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Leopard’s Finder Seems Unstable November 19, 2007

Posted by atharkhan in : Personal, Tech , trackback

A few days ago, Leopard lost about 20% of my data during a move operation from a NAS drive to the local disk. When I searched around, I found that other people had also had problems with Leopard’s Finder. Now, I am noticing that even when dealing with the local disk, if the OS encounters a file which it is unable to handle, it simply hangs. The Copy command basically stays where it is without moving forward or timing out. Also, during one copy operation, the OS crashed.

All of this makes me wonder whether I should downgrade to Tiger. I had issues with the file management on Tiger but only when dealing with a NAS — never on the local disk.

Has anyone else had similar issues with Leopard? Did you decide to decide to downgrade to Tiger or stay with Leopard?

-Athar.

Comments»

1. kevin - November 20, 2007

I have had more problems with Leopard than any other OS I have used. It is frustrating because I had big expectations… my bad for upgrading right away instead of waiting a few weeks to see all of the problems.

Anyway, I have recently started getting really fun Finder hangs when I try to connect to a local server. It doesn’t do anything except pinwheel, as if to tease me about how simple it SHOULD be, but the computer isn’t ready to help me out. I have learned that when the computer starts acting funny it is time for a restart. I have a Macbook Pro that is less than a year old, it shouldn’t be this fragile, should it?

Also, I have had two GSOD’s (Grey Screen of Death) in the last week. In the ten-ish years that I worked on windows machines I only had one blue screen of death… go figure.

HA! Interestingly enough, as I type this an update window popped up saying:

The 10.5.1 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

Let’s hope this works :)

2. atharkhan - November 20, 2007

I agree. Thus far, Leopard is beginning to look like Vista. I am almost about to revert back to Tiger.

-Athar.

3. atharkhan - November 20, 2007

Just spoke to a fiend who claims that its not the OS but the iMac. The new iMac has had some issues and a firmware upgrade will resolve them. I will try that out and let you know how that goes.

-Athar.

4. Umer Khan - November 22, 2007

The “move” bug definitely existed in Leopard 10.5.0, but was resolved in 10.5.1.

5. atharkhan - November 22, 2007

Yeah, that’s the last time I am going to use a “Dot Zero” version.

-Athar.