Thanks Richard I haven't tried it yet but I'm hanging on to your email. My wife dearly wishes she was back with her old table lamp model and Tiger and then Photoshop 7 would work, PowerPoint also, our old scanner would operate and so on. Cheers John
On 16/2/08 3:44 PM, "Pontifex Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all >> I updated my G4 (Motorola chip) Leopard and whilst it took a long time to >> install and patch the update it seems to operate OK except that "verify or >> repair permissions" just hangs. >> The update of my wife's G4 Intel downloaded OK but the installation just >> hung with the blue line halfway for 4 hours. The machine locked up and had >> to be unplugged. It started up OK after a long wait and shows 10.5.1 still >> installed. >> Perhaps like many others I'm not game to try again. >> Cheers >> John >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1. Fixing permissions is still an ?hour long process with 10.5.2, but it > eventually finishes (unlike the minutes it takes in 10.4). > 2. G4 & Intel don't go together, but I hope you are applying the correct > update for the type of computer that you have (the installer should tell you > anyway). Check that you have plenty of free disk space (5 GB), then > directly download the combo 10.5.2 updater (350 MB) from Apple (it will end > up in the downloads folder). Then restart holding down the shift key, to do > a safe boot. It takes a while to start up in safe boot mode because a file > system check is run before loading the system & user files. Safe boot also > prevents potentially incompatible software loading at start up. Then locate > the update and run the 10.5.2 installer - hopefully all will go well. > > My only observed problems were with software update not getting to do the > update itself because on one machine, iPhoto had not been used since the > last iphoto update, so the new version of iphoto (which alphabetically > preceded the MacOSX 10.5.2 update in the update process) couldn't run due to > a permissions error, hanging software update and thus prevented the 10.5.2 > update from running. Running iPhoto, then rerunning software update fixed > the issue. > > Richard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
