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[White Man]

I'm honestly not sure about these reports that Growl doesn't work or only partially work because I haven't experienced any part of it not working with the older version. I will try the new one since it has a 64-bit Preference Pane.

I haven't used GrowlMail ever since it made my Mail slow and crash 90% of the time on startup.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Growl was working fine, it was just the growlMail that was busted. Growl hasn't really given me any problems outside of that.

 

[hirokazu]

I also have a problem where sometimes, when browsing folders on a USB drive (only had it occur on one drive), the entire system freezes apart from the mouse, for 2-3 min at a time. Including the menu bar, clock etc, which is pretty rare on OS X. No idea why, but that's the most annoying bug I've encountered.

OK, seems like this Finder freezing the system thing isn't limited to a specific drive, it seems to happen randomly, and after it unfreezes, this happens:

What. Have a fix for this in 10.6.1 please, Apple. This is not an acceptable bug!

 

[VNZ]

Autoplay: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

Oh, thanks!

 

[C Jones]

Quicktime X hidden prefs!

Disable rounded corners: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoRoundedCorners 1

Autoplay: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

Here are some more Quicktime X Hidden Prefs:

Never show title bar/controller: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityNeverAutoshow 1

Always show titlebar/controller: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityNeverAutohide 1

Never show the titlebar: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoTitlebar 1

Automatically show subtitles and closed captioning on open: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGEnableCCAndSubtitlesOnOpen 1

Keep playing full-screen even when you command-tab out of QT: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGFullScreenExitOnAppSwitch 0

Allow simultaneous recordings: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGAllowMultipleSimultaneousRecordings 1

Credit to the MacRumors forums

 

[HUELEN10]

I've run into the most annoying bullshit. I even had to use the record utility as the shortcuts for screencaps were disabled. (Sorry for the large-ish picture. I trimmed the file size by using preview, but couldn't get it any smaller while still being readable because I haven't installed CS3 yet.)

Basically it doesn't matter what I'm doing, but this always pops up. In this instance, I was just watching the best Mario Paint Composer vid ever, when I reached to toggle the volume up. My thumb usually rests on command, and I had it pressed and this pops up! I tend to press command and F5, and maybe that was active in Leopard too, but this never happened at all. Maybe if it's been there all along it wasn't as picky? I don't know, but I need to find out a way to permanently disable voiceover. Yes I tend to press command and F5, but this is getting ridiculous.

Any tips? I'm google searching, but no tips so far. It is getting quite annoying.

EDIT: BTW I tried this, but it didn't seem to work sadly.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6080810

If I can't disable it, then is there at least a way to change the shortcut to something harder to accidentally type?

 

[Flek]

you can switch it off in system preferances afaik

 

[HUELEN10]

you can switch it off in system preferances afaik

No, you cannot.

As soon as that key combination is pressed, the dialog will pop right back up. If you disable the dialogue, then the thing will just start up and won't shut up until you make it shut up.

It really, really sucks.

 

[giga]

Yes you can.

 

[HUELEN10]

Yes you can.

THAT'S what I needed! Thank you so much. Makes me wonder why the other method did not work though...

Well, time to go and continue the terminal tweaks after I take care of this. Thanks once more.

 

[Wrestlemania]

Anyone know where the saved space is actually coming from? The console tells me I cleared over 15GB from a fresh Leopard install and I can't see how that's possible.

 

[LCfiner]

Anyone know where the saved space is actually coming from? The console tells me I cleared over 15GB from a fresh Leopard install and I can't see how that's possible.

1. uninstalling unused printer drivers, unused languages and unused PPC code from apps

2. rearranging and compressing the code used for the main Apple apps.

3. redefining what a Gigabyte is. makes files seem bigger but also the free space seem larger.

 

[giga]

man SL seems so much slower to me there must be something wrong. just a couple things, if anyone could compare to theirs that would be great

1. icon load time. if i open the Applications folder the icons are still on their default icon with the A and it beachballs when i try to scroll until they load. same for the icons for media files in the stacks folders. never had to see them load until SL

2. multitasking seems down. doesnt happen all the time but it seems like my programs definitely beach ball more than normal

3. for people with unibody macs, can you try 4finger swiping up and down really quick, like a split second. if i do this, it gets "stuck" at the "up" position, and if i swipe down, it doesnt go back to normal like it should. i have to swipe up again to fix it.

