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dinodragon - Jul 6, 2005 - 8:26 am

I encountered many applications, such as Mozilla, Nisus Writer Express, and even TextEdit (plus many more) will hang, i.e., when use the Force Quit, the application will show in red as No Response.

Just wonder if anyone encounter the similar situation.

Also, another very annoying problem:

Before I upgraded to Tiger 10.4.1, I don't have any problem with my network hardware setup at my home:

Cable modem to Router and then to a hub. All of our Mac in my house can get on internet with very decent speed. (100+ K download speed)

However, after upgrade to Tiger, the connection speed dropped down to snail pace. (less than 1 k download speed).

Then, by accident I found if I disconnect the hub, the speed will go up, not to the flying speed, but a tolerable walking speed (3-40 K). However, if I reconnect the hub, the speed will drop down immediately.

Without my hub, it is a pain on where you know.

I think this is a problem of Tiger. Just wonder if Apple will listen and get these bugs fix.

philippe99 - Jul 6, 2005 - 8:36 am

Nathan, about NWX:
which version do you use on Panther (2.1.3) ?
which amount of ram do you have on your machine ?
could you try to repair permissions on your drive (through DiskUtility on Applications/Utilities)

I repool the question because I've no idea for the second question about the hub
Phil

dinodragon - Jul 6, 2005 - 9:08 am

I run my NWX both version 2.1.3 and the 2.5alpha5 & 6. All of them have the similar situation under Tiger (not Panther) on my 1 G iMac G5. Never tried the repair permission yet (not need so far).

Just don't understand why when I upgraded to Tiger, my hub became the speed dragger. Same hardware and same browser, but very different speed of connection.

Cheryl - Jul 6, 2005 - 11:54 am

Timothy,

My name is Cheryl and I will be assisting you. When you installed Tiger, what kind of installation did you select - Upgrade, Archive or Clean? If you had selected Upgrade, then this is the cause. Sometimes Upgrade does not work well on certain machines - though there is no absolute pattern to this.

I suggest you do an Archive and Preserve install. this will not touch the applications and programs that you have installed nor your home folder.

Start up from your Mac OS X Install DVD.
Select your language. The Welcome to the Mac OS X Installer window appears.
Click Continue. The Important Information window appears.
After reading or printing the information, click Continue. The Software License Agreement window appears.
After reading or printing the information, click Continue.
An agreement sheet appears. If you agree with the license agreement, click Agree. The Select a Destination window appears.
Click the volume that you wish to install to.
Click Options. The installation options sheet appears.
Select Archive and Install.
Select the volume which already has Mac OS X installed.
You should also select Preserve Users and Network Settings, to preserve network and Home directory settings.
Click OK.
Click Continue to begin the installation.

The only items you will have to do a fresh install of is Stuffit Expander and your anti virus - if you use them.

Now go to the Utilities folder and open Disk Utility to do a repair permissions.

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Cheryl

dinodragon - Jul 6, 2005 - 9:58 pm

Thanks Cheryl.

I used the upgrade to install Tiger 10.4, then software upgrade to 10.4.1 on my iMac G5. This is one of the official ways to upgrade. What I don't and can't understand is why the results are different from "clean/fresh installation". Why Apple makes or allows such a thing to happen?

Cheryl - Jul 6, 2005 - 10:17 pm

Timothy,

Generally, upgrade install goes well with no problems. But there are the exceptions and since each person's set up is different, it is hard to issue a precaution. And Apple recommends doing a Clean install which wipes your drive clean. Then you would have to install all your applications, along with using your backup to replace your documents and important files.

What I have experienced is those people with problems just after installing Tiger, solve it by doing an archive and preserve install. This does not touch your applications that you installed, nor does it touch your Home folder. It is very similar to the clean install of the OS 9 system.

Let me know if this corrects you problem.
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Let me know if you need further assistance and thank you for using MacOSX.com !

Cheryl