Help, please! How do you remove an OS upgrade?WARNING!

[Kajsa]

OS upgrade 10.4.11 full of problems.

I followed my routine of downloading and installing the latest
OS software upgrade from my software upgrades search.

This upgrade is to Safari 3.0.4 the OS is 10.4.11.

I don't have Leopard, yet.

I HATE this upgrade. I can no longer copy/paste from photobucket,
it flat doesn't work. There is an annoying red dot line under every
word it thinks is misspelled, like my last name,
the list goes on and on.

AppleCare said I have to completely install my OS from disk.
" It should take two hours" the support tech said.

Why oh why don't they warn us BEFORE we do the software upgrades?
I never would have installed this damn thing.

Is there any other way to fix this?
I've always trusted the upgrades.

Never again.

This - grrrr- is now underlined in red.
( on my Mac)

Just shoot me now!

Oh yeah, I'm on a PowerMac G4-circa 2002 model

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

[bullimiami]

1. unfortunately i dont think you can undo a system update on a mac.

i think you need to either restore you backup image (you might want to start doing this) or reinstall system back to 10.4 and rerun updates.

maybe im wrong and ill learn something new from another post.

[Kajsa]

2. Thanks,bullimiami.

It does look like that's the only way to get rid of the update.

Since I plan on getting Leopard, this may not be worth the trouble.

Does anyone else who has a G3 or G4( with Tiger) have any trouble with the new OS update?

The newer Macs have no problem.

I wonder how I can fix the problem with Photobucket?

All my images are stored there, and it's the program I use to get
images on the web for linking purposes.

Thanks, again.
;-)

[leftofthedial]

3. I have problems with about a third of their system upgrades

most often it destroys my Internet and networking setup and takes hours to fix.

Running a Safari update is never a good idea. Upgrading iTunes is like playing chicken with a train. The security updates are worse than a virus about a third of the time.

[Kajsa]

4. I am finding that out the hard way, leftofthedial.

Thanks for sharing that with me.

I wish someone had told me that years ago.

From now on, I will be wary of the updates/upgrades.

Thanks, again. :hi:

[bullimiami]

6. i deal with 8 macs (or so) and rarely have any problems with updates.

either system or application.

[MilesColtrane]

5. So far, no problems. n/t

[Bongo Prophet]

7. I hope this can help

I had this sort of thing happen about 4 years ago - drag and drop would not work after ajaguar update.
This also handles cut/paste....

the other problem is that spell checking is on. I can't for the life of me remember if I have ever turned it off.
I need it for fingerfumbling on my laptop here...:)



Here is a clip from some machelp forum----------Good luck, and let us know if it fixes the problem!

I have discovered the cause in my case: ‘coreservicesd’ never starts, and this might happen if the file /var/run/StartupItems/coreserviced.run already exists. This is an empty placeholder file, which apparently (if coreservicesd crashes) never gets removed.

After deleting the placeholder file, we rebooted the Mac and were pleased to find that drag and drop works again. An easy solution that was hard to find.

[Bongo Prophet]

8. To fix your spell check (red underlines)

The reason I couldn't remember spellcheck is that there is no universal on/off or system pref panel for it.
Kind of silly perhaps, but you can turn it off/on in each application, which does make sense. I guess if there were universal, people would turn it off and then wonder why mail spellcheck was not working, and think it was a bug...


In Safari, the pulldown menu under edit>Spelling>"check spelling as you type" just uncheck it.
I have safari beta, and still on 10.4.10 (g4 powerbook) ---and I don''t have a visible checkmark. I just clicked it any way and was able to turn it off and on.

I use firefox most of the time, for the plugins, sessionsaver and web developer are crucial to me.
Safari is quite fast and renders real purty though :)

[Kajsa]

9. Thanks so much, Bongo!

I just unchecked the "Check spelling" option and it's off!

As far as Photobucket is concerned, the 'one click' option for
copying still works, which is much easier than drag and select.

So, I'm back in business, again.
;)

Thanks so much for your help.

Mackies ( is that what we are called?)
are the best!

:hi: :pals:

[opiate69]

10. My yahoo messenger is now acting screwy after this upgrade..

if a conversation is long enough that it needs a scroll bar, whenver a new message gets put in, it scrolls all the way to the top, so I have to go and scroll down to read the new messages.. any ideas??

[gmoney]

11. warning to iCal users

if you have 2 computers and upgrade one to Leper, it breaks iCal so not only can they not sync, but it will CRASH 2.0.5 on the system running 10.4.11

Evidently a way to force people to upgrade all machines... put all those eggs in one basket.

It's addressed on the Mac "support" forum, but no answers.

Going to try to take 2.0.5 home and replace 3.0 on the machine running Leper

[emmadoggy]

12. I don't normally have any problems with the upgrades/updates,

but after this latest one, there are a few annoying quirks for me, too. I have also been getting the spell-check crap (I see the fix upthread). But that doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that my auto-fill doesn't seem to be working the same. Everything used to just pop in immediately and automatically when I was filling out a web form. Now, either nothing at all comes up, or just a little drop-down pops up and I don't like those as well.

The other annoyance has been this pop-up warning that comes up every time I try to quit Safari when I have more than one tab or more than one window open. "Are you sure you want to quite Safari? You have more than one tab/window open." I haven't found any way to turn this warning off and it bugs me.

I've also been having a few Safari error messages pop up recently too - not being able to load a page etc. Not a lot, but a few. Hopefully, some of this stuff will get ironed out. They are all minor things, but annoying just the same.