Re: Snow Leopard & Me (veers off main topic)

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Thanks, Matthew -- this is all good stuff, and worth veering for! ;-)

Clive
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On 5/9/09 10:34 AM, in article
copespaz-E98BE9.20340504092009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "MC"
<copespaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes... I did do the FontBook trick.

And...

I discovered the reason that Disk Utility didn't work was that I had two
copies of it -- I'd moved it from the Utilities folder to the
Applications folder to get at it more easily, and of course Snow Leopard
installed a new one in Utilities.

The rest of the tweaks were and will be minor.

I had to update iClock. I'm waiting for 10.6-compatible updates to
FruitMenu (SOON please!) and FinderPop. I also had to rebuild the
Entourage database.

The thing I can¹t get over is just how much disk space I've reclaimed. I
was expecting 6-7 Gigs, and I actually got about 50 Gigs. No idea how or
why.

Everything else is working perfectly, and faster.

I suspect the reason others are reporting problems is due to a lack of
disk maintenance before installing.

In article <C6C7DC47.1AFA%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Matt:

Good: You're good to go then.

Yes, 12.2.1 is a "patch" that requires 12.2.0 to be in place to work.
12.2.0 is a "Service Pack" which will apply stand-alone.

I do wish Microsoft would clearly identify these and explain the difference.

There was no need to remove your previous version of Office, and in fact it
would have worked better if you hadn't.

You don't mention running FontBook to resolve the duplicates: if you haven't
done so, you should do that, otherwise OS 10.6 may duplicate some of the
Microsoft fonts and give you conflicts.

Cheers


On 5/09/09 6:54 AM, in article
copespaz-E93473.16543204092009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "MC"
<copespaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <copespaz-0E77A2.16415904092009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
MC <copespaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So far so good. I ran Disk Utility and Yasu before installing Snow
Leopard. All went well and I apparently gained an enormous amount of
disk space - went from 55G available to 117G. It's fast and stable.

I backed up all my customizations - Normal, Apple Scripts, Entourage
addresses etc - just in case then - uninstalled my previous version of
Office. Reinstalled Office. The install was quick and easy. Everything
is up and running exactly as I want it.

Here's what doesn't work:



Under OSX:

Fruitmenu - needs an update from Unsanity

iClock - I can open the prefs but so far I can¹t get it to appear on the
menu

Disk Utility !!!!!!!!! This is weird. I'm going to try a start from the
CD and do it from there. In the meantime, Yasu is working (much faster
than before) and does repair permissions.



In Office:

It won't let me install the 12.2.1 update - I'm going to try 12.2.0

Update: 12.2.1 worked after I installed 12.2.0

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