Tigered
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I’m not sure it’s the smartest thing in the world to install a major update to your operating system at 2:00 a.m. after you’ve helped a small dinner party consume four or five bottles of wine, but that’s what I did when I got home last night (um, this morning). I’d stopped by the Apple store on my way to dinner where, surprisingly, a whole wall of Tiger boxes awaited eager shoppers (who were responding whole-heartedly and snapping them up, along with iPods and Mac minis).
I only had to queue for about half an hour to make it to the checkout.
Everything seems to have gone just fine, and I left my PowerBook churning away on my desk as Spotlight indexed the internal drive and half a terabyte or so of external storage.
Today I have this to say about Spotlight: it really works (if not quite perfectly). I was looking for a particular image file I’d created years ago because I wanted to recycle it into a site I’m doing at the moment, and rather than comb through god knows how many folders looking for it, I just typed part of its name into Spotlight, which then delivered it right to me.
I doubt Spotlight is going to replace the Finder any time soon (although I wish something would), but it provides a glimpse of something still a little way off in the distance that could be very interesting.
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Posted to Computers • 2005.05.01 (Sun) • 15:29
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Posted by Richard 2005.05.01, 20:46
I don’t know if you use iCal but I’ll be curious if it works. And, how did you do the upgrade: archive and install or backup, clean install, migrate (that’s what I did).
iCal is the only app that has problems for me: there’s a new version for Tiger (2.0) and I cannot get it to run (it quits on running). I’ve tried about everything short of reinstalling the entire new system) and I cannot fix this. I’ll be curious if you or any of your readers have problems with iCal and how you’ve fixed them and how you did the upgrade (archive or clean).
I was wondering if you’d do this upgrade right before your trip but good for you for going for it.
Posted by jh 2005.05.01, 21:07
Richard — I do use iCal, as it turns out, and it’s working fine for me. I wonder if it’s worth quitting, trashing your prefs file, and trying again…?
Posted by Mary Beth 2005.05.02, 04:37
I’d try trashing the iCal plist file too. Worth a try. As a program, I really like iCal. We use it for work schedules which is great. If I’m trying to coordinate schedules with a group of people, a lot of time I’ll just publish a few weeks of my work and life schedule and let them figure out what’s good for them. Works out well for everyone no matter what platform they’re using.
I hadn’t had anything to drink, but I was so wired after working the Tiger launch that I stayed up and installed it. I plan on doing a clean install in a few days, but since I really needed some sleep friday night, I did a temporary ugrade installation.
Other than the, um…. scary-making, pause just after the restart, it all went well on my 1st gen 12” powerbook.
Posted by Durf 2005.05.02, 10:43
I’m going to grab myself a copy and do the install over the next few days … right after I back up everything on my machine several times. I’ve been using Konfabulator for a while now and am wondering whether it will get along with or be replaced by Dashboard. (I’m also hoping Jamming and all my other must-have apps will work. There are good reports on the Honyaku_OSX mailing list, though.)
Posted by Adam Michela 2005.05.03, 00:13
Haha. I did the 2AM drunken upgrade too. All went well, even though I don’t remember it.
Tiger Day was much more fun after some Ban Xeo Chay and a couple bottles of Chardonnay ;)
Posted by Ryan 2005.05.03, 08:58
Sweet. As I’m reading this a package is placed on my desk by a work mate. Yay! Tiger install tonight.
Posted by TheRich 2005.05.03, 13:16
sniff sniff Being in China, I don’t get the Apple goods until about five years after the fact. It’s breaking my heart to be missing out on such glory.
Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com 2005.05.04, 02:38
It only took me about 45 mins to upgrade to Tiger. I had no problems and I do love it so.
Posted by ryan 2005.05.05, 18:50
The only issues I’m having are that: 1. ProTools doesn’t work yet & b. SSH no longer seems to work. It just sits there and then it reports that the connection was refused.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2005.05.25, 02:25
I was lucky enough to get a new iMac G5 for my birthday last week and am completely amazed by Tiger and Spotlight. I always resist a new computer initially. The trouble of migrating everything so that I feel comfortable seems to outweigh the usefulness of the new features.
Not this time. Everything works so seamlessly. This kind of moment makes living in the modern age a pleasure. What amazing times these are.
Posted by Tom Shawver 2005.08.27, 05:17
I stumbled on here a good clip after your post, but I caught that you wished something could replace finder. Enter google. http://www.cocoatech.com put out a product called Path Finder — they don’t condone it as a full replacement for the Finder, but I can tell you very honestly that I’ve used a quick and easy hack (also found on google) to completely rid myself of the default finder and run my computer with Path Finder, and the results are phenominal. My OS X Tiger has so much more functionality now than ever. Version 4, set to be released soon, adds even more functionality to this already supurb program.
Posted by intel 2005.09.21, 14:29
if you managed to do it, you were not drunk enough :P
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