{"id":2818,"date":"2009-02-08T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2009-02-08T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:24:52","slug":"newsletter-480-preview-are-leopard-bugs-a-thing-of-the-past-at-long-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/02\/newsletter-480-preview-are-leopard-bugs-a-thing-of-the-past-at-long-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #480 Preview: Are Leopard Bugs a Thing of the Past at Long Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, I&#8217;m not one to take Mac troubleshooting sites as seriously as I used to. In one tragic case, one of those sources, which has had a couple of ownership changes, has managed to pretty much lose its hard-won reputation for accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>These days, if they&#8217;re not just taking a few random system anomalies and turning them into serious problems of one sort or another, they are mostly regurgitating the material they find at Apple&#8217;s own support forums. Unfortunately, those forums are not actually vetted, but just offered as a reasonably open resource for folks to report problems and sometimes even get some answers by regular visitors. Apple doesn&#8217;t really make an effort to provide genuine support, though. They mostly provide that service as a place to vent and perhaps locate others who&#8217;ve solved the problem you&#8217;re having.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think the people who conclude that Leopard was one of the buggier Mac OS X releases are just plain wrong. Each and every version has required several maintenance updates before things settled down. Sometimes they even shipped with show-stoppers, such as the tendency to corrupt the directory of a FireWire 800 drive. That was fixed pretty quick, though it sometimes required a firmware update from the drive vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Leopard&#8217;s major contender was a Finder bug that might result in lost or corrupted data if something halted the process of moving &#8212; rather than just copying &#8212; a file from one drive to another. That, too, was fixed really fast, though it&#8217;s possible this was an issue of long standing that was only discovered when Leopard came out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2009\/02\/newsletter-issue-480\/#out\">Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, I&#8217;m not one to take Mac troubleshooting sites as seriously as I used to. In one tragic case, one of those sources, which has had a couple of ownership changes, has managed to pretty much lose its hard-won reputation for accuracy. 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