Comments on: The road to Leopard – Part 3

By: Doyle Evans

Doyle Evans — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:24:27 +0000

I have a G5 that I installed Leopard on back in the spring ’08. I was using Adobe InDesign CS, Photoshop CS, and Illustrator CS with Tiger and just transferred them from my old G4 to the G5 No upgrades have been purchased since the system upgrade.

All of these program opened and functioned well on the G5 after the Leopard installation. I have used all three programs over the summer. Last week, all three programs, as well as Acrobat Reader, failed to open in any way, form or fashion. All I get is “The application______CS quit unexpectedly.” They never even opened. None of their files will open either. Only my Adobe programs are affected. All of the MAC programs open. Any Insight?

Doyle Evans

By: Jody McLean

Jody McLean — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:09:47 +0000

Hello

I am new to Leopard. My old computer is OS 9.1. I am trying to transfer files from my old to my new by means of Firewire. My OS 9 has firewire capabilities and it is enabled, but my OSX is not recognizing it as connected. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:20:58 +0000

Hi Terry,
I am having trouble with PictureProject. I’m getting the same “shared library error” mentioned by Howard from Australia. It won’t open and I’ve tried to track down the problem but unfortunately I’m not so good with computers. Thanks,
Rick

By: herman

herman — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:56:28 +0000

Hi Terry
I’m still using Adobe CS2 on Tiger. Can I expect problems when I upgrade it to Leopard? What is the best way to prevent this? Kind regards, Herman

By: Howard From Australia

Howard From Australia — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:27:44 +0000

Terry,

Further to my last comments, Nikon has informed me that they will provide a Leopard compatible ” Nikon View ” By Christmas as a download but will not offer an upgrade for Nikon Capture 4.3 and Camera Control. Picture Project is also redundant and the ” View ” is a very limited replacement. My Photoshop CS is working with Leopard but much slower. I will probably upgrade to CS3 and Lightroom.

Regarding using two operating systems on different discs, Apple techs that I have spoken to say that it will not work satisfactorily and there will be problems. Perhaps people may have to buy a secondhand machine and run the old system on it and transfer data to the newer system. Only time will tell.

Regards.

By: Ellen Larson

Ellen Larson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:26:38 +0000

What is a reasonable amount of HD space for Time Machine? Until Super Duper is up and running, I’m wondering if Time Machine could serve as an adequate backup. My Leopard is still on an external harddrive. Terry’s method worked very well!

Also, is there a way to get my daily data transfered back and forth between my internal OS 10.4.11 and external Leopard? I would like to play with Leopard and have my work available in Tiger.

Thanks.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:29:44 +0000

The translucent menu and (grid/stacks) folders in the dock are a clear step backwards from the old Tiger list view. I’ll deal with them as I need to or try to adjust I suppose…

I’m still trying to get the Dymo Label printer to work as well. Anyone who has had success, please post the results. I successfully added the printer by manually selecting a Dymo 1.3 Driver, and even printed a piece of this page to it. Now to find a simple free app to send 1 liners to it?! (like Dymo’s little app that they claim they’re working on)

My 1 week of experience with Leopard yielded:
CS3, Suitcase Fusion, Toast, Quicksilver, Unison, FileMaker Pro, VueScan, Yojimbo, BBEdit, Transmit and MS Office all seem to behave OK so far… (Dual 2.5Ghz G5 / 2.5GB RAM)

Superduper took a couple hours to clone my 160GB as an Emergency backup of Tiger. Fortunately I haven’t had to use it. =)

By: Howard From Australia

Howard From Australia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:10:57 +0000

Since I changed to Leopard I cannot use any of my Nikon software. That includes Nikon Capture 4.3 and the latest download of Picture Project. Even when Picture Project loaded, the application refused to open with the message ” shared library error ” I tried to track down the problem but had no luck. As I have Photoshop CS I now cannot load my raw D2X
photos. I may have to upgrade to the latest Photoshop with a raw converter.
Like many others I find the new system very slow even with 8 gig of RAM on a Quad G5 Power PC. My main hope is Nikon. They may offer a solution by way of a compatible download for Picture Project.

Anyone experiencing similar problems ? Short of going back to Tiger, I will wait before making any more expensive changes.

By: Dennis Bays

Dennis Bays — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:50:10 +0000

Interestingly, in Lightroom 1.2, I happened to use the “relaunch and optimize” item under “catalog settings” after leaving the above post, and my “print module” error has disappeared. Everything in Lightroom seems to work fine now under Leopard.

Don’t know what it means, but something seemed to work for me before I went so far as to reinstall per Joe’s tip.

Dennis

By: Dennis Bays

Dennis Bays — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:00:21 +0000

Terry,

Just responding to Jim Shields’ October 31 comment about Nikon Transfer. I haven’t actually tried Nikon Transfer since I updated to Leopard, but I HAVE noticed that my copy of Nikon Editor (I just use it to open my nikon ‘NEF’ raw files) is no longer able to save files to disk. Whenever I try, Nikon Editor abruptly terminates. I was wondering if anyone else has seen potential incompatibilities between Nikon imaging software, and Leopard.

By the way, I also have the Lightroom 1.2 problem with “cannot change print modules.” I’m going to try Joe Barrett’s tip….

Thanks.

By: Ellen Larson

Ellen Larson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:07:23 +0000

Terry, I’m wondering about compatibility with Airport Express. I have Leopard, but haven’t installed yet. An additional concern is printing with HP OfficeJet 6110 All-in-One. I love the old printer because it has a sheet feeder and flatbed for copying and faxing plus an envelope feeder. Don’t want to give it up. Thanks.

By: Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:57:03 +0000

I have found a way to make printing work in Lightroom under Leopard. Involves reseting the print system and re-loading the leopard printer driver.
See my tip at:

http://www.image-space.com/Lightroom_Tips_Tricks/Print_Module_Tips/Fix_Leopard_Printing/Fix_Leopard_Printing.html

It works for me and I have had another Mac user post to my forum that it worked for him as well.

Joe Barrett
The Image-Space.com
http://www.image-space.com
Lightroom Forum
http://www.image-space.com/Image_Space_Forum/Image_Space_Forum.html

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:48:55 +0000

Ignore the “some problems” at the end of that post. Deleted a sentence – well, most of it …

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:47:28 +0000

Have any of you had problems with the drive the Time Machine backs up to?
There’s been a few posts at Apple Discussions on this and possible drive corruption.some problems.

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:17:36 +0000

Mike,
So far so good on my AirPort Extremes. As a matter of fact I was having issues roaming between them under Tiger and now under Leopard that problem has gone away (so far).