Hi Rod and others
I upgraded a G4 400 PCI Graphics with 128 M RAM (soon to be much more),
from OS 10.2.8 to 10.3.1 and then 10.3.2, along with other apps like
AppleWorks 6.2.7.
I used Software Update with ADSL internet direct upgrades. I did this
over a few weeks and had almost no problems. Panther is by far the most
stable OS, I have ever used. The only issue of consequence was a
repetitive minor error when repairing permissions with Disk Utility.
Over the holiday break I decided to have a good clean up of the whole
system, re-format the two hard drives (1 x 10 Gig and 1 x 20 Gig),
clean install the OS (10.3.2 and 9.2.2).
After installing Panther on its own drive & partition, for the first
time I had problems with the finder being a little erratic and
AppleWorks upgrade (6.2.7) not being able to find AppleWorks 6.2.0 even
when guided or freshly installed several times from the original CD.
There were some annoying issues with Mail, Safari and others but
nothing too bad. After some more cleaning up I decided to dump
Panther and re-install it again. I did everything the same way running
Disk Utility & Repair Permissions, re-format and partition the hard
drive, check
result with Disk Warrior from CD, re-install OS 10.3 upgrade to 10.3.2
(this time from a downloaded package).
All problems have now been resolved including the original minor
permissions error. The machine has never been better.
The only thing I can think of, that may have caused these stupid little
problems, is the installation process itself making a small error, or
stupid little me
somehow.
It is a lot of work, but I strongly recommend a good clean install.
On 8 Jan 2004, at 3:01 PM, Rod Lavington wrote:
On 8/1/04 9:44 AM, "Lloyd White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I read that some members have had strange things happening with MS
Word.
This has happened to me yesterday when I upgraded my version of
CopyPaste X
from v 1.6.1 to v 2.
I am using OSX 10.3.2
Control clicking on a word for spell-checking resulted in the
spinning wheel
and the MS Word quitting.
I reverted to the older version of Copy Paste and the problem
stopped. Has
this occurred to others?
Lloyd
A lot of spinning wheels and sudden quits have popped up since 10.3.2
came
on the scene. Not sure what Apple have changed, but it has killed
quite a
number of programs! I have had sudden quits in Safari, Word, iTunes
and
iChat to name a few.... Hopefully 10.3.3 will be out soon that will
fix some
of these bugs.
(and yes, I have sent off Apple Support Submissions when prompted!)
Seeya
Rod!
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