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Fire up Software Update, kids, Apple has made available Airport Base Station Update 2008-001. This update includes 'general fixes and compatibility updates' for a host of Airport related apps, including:Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
buyer said 7:05PM on 3-11-2008
Air Disk Time Machine support ?
please say yes ....
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-wsn said 7:07PM on 3-11-2008
So 1,000,000.00 ? ....... Does TM work with AEBS-USB now?
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james said 7:20PM on 3-11-2008
i'd be happy if they finally figured on how to simply make airdisk reliable.
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Moose said 2:05AM on 3-12-2008
Yes, dear baby jebus, fingers crossed that that might indeed be the case...
Tommy said 7:21PM on 3-11-2008
no changes here.
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Pete said 7:21PM on 3-11-2008
I downloaded it and connected to my Airport Extreme. There is now an option for "Disks"
I don't have a hard drive here to plug in, but that option definitely wasn't there before.
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Pete said 7:23PM on 3-11-2008
Nevermind about that. =)
fonsecafoto said 7:24PM on 3-11-2008
Disks were there before but they were titled AirDisk and it was an orange icon before.
C.
Scott said 7:28PM on 3-11-2008
it was definitely there before on mine, but I do see a different icon for it now.
fonsecafoto said 7:22PM on 3-11-2008
No. It did NOT enable time machine to work with airport extreme airdisks. But, I'll settle for it remembering networks from sleep and making them "fast" again.
C.
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freakscene said 7:41PM on 3-11-2008
Definitely not more reliable. Since installing this update, Airport Utility can no longer find either of my Airport Extreme base stations. This is on Leopard 10.5.2.
Of course, I'd have to say that Airport Utility has always been the most unreliable piece of software Apple has made. Base station detection has always been flaky; this update has just made it completely broken.
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Risto T said 7:41PM on 3-11-2008
i wonder if it fixes the airtunes remote speakers dissapearing problem -- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6809290#6809290
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henrrrik said 7:49PM on 3-11-2008
This only updates the Mac side of things, not the Airport Extreme firmware.
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Gareth Burleigh said 8:26PM on 3-11-2008
Apples quality control is disgusting, you would think keeping everything in house would eliminate such stupid bugs.
Wireless keyboard/mouse disconnects
Airport problems (I personally fixed my wireless problems buying a £30 Linksys router)
iPods not showing universal docks as recognized devices
On 2nd Macbook (machine) and on 3rd Macbook Pro battery.
Apart from my last 2 iPods I cant think of an Apple product I have bought in the last 3 years that I have had no issue with. To see that Airport issues are still causing such trouble does not surprise me one bit
Gareth
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robogobo said 9:06PM on 3-11-2008
hmmm, "everything" is not in-house. Believe it or not, you have tons of outside-of-house stuff on your machine. Do you live near an airport or under high tension wires? It sounds like you have alot of interference.
Gareth Burleigh said 9:14PM on 3-11-2008
I actually meant in house at Apple, but in answer to your questions no to both and at any rate surely only the mouse and keyboard faults from what I have mentioned could be caused by interference.
Perhaps your happy being an Apple beta tester, myself I would like for the financial outlay to have finished products.
Chadonna said 9:14PM on 3-11-2008
Just read on another Apple rumor site that the update has been pulled for unknown reasons, although I haven't yet confirmed it myself.
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joey said 9:43PM on 3-11-2008
It's still available via software update. I've learned my lesson about rushing out and updating my OS. Apple update has messed up my system more than enough.
I'll just wait it out to see what actually happens when ppl update and if I feel the need to I'll update.
Chadonna said 9:50PM on 3-11-2008
I usually wait a day or two after the update is released. I've been doing this for years. Knock on wood, I haven't had any problems yet. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I usually repair permissions and restart before downloading and installing any software (Apple and non-Apple). I usually restart after the install is complete, too. I'm probably a little too cautious, but I think I'll stick with my routine. :)
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kelly Denison cole said 10:53PM on 3-11-2008
I was so disappointed with the airport exterme and yeah the 30 $ linksys that it replaced was better, but after installing then uninstalling then reinstalling the last update the thing has run pretty well. I am afraid to run this new update.
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