Do you have auto update turned on for office, windows, powerpoint and excel in office X are one of the main apps I use and have not had any problems with them on either machine on either version? There has been a number of updates in the last few months come down from microsoft?
H -----Original Message----- From: Chris Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:19 AM To: Hugh Griffiths Cc: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Update 10.5.2 Hi Hugh Thats the most encouraging account I have heard re the update. I have a recent MacBook Pro with 10.5.1 and Im not happy with it at all mainly for the reason unknown to me the keyboard stops working in a very random fashion, in any application where I have to type. Word X seems to be the worst and most annoying since I have heaps of reports to write!! I have rebooted and done pram and persmission quite a few times. This tends to reduce the frequency for awhile then it just starts happening again. Has anyone had this occur and know of any fixes or advice on ways I might stop it happening Im wondering if the update with fix it or make it or other things worse? kind regards chris On 19/02/2008, at 11:08 AM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: > 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. 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