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22 November 2002
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Installation on our end was completely painless.
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Apple has just released a significant upgrade to OS X which actually frees up some disk space and generally optimizes the entire OS. Cosmetic changes are minor but welcomed.
We recommend running the disk repair utility off of the install disk before upgrading. Also, when the system comes up to reboot to complete the installation, there is a chance that your machine may stall giving you a mobile cursor against a blue background that has nothing to click on. If this happens, “Don’t Panic”. Just wait for all disk activity to stop and hold down the power button until your machine powers off, then reboot normally. At that point, you should see a multicolor spinning cursor for a bit after which the Finder will load.
If you had previously installed the PlugSuit Preference Pane, it will generate annoying permission requests until you disable it. You may have to enable, disable, and re-enable it, before disabling it will “take”.
If you use any third party plug-ins like the popular GPGMail to add capabilities to Apple’s Mail application, they will be automatic disabled, so you need to wait for newer versions of them to be released. Sadly, GPGMail’s developer does not have the time to work on an update, so he recommends using Thunderbird and its Enigmail plugin instead.
If you use QuickSilver, download the new b56a7 release and delete the QuickSilver folder from you Application Support folder.
There is also a new release of DragThing with a new “Marble” dock theme that visually dovetails in with Snow Leopard’s Dock.
NVIDIA’s cudadriver_2.3.1 installs smoothly, but no amount of tinkering will get SETI@Home to take advantage of it at this time since cuda is only supported on the Windows client.
Finally, there are updates on the way for all the major third party disk repair utilities, so we wouldn’t recommend using anything other than Apple’s Disk Utility until you upgrade them.
This advice is based on a single installation test case, so your experience may be different. As always, it is best to make a bootable backup copy of your hard drive before making any radical changes to your operating system.
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