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VIRTUALISATION Mac OS X 10.6.2 nearing completion?
VIRTUALISATION Mac OS X 10.6.2 nearing completion? | Mac OS X 10.6.2 nearing completion? |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 19 October 2009 | |
  
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Other Image Capture issues - involving Nikon, Canon and Sony cameras, plus FireWire card readers - have been fixed. One of the most widely publicised problems in Snow Leopard concerns the way the system has been seen to lose all the files in the home directory of a normal account after the Guest account has been used . While this appears to be limited to relatively unusual circumstances (and according to some reports the data is misplaced rather than completely lost), it has understandably caused a lot of angst. The 'fixed list' also refers to "an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly". Hopefully this is the issue that has been associated with Rosetta, the software component that allows the use of PowerPC applications on Intel-based Macs. While less devastating that the Guest account issue, this problem can result in lost data if it occurs when a document has not been saved recently. For some users, the problem seems more or less random; others report that it is reproducible. 10.6.2 addresses a variety of other problems. When testing the latest build, developers have been asked to focus on AFP, AppKit, BezelServices, ColorSync, CoreServices UIAgent, graphics drivers (including stuttering when playing 1080p content in QuickTime Player X), iChat, Image Capture, ipsec, Persistence, QuartzComposer, QuartxCore, and QuickTime Player. The update is supposed to fix (among other problems) graphics distortion in Safari's Top Sites feature (another issue that's been relatively widely reported), a couple of Address Book issues, and Safari plug-in reliability, as well as delivering "general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk". For the full list, see the World of Apple article referenced above. |
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