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rhctp · #1 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 04:20 AM

How many people are running Tiger now and what kind of problems have you had?

David · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rhctp

How many people are running Tiger now and what kind of problems have you had?

We only have 1 mac running tiger and it's on my IT guys laptop. We probably won't go there for a while, you know, wait till after a few revs come out, less buggy, then give it a go.

my .02
David

#3 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by david_maberry

. . . . We probably won't go there for a while, you know, wait till after a few revs come out, less buggy, then give it a go.

my .02
David

exactly.
vee

JoePixel · #4 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 08:09 PM

I ordered a new G5 Mac two weeks ago and it arrived last week.
It came with 10.4, and as soon as I booted it up it searched for the recent 10.4.1 upgrade and downloaded it.

I loaded all the Adobe software, Quark, Suitcase and Font Finagler.

After one day of loading software, I tried a job or two on it. After it locked up on me and wouldn't reboot, zapped the PRAM, let it sit for a while, many many hard reboots and it still wouldn't boot up. I then tried the Mac disks to run the Mac utilities while running right off of the CD. No luck.
Had to reinstall the OS and tried a reinstall where it moves the previous system folder to a backup and keeps all software that was loaded.

Doing that allowed me to boot up correctly again, but now Quark and half of the Creative Suites don't work.
I ended up doing a clean reinstall by wiping out the hard drive and starting over.

It's been two days and it runs fine, but still leary.

I was going to wait 6 months before upgrading but couldn't because this was a new store bought Mac and came with Tiger.

I did find out that the disk utility Disk Warrior needed an upgrade also. Couldn't use the download from their site, so had to pay the $20 to order a new disk.

Most people will probably not need the OS Tiger upgrade. Not too overly impressed with most OS upgrades. It seems as if you look over the course of several years then the upgrades make sense, but it you were running 10.2 or 10.3 then wait a few months.

I'll keep an eye on this post and inform of any good or bad issues.

JoePixel · #5 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 08:13 PM

One more thing...

I have noticed that the font cache needs to be cleaned more than normal.

It's been showing those weird characters quite a bit when viewing web pages.

Running Font Finagler cleans it up, but I also have to clear out Suitcase fonts so only the basic system fonts are loaded and running after running Font Finagler.

mark83702 · #6 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 10:48 PM

Tiger is working fine with all our applications. No lockups, loss of data, crashes or anything unusual.

Additionally, I run Tiger from home and my Mac Mini is rippin fast and responsive. Makes me wonder just what kind of installation people are doing and what kind of system tweaking they think will make their OS run better--and they are crashing and locking up. Has never been the case on my G5 or G4.

Stock OS Tiger with all the updates. Works fine with me. And I use Adobe Creative Suite 2, Quark 6.5, Nexus RIP, and evety major prepress program out there. No problems.

--Mark in Boise

ArtMachine · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2005, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoePixel

I ordered a new G5 Mac two weeks ago and it arrived last week.
It came with 10.4, and as soon as I booted it up it searched for the recent 10.4.1 upgrade and downloaded it.

I loaded all the Adobe software, Quark, Suitcase and Font Finagler.

After one day of loading software, I tried a job or two on it. After it locked up on me and wouldn't reboot, zapped the PRAM, let it sit for a while, many many hard reboots and it still wouldn't boot up. I then tried the Mac disks to run the Mac utilities while running right off of the CD. No luck.
Had to reinstall the OS and tried a reinstall where it moves the previous system folder to a backup and keeps all software that was loaded.

Doing that allowed me to boot up correctly again, but now Quark and half of the Creative Suites don't work.
I ended up doing a clean reinstall by wiping out the hard drive and starting over.

It's been two days and it runs fine, but still leary.

I was going to wait 6 months before upgrading but couldn't because this was a new store bought Mac and came with Tiger.

I did find out that the disk utility Disk Warrior needed an upgrade also. Couldn't use the download from their site, so had to pay the $20 to order a new disk.

Most people will probably not need the OS Tiger upgrade. Not too overly impressed with most OS upgrades. It seems as if you look over the course of several years then the upgrades make sense, but it you were running 10.2 or 10.3 then wait a few months.

I'll keep an eye on this post and inform of any good or bad issues.

Sorry to hear all that. Nobody, but nobody should ever have to go thru such nonsense. I went thru the same thing with a dual processor mirror door G4 direct from Apple some time back. After investing over two days loading, configuring and debugging a brand new machine, the whole thing went south. I sent it back. No questions asked. I refuse to fix other peoples mistakes. Oh wait, this is a PREPRESS forum. 8O Ooops!

rhctp · #8 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 12:49 PM

I have been running 10.4 for 2 months and I haven't seen many issues at other than apps not being certified to work in tiger.

JoePixel · #9 (**permalink**) 07-07-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mark83702

Makes me wonder just what kind of installation people are doing and what kind of system tweaking they think will make their OS run better--and they are crashing and locking up.

As for system tweaking to make the OS run better, I didn't tweak anything. I only had it for a day and it locked up to the point of no return.

After having Tiger on my machine for a few days, loaded correctly, there seems to be no issues. I only had that problem the first day when after loading the applications it died on me.

Some people like to get the latest items as soon as they come out.

I like to get application updates ASAP, just to play around with them, but with OS updates I like to get the update or 2nd and 3rd update. There hasn't been one OS in either the Mac or PC that came out and ran perfectly right away.

Some people have no problems, some people have nothing but problems.

mark83702 · #10 (**permalink**) 07-07-2005, 07:29 PM

I upgraded to Tiger and have never had any problems whatsoever. I work every day with the full Adobe CS2 Suite, internet applications, bookkeeping, and about everything you can imagine. I have not had one crash or lockup since day one. That's been over 2 months now.

At the job, I run all the normal prepress applications, Nexus, Preps 4.x in classic mode, implement file sharing and push the G5 to the brink of a workload.... Never one lockup or crash.

I must be quite the exception, as I here many people complaining about Tiger. I think its a wonderful upgrade to a sweet OS.

--Mark in Boise
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