ouch! man.. after reading all your problems with leopard me thinks to wait for 10.6 altogether.. no seriously wtf is going on??? I have a G5 iMac, Macbook Pro CD and a C2D iMac.. wish me luck...
Well I'm now attributing all those problems to a pair of 1GB RAM sticks failure. I ordered NEW MORE RAM for the Quad G5 taking it to 10GB and am getting full credit for the two 1GB sticks from Omni Tech where I bought it last year.
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Originally Posted by kaiwai
nope, things can stay quiet for quite some time; sometimes not always resulting in a system crash; sometimes you can experience reliability issues with some applications - applications spontaneously crashing which no one else experiences. Try resetting the memory; pull it out and run memtest86 on a PC with the memory plugged in.
How do you reset memory? The Hardware Test I ran from my Tiger Install DVD showed a pair in RED which indicated to me they had gone bad. They also were described as completely different than my other pair of 1GB sticks, although I had gotten both from Omni Tech. I had ordered two 2GB kits and they only sent me two sticks. When they sent me the second kit a week later, it turned up looking way different in terms of the way the RAM is laid out on the circuit boards. But it wasn't a problem until last week after I upgraded Leopard to 10.5.1.
Now I have a mail problem. My Tiger mail backup is 2 months old now. So if I put it in I lose a lot of recent mail. My Leopard "backup" in the previous system folder is only 4-5 days "old" so it should all be there if I go to Leopard ASAP. But while I was down in Tiger - still there - I realized I could dust off my "old" Tiger compatible copy of Alsoft's Disk Warrior 3.0.3 and fix the directories of several HDs that had gone south since applying Leopard to my setup. I successfully repaired and replaced several directories resulting in way more reliability and in the case of three, drives that previously wouldn't even mount now mount all the time and stay mounted no problem.
So my dilemma is that I need Leopard to get all my mail back online while I would like to have the as yet unreleased fully Leopard compatible Disk Warrior on hand when I do go back up. But right now I'm leaning toward retaking the plunge late tonight or tomorrow. I miss QuickLook a lot.
From Leopard Mail, you should be able to import mailboxes from the Tiger disk. There is a menu item to do that. They may not merge into the same-named mailboxes, but what you can do is make a Rule to move those messages and run it on that mailbox. Or just open the imported mailbox, select all, and drag the messages into the Leopard mailbox. I wouldn't do the dragging without importing, as the Leopard mail messages are in a slightly different format and hopefully the Import command will do that conversion for you. Let Time Machine do a backup first so you can revert to the original Leopard mailboxes if something gets messed up. To revert, just be in Mail when you open Time Machine, open Mail to a mailbox where you can see which messages are which, and keep going back in time until the added messages are not there, then click Restore.
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ouch!
Well I'm now attributing all those problems to a pair of 1GB RAM sticks failure. I ordered NEW MORE RAM for the Quad G5 taking it to 10GB and am getting full credit for the two 1GB sticks from Omni Tech where I bought it last year.
nope, things can stay quiet for quite some time; sometimes not always resulting in a system crash; sometimes you can experience reliability issues with some applications - applications spontaneously crashing which no one else experiences. Try resetting the memory; pull it out and run memtest86 on a PC with the memory plugged in.
How do you reset memory? The Hardware Test I ran from my Tiger Install DVD showed a pair in RED which indicated to me they had gone bad. They also were described as completely different than my other pair of 1GB sticks, although I had gotten both from Omni Tech. I had ordered two 2GB kits and they only sent me two sticks. When they sent me the second kit a week later, it turned up looking way different in terms of the way the RAM is laid out on the circuit boards. But it wasn't a problem until last week after I upgraded Leopard to 10.5.1.
Now I have a mail problem. My Tiger mail backup is 2 months old now. So if I put it in I lose a lot of recent mail. My Leopard "backup" in the previous system folder is only 4-5 days "old" so it should all be there if I go to Leopard ASAP. But while I was down in Tiger - still there - I realized I could dust off my "old" Tiger compatible copy of Alsoft's Disk Warrior 3.0.3 and fix the directories of several HDs that had gone south since applying Leopard to my setup. I successfully repaired and replaced several directories resulting in way more reliability and in the case of three, drives that previously wouldn't even mount now mount all the time and stay mounted no problem.
So my dilemma is that I need Leopard to get all my mail back online while I would like to have the as yet unreleased fully Leopard compatible Disk Warrior on hand when I do go back up. But right now I'm leaning toward retaking the plunge late tonight or tomorrow. I miss QuickLook a lot.