Just finished my ibook g4 ( 800 mhz) worked fine, permission verify took 30 mins, permission repair took 16 mins( only one difference)
My imac g5, was very slow verify took 40 mins ( many many differences all in system/library/extensions) repair took 20 mins The ibook g4 is under spec ( 866 is min spec) but has no peripherals and seems to be fine. The G5 has two external firewire drives ( 800 GB and 600 Gb), four ipods ( usb) 1 ipod ( firewire) Epson printer, sony video camera, sony still camera ( one usb one firewire) and a usb webcam attached. In both cases I clicked cancel when software installer ( which is set to automatically tell me when the new updates are available) and I actually downloaded the full 350 MB version of the 10.5.2. With the G5 I unplugged all external devices and cancelled all programs ( things like skype and some music stuff which run in the background) and both machines ran through without a hitch. Haven't tried every single app on each machine, but what I have tried works fine Hugh -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Daniels Sent: Monday, 18 February 2008 10:05 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Update 10.5.2 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]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- 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]>
