Happy Halloween! Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
– AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
– AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
– Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
– disc recording when creating and burning media
– .Mac sync services
– Spotlight indexing and searching
– Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
– Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
– Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
– compatibility with third party applications and devices
– previous standalone security updates
Mac OS X 10.4.3 is available via Software Update (97MB) and also as a standalone installer. Two versions of the installer (Delta and Combo) are available from Apple Downloads as standalone updates. After you download an update, you can use it to update your computer without being connected to the Internet:
• The Delta Update installer (97MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4.2 to 10.4.3.
• The Combo Update installer (109MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4, 10.4.1, or 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 .
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984
This upgrade just blew out my Mighty Mouse software. Even re-installing doesn’t work!
Wow, spotlight is super wizzy today.
Looks good.
NOTE: after restart REPAIR PERMISSIONS – mine had a lot more than normal and I had repaired permissions late last week. Consider this a must.
Just to add on to the excellent advice Ken provided:
Repair permissions both BEFORE AND AFTER the update.
I also did repair permissions as a matter of habit. As noted by previous posters, mine also caught a lot of changes. Oddly, though, when I verified the repairs afterwards, it caught all the same things again. I did it three times, and I still get a long list of repairs, all alike. So I wonder if anything is actually being repaired?
spotlight also works better in the Finder: it lets you type complete words before it starts searching… 10.4.2 used to start a search after 2 or 3 letters, further blocking keyboard input.
This is much appreciated as I was wary of showing the feature to new users as it was a bit of an embarassment…
“spotlight also works better in the Finder: it lets you type complete words before it starts searching… 10.4.2 used to start a search after 2 or 3 letters, further blocking keyboard input”
I can vouch for that as well. I completely hated Spotlight just because of this issue, but now appears to be working very well. The fan seems to be a bit more active now, but not really problematic. Im hoping for Safari to be zippier as well.
Hmmmm… Apple.com is currently down for me. I’ve tried a few times and still nothing. It’s a stratch, but could this point to increased market share? (At least more that Apple expected?)
Note that I’ve never had this issue with past updates
Great! After installation, iChat no longer works. Says “camera in use with another program” although no other programs apart from the finder is running.
workin’ fine… except for PithHelmet – now I can see all of those blasted adds again – grrrr……
MW: right as in “hmmmmmm, Johnny, This doesn’t seem right to me,” said Mr. Science Guy.
Did a permissions repair before an after the install. No problems here. Oh yeah, my install was 97MB in size.
Later.
“Life without knowledge is death in disguise.”
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17″ LCD iMac G4
768 MB RAM
Superdrive
80GB HD
Mighty Mouse
As of 7:45 EST I am not seeing the update in my software update?
Strange
I have noticed considerable speed increases in:
– Spotlight
– Launching System Preferences
On the other hand, I still get a three to five second freeze-up followed by the annoying beachball the first time I open the “Open” or “Save As…” window from within Word or Excel…
MDN Word: minutes
As in: Why does it take minutes to open the “Open” window from within Word?
Anyone else use Uno?
It’s a tiny utility that gives all apps and menus, etc a look of iTunes 6.
Something Apple has not made up their mind on..
Anyway.. Safari looks weird in the tabs, with this update (and Uno, of course)..
wondering if anyone else got the same prob. oh well.. getting rid of Uno
QuickTime bug still not resolved.
Can you guys try this? Fire up QT (I have 7.03), open any video then minimize the player so that it slides into the dock. Now click the player in the dock to bring it back to the desktop. Does it work? Not in my case; it remains in the dock/
Otherwise 10.4.3 installed and works w/o problem…
>Then, time to upgrade to Tiger for all us Panther lovers…
You first, KeepHopeAlive. If I have to upgrade Orifice or Photoshit/Illfrustrator then I’m a happy laggard.
Just a couple of observations…
The first reboot after updating was painfully slow – more so than any update I can remember. The next was noticeably faster; the third was very fast.
After updating, my Powerbook (brand new 15″, 1.5 GB) started to use just about every available CPU cycle as soon as one application was launched. This was according to MenuMeters; nothing claimed the cycles in Activity Monitor. Either MenuMeters was acting up, or something was not being reported to Activity Monitor. At first, I thought Spotlight was re-indexing my hard drive, but this persisted even after a few reboots and about an hour of use. I ran Cocktail, rebooted, and all was well. My dual G5 didn’t have this problem at all. Has anybody else noticed this?
EyeHome no longer works with 10.4.3
Frank,
No QuickTime problems here. I minimized a video which kept playing while in the dock. I then maximized the video (normal and fullscreen) without any problems.
Oh yeah, I’m running Quicktime 7.0.3 Pro.
Thanks all of you for comments and tips.
Followed those and installed. It rocks. 15″Powerbook, 1Ghz, 60Gb Hdd, was getting painstakingly slow. Tempted to clean out the stuff and reinstall or anything like that.
My daily backup, (in the background to a Lacie 160Gb USB Drive) using Silverkeeper, would take about an hour to complete. 3Mb pictures would take a long time to be checked and saved.
Now it flies through in 15 minutes! All programs are way faster, mac mini done as well, running happy again.
Best improvement since Tiger came out
I clicked on Software Update when I got home. I chose to download the update. Just when it had nearly downloaded it stopped, saying there had been an error and could not continue. So I tried again. Now it says there are no updates available at this time. So I go to Apple.com, downloads and select the featured download (Tiger 10.4.3) and click download. It downloads everything, installation begins, I Accept the user agreement, and it starts the install, next I get the message that says there has been an error and it cannot continue. So I try to restart my mac-mini. It stays stuck on the white screen with the gray apple. I have now performed an “Archive and Install” with my Tiger Install disk and am back online and don’t know what to do now. 🙁
I just reset Safari and opened it up again. Looks like macdailynews pop-under ads are now blocked by Safari.
Did anyone else see this?
The bug I had in 10.4.2 and Quicktime 7.0.3 pro, was also related to minimization and the dock.
In 10.4.2, open some windows in Quicktime Player, minimize them, switch to another application using command-tab, then switch back to QT player. In 10.4.2, windows will appear as they were before the minimization but they are unusable and have their traffic light windows controls activated (with the x – +), and their minimized version still appear in the Dock… Clicking on them on the Dock would fix the problem and make the unusable windows vanish.
10.4.3 FIXED this bug for me. One strange cosmetic bug remains, when maximizing QT windows, the x – + on the windows are always on, and other buttons appear disabled. Fortunately this time, the windows are useable and the buttons behave normally after (and including) the first click.
Chris, buy a DELL
Downloaded the combo updater and did my dual processor G4. Everything worked great. Took the same updater to a lampshade G4 iMac and had errors on the install. Rebooting boots into Darwin. Guess I’ll have to do a complete reinstall on the iMac. Not a great loss, all it is is an iTunes machine. Yes, repaired permissions and all before.