4. harddrive activity. i cant tell if its hotter or anything, but its making a lot more noise than before. its not loud noise, just that normal harddrive activity noise you hear all the time on PC desktops. for some reason i dont remember hearing it on my macbooks before, although i could be wrong about that.

and yea, i also have the quicktime seeking problem. its really weird. not to mention the fact that X doesnt mute the sound of background videos.

Make a new partition on your hard drive, and install a clean 10.6 on there and see if you notice a difference. Most likely you will. Then you’ll know what you have to do.’

#3 is a bug. You have to let go of the trackpad on the first swipe or else it’ll re-do when you come back down.

 

[mrkgoo]

Make a new partition on your hard drive, and install a clean 10.6 on there and see if you notice a difference. Most likely you will. Then you’ll know what you have to do.’

#3 is a bug. You have to let go of the trackpad on the first swipe or else it’ll re-do when you come back down.

I think it's a known bug. Does it affect EVERYONE with four finger gestures?

Everyone try it - swipe four fingers up (or down), and without letting go, swipe the other way. Now when you release, it will repeat the first swipe action and continue bouncing around until you physically repeat the first swipe.

 

[celebi23]

Holy shit. Just found out that QuickTime Player X can play FLAC files Maybe iTunes 9 will do the same? Oh & I'm working on a post for all of the hidden QuickTime Player X preferences (autoplay, simultaneous recordings & a bunch of other ones).

edit: nevermind. Forgot that I had xiph installed :lol Still working on an awesome QuickTime Player X Hidden Preferences post

 

[celebi23]

QuickTime Player X Hidden Preferences

To set any of these, go to Terminal and enter in the code for whichever preference you want to set. Remember, to reset the setting to its default value, just change the "1" at the end to a "0" (or vice versa).

Disable rounded corners:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoRoundedCorners 1

Never show titlebar/controller:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityNeverAutoshow 1

Always show titlebar/controller:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityNeverAutohide 1

Never show the titlebar:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoTitlebar 1

Autoplay movies on open:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

Automatically show subtitles and closed captioning on open:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGEnableCCAndSubtitlesOnOpen 1

Keep playing full-screen even when you command-tab out of QickTime:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGFullScreenExitOnAppSwitch 0

Allow simultaneous recordings:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGAllowMultipleSimultaneousRecordings 1

Shorten the delay after which the controller fades out to one second:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityTimeout 1

Number of recent documents stored: (not sure if it works)

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSRecentDocumentsLimit 1

Unknown. I don't know exactly what these do, or they don't seem to have an effect when I enable them but here you go:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGTimeIntervalBeforeShowingLoadingUI
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUseForkedDecoder
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGEnableMediumQualityAudioRendering
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGDisableQuickTimeX
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGShowFrameworkVersions
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGEnableWWDC2009KeynoteBehavior
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowUseWindowShapeForRoundedCorners
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowTitleAlwaysHasActiveAppearance
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGTimelineDisableAudioTrackForVideoMovies
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGTimelineShowSlientRangesWithModifierKey

Undoing Changes:
Just run the defaults command with the delete flag for the appropriate key you wish to delete:

defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX <key>

Don't include the a 1 or 0 at the end, it just requires the key (eg: "MGPlayMovieOnOpen")


Credits (thanks to the people who found these. I just compiled them into a list :lol ) :

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775514
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2133815
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10075901
http://caiustheory.com/safari-4-hidden-preferences
http://macosx.com/forums/archive/t-25649.html

 

[mrkgoo]

Sweet options, thanks Celebi.

Anyway being trying to figure out what the deal with colour profiles on snow leopard is. I can actually show you some of the inconsistencies (normally difficult as you need to be physically at a screen).

Anyway, I have an image of grass that is essentially monotone, and thus very sensitive to color profiles. I have it as my Desktop, and I swear, under Snow Leopard default colour profile it's different than before.

ANyway, I duplicated the image file. I open one up in preview - it matches my Desktop background. While open, I change the colour profile to the default one from 10.5. No surprises, colours stay the same, but the gamma changes to 1.8. I change back to the new profile - the Desktop background goes back to gamma 2.2, but the preview one goes DARKER. I open up the duplicate file side by side for comparison.

You can see the one on the left being darker. It's like it has layered an extra level of gamma beyond 2.2. If I close it and reopen, it's back like the one on the right. Obviously preview is having issues with changing colour profiles on the fly.

