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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Jean

I installed SL on my iMac and messed up my printers, Canon MP980
and HP 9650. Tried all the things to straighten them out and finally
got Canon to work and HP worked a time or two, but couldn't get the duplexer to work. It's as if I've gone backward about two years. I regret installing Snow Leopard.

September 18 2009 at 9:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michaelkelly02

Mike from Parallels here,

Good news, I just wanted to let everyone know that Parallels 4 is working for the new OS X Snow Leopard.

If you want to know more head over to our blog post on the subject.

http://bit.ly/5B7PI

Thanks

September 01 2009 at 7:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MIchael Sidejas

Just Cause â€“ ScanSnap does work with Snow Leopard. But youâ€™re right. ScanSnap Manager and ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap are among the few scanning features that are not currently supported. The ScanSnap team is working diligently to bring a certified patch to our ScanSnap customers. For latest details and information, check out our ScanSnap Community site: http://bit.ly/1sZwT8

September 01 2009 at 2:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marc Tatossian

For everyone that has no compatibility with iStat Menu

Go to developer website and email them to beta test to new version (2.0 beta). You will get an email back (possibly automatic) and it gives you the link to the download of 2.0 istat. Install and enjoy to the new features that is compatible with snow leopard!!!!!

August 30 2009 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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hingerty

I use the iStat widget. I dont see any change. Ive never used the app. The widget works the same. Only changes I see are the Gutenberg dreivers in cups dont seem to work as well. But I noticed that there are some new drivers.

September 01 2009 at 7:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

musicreative

iMindMap v4.0 (www.imindmap.co.uk) doesn't work with Snow Leopard. There is an update pending, which they say will fix the problems. Due for release in September.

August 30 2009 at 4:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jeremymac

just to add..
found an answer here:
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=540277

August 30 2009 at 7:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

quasimoto

Just to continue the list of incompatible apps, here are ones that don't work for me under snow leopard:

-MultiFirefox (profile switching tool for FF)
-InsomniaX (disables sleep mode on mac laptops)

August 29 2009 at 8:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jeremymac

Do you think they'll change the gawd awful blue highlight on exposÃ©? No problems yet with anything else though :)

August 29 2009 at 8:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Just Cause

To the incompatible list add ScanSnap Manager and Abby FineReader used with Fujitsu ScanSnap, it has problems saving (quits unexpectedly) and doing OCR (doesn't recognized the pdf)

August 29 2009 at 6:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rexwool

My Epson R1900 printer doesn't work after installing Snow Leopard. Installed up-to-date drivers from Epson as instructed - still doesn't work! Any ideas?

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