Hi John,
Sounds a bit like you are fed up with Leopard.
That is unfortunate, you would think Apple would give you a free
copy of Tiger to install and run with until they get Leopard and all
the related software issues sorted out. After all, you did buy
Leopard in good faith that it would run on your machine and with the
major software software products you had
It wouldn't be any skin of Apple's nose, and it would keep you as
a happy customer, which by the sound of your wife, the good-will is
dissipating rapidly.
Cheers .... Clyde
On 18/02/2008, at 10:05 PM, John Daniels wrote:
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
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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
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