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5 Oct 2009With every major OS release, you can expect some applications to break, and things to act up until a few patches are released–The latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard is no exception. ZingIT along with some help from a few brave ZCoBbers have been putting it to the test and we’ve found some lingering weirdness:
-Random logout. We’ve seen it only once, but others on the webs have also reported getting randomly logged off while in the middle of working in MS Office applications.
-Can’t print to Sharp copiers. The drivers from Sharp for the previous version of OSX are incompatible with Snow Leopard. The word from the Sharp reps is they’ll have an update out in October. In the mean time, the generic postscipt driver works for black and white, and now does duplexing.
Otherwise, we’ve seen a few other things that were quickly patched. More to come I’m sure.
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1 Response to OSX Snow Leopard glitches
John Reed
October 10th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I recently had the Dock crash/lock every time I opened Mail (also caused Cmd-Tab to cease working). After scouring the inter-webs, the fix that seems to be working for me so far was:
Un-check the “minimize windows into application icon” box in Dock system preferences. This took logging off and back on a couple times to get it to “take” but I have been problem-free ever since.