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Our Blogs Core Dump Mac OS X updates - stuff happens sometimes | Mac OS X updates - stuff happens sometimes |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 08 July 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 This time, I knew I wouldn't have time to do the installation during my ISP's off-peak period (those of you still on unlimited download plans should make the most of it while you can - metering is almost certainly coming your way), so I downloaded the updater for later use. Everything seemed to go well. There were no glitches during the installation, and various pieces of software appeared to work without any issues. Until I got to Entourage, the email client in Office 2008. It does more than just email, but that's the side of it where I ran into trouble. Each time I checked for new mail, Entourage would become unresponsive. A process of elimination showed it was happening when my .Mac account was accessed. Trying to open the account settings was another way of causing the application to freeze. So I created a new account (using the same settings as before), and that worked fine. The only problem was that duplicates of recent messages sent to my mac.com address showed up in my Inbox, as I leave messages on email servers for a few days to provide an additional level of backup. Once I was happy, I deleted the old account from Entourage. (Hint: if you're using the Mail program that comes with Mac OS X, be very cautious about deleting accounts - when you do that, any messages received by that account that are sitting in the Inbox will be deleted as well.) So was this 10.5.4's fault? I'll tell you what I think on page 2. |
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