[bhawksman]

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I have clients that cannot upgrade because of Mail.app's known issues. Huh? I juggle hundreds of emails a day on ML's Mail app with the help of Spam Sieve and several other add-ons - what "known issues" are we talking about here?

Attachments flags not showing on messages that have attachments, clicking on attachments within a message and having it open another document with the same name, etc.

[willmerr]

My experience from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion was mostly positive except for two very frustrating and annoying issues that are well documented on the Apple Support Forums. 1) The cursor disappears. I'm a heavy Photoshop user and this happens to me all the time while in Photoshop. The only way I can get my cursor back is by hitting cntl/tab twice. 2) Sound stuttering in iTunes. Nothing I can do about this. My hope is that 10.8.3 fixes these problems. I would go back to Snow Leopard except the reason I needed to upgrade was to use the latest version of Xcode.

[willmerr]

I meant to say command/tab in my previous post...

[PeterJennings]

Aside from the fact that all my 2006 Mac hardware won't run Mt Lion, I still wouldn't update. If it ain't broke I don't fix it. If I ever truely LOVED an OS it would have to be Snow Leoppard, so why "upgrade" if there's nothing that's holding me back.

The "return of Save As, but not in the way you'd expect it to work" issue was at the top of my dislike list, I'm glad to see it resolved. Unfortunaly, not being able to dismiss App Store Notifications would take it's place. I curently have 4 "upgrades" in my queue that based on user reviews are nothing but downgrades. Some have been there for over 6 months and will probably never be upgraded! Apparently (from what I've briefly read), using the firewall to block the App Store solves the Notification harrassment, but then you have to manually check for updates, so that's not an ideal solution.

[my86gw]

It seams my trouble started when I installed Mountain Lion, my pro started to slow down and pick what program it will or wont open up. About to take it to genius bar for once over, my Snow leopard never skips a beat, problem is its on my older pro and I do not want to upgrade working laptop. Lot of things I do like on Mountain Lion, but not worth headaches!

[sherrylowry]

A mountain of blessings be deposited in your account, Christopher Breen
@BodyofBreen !

After your most timely set of cures and warnings, I'm going to hold off a bit longer moving my MacBook from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

I've 10 yrs of client records still residing in (what I assume is safely) stored but otherwise inactive Entourage data. Made the move to Mail once Microsoft axed Entourage, but right now I don't have time for triage on what else is going to happen with the Mountain Lion upgrade.

Delaying is keeping me from running newer versions of some 3rd party Apple apps I do like, but they are not crucial to my daily client activities.

I very much appreciate your candidness - and thoroughness, Christopher Breen @BodyofBreen

Sherry in Austin Tx

[MacFanBoi99]

For me the most significant change was the loss of SPACES.
Technically, spaces is still there, but it has been so crippled, that for my iMac I went back to SNOW LEOPARD. Oh my macbook I am using Mountain Lion as I don't use as many programs at once.
In exchange for losing my very nicely functioning spaces, what do I get in return for switching to Mountain Lion? Slightly better notifications but too many, possibly slower operation, and iCloud. That is not worth it for me.
Return spaces or I can not buy a new iMac.

[bastion]

MacFanBoi99, on 17 April 2013 - 02:46 AM, said:

For me the most significant change was the loss of SPACES.
Technically, spaces is still there, but it has been so crippled, that for my iMac I went back to SNOW LEOPARD.

And here's the funny thing. For me, the change to Spaces made that feature usable. Previously, to me, it wasn't.

I'm curious what about the change makes you characterize it as "crippled."