Mailtags review12/8/2023 Luckily, 10.6 seems to have included one by default, _dovecot in the mail group. I had recently moved from MacPorts to Homebrew in anticipation of the upgrade, and all continued working afterwards except for Dovecot.įirst up, it seems the dovecot user had disappeared during the upgrade process. This failed about halfway through without much information other than to try again, which I did and succeeded. I planned to reinstall the new version anyway, which I tried. Oddly, gcc-4.2 and the other command line tools were moved to Recovered Items but most of the XCode installation survived. I uninstalled a few other things that I wasn’t using any more to try and get rid of 32-bit system preference panels (though most seemed to be working). X-Lite had no sound (upgraded to a beta version that seems to work).Sort ordering in smart mailboxes in Mail.app is not retained (no fix found yet).Visor plugin (relies on SIMBL, not re-installing).iStat Menus (upgraded to 2.0, no problems).The Omnifocus mail integration (re-installed from OmniFocus preferences).Mail Act-On (was using 1.3, may need to pay to upgrade to 2.0 now).MailTags (upgraded to their 10.6 special version which seems fine).I was well aware of what might and might not work after the upgrade. I’m holding onto it for now, but it looks like I shouldn’t need it. About 500Mb of data, including some things that didn’t make it (like the XCode tools). I’m not sure if I just got this because of the missed completion of the installer. I found I’d freed about 12Gb during the process (measured using df -k to avoid being duped by the redefinition of a Gb) – a handy saving.Ĭhecking it out, I found I had a new /Recovered Items directory which was unusual. Incidently, during frequent periods of waiting for the Mac to boot / shutdown I discussed the virtues of a clean install with the tech support, but am told that wouldn’t be possible with the Snow Leopard upgrade disc (apparently in contradiction to what I was told by the very first tech support and most of what is said on the internet – curious). Reboot into normal mode (takes an eternity to shut down), log in as myself and remove the newly created account. So, now I can create an account (must be a new one), and I’m logged in. Not very intuitive, but I guess it discourages skipping it rather than having the button right there in the dialog. To skip the registration process, you can use Cmd-Q and select skip. So we stepped through the process anyway. Started by rebooting in safe mode which took a really long time but didn’t help much. Everything I tried left the registration step getting to the end with all the buttons disabled… so, onto the phone with tech support. Rebooted and it booted into the Snow Leopard welcome – the install was successful, but I was stuck in the first time set up. The install proceeded as advertised – it said it would take about an hour, and it did – up until it got to the “Less than a minute” remaining, which took about… 45 minutes before I gave up. So, armed with working disc, I pressed forward. Another half hour on the phone trying to explain I wanted a replacement because it was faulty, and it actually does get prepared for shipment, arriving the Monday after the first one arrived. 3 days later I discover it hasn’t been shipped, and is instead queued for a refund. After an hour on hold, it’s quickly sorted out and I’m told it’ll be shipped out in 2-3 days. Luckily the rep that responded when I called back didn’t put me through that and just put me through to order management for a replacement disc. The first support rep recommended trying again and if it failed to call back and we’d try and archive and install. After my initial disc was promptly shipped out, it turned out to be from a bad batch. I had a world of pain just getting to the install process. Wow, long time between posts… well, no time like the present and I thought I’d share a my notes on the Snow Leopard upgrade in case it helps anyone else.
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