AVOID Mac OSX 10.3.6 update!

[Cedar Bear]

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

AVOID the Mac OSX 10.3.6 Update!

Though I was able to get the problem fixed between LimeWire and Mac OS 10.3.6, the new 10.3.6 update nevertheless caused all kinds of other problems with other applications, including their own iChat AV.

An associate and I spent 3 days back and forth with Apple on the problems. They finally took it to their lab. Came back a couple of hours later and said we needed to revert our OS back to 10.3.5 (a tacit face saving way of telling us the 10.3.6 update is not stable and real buggy, even with their own applications). Well, that has not worked out so well either, as it has resulted in all kinds of other problems, not the least is having to completely reload Quark, Photoshop and the like, and the system preference is exhibiting some stability problems.

My advice is to avoid 10.3.6 until they come out with an update on the update of 10.3.6

It's a real bummer!

[stief]

I've read of other warnings too (truncated file names, sharing on a LAN network, G5's and RAM), but could you be more specific about the problems you had?

So far we updated a G3 iBook and a G4 iMac with no problems here, so just wondering what to watch out for. Our Maxtor FireWire 200GB external drive worked too--that was where I was really worried.

Thanks

[Cedar Bear]

It's looking like it varies from computer to computer and how it is configured. My friend and I both run G4 iMacs with large screens. We just happen to experrience the same exact problems, so we can assume from our micro-consensus that G4 iMacs may have some intrinsic problems. That's the most I can share as to specifics beyond what I've already stated.

I've run DiskWarrior, TechTools (the complete over night one) to no avail. I'm afraid I'm going to have to do a complete wipe and reload of my system, apps and all that other stuff, from scratch. (Not a happy camper, as the saying goes.)

Hope this helps.

[Lord of the Rings]

Before you do that. Two solutions I've come across (at least for LW) was 1. to use the Standalone Java installer: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...update142.html OR to use the OS 10.3.6 Combo update. See this post & the one below it with the link to the combo installer: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...898#post105898

[stief]

. .. and it looks like the 10.3.7 update is almost ready http://www.macintouch.com/

[Cedar Bear]

It was the 'combo' update that I downloaded and installed.

It'll be interesting to see if update 10.3.7 solves the problem.

[murasame]

Funny.
I haven't had any visible problems (so far) with the "large" update.