Test 2: Same thing, except instead of changing to the old default profile from 10.5, I change to a profile made with a Colourimeter (Spyder2), set to Native colour temp. Now prior to 10.6, I SWEAR that this colour profile had the same colours as the default - that is, it was very green compared to a 6500K profile.

Anyway, I open up a preview image. I switch from the new default profile to my native 2.2 Spyder profile. What happens? The background goes slightly greener (to what I believe is closer to how the default profile behaved in 10.5, though hard to compare with memory), but the preview picture briefly switches then changes back to normal - it's like preview knows I'm changing profiles and compensates. What? It gets weirder, when I switch BACK to the default colour profile, the background goes back to normal, but the preview picture then switches to the shade of slightly greener. Open up duplicate file for comparison:

So in conclusion, I don't really know what's going on besides Preview doing something different (actually it has always applied colour profiles more correctly than a lot of other software that never took into account multiple monitors for example).

The picture on the left is how I swear the default colour profile looked in 10.5, but the one on the right is how it looks in 10.6 (again, it has to be from memory, because this is not how you can view colour profiles). It's NOT just a colour profile difference, because I have the old profile and it gets treated like the new one (minus the bugs). That is, Snow Leopard appears to be treating the old profile like the new one, but the behaviour is different than in 10.5. It's like it is closer to 6500K, and it knows to change.

With the right sequence of changing colour profiles, I can get the same profile to look different. Sometimes when I change, you can see it briefly change to how I would've expected in 10.5, but then jump to something more appropriate (I'm thinking more accurate). I'm not talking gamma here - more colour temperature.

Hpefully someone else who's as picky will be able to clarify (not necessarily here, but elsewhere on the web).


edit: Ok, part of the issue, as I suspected, is to do with the profile you have loaded when you log in (Mac OS X always seemed to keep that cached) - I tried setting a profile logging out and back in, and the changing issues started happening when I flipped to and from that profile more than the regular default. This would explain the crazy flipping around changes - like when switching to the log-in profile, preview kind of ignores that for open files. I still believe colour profiles are handled differently - that there's been a change beyond just gamma in the profile to how it actually renders things using those profiles.

 

[Jal]

I think it's a known bug. Does it affect EVERYONE with four finger gestures?

Everyone try it - swipe four fingers up (or down), and without letting go, swipe the other way. Now when you release, it will repeat the first swipe action and continue bouncing around until you physically repeat the first swipe.

Yeah does it for me too.

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Just want to ask before I do it: Does Glims work on Safari still? Or does Safari have to run in 32 bit mode for it to work?

 

[Big Chief Crazy Cone]

Has anyone updated their bootcamp drivers to v3.0? (off the 10.6 disc). I did (I run W7 x64 RC) and after a restart I could access my Mac HD, as advertised, but when I navigated to my user folder, all I see is a file named "Account," of an unrecognized type and appearing as 0kb. Has anyone else encountered this and aware if its done on purpose? I'm hoping to access my music and things in the default user/music and user/music etc. All of the other folders, including applications, user/guest etc. show their complete contents. I do not have filevault enabled. Any ideas?

Sorry to bump so shamelessly but has anyone else encountered this? The only temp fix seems to be deleting an .Xauthority file in the user folder, and that sounds a bit dangerous to me. I run W7 as an administrator and I do not share the root of my Mac partition.

 

[pj]

It's working as designed. It would defeat the purpose of permissions if you could just look at any OSX user's files from windows. You probably have to change the permissions of the folders from within osx.

 

[celebi23]

So, I saw the various Terminal commands for the QuickTime Player X hidden preferences & thought that there must be a better way to do this. So, I created 2 sets of AppleScripts. One set is to enable the preference & the other set disables the preference (and returns it to the default state).

I put up a small website with a guide (and credits)

http://web.me.com/celebi23/QuickTimeXScripts/Main.html

Special thanks to:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775514 (rorschach)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2133815 (janfoeh)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10075901 (janfoeh)

 

[Circle Jerk]

I'm looking at getting a Macbook tomorrow. Would 2 gigs of ram be enough? I don't really want to shell out the extra $100 for 4 gigs unless it's 100% necessary.

 

[celebi23]

I'm looking at getting a Macbook tomorrow. Would 2 gigs of ram be enough? I don't really want to shell out the extra $100 for 4 gigs unless it's 100% necessary.

2GBs should be fine. You can also get a 4GB Ram upgrade from Other World Computing. That's where I got mine & it was only $68.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade

 

[Ashhong]

I think it's a known bug. Does it affect EVERYONE with four finger gestures?

