So I decided to upgrade my parents Macs to Snow Leopard a couple days ago and I've been having problems ever since. After upgrading, my Dad's iPhone wouldn't be recognized by his Mac when plugged in via USB though it worked on my Mac. So he was able to get it working by uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it.

My mother has a much more complex problem and I might have to drop her back to Leopard. My mom has been a FileMaker user for a long time, she lives in that program. Anyways after upgrading to SL she's been complaining that she can't see some of her fields, they're there just invisible. I did some research and found this thread and tried the steps in there but couldn't get it working.

http://fm.lithium.com/t5/Using-FileM...pard/m-p/31273

I think this problem is more complex than that. I'm gonna try and spend some more time with it tonight but I may have to downgrade her.

 

I got filemaker working! Before upgrading a deleted duplicate fonts in font book and then after upgrading SL had added duplicate fonts during install and that's what was causing the issue. So cleaning up duplicate fonts again brought her text back.

 

I've noticed that spotlight is kindof the suck in SL. I've seen this on multiple Macs sometimes the results don't show up (usually system preferences panes) or they show up in a different language usually swedish or german or something like that.



does this happen for anyone else?

 

Ya that's happened to me before....not in a while though.

When I search for a file in the finder window, I almost never get what I typed.

 

by default if you search in a finder window it doesn't search just within that folder you're in, it searches everywhere. That's annoying, but you can set it to search within the folder like Windows 7 does by default.

 

^^Download ONYX and there is an option to rebuild the Spotlight Index.

 

^OH sweet! That Onyx app is nice! Pretty lame that OS X doesn't have builtin capability to rebuild the index.

Well my dad just told me that OS X isn't recognizing his iPhone again. So he wants to do a clean install of SL and then restore all his data from a TM backup. But I'm worried if I do that then OS X won't recognize his boot camp partition anymore and it therefore won't work with Fusion either (fusion uses his boot camp partition instead of a .vhd file).

 

I would have to think that it asks what partition to install to....Never installed Mac OS though...

 

Yes it will, that's not the problem. With Leopard we've had to do a reinstall a few times cause it crapped out on us (I thought you only had to do this with Windows) but if we did that then OS X wouldn't recognize the boot camp partition anymore. It would see that it's there but it just wouldn't work, also I learned that formatting and reinstalling windows in boot camp without running the boot camp setup assistant first will also break boot camp.

 

Well my dad's iPhone stopped working with SL again. It worked fine for years with Leopard. We just did a clean install and it's still not working. He's livid right now! I think we're gonna have to downgrade him to Leopard if we can't get this working. I'll spend some time with it tomorrow.

This is what pops up in the console when we connect his iPhone



Looks like some sort of iPhone driver issue.

 

Get a PC?

 

Call Paypal?

 

You're not connecting the iphone through a usb hub, by chance?

 

no, directly to the mac

 

I got it working. Like I thought it was a driver problem so I had to delete the com.applemobiledevice.kext file and applemobiledevice.pkg and I also completely uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes just to be safe. So he's got his benm.at tethering hack working on Snow Leopard.

He still can't get autofill in Safari working and he lost all his contacts (separate from address book) in his direct mail program so still a few issues to work out but this definitely hasn't been a smooth transition and for such little gain it makes you wonder if it was even worth it.

 

Welp, we're DOWNGRADING to leopard cause the iPhone stopped working again. It worked a few times and then died with the same errors even after doing a clean install and deleting the drivers it still won't work even though it works on the other Macs. My dad was with a client trying to show him his website and his Mac wouldn't recognize his phone which probably didn't make him look very good.

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q--GpBx-IOo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&featu re=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q--GpBx-IOo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&featu re=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

 

Can anyone recommend a good freeware burning program that's not Liquid CD or Burner? I haven't had any luck with either one. The built in burning utility struck out as well.

Thanks!

 

What are you trying to do? If all three programs can't burn some thing then you probably have a hardware problem....

 

yay! Safari 5.

Porn still works, that is all.

 

^played with it for a second last night. The reader option is OK I guess, I'll probably never use it, I just enjoy using chrome more

 

Oh and as an update, I put my dad back down at Leopard and haven't had a problem with his iPhone since.

 

I finallly got Liquid CD to work.

Burn would complete the job but the disc would be unreadable.

 

Do a Software Update, there is a new SP.

 

Thanks, Steve, for keeping my porn machine in fine working order.

 

Yeah I was greeted with a nice kernel panic while installing 10.6.4

It booted up afterwards but I wonder if it installed correctly??

 

Just finished downloading 10.6.4 and Safari 5.

Maybe it's all in my head, but seems to be running ALOT faster.....especially here on AZ.


Maybe it just needed a good reboot....

 

The new mac mini is neato.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1520...tml?lsrc=top_1

 

 

Apple yesterday released Mac OS X 10.6.5, the fifth maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update.

The 10.6.5 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

- improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers
- address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
- address stability and performance of graphics applications and games
- resolve a delay between print jobs
- address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an AirPort Extreme
- resolve an issue when dragging contacts from Address Book to iCal
- address an issue where dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide
- resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary
- improve performance of MainStage on certain Mac systems
- resolve spacing issues with OpenType fonts
- improve reliability with some Bluetooth braille displays
- resolve a VoiceOver issue when browsing some web sites with Safari 5

- no AirPrint

 

Yes, I spent last night updating my MBP, Miniserver and MB to 10.6.5. I also did a clean install of 10.6.3 on the iMac and updated it to 10.6.5 then restored all the data back via migrations assistant. I also installed Office 2011 on all 4 Macs and I joined the macs to my miniserver domain.

 

^My porn still works.

 

Not sure what's up with Airprint, but evidently by grabbing some of the previous build CUPS files and moving them where appropriate, it works. I have not gone and gotten the 4.2MG build of iOS to verify, but all the various blogs are saying it works.

 

Did you buy Office 2011 or ???

 

Technet gave me two licenses and I can use each license twice

 

^^^^

Damn you.

 

Technet is the bomb! $199 for the first year and then $149 every year after that and i can get pretty much any software from MSFT except for developer stuff like Visual studio (that's what MSDN is for). I've got multiple versions of Win 7, server 2008 r2, exchange 2010, Office 2010, Office 2011 for mac and I'm getting the next version of WHS when it's available.

 

Does anyone here use Daylite or Filemaker?

 

Yea, it's quite the deal. Too bad I have no use for a large majority of MSFT's software.

 

I was reading an article on AI about how Apple pulled 10.6.5 for Server and I was reading the comments and a few people were complaining about continuously losing their wifi signals after upgrading to 10.6.5 on the Consumer non-server OS X. My mother has been experiencing this too after I upgraded her iMac. I thought it might be something with the router until I read those comments but everything seemed to be working fine before the upgrade. I'm not having it on my MBP though.

 

Wifi is ok on my mbp.