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
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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
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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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