patch. Kind of a bummer....

 

[cwa107]

Hit my first major snag. I've been able to configure Mail to receive mail from my Exchange server, but it cannot send mail via the same. The IT group that handles our account said that they are having the same problem with a number of corporate clients. Apparently (or at least according to them), the communication between Snow Leopard/Mail and IMAP servers seems to work well but it isn't fully compatible with POP or other servers. They said I should just wait for Apple to publish an upgrade or patch. Kind of a bummer....

It only works with Exchange 2007. Is that what your company uses?

Exchange doesn't use IMAP or POP by default, it uses its own proprietary protocol. It can be set up to use other open protocols, but this is not common in corporate settings. Sounds like you spoke with someone who is less than savvy with Exchange. I have read of no complaints with the Exchange synchronization aside from those that work for organizations that aren't running 2007 (I'd venture to say that's probably the vast majority of them).

 

[rpmcestmoi]

Does not work on Cox.net

 

[cwa107]

Does not work on Cox.net

Care to elaborate a bit?

 

[mknabster]

I would like to share my opinion on 10.6. I'm a college student, so i can't afford for things to crash and such, and i wasn't too happy that 10.5.8 was considerably slow on my Mac. So i went out and got 10.6, installed it in 45mins, and i noticed a huge speed increase in startup. Now, instead of it taking 2 minutes to load everything, it now takes 20-45 seconds. I'm very happy in terms of that. But now that i have had it for a few days, i'm noticing many of my programs are crashing. So far, Visual hub is giving me applescript errors and i can't convert video anymore, Photoshop and Illustrator have crashed and i lost my work, Speed downloader, Candybar, Mainmenu, Toast Titanium 10, and Stuffit have all crashed on me thus far. The software for my Logitech mouse is also malfunctioning on me, which i really need the use of some of those buttons for my daily work. Also, it deleted all of my drivers for my Canon printer, so i had to reinstall them, again. I'm honestly considering going back to 10.5.

 

[cwa107]

I would like to share my opinion on 10.6. I'm a college student, so i can't afford for things to crash and such, and i wasn't too happy that 10.5.8 was considerably slow on my Mac. So i went out and got 10.6, installed it in 45mins, and i noticed a huge speed increase in startup. Now, instead of it taking 2 minutes to load everything, it now takes 20-45 seconds. I'm very happy in terms of that. But now that i have had it for a few days, i'm noticing many of my programs are crashing. So far, Visual hub is giving me applescript errors and i can't convert video anymore, Photoshop and Illustrator have crashed and i lost my work, Speed downloader, Candybar, Mainmenu, Toast Titanium 10, and Stuffit have all crashed on me thus far. The software for my Logitech mouse is also malfunctioning on me, which i really need the use of some of those buttons for my daily work. I'm honestly considering going back to 10.5.

Sounds like being an early adopter probably wasn't the best choice for you. Many of the software packages you mention are not Snow Leopard compatible yet, but will be eventually (aside from Visualhub which is no longer under development).

This is one of the reasons I got up on my sandbox about SuperDuper backups in the other threads about prepping for Snow Leopard. We saw a lot of the same kinds of comments when Leopard came out.

My advice to you is that if you have no tolerance for problems following an OS upgrade, wait until the first 2 major revisions come out before upgrading. That usually gives the developers time to get up to speed and also Apple to sort out the problems noted by early adopters.

 

[mknabster]

Sounds like being an early adopter probably wasn't the best choice for you. Many of the software packages you mention are not Snow Leopard compatible yet, but will be eventually (aside from Visualhub which is no longer under development).

This is one of the reasons I got up on my sandbox about SuperDuper backups in the other threads about prepping for Snow Leopard. We saw a lot of the same kinds of comments when Leopard came out.

My advice to you is that if you have no tolerance for problems following an OS upgrade, wait until the first 2 major revisions come out before upgrading. That usually gives the developers time to get up to speed and also Apple to sort out the problems noted by early adopters.

How long do you think i should wait? I don't mind waiting at all, as long as i can use my programs i have.

 

[vansmith]

What cwa meant by "wait until the first 2 major revisions come out" is to wait until 10.6.2 or so. This should give Apple and software developers plenty of time to work out the "kinks".

 

[g725s]

Does not work on Cox.net

Just installed 10.6 on two macs. OS X 10.6 install was super easy. I did an erase and install on both.

And I was connected to my provider cox.net at time of install without ever having to do anything. Works perfect!

 

[artcarney]

Snow Leopard Is Nice, But ....

I run Path Finder 5.1.6. I leave the Finder running also because it's my understanding (and Cocoatech's recommendation) that Snow Leopard really relies more on the Finder than earlier releases of OS X.

The following error occurs with either just Path Finder running or just Finder running or both running.

I have a password protected iso image on an external drive. Before Snow Leopard I could just double-click on the image and a password dialog would appear from PF's title bar. I'd enter the password and it would mount and I could then access it, etc. Due to security reasons I do not keep this password in my keychain.

Since installing Snow Leopard now I enter the password and it acts like it doesn't know me, it won't let me in that way. Note that DiskImageMounter is the default program if the image is double-clicked.

If I right-click the image file and tell it to use DiskImageMounter (the default) to open the image, I get a password dialog in it's own window. When I enter my password it mounts the image and I can access it normally. Strange!

Other than that, I'm really bugged by the HUGE size of the icons in the Applications stack on my dock. Plus it appears Apple has not provided us with a way to adjust them. Tsk, tsk Apple.

Plus Snow Leopard broke the X-Screensavers. No more Euphoria. Also my Automator script to change my font in Mail is also broken. Rewrote the script fresh, still doesn't work most of the time.

Little bummed here in Maine.

David

 

[CactusVideoGuy]

Well, after running SL for a week now, I have noticed only one major gripe, that is surprising going away gradually as I take time to calibrate my battery... the battery issue is cropping up from time to time (the "Service Battery" indicator triangle !)... and then EyeTV 3.1.2 wasn't scanning all my local QAM (OTA HD) channels... when my wife bonked my noggin for thinkin it was an elgato issue, she gently noodged me to remember that when I was channel scanning, it was raining... whoops! LOL ... so now I'm only missing one channel, instead of 11.. LOL

Aside from that, everything is golden... no complaints.... (except that my HP Photosmart D7560 won't run off the Airport Extreme... meh... my wife's got an Epson... I'll just hardcable it.. ROFL)...

Cheers!

 

[vansmith]

iStat Menus 2.0 (SL compatible version) has been released. Get it here.