...and relax

The issues with my external hard drive seem to have been resolved. No further kernel panics and 10.5 seems to be stable now.

Things I am not too keen on? The 3D mirror effect on the Dock is one, but that can be 'turned off' if I feel the need.

All I have to do is to open the Terminal and type this -

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

To restore the 3D dock change YES to NO.

I tried the Screen Sharing in iChat today with someone in Canada (someone I know I hasten to add) and we had data transfer error messages at both attempts - guess the distance didn't help...

10.5 Panic...

I have been seeing this a few times today - installing 10.5 seemed to go smoothly enough and nothing appears to have been lost in the process but with my iTunes library backed up on an external hard drive there seems to be a problem.

Every time I tried to load the library it would induce a kernel panic. Five times in fact. I have stopped trying to load the iTunes library for now and there hasn't been a repeat.

Add to this the fact that Photoshop Elements 2 is now borked - "An unexpected and unrecoverable problem has occured because of a program error. Photoshop will now exit"...

I am beginning to wonder if the fluff and glitter of Leopard is worth it...

update: I moved the external HD to another USB port and it seems to have stopped that particular kernel panic. I now have back my iTunes library. Wonder what tomorrow will bring...

10.5 Leopard

Called in my 'local' Apple Store this afternoon on the way back from the airport and picked up 10.5 Leopard.
Just making sure I have backed everything up before I install it.

Fingers crossed for a trouble free move from Tigger......


update: Think I have saved all I need to and the install is under way as I type (on my trusty G3 iBook) - the G5 iMac is the one getting the 'makeover'.