Everyone try it - swipe four fingers up (or down), and without letting go, swipe the other way. Now when you release, it will repeat the first swipe action and continue bouncing around until you physically repeat the first swipe.

im 90% positive it didnt have this bug in 10.5 though, no big deal really, just have to watch how i swipe. and regarding the color issue, i also posted a pic a little while back that showed the difference. ill have to find that

right side is old desktop picture, left is new desktop. noticeably lighter. i really have no idea whats going on with it and it hurts my head to think about it. i am positive though that overall everything is less...colorful. my firefox icon used to be brighter. its "duller" now. weird

and giga i thought OSX installed so that "fresh installs" are just a myth and unnecessary? if i do a fresh install, does that include not using Time Machine and migrating all my info?

I'm looking at getting a Macbook tomorrow. Would 2 gigs of ram be enough? I don't really want to shell out the extra $100 for 4 gigs unless it's 100% necessary.

i agree with celebi. remember the new mbp are DDR3. my 2 gigs are usually more than enough.

celebi can you find an always on top script for quicktimex =D i love that function for divx web player.

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

Hey guys, if you have more than 4GB can you please go to Activity Monitor> System Memory and then see how much memory the pie chart is showing?

The guys over at the Apple forums gave it a little explanation but it seems buttery

 

[celebi23]

celebi can you find an always on top script for quicktimex =D i love that function for divx web player.

Just took a look through the code & couldn't find any preferences for having the QuickTime window always on top (have to admit, I'm holding back a laugh at that :lol )

I'll keep looking though

 

[Jasoco]

If all you need to do is install Rosetta, you don't have to reinstall again. I forgot to install Rosetta and Quicktime 7 when I first installed SL. There's actually an install package on the disc called Optional Installs where you can install stuff like printer drivers, rosetta, quicktime 7 and a few other things.

I was more concerned with the waste of space 3+GB of drivers, fonts and languages that no one in the world, except Superman, would need. Wait, no, Superman wouldn't need it either. Really, it's just a waste to install all those languages and fonts. And even printer drivers since it automatically installs needed ones on demand anyway.

eh nvm, just going to do it again. Do i need to keep X11?

Most people might not need X11. It allows for use of Unix apps and Linux apps and even Darwine that allows some Windows apps to run. Look it up. Google for "Mac OS X X11" and read about it. Decide whether you need it. And if you don't do it now, it can be gotten from Apple later anyway. Chances are, if you don't know if you need it, you don't need it.

232 old GB drive, 54GB free.

250 new GB, 70GB free.

I'm guessing the conversion in GB is < 10%.

16GB gain / 2^30 B= ~ 14.9 old GB. I did delete a bunch of junk in the conversion, but I think I got about 7-10GB out of it.

7% actually. A drive on Leopard and before will report 7% less space than the same drive on Snow Leopard. I did the math one day. Every drive I had was 7% less than advertised so I assumed that was how it was.

i.e. My 500GB drive in SL is 500GB. But in Leopard it's 465GB. My 1TB drive in SL is 1GB (Fine, 999.78GB, ugh, just round up!) while in Leopard it's 931GB.

Haters gonna hate.

To see how much you recovered in space, go to Console -> Files -> /private/var/log -> install.log. And then type in ‘reap’ in the search filter.

Quicktime X hidden prefs!

Disable rounded corners: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoRoundedCorners 1

Autoplay: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

Awesome with the round corners thing. While they're now sharper and I might hurt myself on them, at least my picture isn't rounded now. Plus they show up when the titlebar is visible on the top anyway.

OK, seems like this Finder freezing the system thing isn't limited to a specific drive, it seems to happen randomly, and after it unfreezes, this happens:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~hirokazu/public/Screen%20shot%202009-08-30%20at%209.55.27%20PM.png[IMG]

What. Have a fix for this in 10.6.1 please, Apple. This is not an acceptable bug![/QUOTE]
Make sure you don't have any dying HD's. The only times I've ever had horrible freezing was OS X's way of telling me the HD it is trying to access is dying a silent painful death.

 

[Killthee]

Anybody know how to change the default open folder icon (the ugly blue folder)?

I think I used CandyBar to change it in Leopard, but I don't see that option in SL.

I figured it out if anybody cares

System icons are under /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

 

[Sanjuro]

So nobody else here is having any problems connecting to peers with Transmission?

