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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.1, Mac OS X Server 10.6.1

Thursday, September 10, 2009 · 4:48 pm · 36 Comments

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.1 Update which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:

• compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
• an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
• some printer compatibility drivers not appearing properly in the add printer browser
• an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
• instances where automatic account setup in Mail might not work
• an issue where pressing cmd-opt-t in Mail brings up the special characters menu instead of moving a message
• Motion 4 becoming unresponsive

Apple also released Mac OS X Server 10.6.1 Update which is recommended for all servers currently running Snow Leopard Server version 10.6 and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your server.

Mac OS X 10.6.1 Update and Mac OS X Server 10.6.1 Update are available via Software Update and also via standalone installers:

More info and download links:
• Mac OS X 10.6.1 Update (71.47MB)
• Mac OS X Server 10.6.1 Update (71.57MB)

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Fips Hanus

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 4:50 pm · Reply

Awesome. Saw them loading this onto machines in the Apple store today.
Mike F.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 4:52 pm · Reply

aw snap.
TowerTone

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 4:58 pm · Reply

“Well, that was quick. And small.”
-my ex….
elgarak

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:00 pm · Reply

That is quick… Hopefully, this means there are no major problems with the snow cat.

Finally convinces my boss to get SL. I told him it’s no problem with the software he has, but he never believes me. He got burned with the old-long-name-account bug with Leopard, and since then he’s getting paranoid…
Macintosh Sauce

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:00 pm · Reply

That was fast…
Nerd Beautiful

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:03 pm · Reply

Aw crap.

I was about to be like, “Yea!” And then I was like, “Should I do it now or later?” And I got all excited and stuff and then I was like, “I’ll do it now!” So I was about to hit Software Update when I was like, “Aw crap” because I don’t have Snow Leopard and I was like, “Aw man, this G4 is bringing an end to my long line of excitement with updates.”

And that’s what I’m still like.
Jubei

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:03 pm · Reply

I’ve had zero problems so far, but I’ll take that update because I like my Mac snappy as possible. It’s already snappy with SL, now it will be even snappier with SL1.
Grigori

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:07 pm · Reply

“instances where automatic account setup in Mail might not work“

I was experiencing this (I believe): everytime I rebooted my MacBook, it would reset the custom outgoing mail server port after I’d manually set it. This seems to have fixed that; thanks, Apple.
ken1w

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:08 pm · Reply

> That was fast…

Not really. The initial release of Snow Leopard had to be “golden” a few weeks before the actual release data, to get all the discs manufactured. I’m sure the Apple’s engineers have been working non-stop on the first dot-dot release, since that date, for over a month (maybe after taking a day off to celebrate shipping 10.6.0).
Ralph

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:08 pm · Reply

My only complaint so far with SL, is that it removed my MPEG-2 component that I paid for the Apple Store !! Something about the new Quicktime
Predrag

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:09 pm · Reply

This update is designed to get those who would otherwise update to SL, but never, out of some misguided principle, upgrade to a version x.0, waiting instead for Apple “to fix the first wave of bugs”; they don’t want to “pay to be beta testers”. Apple may have not fixed all that many things in this update, but they rolled it out quite quickly (within two weeks). This is in line with all previous new OS releases (Leopard 10.5.1, Tiger 10.4.1, Panther 10.3.1, Jaguar 10.2.1, as well as Puma, 10.0.1; Cheetah took some two months before 10.1.1 came out). They all came within the first month after the major release.
Chu

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:11 pm · Reply

I installed sl today and my sierra wireless dint work for an hour after unistalling it and restall it started to work only problems r w amsn
alansky

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:11 pm · Reply

Does anyone know anything about the disappearing iPhoto images that some people are reporting in the Apple Discussions Snow Leopard forum? Most of the Snow Leopard glitches I know about are fairly minor, but this one could be scary if reports are true.
HughB

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:18 pm · Reply

@alansky
Surely you back up your iPhoto images frequently or better yet let Time Machine do it. I burn mine to DVDs and have never lost a pixel.
djd

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:21 pm · Reply

@Ralph: You can re-download your QuickTime MPEG2 component from the Apple store for free, since they keep a record of your purchase and you can see links to your previously purchased downloadable software when you login to your Apple store account.
Ralph

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:35 pm · Reply

@djd

Yes, I should have stated that… I tried going down that path however my history is no longer available. Luckily I have the original email with my serial number as proof… I just need to block some time to speak to the support folks.

Appreciate your support djd !!
Gabriel

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:35 pm · Reply

Whew, glad I did all the iTunes/iPhone related updates yesterday, else I’d really have my hands full with updates today!
kitten sized update

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 5:46 pm · Reply

On my first machine to update (two year old iMac) this was only a 9.8MB update.

Interesting to see what it is on my other machines.
John

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 6:02 pm · Reply

Hmmm, no mention of the “grinding hard drive” issue I’ve been having on both my machines. What I discovered (thanks to some good suggestions) was to disable mobile me synching (actually I just set it an once per day rather than automatic). That has completely eliminated the trouble, but there surely shouldn’t be any trouble in the first place. I hope this is a hidden change in this update. In fact, I think I’ll turn auto-synching back on after the update and test it out. Will send another post in this thread after I’ve checked it out!
Hentercenter

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 6:17 pm · Reply

@TT

lmao. that was a good.