{"id":1017,"date":"2005-05-01T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:43:30","slug":"random-tiger-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/01\/random-tiger-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Tiger Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Miscellaneous<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Launch Services lost all my custom application bindings when I installed Tiger.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>What kind of OS update would it be without Retrospect breaking? They promise a free update soon, with a later one to provide support for Tiger&rsquo;s new filesystem features.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Apple Help is unreliable. Sometimes, it just doesn&rsquo;t open, even for Apple&rsquo;s own applications. Or, sometimes it opens the main help page instead of a specific sub-page. This has happened with my applications, and with Mail.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>I like Dictionary. But not its panel.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>My Command-Control-D keyboard shortcut for comparing the two top documents in BBEdit stopped working. The solution was to tell Dictionary not to use this shortcut in the Keyboard preferences pane.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Preview&rsquo;s PDF viewing has more features, but seems slower.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The default screen capture format is now PNG instead of PDF.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>After waking from sleep and entering my password, I get sometimes get <em>another<\/em> password dialog asking for my AirPort password. Or, sometimes, it forgets which network it was connected to and I have to re-select it.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>TextEdit (and Cocoa in general) has much better import and export facilities. You can access a lot of them using <tt>textutil<\/tt>.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The Cocoa text system now supports lists and tables.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Classic seems to be faster, and it uses less processor time when it&rsquo;s idle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Printing<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Sometimes my printer queue gets stopped for no reason.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Apple seems to want to sell me printer supplies, but the results come up empty for all of my printers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Mail<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Each time Mail is updated, it leaves old files behind. A couple versions ago, it left <tt>SKindex<\/tt> files around after switching to <tt>content_index<\/tt> files. With Tiger, it leaves the <tt>content_index<\/tt> and <tt>mbox<\/tt> files while duplicating the message data into the <tt>Messages<\/tt> folder and putting the index information in Spotlight.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Clicking the mailbox pane in Mail doesn&rsquo;t give it keyboard focus; you can only do that by tabbing into it. In fact, if it&rsquo;s already focussed, clicking a second mailbox in it will make it lose focus. Still an improvement, though, since the drawer couldn&rsquo;t get focus at all in Panther.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End don&rsquo;t work in the message list.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>When doing a search, the preview pane is hidden; it&rsquo;s shown again when you click on a search result in the list. I guess this makes sense, but I find it a bit disorienting.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Everything from downloading messages to searching is much slower. Smart mailboxes don&rsquo;t always update their unread counts until I click on them.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Sometimes Mail gets stuck and won&rsquo;t display the contents of any mailboxes. Quitting and re-launching it gets it working again.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>I don&rsquo;t see a way to easily go from a selected message in a smart mailbox to seeing that message in its thread in its original mailbox.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Mail no longer has its own Script menu. Apple has effectively removed the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail scripts, since the system Script menu doesn&rsquo;t support them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Tools<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><p>\nI tried to use Shark after installing the developer tools (with the CHUD option) and kept getting this error:\n<\/p>\n\t<blockquote> CHUDProf.kext not loaded. There may be a problem with your CHUD installation. [CHUDDataSource] <\/blockquote>\n\t<p>\n    Then I manually installed CHUD.pkg, and now Shark works.\n    <\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\n\t<li>I kind of expected that Subversion would be bundled with the developer tools. Oh well.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>A Mac-savvy <tt>rsync<\/tt> was, for me, one of the most anticipated features of Tiger. Unfortunately, it&rsquo;s been unreliable so far. Nearly every time I use it to sync a large folder using the <tt>-E<\/tt> flag, it either crashes or stops with an internal error.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The Mac-savvy <tt>tar<\/tt>, <tt>cp<\/tt>, and <tt>scp<\/tt> rock. So does BOMArchiveHelper.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>There are new database and plist scripting additions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Safari<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Safari is faster.<\/li>\n\t\n\t<li>Safari is much smarter about how it puts Google queries onto the find pasteboard.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>It&rsquo;s great that Safari now displays errors as Web pages rather than sheets.<\/li>\n\n         <li>Sometimes it doesn&rsquo;t load the stylesheet.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Safari Web Archives are great, although I prefer iCab&rsquo;s Zip-based format.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>It&rsquo;s no longer possible to see the transfer rate in Safari&rsquo;s Downloads window unless you make the window really wide.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Is there any way to tell Safari <em>not<\/em> to view PDFs inline? I prefer using Preview. There doesn&rsquo;t even seem to be a way to save the currently viewed PDF to disk. The only way I could save my credit card bill to disk was to use OmniWeb.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The new Safari often loads stale pages. I have to keep resetting its cache and re-launching it to get it to notice that a page has changed.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Spotlight<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n    <li>Bottom-line, it&rsquo;s still much faster to search the Web than my Mac.<\/li>\n    \n\t<li>I hate the Spotlight search results window.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The first time I tried to use Spotlight, after letting it index overnight, it froze SystemUIServer for 12 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Spotlight seems to be inconsistent about finding files that aren&rsquo;t in my home folder. It finds some files in <tt>\/Developer<\/tt> tree, but the whole ADC Reference Library seems to be excluded.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>AppleWorks files are indexed; Safari Web Archives are not<\/li>\n\n\t<li>After the initial indexing, there&rsquo;s no visual indication of the indexing process. After downloading or importing messages, or copying over lots of files, it&rsquo;s not clear whether I&rsquo;d get more search results if I waited an hour and searched again.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Even though I&rsquo;ve declared most of my home folder off-limits to Spotlight, it still seems to be indexing everything. Its CPU use goes crazy for hours if I re-render a Web site or do a large Subversion checkout, slowing down my whole Mac, which is partly why I wanted to exclude it from those folders. The other reason is that I was hoping to improve its search speed (which is about 15 seconds now) by having it index a smaller number of files. But it seems that it indexes and searches everything, and <em>then<\/em> winnows the results.<\/li>\n\n    <li>Why does iCal create 3500 .icalevent files each time I start it up, even though I&rsquo;ve told Spotlight not to search events?<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Finder<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Get Info once again opens separate windows for each selected item.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Dragging from the Finder to Path Finder copies instead of moving, but you can hold down Command to make it move.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>I&rsquo;m really disappointed in the Finder&rsquo;s new Find feature. Searching by name is still slow (with several seconds of the spinning pizza), and some matching files that are in plain view simply don&rsquo;t show up in the search results.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Much better at updating views when files have changed or new files have been added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Dock<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The items in the Trash&rsquo;s contextual menu moved around, and I haven&rsquo;t adjusted yet.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>It used to be that if you held down Command-Option, you could drop a Dock icon onto another Dock icon (e.g. dropping an application onto Script Debugger to view its dictionary). Now, this works <em>if you first bring the receiving application to the front<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous Launch Services lost all my custom application bindings when I installed Tiger. What kind of OS update would it be without Retrospect breaking? They promise a free update soon, with a later one to provide support for Tiger&rsquo;s new filesystem features. Apple Help is unreliable. 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