Comments for Some Sage Advice

Comment on Problem with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Mac OS X Jaguar 10.5.1 Identified by Dean

Dean — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:02:42 +0000

You are correct! My mistake! The title should be Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1! Too many cats in my Mac!

Comment on Problem with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Mac OS X Jaguar 10.5.1 Identified by blackwire

blackwire — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:24:56 +0000

do you really mean jaguar? 10.5 is called leopard
i don’t have a ScriptingAdditions “MacPackToolbox.osax.” but CS3 crashs even so…

Comment on Photoshop CS3 Crashes in Leopard With Quicktime 7.3.1 by Dean

Dean — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:28:46 +0000

Another client has confirmed that they too, are experiencing the same crash in Photoshop CS3 since they updated their Quicktime to 7.3.1 under Leopard.

Comment on Network Disconnects in Leopard AND Tiger by Dean

Dean — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:49:24 +0000

We continue to work through this problem and as this point it may be a hardware problem. We have tried moving all users from a gigabit switch to a 100BT switch and the problem, while not totally eliminated, has been reduced. We plan on replacing the gigabit switch with a new switch to see if the network disconnects cease.

Comment on Network Disconnects in Leopard AND Tiger by dekket

dekket — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:15:26 +0000

I’m having the same issue!

Unfortunately, not at a customer’s place, but my own workplace.
Have you managed to figure out a way around this problem yet?

/thankful for help.

Comment on Apple’s Leopard Stole My DVD Player by vince

vince — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:12:01 +0000

Thanks for the info Dean. I’m sure I would have encountered this at some point and it would have made me nuts trying to figure it out. The DVD switcheroo by Apple is one of those Leopard solutions waiting for a problem. Like how they took away the Dock functionality where you could right-click a folder and get a nice, cascading menu of items in the folder. Oh well, onward and upward!

Comment on My First Experience with Mac OS X Leopard by Tony

Tony — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:30 +0000

remember, it’s ‘Not what Vista can do for you, but what you can BUY for Vista’ … oh wait…

Comment on My First Experience with Mac OS X Leopard by Vince

Vince — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:04:40 +0000

“I’ve had a bit different of an experience. Installed it first weekend after it came out.

Although this upgrade has been more problematic than 10.3 to 10.4, it certainly hasn’t been horrible and, like you, I probably push my machine and use a more varied set of software than most. (CS3, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Lightroom, Final Cut Pro, Office 2004, RDC, QBPro 2005, Mail, iCal, Toast 8, iWork 08, FMPro 8.5, Retrospect 6.1, Parallels, iMovie 6 HD, Garageband 3)

Time Machine is a disaster, and I had to wait two weeks for Adobe to issue a Lightroom update, but beyond that most software has been fine. All my app’s producers were pretty quick to release Leopard updates (Transmit, Adium, etc). Toast works fine, Retrospect works fine, Filemaker, etc. Oh, one problem - dropdown menus no longer work in my version of Quickbooks (which is old - 2005).

I don’t think I would have tried the upgrade with that SATA card, and I had found the Griffin iMic to be problematic even with 10.4.

Time Machine is causing problems with people running entourage, mainly because Entourage uses a big DB instead of individual files - so one new email means TM will backup the entire DB each hour.

Hardware specs: Mac Pro dual 2.66, 4 gigs RAM, SuperDrive, 4 internal SATA drives, one external Drobo (4×500gb), HP LaserJet 1320, HP Photosmart Pro B8350, Epson 2480 Scanner, Snowball USB microphone.

One thing that does NOT work is the formac studio, which is a replacement for a model that quit working after 10.3. I hate that damn Formac company! Grrr! I’m keeping my Tiger clone drive just so I can boot from it if I need to convert VHS to digital.”