MacOS 10.5.1 Out Soon, Taking 10.5 GM Out of Beta
This post was published 2 years 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Its always my policy to wait 48 hours before installing any update, but I always sit on the bench a little longer for OS upgrades.
Seems to think that Apple agrees the Leopard is a little buggy and are working on quickly releasing 10.5.1 to plug some of the gaping holes.
Among the fixes already baked into the first test build are corrections to Leopard’s application Firewall, Spotlight indexing, iCal syncing, Keychain login and text drawing corruption. [...] In total, build 9B13 includes well over two dozen fixes and code corrections, those familiar with the software say, and addresses an issue present when moving files across partitions — possibly one and the same with the widely publicized Finder data-loss bug.
If you haven’t installed Leopard yet, I say wait it out until 10.5.1 is out – because the data loss issue is awfully scary.
I’ve grown far more conservative now with modifying my OS now that I depend on it everyday for work. Sure, when I was younger I’d slap any update or beta on there just to see what was new. Now I’m lucky if I install an update less than a week after it’s released. And even though I prebought 10.5 and it’s been sitting next to me for at least a week, I still see no rush to install it before Big A gets the bugs worked out.
You mean the awfully scary data loss issue that’s been around since Panther, possibly earlier?
That’s not to say it’s any less nasty — it should have been sorted ages ago. It’s just not a reason to stop you upgrading to Leopard. Your Mac already has this bug.
The data loss bug equally affects Tiger and Panther.
Leopard is a fantastic OS (I’m using it on my main system) but lets not be naive in thinking that any OS, especially one only now being used by the masses, would be absolutely air-tight or bug free. It just doesn’t happen. Why is 10.5.1 being seeded mentioned, but not 10.4.11? By most people’s rationale, if Leo’s update makes it out before tiger’s (presumably) final update does that mean every on should switch to the updated leopards instead of risking being on a still buggy Tiger?
I figure if the application you use day-to-day have been updated and you machine can handle it, most people should be on the latest OS since there are real benefits and improvements. Why would anyone NOT want to take advantage of them?
The data loss issue is very easy to avoid. Simply *COPY* your file and then delete it after the copy finishes instead of doing a move. Common sense.
Matt’s right, that bug has been there since the 10.3 days, so don’t let that stop you from upgrading to leopard. If anything, you should upgrade since they are finally going to fix that!