Comments on: Snow Leopard – First encounters http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/ Life in the web industry Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jack http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Jack Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:55:13 +0000 http://www.sazzy.co.uk/?p=117#comment-398 Snow Leopard breaks Zend Community Server, if you have that running locally (After years of compiling PHP myself I have found ZCS to be a welcome relief). There are workarounds though, found here: http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1115&start=30 Also, it deleted a bunch of soft links on my system, which I had to recreate. Icon replacement using Candy Bar is not working with new 64 bit system apps (which is all of them except iTunes and Front Row) Finally, it killed my copy of Ableton Live 6 (which gives me a nice excuse to upgrade to 8) Those are the only problems I've encountered so far. Other than that, it's worth the upgrade - but before you install I'd have a good search online for signs of it breaking the stuff you actually use every day! Snow Leopard breaks Zend Community Server, if you have that running locally (After years of compiling PHP myself I have found ZCS to be a welcome relief).

There are workarounds though, found here:
http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1115&start=30

Also, it deleted a bunch of soft links on my system, which I had to recreate.

Icon replacement using Candy Bar is not working with new 64 bit system apps (which is all of them except iTunes and Front Row)

Finally, it killed my copy of Ableton Live 6 (which gives me a nice excuse to upgrade to 8)

Those are the only problems I’ve encountered so far. Other than that, it’s worth the upgrade – but before you install I’d have a good search online for signs of it breaking the stuff you actually use every day!

]]> By: Dave http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Dave Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:54:33 +0000 http://www.sazzy.co.uk/?p=117#comment-356 Thanks for the review. Looks like I will install it when I get some spare time. Will reread when I get it setup. Getting 1password working is definitely important! Thanks for the review. Looks like I will install it when I get some spare time. Will reread when I get it setup. Getting 1password working is definitely important!

]]> By: Andy http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Andy Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:29:26 +0000 http://www.sazzy.co.uk/?p=117#comment-354 I've installed Snow Leopard on four machines - a 2006 Macbook, 2007 24" iMac, 2009 13" Macbook Pro and 2007 20" iMac - had no problems whatsoever in the main installation (which took 50 minutes or so) but two of the machines reported that they couldn't find System Events.app on first boot, and asked me to locate the file. For anyone who encounters the same problem they can be found in /System/Library/CoreServices/ and locating it for OS X solves it. I also had a problem with Trebuchet MS conflicting and causing visual problems in Firefox (both the interface and the webpages), but like you discovered with Helvetica Neue, it was a duplicate font problem. Apart from that it was a walk in the park. CS3/CS4 - also no problems, though I've deleted one or two older Rossetta apps which hopefully I can do without, and had to recreate my Spotify AppleScripts (as applications) to get them to run without Rosetta installed. I think think way Snow Leopard handles disk sizes now means the amount of space you actually clawed back would be less than the 10GB it appears to be, but still it's a good saving. Best thing is probably the insanely quick wake times on the laptops now, and the parity of screen gamma between that and windows screens. And at the price it was, no complaints. I’ve installed Snow Leopard on four machines – a 2006 Macbook, 2007 24″ iMac, 2009 13″ Macbook Pro and 2007 20″ iMac – had no problems whatsoever in the main installation (which took 50 minutes or so) but two of the machines reported that they couldn’t find System Events.app on first boot, and asked me to locate the file. For anyone who encounters the same problem they can be found in /System/Library/CoreServices/ and locating it for OS X solves it.

I also had a problem with Trebuchet MS conflicting and causing visual problems in Firefox (both the interface and the webpages), but like you discovered with Helvetica Neue, it was a duplicate font problem.

Apart from that it was a walk in the park. CS3/CS4 – also no problems, though I’ve deleted one or two older Rossetta apps which hopefully I can do without, and had to recreate my Spotify AppleScripts (as applications) to get them to run without Rosetta installed.

I think think way Snow Leopard handles disk sizes now means the amount of space you actually clawed back would be less than the 10GB it appears to be, but still it’s a good saving. Best thing is probably the insanely quick wake times on the laptops now, and the parity of screen gamma between that and windows screens.

And at the price it was, no complaints.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Gavin Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:24:39 +0000 http://www.sazzy.co.uk/?p=117#comment-353 Thanks for the info, I should be getting my copy in the post on Tuesday, I am really happy to hear that you haven't had any issues with CS3 yet (I create screencasts for psdtuts). Are you running Photoshop CS3 and 4 on the same machine? Thanks for the write up. Gavin Thanks for the info, I should be getting my copy in the post on Tuesday, I am really happy to hear that you haven’t had any issues with CS3 yet (I create screencasts for psdtuts). Are you running Photoshop CS3 and 4 on the same machine?
Thanks for the write up.
Gavin

]]> By: Justin http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2009/08/snow-leopard-first-encounters/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Justin Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:01:16 +0000 http://www.sazzy.co.uk/?p=117#comment-352 Thanks for the post! My copy of Snow Leopard should be arriving shortly and it was very helpful to read about your experiences. Thanks for the post! My copy of Snow Leopard should be arriving shortly and it was very helpful to read about your experiences.

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