9818 Whatever else materializes at Macworld Expo next week I'm really looking forward to the anticipated release of an OS X 10.5.2 update. The bugs in this flea-bitten kitten are driving me to distraction.

I've actually gone a couple of days now without Spaces crapping out, but last night some hitherto unnoticed, at least by me, insects crawled out of the woodwork.

First, Leopard resolutely refused to mount my digital camera via USB. Never had any problem before with this, but repeated attempts failed. The Camera mounted fine on my faithful old Pismo running Tiger, and I used that mode to download the photo I needed and then transferred it to the PowerBook running Leopard via my home Ethernet network.

Then the Clipboard screwed up. Toggling TypeIt4Me scripts would erase whatever was on the Clipboard and replace it with the script contents, making certain editing tasks very cumbersome. This is not normal behavior, never happens with Tiger, and I hadn't previously encountered it with Leopard, so go figure.

Perversely, POP 3 email was working somewhat better than usual in Leopard for some inscrutable reason, which is to say still abysmally awful, but sending through SMTP servers didn't completely seize up, as it frequently does, and messages actually got sent, albiet at the speed of molasses flowing uphill in January. Sigh.

I could just boot back into Tiger and kiss these travails goodbye, but once I've put my shoulder to the wheel, as it were, I'm disinclined to go back. I've gotten used to working with Spaces, at least when it works, and Time Machine is uber-slick.

But OS 10.5.2, hopefully with a big dollop of bug-killer, can;t come soon enough for me.



Charles W. Moore

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