Comments on: Impressive Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” build 10A335 seeded

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:33:02 +0000

captain kid, this would actually be fairly simple if you wanted to design one yourself. I’m not fluent by any means in apple script or whatever language it would require to make what you’re referring to, which is known as a Contextual Menu Item, but I’m fairly certain that with a bit of googling you could either acquire the skills to make one, or find something like this that already exists. Simply in terms of logistics, the code would probably simply involve retrieving the file path of the file you’re right clicking on, opening mail (easy with apple script), opening a new email (also done with apple script), and attaching the given file path, which shouldn’t be too difficult. I’d say you should try it if you have a bit of free time. It’d be an interesting challenge

By: Steve H

Steve H — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:43:08 +0000

If anyone from Apple/Snow Leopard development is monitoring this thread… There’s a lot of buzz about stability, but I hope the following things are fixed (which occur in Leopard 10.5.6) -

1) Burning a backup DVD via Burn Folders (Finder) – The Finder often resets after clicking “burn” for a DVD via a Burn Folder – all open windows disappear and the Burn Folder becomes “locked” – On an annoyance scale of 1-10 (10 worst), this is a 5

2) Setting global folder preferences (Finder) – Can someone please add a way to set global finder window defaults that stick and are truly global. So I (for example) can set ALL windows to “list view” (Command 2), and all new windows to have that setting. On my annoyance scale, this is an 11, maybe a 12.

Right now, I have to go through nine (9) steps to set them up the way I want them, when I create a new directory:

(starting in the Finder)
a) Command-Shift-N for New Folder
b) Command-Shift-T to hide the navigation bar on the left (which I dislike)
c) Command-2 to view the contents in “List view”
d) Command-J to display the folder’s “view options”
e) Check “Always open in List View”
f) Uncheck “use relative dates”
g) Check “calculate all sizes”
h) Click “use as defaults”
i) Lather, Rinse, Repeat (because these settings never stick)

In other words – I want to set these preferences (or any preferences) just ONCE, and have them take effect globally, for every folder on the computer. Isn’t that what the “Use as Defaults” button at the bottom of the view options window is for?

3) Microsoft Office 2004 (current dot release and previous) often crashes. I remember reading that something about Apple no longer licensing some O/S technology (can’t remember which) to Microsoft…

By: Edd

Edd — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:32:21 +0000

Pricing: Apple has never really strayed from $129 as the “magic price point” so why change now? Apple has costs to cover and $129 seems to have always been the price of admission. Recession means nothing to Jobs & company.

By: captain kid

captain kid — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:45:25 +0000

i dont know about any one else but one simple under the hood feature i would like to see is an \e mail file\ option when i right click something.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:14:54 +0000

But how much faster wrt tiger or leopard (which is slower than tiger, though)?

By: MacDanne (Danne Ström)

MacDanne (Danne Ström) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:37:11 +0000

I’m really hoping Snow Leopard will come to PPC Macs as well http://macosrumors.com/2009/04/27/macosx-106-10a335-impressive/

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:52:04 +0000

Just a minor addition, the bug fix listing from the 10A335 seed notes:

*Migrating users over a network connection may result in a hang. Connect the machines via Firewire to workaround this.

*It may take several minutes to get to the Mac OS X Installer when using a DVD.

*Some settings such as Mobile Me login info and Keyboard settings are not migrated correctly.

*Some Rosetta applications crash on launch.

*‘Repair Permissions’ in Disk Utility reports spurious errors.

*configd crashes can cause DNS lookups to fail.

*Custom install sizes are sometimes inaccurate, which may result in the Install Assistant failing due to disk space issues.

*Quicktime Player X may crash when playing DRM protected content in 64-bit.

*PowerPC apps are crashing for some users after installing Rosetta. Running ’sudo update_dyld_shared_cache’ in Terminal and then rebooting will typically work around this. Note that you will be prompted for your admin password.