OS X 10.4.10

After I updated to 10.4.10 my MBP wouldn't recognize my USB hard rive. I checked with another computer and the hard drive is recognized on it, so it's not a problem with the drive.

Luke

I would suggest staying at 10.4.8, updating to pro apps 4 and let you decide about the Logic update. Some are having issues with the latest Logic and some say it's the most stable they've encountered.....

X

Johan,

I am on 10.4.10 but it seems everyone's experience will be different. That said the big thing I can recommend is that if you can afford it, set up your machine to have 2 partitions on your boot drive, and setup one of the partitions as a maintenance OSX from which you can boot up and test upgrades on this way you'll know whether it will work with your setup or not.

I almost always push forward with upgrades, I don't like to lag behind for many reasons, so if i can upgrade and my tests look good, I do it.

R

If you've been running 10.4.8 and it was running fine, but only recently you're experiencing a change in behavior, it's probably not the fault of the OS. Something else is probably going on, and simply updating may or may not change that behavior.

When Software Update "recommends" something, it's a blind recommendation. It's more like an advertisement or announcement than a recommendation. Software Update is not an intelligent piece of software that can analyze your system and then make a recommendation. See what I'm saying?

So, back to the idea that something else is going on here... The questions that come to my mind are:

1. Is your system HD getting full?

2. Are you using your system HD for recording audio on a regular basis?

3. Have you run any disk maintenance routines late? (repairing disk permissions or verifying your HD via Disk Utility , or, using a utility like Onyx?)

4. What precisely do you mean by "slow and erratic". Is it the computer in general or just Logic?

5. Have you installed any new 3rd party software lately, or in any other way changed/added something to your system?

Hey IS. There is a known bug with the latest version of quicktime and updating to fix it requires 10.4.10 as far as I know.

R

Hi BOTR, thanks for that info. Could you provide details of the bug? -=iS=-

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305947

These are the bugs that the new Quicktime fixes, and requires 10.4.9, can't seem to find the other one. Still, I don't know about you, but I'd hate to have these nice security holes while I'm browsing the web.

I think we've discussed bugs and security fixes which the newer operating systems provide. If you audio workstation is just that, and audio workstation which is not used on the web at all, then I don't know that anyone would care, but how many of us don't have an internet connection to their audio workstation?

R

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Seems like just one more reason not to visit MySpace... ever! 😉

Thanks for that info BOTR.

(P.S. forum software is still broken and too much of a PITA to use. I'm going to unsubscribe and read offline until it's fixed.)

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I would also like to upgrade from 4.9, but also very wary.

I have Macbook Pro/firewire 400 hard drive/USB audio/midi (Ozone)

Does anybody have these, and have had problems?

Thanks

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