 

[Ashhong]

Just took a look through the code & couldn't find any preferences for having the QuickTime window always on top (have to admit, I'm holding back a laugh at that :lol )

I'll keep looking though

holding back a laugh at what?

its really convenient having it always on top. makes it easy to multitask looking at gaf and watching a movie :lol

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

I'm looking at getting a Macbook tomorrow. Would 2 gigs of ram be enough? I don't really want to shell out the extra $100 for 4 gigs unless it's 100% necessary.

Depends 100% on what you're doing with it. For just general desktop type apps 2gb is fine. For audio or video work stuff as much RAM in as you can to make your life easier.

 

[Ashhong]

So nobody else here is having any problems connecting to peers with Transmission?

testing it right now...

but wtf? when did they get rid of the option to "remove file and delete .torrent"? now you can only delete the file from transmissions list or all the data

seems to be connecting ok

 

[Jasoco]

I figured it out if anybody cares

System icons are under /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

So does anyone know what icons I can change that don't require CandyBar? I own CandyBar 2, but years ago they upgraded and charged out the ass so I never upgraded. Sorry, Panic, but I ain't gonna pay to change my icons again. Especially not that price.

I'd like to change my icons, if I can.

 

[Sean]

So, I saw the various Terminal commands for the QuickTime Player X hidden preferences & thought that there must be a better way to do this. So, I created 2 sets of AppleScripts. One set is to enable the preference & the other set disables the preference (and returns it to the default state).

I put up a small website with a guide (and credits)

http://web.me.com/celebi23/QuickTimeXScripts/Main.html

Awesome dude… The autoplay one is the one thing I've really been missing from QTX.

I've made your script slightly better IMO, so rather than having separate applescripts for enable/disable it's just a dialog box that lets you choose. Here's the code for it, should be fairly straightforward to create the others from this if you want to:

display dialog "This will make QuickTime movies automatically play when opened." & return & return & "Click restore to change back to default behavior." & return & " " buttons {"Cancel", "Restore Default", "OK"} default button 3
copy the result as list to {theButton}

if theButton is "OK" then
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1"
else if theButton is "Restore Default" then
	do shell script "defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen"
end if

 

[Xater]

So nobody else here is having any problems connecting to peers with Transmission?

Works fine for me.

 

[Sanjuro]

Works fine for me.

I've gotten a few things to download insanely slow. It worked fine on Leopard, I've had SL for a couple weeks and have gotten nothing.

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

I have a 1password question...not sure if it's prudent to ask beta 3 questions here or not...but what the hell:

Obviously I don't want to have to manually enter in allllllll my existing passwords from other sites into 1password. So I'm assuming I need to use the import tool for Safari/Camino. My question, though: is it supposed to take THIS long? I left to open for almost 20 minutes and nothing has changed...keeps saying "please wait while passwords are being imported from the browser."

edit:

I've gotten a few things to download insanely slow. It worked fine on Leopard, I've had SL for a couple weeks and have gotten nothing.

You updated to the 64 it version, right?

 

[Killthee]

So does anyone know what icons I can change that don't require CandyBar? I own CandyBar 2, but years ago they upgraded and charged out the ass so I never upgraded. Sorry, Panic, but I ain't gonna pay to change my icons again. Especially not that price.

I'd like to change my icons, if I can.

I think most, if not all, of the system icons that CB lets you edit are under that bundle (/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources). I even found some icons that CB doesn't let you edit under that bundle.

 

[Sanjuro]

I have a 1password question...not sure if it's prudent to ask beta 3 questions here or not...but what the hell:

Obviously I don't want to have to manually enter in allllllll my existing passwords from other sites into 1password. So I'm assuming I need to use the import tool for Safari/Camino. My question, though: is it supposed to take THIS long? I left to open for almost 20 minutes and nothing has changed...keeps saying "please wait while passwords are being imported from the browser."

edit:



You updated to the 64 it version, right?

Yeah. I'm only in 32-bit mode. I have been using 1.74 and just tried the nightly to see if that would make a difference.

 

[Ashhong]

So, I saw the various Terminal commands for the QuickTime Player X hidden preferences & thought that there must be a better way to do this. So, I created 2 sets of AppleScripts. One set is to enable the preference & the other set disables the preference (and returns it to the default state).

