Leopard Upgrade Succeeded
I’m happy to announce that I had no hiccups, no system freeze, and no problem whatsoever installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I receive the up-to-date CD yesterday and the only thing that made me mad is that the CD comes with a small booklet but without the box. A big “not for resale” stamp on the front of the CD cover and the words OS X upgrade in the front of the CD.
The install took about 2 hours and 10 minutes, this is including the hour or so for the system to check the disk. I almost felt like skipping that step, but then if something had failed I would have asked myself is the disk was faulty or not. Anyway, I spent some time organizing my desk and when the install was done, I was ready to test some features.
Unlike many people, I didn’t start complaining about Leopard being slow even when it was, I notice that spotlight was indexing the drive so I took it easy. The first thing I did was open the system preferences pane and set up spaces, which came disabled by default. Then went into Time Machine and try to start it up, and that was when I had to take my fist major decision.
Until then I was using iBackup, because it was a simple backup utility and very inexpensive (free, except for a $10 donation I made to them in the past), I have to scrap that backup to make space for Time Machine to work. After, that Time Machine started doing its thing and about another hour later, it had finished.
Then I went to my mail application, since Google implemented Gmail imap configuration I try to set it up and suddenly my Mail app just crashed. At that point, all I did was to restart my machine and when I opened Mail app back I notice some things changed. The RSS menu was not there before and now it was, and the Gmail folder was separate from all the other ones. My guess is that those implementations are the ones causing issues, after all that is setup Mail works just fine.
Indexing was over, I went to my most feared app Adobe Photoshop Elements, to my surprise the small amount of test I did was all right. I created a blank document, save it to the desktop, applied some filters and shapes, and saved normally. Close it, open it again, and worked just fine, not any faster than with Tiger but at least it worked.
I want to mention that all I did was a regular upgrade, not archive and install or clean install. Also, there was some stuff downloading in the background and my computer asked to be restarted after it was running the first time. I had no other problems but I haven’t finish testing, I got rid of iBackup and Quicksilver. I will write more about this later, share your story or ask your questions right here on this post. I will try to keep posting regularly all my findings about Leopard features.
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