Leopard upgrade sadness
I’m really disappointed with the stability of Leopard for me personally. I’ve never had a rougher OS X UPGRADE experience.
the OS itself is great. And if you buy a new computer - or do the “archive and install” (replacing, not upgrading your old OS) everything is rosy.
but for guys like me who’ve been carrying the same /Users/myname folder for years, it can be a little hard…
My brother upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5, which resulted in an unbootable system - ironically, it reverted to a stable Windows machine because he could only boot to XP.
I said “Pshaw, bad karma, brother - it’s not that unstable”. I installed over my 10.4.
Just highlights:
1) on first boot, finder routinely crashed. Wouldn’t start. Had to force quit finder to open a window.
2) Mac mail crashed 5 times trying to import my mail. I had to use webmail. Anticipated 2 hours importing my mail. Finally i started it holding down option or something - now i have all my new mail on my imap servers, but none of the archived mail, which i’m going to have to manually import. No end user would know how to do this.
3) iCal - oblivious to my calendar. It’s gone. No where. At least it didn’t crash; on the other hand, i’m now trying to make appointments and … I have no idea when i’m available. I’ve tried importing some calendars strewn in ~/Library - but there’s a bunch from 2 years ago, and then a bunch of folders filled with hundreds of .ics
4) iCal forgot all my calendars AGAIN on last boot. A day later, now, they’re back. There were NO calendars listed. A reboot fixed it - but not after i had pretty much given up on using the calendar feature.
5) increased multi-lingual-screen-of-death (the OSX BSOD) - if i run parallels, spend 10 minutes booting it and getting word going, then close my laptop (sleep) and then wake it up, it almost always crashes the machine hard.
Sad huh? Besides quick-view, I’m not seeing much in the way of killer features.
Help me believe!
