10.6.4

is out.

315MB here, I'll sort it out in the morning along with Safari 5

Edited by billford (Tue 15-Jun-10 21:38:06)

315MB here too, MBP update in progress...

Mine was over 600mb?? Wonder why mine was different

Yeah, mine was about that.

No problems with the update.

Using Safari 5 now. No huge changes that's I've noticed, but Reader is kinda nice, and you get the option of Bing, Yahoo!, and Google search engines...

First update I've done that didn't go smoothly

Got to the stage where the "Installing 2 items" box should have come up (I hadn't updated Safari) and it just sat there spinning the little spokey wheel thing.

Left it while I updated the Macbook, that went fine so I forced a shutdown/restart, tried again and it seems to have gone properly, didn't even have to re-download the update files.

The desktop (wallpaper) settings for the second monitor went AWOL somewhere along the way though. I've noticed this once or twice before, sometimes an update doesn't get the second monitor settings right.

It hadn't had a reboot for just over two months, could this have caused the problem? Bit of file or memory corruption somewhere maybe?

Did the Combo - had already done Safari.

Went fine. One thing: Mail gets sufficient an update to warrant a database rebuilt.

I have found that updates are very poor at calculating their time remaining (especially the last minute, which can go on for ages - lasted 30-40 mins when I put Leopard on my PPC mini), so sometime patience is the way forward.

Since SL I have got into the habit of using the Combo.

maybe you didn't update last time and the other release has been combined. I find that is the case when you first buy a Mac and have to update from the factory firmware to the most recent release.

I've never found anything on the Mac that is particularly good at forecasting how long it will take

I normally do give an update plenty of time, but when it was still hanging after I'd waited 10 minutes, booted up the MacBook, downloaded the files, done the update, shut it down again and waited another ten minutes, I decided the iMac didn't want to play!

The problem was that the update never got started, the shutdown didn't progress to the point where the file processing began. I'm pretty sure that a simple restart, without involving updates, would also have failed.

I couldn't get it to go either. In the end I had to repair permissions, which took an age, (should have done it in the first place) then it went fine, and installed Ok.
However "About this Mac' and 'System software overview' still shows the OS to be 10.5.8!
Searching software update confirms that 10.6.4 must be installed as it says my software is up to date.
Right old mess.
mervt

That is messy

Might be a problem if you try to install something that wants later than 10.5.8, no real idea what to suggest. Short of starting again from the installation DVD and re-updating

Time for Time Machine!

In reply to a post by w4man:

Time for Time Machine!

Didn't think of that

I should have done, it was well in my thoughts when mine was looking problematic!

Lightweight, 973MB here on a Macbook Pro
Thank goodness I'm on O2 rather than Newnet 3GB product.

Steve

I think that mervt could do with going back to pre 10.6.4 and starting again.

Sheesh!

I wasn't bothered about the size, I never get anywhere near my quota, but I left it until half of Oxfordshire wasn't streaming the World Cup through my exchange

In reply to a post by w4man:

I think that mervt could do with going back to pre 10.6.4 and starting again.

Sounds worth thinking about.

Is it possible to "unwind" an update in OS X if you haven't got a backup?

Actually, I'm not sure that it is, especially if there have been changes to the Firmware. In mervt's case though it isn't clear if the update has worked.

Archive and Install. Personally I'd only try it as a last resort if I hadn't practiced on a few machines beforehand. On second thought, I'd probably clone the installation to my external drive with Carbon Copy and then play with the cloned version.

I used archive and install once, but can't recall what I'd done to need it... worked without a hitch from what I remember.

I did it at some point, very simple.

Archive and Install (I think it is called something new under SL) is fine - you just end up with an "Old System" folder, a bit like the OS9 Clean Install.

So long as you have the SL install disk it should be fine and pretty safe. Other than possible firmware issues, I wonder if its version confusion could also break the "save user settings" option.

Also of course the old Safe Mode, fsck is worth a try.

641.1 meg here. One item only. - Just about to load it now via my Be* w/l.

Here's hoping it goes smoothly.

Edited: Took 5 minutes to load, then it installed. Requires a restart. All's well so far!

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Jun-10 20:01:50)

Just done the desktop, used combo updater @ 887MB. Looks ok so far.

Updated last night, everything seems ok, if anything it feels a bit faster...

New iTunes on full release today too

Matt

I was just about to post that!!!!

It rebuilds the library next time you re-start, can take a while.

Yup. I upgraded my main machine the other day as I had to for the iOS 4 GM install.

Luckily my air has hardly any music on it so the rebuild took seconds

Matt

I've got very little on the MacBook, but there's over 3,000 tracks on the iMac

Wasn't too bad, took less than ten minutes.