On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:39 PM, keith_w wrote: > Would you mind elaborating on what Leopard broke?
My entire Macromedia MX 2004 suite stopped working - it thought it hadn't been registered but the registration function would crash every time. Getting my mail pretty much killed the machine. It would go into a strange state where apps could not be launched. The icon would sit there bouncing in the dock. If you tried to shut the machine down, it still thought the app was running and could not kill it (even a sudo kill -9 from a shell would not get rid of it!). So I often had to hold the power switch which is a bit of a sledgehammer approach. That's when I decided to stick with webmail until I could get it all sorted out. Safari would crash after a few minutes if I was lucky. So would Firefox. Camino was reliable so I used that. Photoshop CS2 seemed to work OK even though Adobe give no assurances. Printing went completely up the spout; I couldn't even set up my printers. I didn't get around to trying my film scanner or the Spyder. By that time I knew I was fighting a losing battle. The 10.5.1 update didn't help so I reverted to Tiger and everything has been fine since. Safari is crashing occasionally but it's nowhere near as bad as it was on Leopard. > Are you referring to how your Power Mac responds to Leopard? I think my machine may have a lot more to do with it, except for the Macromedia suite which is definitely not Leopard-compatible (it's an old version which is no longer supported). I don't think I have bad hardware as Tiger is pretty solid. Plus the hardware test ran through OK. It took me about a week just to get Leopard to install. If you have problems one of the first things Apple suggests is removing all 3rd- party memory but that only left me with 256Mb - the installer requires 512 :) Once again I curse Apple's policy at the time of including stupidly inadequate amounts of memory in their high-end line. Cheers, - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
