OSX 10.5.5 released

Better run superduper quickly :)
 
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/15/apple_releases_mac_os_x_10_5_5_update.html

Don't have any of these issues myself, but the iphone backup is nice

Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.5.5, a recommended update for all users of Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard that includes over a hundred bug fixes and more than two dozen security enhancements.

As of press time, the 321MB update was only available via the Software Update mechanism located under the Apple menu of your Mac.

In addition to general stability improvements and over two dozen security enhancements, the update addresses issues with Address Book, Disk Utility, iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. A detailed list of those fixes follows:

General


Includes recent Apple security updates.
Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
Improves Speech Dictionary.
Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Address Book

Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.
Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.

Disk Utility and Directory Utility

Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.
Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.

iCal

Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.
Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.
Resolves an issue in which the "Refresh All" option may be dimmed ("grayed out") in the contextual menu for certain calendars.
Fixes issues with read-only calendars.
Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.
Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.

Mail

Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.
Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.
Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
Addresses an issue with the "Organized by Thread" view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.
Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.
Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.
Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.

MobileMe

Improves overall sync reliability.
Improves Back to My Mac reliability.

Time Machine

Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.
Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.
Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).
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Here's a direct link for those of you that want to add it straight to their download managers...

Code: 
http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=21156&cat=1&platform=osx&method=sa/MacOSXUpd10.5.5.dmg
 
This was a bit of an eyebrow raiser - though there seem to be no lingering effects.

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bwana said:
This was a bit of an eyebrow raiser - though there seem to be no lingering effects.

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Right after I installed Mail.app informed me right in the middle of nothing that my index had to be rebuilt, 15 minutes later everything was indexed again and seems to be ok, apart from the Google Blog RSS feed that now duplicates every entry.
 
I just wish I'd been able to take an actual screen grab and make into my desktop background. :)
 
NameOfBeast said:
My long running problem of an initial backup that either takes a full day to complete or, sometimes, just stalls completely, seems to have been resolved. After the 10.5.5 update a new complete backup (~100GB) took just over 2 hours to complete. Am pretty pleased!
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Thats a huge amount of time for even a brand new backup. :confused:

Why do a new one anyway?
 
NameOfBeast said:
Because I have a new external hard drive? :) I think it took that long because spotlight was simultaneously re-indexing stuff (mdworker and ATServer were chewing up an enormous amount of cpu time)
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Guessing not firewire?
 
Well FW400 is still considerably faster than the supposedly higher spec'ed USB2 for sustained data transfers.
 
bwana said:
Well FW400 is still considerably faster than the supposedly higher spec'ed USB2 for sustained data transfers.
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I can confirm that.
Got 2 external freeagent drives, one FW and one USB.

FW one is faster and never "sleeps".
 
alf101 said:
I can confirm that.
Got 2 external freeagent drives, one FW and one USB.

FW one is faster and never "sleeps".
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I've got a couple firewire drives (freeagent I think) that sleep all the time - ended up using a cronjob to keep then awake.
 
bwana said:
I've got a couple firewire drives (freeagent I think) that sleep all the time - ended up using a cronjob to keep then awake.
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Yep, we mentioned that in a thread here a few months ago.
The USB one took forever to wake up when u accessed it through frontrow.
I put them on the firewire one and never had an issue.

I won't buy another USB drive, rather pay extra for firewire.
 
NameOfBeast said:
I had a problem with my FW drive (A Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive) sleeping, and then, when it woke, getting a NEW mountpoint. Result? Time Machine backups would fail as TM could not find the relevant volume! Bleeding hell. It's a known problem, and updated software now allows the OS X energy saving setting (never put drives to sleep) to override the drive's desire to take a kip.
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Thats very interesting - what software is this?
 
NameOfBeast said:
Here is the link:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=freeagent&message.id=2812

BTW, this mount problem drove me round the twist for a while (I really like the idea of TM, and having it fail in this way was very annoying). I'm not certain this is a real fix though (the problem is not that the drive sleeps, but rather the changing mountpoint).
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File Version: FreeAgent-DT-WW.zip

File Size for Windows.EXE: 25 MB

File Size for Mac.ZIP: 115 MB :eek:

I'm going to have to make sure exactly which seagate drives I have before downloading this but THANKS! It is really annoying waiting for my drives to wake.
 
NameOfBeast said:
Bwana, do you have the same Time Machine problem? Or are you just concerned about the time lag for waking a drive? How long does it take for a drive to wake?
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I use the fw drives on my media mac (mini) and its a mild annoyance waiting for the drives to wake up. Nothing big but if I can avoid it then why not :)
 
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