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No problems here. I have two hard drives with my OS on them, so if the update was frigged, I'd still have my old one. But it's been a coupla days and no weirdness, old B&W G3 with G4 upgrade.

SamGuy wrote:

what was the version of the update that everyone downloaded?
what sizes were they

It's funny because I updated 4 machines (all were updated to 10.3.7):

iMac G3 - 16 megs
G4 Quicksilver - 16 megs
G5 1.6 - 24 megs
eMac 1.25 - 24 megs

No problems whatsoever on my end, 1.2GHz iBook 14", 768 MB, Epson C82

Well, it actually did kill uControl, but i only had to disable an option not supported by the new kernel, and rebuild, and it worked.

Last edited by LokiSnake (2005-02-11 12:56 am)

i think G4 imac wrote:

Blandford Fly wrote:

K.C. Lofty wrote:

how is it apple's fault that a third party software fails.

Quite.   One reason for my PowerBook being 'third party system altering' software free.   Didn't anyone else figure this out at 10.2.3?

then whats a computer good for?

Getting my work done after an update, while everyone else is trying to figure out why their's doesn't work no more.

Plus, I really haven't the time to go beyond the simple and necessary stuff that Apple recommends.

i went with the combo update... no problems yet, and the finder is definitely more responsive..... probably from the optimization...

I had various Macs updated to 10.3.8 without any issues. iMac G5, iMac G4, iBook G4, and iBook G3, all using the combo updater.

What's iShock?

I've never used a computer game controller that's as good as an old console controller like the SNES', let alone one that's a good as a modern controller like the PlayStation's. Even the NES controller is better than crap like the iShock II.

I hate playing action games with emulation because there isn't even one decent controller on the market.

XYZ wrote:

I've never used a computer game controller that's as good as an old console controller like the SNES'

Super RetroPad

I dont know if it is just a warm room, but since I installed the update my fans have been spinning up every couple minutes. :-(

MB38 wrote:

I wanted to post this in a new thread so as not to hijack the update thread.

When I installed 10.3.8, I had 4GB of free space on my main drive.  Within about an hour of installing the update, I was informed that my startup disk was out of free space.  Confused, I deleted 7.18GB worth of old video files that I no longer needed.  Maybe two hours later, I noticed that my disk space was down to 450MB.  I shut down the computer and didn't start it until this morning.  In the 10 minutes that I was running the computer before class, the available space went down to 114.7MB.  Since I booted up after class and started writing this post, the HD has run out of space again.

Throughout this whole process, the Finder has been unexpectedly quitting and is remarkably slow.  This usually happens when the computer runs out of space, so I'm sure that the two are directly related.

A search of the Finder for files created or modified in the last 2 days yields about 2,500 files.  The largest file is 10MB, but it's a file that I know I created.  Most of the files are 12-18kb Safari cache files.  Nothing's taking up 11GB.

I'm performing a search now of folder sizes to see if any folder has unexpectedly jumped in size.  As of right now, I have no idea what's causing these issues.

The Finder just unexpectedly quit.  Guess I'm not performing that search.  Crap.

I haven't had any problems with my Imac G5 after updating to 10.3.8.  I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever, so I imagine it's working fine. I did run OnyX after the update, followed by another restart.

Last edited by Ra (2005-02-12 1:13 am)

I updated the other day, and now when I run Remote Desktop, it freakin' installs!!!

WTF?



I'm getting the combo updater now and will reinstall.  But it wasn't available when I first went for the upgrade.

dammit apple!!!

My D-Link DBT-120 Bluetooth adapter is no longer talking to my Sony Ericsson T610. This wasn't a problem prior to updating to 10.3.8.

Anyone else have this issue, or know of a fix?