dc <[email protected]> Apr 05 05:23AM -0700 ^
>I want a bit
> of company on Tiger. It sure is doing real well for something
obsolete.
You've got lots of company, Tiger's a good system for older Macs, but
Leo has 2 substantial improvements. Time Machine is the most obvious,
keeping things backed up is an important task. Sometimes our old Macs
run so well for so long that we neglect backups, then a hard drive
fails and.... The second is less obvious, it's the way Leo runs
Software Update. Many people have screwed up their Tiger OS by running
something while Software Update is optimizing the system, leading to
an unbootable OS. Leo shuts down all other running processes when
running a system update that requires optimizing, it's Apple's answer
to the large number of complaints from 10.4 users.
Thanks for this info. Years back I had noticed that software update
screwed my machine but had no real idea if anyone else had my
problem. I solved my problem by never letting it actually update
things all by itself. I chose (and still do on my Tiger G4) a
download only option and later I install the packages. It is a
nuisance this method of mine because I sometimes forget or delay so
much that I then get confused what I have updated and what not. I
tried to help out by making comment notes in the Get Info panel -
stuff like "installed on 1/3/2008" But comments can get lost, they
are not reliably araldited on to files! So my eyes open wide hearing
about this Leopard innovation.
I may have had an inkling of this because recently I bought a Macbook
with Snow on it and I don't think there was a download option?
Anyway, being so new I thought it unlikely to face troubles and so
far there have been none on Snow on the MB.
(You know, I basically went from 6 to 8 and barely knew 7 (a brief
installation of 7 on an SE30 to work a printer for a few months when
overseas), I am doing the MacOS leap again from Tiger to Snow! Not
sure if any other regular Mac users have these huge holes in their
Mac histories. <g>)
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