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Apple lists Snow Leopard incompatibilities
With Snow Leopard in users' hands for less than 24 hours, reports of software incompatibilities are coming in (as well as what's been updated). Apple has posted a list of its own to the knowledge base. The article notes that, when Snow Leopard is installed, known-incompatible software is moved to a folder aptly named Incompatible Software. Additionally, known-incompatible software is prevented from opening (you'll see an "Incompatible software" message).As of this writing, there are 21 pieces of software on Apple's official list, including Parallels Desktop v. 2.5 (and earlier) and AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow v. 4.2.5. A few of our readers shared their experiences in our liveblog earlier tonight, including installation troubles. We're sure that all vendors are working to update their products. If something continues to give you trouble, hold tight. Help is (probably) on the way.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Eric B. said 11:20PM on 8-28-2009
Growl and iStat Menus (not pro?) aren't working for me at all.. both live in the 32-bit Preference pane. The only app that's been giving me trouble is Espresso.. I don't use it enough to care right now but it's a little annoying. I have to say I didn't realize how much I glance over at iStat Menu until it was gone.. I miss it!
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Sec said 12:44AM on 8-29-2009
I can no longer copy to my Synology NAS network share. "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items." I have tried repairing permissions but this did not help. Funnily enough if I compress a file to archive it lets me copy it. Any ideas?
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amiga_tone said 11:38PM on 8-28-2009
LOL I agree about iStats Menu Pro, I didn't realise how much I used it until it was gone and now I can't see network traffic, proper date/time or computer temperatures!
Goes to show that the existing menu bar is lacking in so many places.
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Bloobie said 12:10AM on 8-29-2009
Growl works just fine for me, even with Prowl pushing notifications to my iPhone.
This sucks about EyeTV, though. I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, which means I need to reinstall EyeTV. Unfortunately, according to the chart, it's going to just quit when I try and launch it, which is also the only way to update 3.x.
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PeterG said 4:53AM on 8-29-2009
I panicked when EyeTv wouldn't launch. Elgato say that the upgrade should be done in the app before the Snow leopard install. Too late for that with me. After a little I found the latest EyeTv install dmg on their site. Panic over. Now I can record the rest of The Wire on BBC2 next week.
Mike Evangelist said 10:49AM on 8-29-2009
There's a workaround to get EyeTV 3.0-3.1 to run under Snow Leopard so you can update it. See details on our forum here: http://forums.elgato.com/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=5961
Bloobie said 11:13AM on 8-29-2009
Thanks, Mike! I'll try that out.
Dan Woods said 12:32AM on 8-29-2009
There aren't transports for Canon's BJNP Protocol yet; which means Canon's new line of Networked Pixma Multi-Functionals (MXxxx, MPxxx, etc) won't print over the network; only over USB.
Interestingly, the scanner components all work using Bonjour now. Either Apple have expanded ZeroConf to support IJNP or Canon have decided that Open Network Standards are better than Proprietary Standards.
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JKAlphabet said 6:43PM on 8-31-2009
Just bought a Canon MP620 last night at Best Buy and it's working without any problems. As you mentioned, it does network the scanner separately from printer and does so with bonjour.
hingerty said 7:50AM on 9-01-2009
I have MBP with the upgrade. I really cant tell the diff that much. Quicktime looks dif. Rt click menus look dif. At first my Cups stuff was messed up but I juked around a bit and found a way to get Pixma Canon 470 working. Now Im gonna try my HP printers.
Brian Kendig said 1:43AM on 8-29-2009
I upgraded two MacBook Pro laptops to Snow Leopard today, and immediately both of them started having trouble with wireless networking being flaky. Searching on the Apple discussion boards turns up lots of other people experiencing this same problem - you'll be able to surf the web over AirPort for a while, but then suddenly all servers will become unreachable. It looks like this may be a bug in Snow Leopard.
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Joanna D said 3:32AM on 8-29-2009
"It just works!"
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jaejbear said 3:45AM on 8-29-2009
No DeskCover. Was handy for viewing icon text on complex desktop backgrounds, but easy to live without. :)
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Griffo said 4:56AM on 8-29-2009
Growl and istat pro working fine for me. DataRescue II needed Rosetta though.
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James Kachan said 6:06AM on 8-29-2009
No:
Nufile
Widemail
Isolator
All dont work under snow leopard.
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argyblue said 8:39AM on 8-29-2009
Installed Snow Leopard on a MacBook (White) 2.0GHz 2GB RAM that was running Tiger (as an experiment) everything went fine (NeoOffice 3.0 doesn't load) but I have a strange occurence, the Snow Leopard Desktop is bleeding onto the menu bar, in fact all the desktop pix's appear to, anyone else seen this?
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Icenfs46 said 9:09AM on 8-29-2009
lol my friend, in Leopard, Apple introduced the semi-transparent menu bar. so all desktop pictures kind of bleed into it a little bit. you can turn it off in the system preferences if you don't like it.
Jonathan A said 12:55PM on 8-29-2009
Wow, AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow 4.2.5 is incompatible with Snow Leopard. I know the older base stations are still in use (in fact, I installed one yesterday). I hope Apple is going to release a new version that is compatible with Snow Leopard.
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Just Cause said 6:49PM on 8-29-2009
Doesn't Airport Utility, that comes built-in with the OS work, same as 10.5.8?
Jonathan A said 1:32PM on 8-30-2009
@Just Cause
The last time I tried, Airport Utility didn't work with the Graphite or Snow Base Stations. I had to use Airport Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow, which used to be called "Airport Admin Utility", I believe.
I'll try it again when I'm back at the school where my Graphite is currently running. It would be insanely great™ if they rolled that functionality into Airport Utility.