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[Schneb]

Rick, dude, did you write this column or did I? I could not agree more with every word you wrote.
My biggest peeves with Leopard (that previously worked perfect in Tiger)
1. Back button does not recognize DSStore settings.
2. Spotlight defaults to entire drive rather than folder you are searching in.
3. Automator 2 is slow to respond, erratic in working, buried 3 folders deep in contextual menus.
If I could go back to Tiger with minimum fuss, I would!! Don't you love paying $129 to make your life MORE difficult?

[kresh]

Someone is hyphen happy :)
"fea-tures"
"run-ning"
"Micro-soft"
Who needs editors any? Just email your article, we'll post it. :lol

[Jason Snell]

kresh said:

Someone is hyphen happy :)

Actually, that's a copy-and-paste error I made. It's been corrected.

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Who needs editors any? Just email your article, we'll post it. :lol

I assume you mean "anyway?" And there's a hyphen in e-mail. ;-)

[Mississauga]

Fortunately, Rick's experiences are unique to a small minority of users. For most, Leopard has been as reliable (if not more so) as previous OS releases.

[brilang]

Methinks that Rick needs to do a clean install. I'm not having any of the problems he mentions.

[kresh]

"any" was on purpose for sarcsam about editors.

email

/ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail' and `E-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. See network address. 2. vt. To send electronic mail.

Oddly enough, the word `emailed' is actually listed in the OED; it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from French `e'maille'' (enameled) and related to Old French `emmailleu"re' (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French, `email' is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them in a furnace).

There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic up to 1995, `email' predominates, `e-mail' runs a not-too-distant second, and `E-mail' and `Email' are a distant third and fourth.

source: dictionary.reference.com of course :)

edit: not trying to be serious, just poking fun.

I enjoyed the article actually :)

[garyi]

I must be unfortunate. I am not a fan bois. But I simply have not experienced any major issues with leopard. The only real one being apertures whole library backing up to timemachine when ever a small change was made.
Spotlight searching the whole drive be default has been a 'feature' since its inception.
I forgive it most anything just for the networking features in leopard, they are second to none.

[montgomery_burns]

Instead of fixing the Finder so it correctly remembers view settings (icon, list, column, etc), Apple decided to say "screw it" in Leopard. Now in Leopard, every time you change to a different view in any folder, every folder you open afterwards switches that same view. Instead of providing a real solution for this issue, Leopard has an awkward workaround where you have to go to View Options and manually hard code the view you want to use for each folder.

[montgomery_burns]

Why does repairing permissions take so much longer in Leopard?

[typ993]

Let's not forget about Mail.app. It is WAY buggier for me in Leopard than it was in Tiger. Messages get displayed in raw MIME format and refuse to be moved from the Inbox. Occasionally, messages even completely disappear without the benefit of me having selected them for deletion.

[Jarmo]

Had this article been released before snow leopard announcement, I'd raise my hat.
As it is... just typical example of kissing donkey.
Come on! You turned into Mr. Crankypants 5 minutes after Apple announces the next release is all about speed and stability?

[pumpkinwhite]

One fine day auto-sleep decided to stop working in leopard. Tried all possible fixes mentioned in apple discussion boards but nothing helped. Then one day, it wouldn't go to sleep at all, even manually. My imac would wake right up immediately after I put it to sleep manually. Finally, I did a system restore using time machine. The manual sleep started working again, but auto-sleep still doesn't.
This is apart from the various nuisances mentioned in the article. Feature wise Leopard has been great, but Tiger was way more stable.

[JScott]

I couldn't agree more. There have been numerous times where I've questioned if Apple hired a bunch of Microsoft engineers and turned them loose on Tiger. There are just so many little things that are flaky, especially in a cross-platform, large network environment.