Today's Security Update 2012-001 is POISON to PowerPC/Rosetta apps on Snow leopard!

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DeweyV Author

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Today's Security Update 2012-001 is POISON to PowerPC/Rosetta apps on Snow leopard!

First time I've ever had a routine Security Update cause me problems with OS-X, ever.

Today's Security Update 2012-001 is absolutely crashing my PowerPC/Rosetta apps on Snow Leopard .

Every time to try to OPEN... SAVE or Save as ...PRINT , you will get an instant hard crash.

I still use AppleWorks 6 for all my business correspondence , and have quite a few other PPC apps.

This security update is poison.

Other forums, such as Macintouch , are reporting this. it seems to be affecting almost everyone , regardless of hardware system.

It appears enything and everything PPC will crash , even Apple's own older PPC/Rosetta apps .

SU 2012-001 for Snow Leopard obviously was not tested well, if at all.

Apple MUST fix this ASAP, no matter how much they want to divorce Rosetta and PPC technology for the OS. There is no excuse for dispatching a system software update that has such damaging issues.

I have no need for Lion 10.7 whatsoever , but I do need my Rosetta apps every day... and Apple just crashed them.

-dewey

cody wyoming

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2008 iMac Core2Duo , SL 10.6.8

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 4:20 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 2, 2012 4:27 PM in response to DeweyV

I'm the same boat.

First time in many, many years I've had reason to cuss at Apple--and I go back to 1985 when the ad agency I was working at received our first Macs.

Now we know how Windows PC users feel on a regular basis.

Something tells me that if Steve were still alive and prowling the floors, heads would be rolling out the door as we speak and a patch would already have been issued.

That is, IF this poor excuse of an update had even managed to slip through the QC system.

Fortunately I have a couple of laptops that I did NOT do the update on and so they're still 100% functional.

If anyone from Apple is reading this, and they bloody well better be, this is going to give a LOT of us serious pause for a long, long time about installing any more of these updates.

--Flying and Writing in Texas--

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Answer 2

ds store

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Feb 2, 2012 5:35 PM in response to DeweyV

Backup files off the computer (not TimeMachine) and disconnect.

If you have TM, or a option key bootable clone use that to erase and restore from.

If not, c boot off the 10.6 disk, use Disk Utility to >Repair Disk and Permissions, (do not format or erase!!) and simply re--install 10.6

Note: If Disk Repair gives a error that is not repaired, then you have to consider erasing the drive (with Zeros) and try reinstalling 10.6 fresh or replacing the drive.

Reboot and log in, update to 10.6.8, it should not include the security update at this time (second pass it might show) because it was just released and they might need to pull it. (they need to pull it)

When you reboot, make sure to reinstall any programs that installed kext files into OS X, you'll know, they won't work.

If you get gray screen, hold the shift key and update your installed software so it's compatible with 10.6.8.

Learn how to clone here

http://www.bombich.com/get_ready_for_lion.html

TM help here

http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

Learn how to make copies of your 10.6 disks here

http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/

Learn how to make a bootable SL USB

http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html

Learn which programs ARE NOT compatible with Lion

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table