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Leopard's Lost Features
Leopard Giveth, And Leopard Taketh Away...
Rotten Apple: Leopard - PC Magazine
Leopard Data Loss Glitch Uncovered
Longstanding "Move Files" Issue Has Alarmed Leopard Users
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine Backups Are Not Visible
Fixing What Is Broken In Mac Leopard's Dock
eWEEK: Leopard's Disappearing Data Spots
A Time Machine Medley
Mac OS X Firewall Blocks Skype And Online Gamers
The Mac Night Owl: Living with Leopard: Book VII — So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have?
Leopard's Lost Features
The Leopard's Lost Features blog says:
Apple's web-site makes a big deal of promoting the 300+ new features in Leopard. However, they don't mention any of the features that you'll actually lose when you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.
Internet Connect application gone
Drives & Folders in the Dock gone (replaced by the inferior Stacks)
Address Book Call & SMS Features gone
You can check it out at:
http://leopard-lost.blogspot.com/
Leopard Giveth, And Leopard Taketh Away...
APCMag's David Flynn says:
Steve Jobs crowed that Leopard had over 300 new features. Scores of 'Mac journalists', that peculiar breed of largely sycophantic scribes, faithfully spun the same line. But neither Jobs nor his little winged monkeys mentioned the stuff that Apple took out of its shiny new OS.
Yet as the first wave of upgraders settle in and poke around Leopard's every nook and cranny, they're realising that some features of Tiger and earlier editions of OS X have gone MIA.
Little things like being able to use Bluetooth to dial your mobile and send SMS messages from the Address Book, and then to read and reply to incoming SMS messages on your Mac....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://apcmag.com/7500/leopard_giveth_and_leopard_taketh_away
Rotten Apple: Leopard - PC Magazine
PC Magazine says:
I have never heard so many complaints about a Mac OS upgrade. Back in 2000/2001 when Apple users were switching from its older System operating system to the BSD Unix-based Mac OS X, I also heard many a die-hard Mac user cursing at the changes. Then, however, everyone knew that there was going to be real trouble. After all, this wasn't just an upgrade - both the software and hardware were moving from one operating system to another.
Leopard's (Mac OS X 10.5's) problems have shocked the Mac user community. Most Mac users would have agreed with me that Leopard wasn't supposed to be a major step forward. Instead, it was going to be many small steps forward for the Mac. Well, that was the idea. It's turned out to be a major step backward.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20071106/tc_zd/218939
Leopard Data Loss Glitch Uncovered
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
A blogger has uncovered what he claims is a "massive" bug in Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Finder app that could result in the loss of data when folders are moved from a Mac to directly- or network-connected storage.
According to Tom Karpik, the bug manifests itself when an attempt to move - rather than copy - a folder from the Mac is interrupted. Moving a folder off a disk essentially involves first copying it then deleting the original. Karpik shows that Finder fails to ensure that the folder has been successfully written to the target disk before removing the original.
No matter what happens to the copy, the original is zapped by Finder.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/leopard_dataloss_bug_uncovered/
Longstanding "Move Files" Issue Has Alarmed Leopard Users
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)'s Michael Rose reports:
The Mac-loving web is abuzz with reports of a problem moving files in the Leopard Finder. If you're saying to yourself, "Moving files? You mean copying files, don't you?" -- nope, actually moving files, done by holding down the Command key while dragging a folder or files from one volume to another. This trick, a lightly-documented holdover from OS 9, can come in handy if you really truly don't want to leave a copy of the files in the original location; perhaps you're intending to delete them anyway, and this is one step instead of two. The inverse trick, forcing a copy instead of a move for intra-volume file drags, is done by holding down the Option key while dragging -- note the presence or absence of the green + icon telling you whether the files will be duplicated in the target or not.
For the full report click here.
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine Backups Are Not Visible
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
In the Mac OS X 10.5 Time Machine "time travel" window, past backups may not appear if your computer name includes certain characters.
Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Time Machine
Solution
Check your computer name in Sharing preferences. Make sure the computer name only includes ASCII characters from following set:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789
If this is a new Mac, make sure the computer name uses the same as what was used on your previous Mac.
For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306928
Fixing What Is Broken In Mac Leopard's Dock
Mac360's Alexis Kayhil says:
One of the really nice improvements in Leopard is the Dock. Before you Mac villagers grab the torches and pitchforks and head up to storm the Kayhill Kastle, hear me out.
Like the Dock or hate the Dock, most of us would agree that the Dock has some good characteristics, but Apple hasn't listened to our collective suggestions. I figured out how to make the Dock even better.
The chrome ledge? Puhleeze. Let's not go there. It's colorful in a gaudy 3-dimension sort of way and probably attractive to Mac newbies, but, really Apple… OK. I won't go there. Already utilities are popping up to help fix what Apple broke with the new Dock.
One thing they didn't break was the document section to the right of the Dock, between the applications icons and the trash can. Apple should have focused more attention on what you can do there, but it's a start. Let good old Alex finish it up so it at least works well enough to use.
To read more, click here.
eWEEK: Leopard's Disappearing Data Spots
Mac Leopard users say they are losing files and folders when trying to move between volumes.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2212875,00.asp
A Time Machine Medley
MacFixIt reports:
Leopard's Time Machine, while wonderfully easy to use, is turning out to be surprisingly touchy. The latest news on this front comes from Apple itself, which has posted a note warning that the "time travel" window mightn't show your past backups if your computer's name is wrong. Apple warns that your computer's name (which can be set in your Sharing preferences) should contain only basic alphanumeric characters 0-9 and a-z. Apple also says, "If this is a new Mac, make sure the computer name uses the same as what was used on your previous Mac;" this seems incoherent, since how can it possibly matter whether your computer's name is the same as some other computer? Anyway, the notion that the computer's name can have a bad effect on Time Machine's behavior is very surprising, and suggests a certain lack of planning on Apple's part. This new explanation may clarify Time Machine problems already reported by some of our readers.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071106055336224
Mac OS X Firewall Blocks Skype And Online Gamers
The Register's John Leyden reports:
The list of problems with the firewall bundled with Mac OS X Leopard operating system is growing.
Not only is Leopard's firewall deactivated upon installation it also trips up Skype and online gaming applications. Both German security news service Heise and security blogger Rich Mogull encountered the problem, the latest in a series each has discovered with the firewall.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/leopard_firewall_skype_problems/
The Mac Night Owl: Living with Leopard: Book VII — So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have?
Some years back, one of the developers for Mac OS 7.0 told me about a very obscure bug that had been allowed to persist in the operating system. It seemed that something would crash on the twentieth level of a new folder if you did something to it, such as create another new folder nested inside.
To read more, click here.
http://www.macnightowl.com/2007/11/06/living-with-leopard-book-vii-so-how-many-bugs-does-leopard-really-have/
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