Snow Leopard Fixes: the angle-bracket "copy email" behavior
Snow Leopard introduced many welcome changes to Leopard and one huge annoyance. When copying an email address from Mail, Snow Leopard wraps the address in "< >" brackets, for example, "<annoying@email.com>". When pasting, you've got to go back and remove the brackets.Mac Daddy World has identified the preference setting and posted the simple Terminal commands that will eliminate the brackets. I tried it and it's working perfectly! Thanks, Mac Daddy World. That was very simple and most welcome.
While most users are happy with Snow Leopard, there are these annoyances. Is there something bothering you?
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Snow Leopard introduced many welcome changes to Leopard and one huge annoyance. When copying an email address from Mail, Snow Leopard wraps...
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My biggest problem is the inability to drag and drop images directly from Safari into Photoshop. I really really loved being able to do this, and it feels really weird to take that functionality away.
October 25 2009 at 7:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy problem with SL is the impossibility to reset the View Options in all the Finder Windows. Also when you go to Visualization Options, the "Only this window" option is no longer available. If I want to change the background of a specific Finder Window to a Picture, some others Windows change and others doesn't.
October 24 2009 at 8:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI want to get rid of the warning about Growl Mail not working with Mail 4.1 I updated growl to 2.0 but the warning is still there. I've looked everywhere to find a preference to turn it off, but I can't find it anywhere.
October 23 2009 at 12:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf my MacBook hits a certain download rate, my connection drops to a fraction of what it was -- confirmed by speedtest.net -- or dies altogether. It'll drop to 1-2Mb on an 18Mb connection. Meanwhile, my girlfriend's Dell is unaffected.
It's usually caused when a BitTorrent client (I've tried Transmission and uTorrent) hits 7Mb or so. I've tried everything -- lowering connected users, changing to WPA2, static IP, etc. Nothing's worked.
I've seen this on several message boards, but no one seems to have a fix. A developer of Transmission claims it is an OS issue.
The biggest annoyance for me is with the Address Book Dashboard widget. In Leopard, I could click on a phone number and have it display in huge type on the screen. I haven't been able to get that working in SL. Anyone have a fix for this?
October 23 2009 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI hope everyone is reporting these bugs to Apple and not just complaining (off-topic) on TUAW.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
and even better if you have an ADC membership
https://bugreport.apple.com/
If I send an email to someone who is not in my Address Book, I always enclose the email address in brackets -- maybe I'm too old-school!
I am one of those who risk life, limb and data with .0 upgrades. I have had no major problems with any upgrades and I have been using OS X since the Beta version arrived (paid £25 for it and still have the original disc and packaging).
Apart from the problem with Preview (see previous post), I have had a pleasant experience with Snow Leopard. It may have something to do with the fact that I don't have third-party bits installed to interfere with the user experience.
The fact that, when another program accesses Address Book, files are duplicated randomly.
October 23 2009 at 9:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTo clarify, I mean to say duplication of Address Book entries. If I create a label in a labeling program to, say, Joe Mama, I open Address Book and there's now five cards for Joe Mama.
October 23 2009 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI have 3 complaints:
1. Laggy Expose. Leopard didn't lag.
2. Play button on Apple Keyboard launches iTunes, even if it wasn't running, and Menu button on Apple Remote automatically launches Front Row.
3. New Expose layout is nice for some, but bad for those of us who rely on window sizes to quickly find the right window.
@Martin here here on QT 10. I am very annoyed that you can set the pref to always open .mov files with QT 7 Pro.
@alansky having the same prob with airport. That, and even set to bridge mode it seems to be assigning IP addresses.
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