I put up a small website with a guide (and credits)

http://web.me.com/celebi23/QuickTimeXScripts/Main.html

Special thanks to:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775514 (rorschach)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2133815 (janfoeh)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10075901 (janfoeh)

quick correction, it seems like the Script folder is under "Macintosh HD/Library/Scripts" not "User Name/Library/Scripts" i think?

also i do not see the Script Menu that you show...duno what im doing wrong

 

[Sean]

I've gotten a few things to download insanely slow. It worked fine on Leopard, I've had SL for a couple weeks and have gotten nothing.

Maybe check your port settings? (under preferences > network). or look in the message log (window > message log or cmd-3) to see if there are any errors or something.

 

[Sanjuro]

Maybe check your port settings? (under preferences > network). or look in the message log (window > message log or cmd-3) to see if there are any errors or something.

No errors. Ports open on router and Transmission. Like I said before I was downloading around 1MB a second with many of the torrents and now my top speed has been 18kbs or so.

 

[Sean]

quick correction, it seems like the Script folder is under "Macintosh HD/Library/Scripts" not "User Name/Library/Scripts" i think?

also i do not see the Script Menu that you show...duno what im doing wrong

If you do not have a Scripts folder in your user folder you can just create one there.

You have to manually enable the script menu by opening Applescript Editor (just search Spotlight for it) and enabling it in that apps preferences. Then it should show in your menubar.

 

[Ashhong]

If you do not have a Scripts folder in your user folder you can just create one there.

You have to manually enable the script menu by opening Applescript Editor (just search Spotlight for it) and enabling it in that apps preferences. Then it should show in your menubar.

i tried both. also why is this one folder from the scripts.dmg blue?

NVM :lol i was pressing the wrong "script" menu button

but the blue question still stands, why is it blue?

 

[celebi23]

Awesome dude… The autoplay one is the one thing I've really been missing from QTX.

I've made your script slightly better IMO, so rather than having separate applescripts for enable/disable it's just a dialog box that lets you choose. Here's the code for it, should be fairly straightforward to create the others from this if you want to:

display dialog "This will make QuickTime movies automatically play when opened." & return & return & "Click restore to change back to default behavior." & return & " " buttons {"Cancel", "Restore Default", "OK"} default button 3
copy the result as list to {theButton}

if theButton is "OK" then
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1"
else if theButton is "Restore Default" then
	do shell script "defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen"
end if

Awesome!! Thanks! Will update the scripts & add you to the credits

quick correction, it seems like the Script folder is under "Macintosh HD/Library/Scripts" not "User Name/Library/Scripts" i think?

also i do not see the Script Menu that you show...duno what im doing wrong

If you do not have a Scripts folder in your user folder you can just create one there.

You have to manually enable the script menu by opening Applescript Editor (just search Spotlight for it) and enabling it in that apps preferences. Then it should show in your menubar.

Yeah, I kinda need to fix the documentation. Will update it a bit later today. Thanks again Sean for the improved script

i tried both. also why is this one folder from the scripts.dmg blue?

NVM :lol i was pressing the wrong "script" menu button

but the blue question still stands, why is it blue?

Shoot, forgot to remove the label color :lol Will fix this in the next version too

 

[Jal]

If you do pinch to zoom on the desktop it resizes your icons, is this new?

 

[impirius]

Aaaaaaaaargh. Snow Leopard screwed up Apple Remote support for Boxee and Plex on my home theater Mac Mini. Now, whenever I press a button on the remote, it controls Boxee/Plex/Hulu AND Front Row at the same time. This.. does not work very well.

 

[Zombie James]

My Firefox CPU usage is going through the roof with Snow Leopard. Just having Firefox sitting here is using up 40-50% CPU usage according to Activity Monitor, and none of my tabs have video. I don't recall ever noticing this issue with Leopard (I would know since my Macbook's fan goes crazy loud, very noticeable when it's "busy"). Is this a known issue?

I feel tempted to switch to Safari at this rate, but i'm too dependent on several extensions.

 

[Borman]

Anyone know what would be causing the PreferenceSyncClient to crash with Snow Leopard? I don't use mobileme, and I don't use growl or anything like that.

 

[celebi23]

Here's version 2.0 of my QuickTime X Hidden Preferences scripts!

Now with dialogs! (thanks Sean!)

http://web.me.com/celebi23/QuickTimeXScripts/Main.html

The site has also been updated with new information & the new DMG to download. The ReadMeFirst.rtf file has been updated. The label color for the "QuickTime Player X Scripts" has been removed.

It's not a perfect solution for QuickTime X but, it's an improvement