OSX Tiger - Problems (Bleeding Edge)


Useful info and advice about Spotlight.

http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/spotlight.html

EMC Dantz Knowledge Base article about Spotlight files and how to get Retrospect to not back them up. Retrospect KB Article

Apple Knowledge Base article detailing various issues to watch out for when upgrading to Tigger
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301517

Read on for Mugsy's thoughts on mission critical Macs and OSX 10.4

What's the status on Tiger from you bleeding edge guys using it now? Is it safe to dive in?
Any straggler drivers/apps/hardware still not playing nice?

I'm not touching that puppy till it's housebroken.

among the complaints I'm seeing on tech support forums and lists are:

deserializing Macromedia & Adobe 'bundles' including MX and CS suites.
failure to print to a wide variety of printers
random, unpredictable networking difficulties
loss of compatibility with installed fonts and font management software

As always, it's inconclusive whether or not there were other factors at work on those systems, and most of the folks I know who are cautious and maintain good backups, installed after running maintenance to ensure their systems were healthy. Those folks are saying they are doing well, but those same folks are also not in deadline-driven, high disk-intensive production environments.

Probably my biggest red flag - Diskwarrior and TechTool Pro have both released updates, but the jury is still out on whether they are full compatible. My bottom line for updates is if I can't trust my repair tools, I can't afford to break production machines.

but... then, I'm just some chick on a mailing list....


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Mugsy

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Problems I encountered were mostly with my G4

1 Had to remove anything to do with Unsanity Haxies and APE Enhancer

2 Did a normal upgrade but the machine was crashing so much that I then had to do an Archive and install.

3 This then meant I lost all my printers and I had to re-install.

4 OmniOutliner version 2.x had to be upgraded to get it working.

5 The Tigger complaint QuickSilver does work but is now missing the one command I use the most which is "Launch anther copy"

5 Finally Retrospect's update hasn't completely solved the problems with Tigger and so I can only back up my Project files and not the actual System folder or my Home directory

Posted: Mon - May 23, 2005 at 11:15 AM          

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