Comments on: OSX 10.5.6 Woes? You’re Not Alone…

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:12 +0000

You’re looking for logic??

By: Christopher Gavula

Christopher Gavula — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:02:30 +0000

Well it may NOT be the plug ins but I haven’t had any problems and I AM running Apple Mail with multiple mailboxes. Don’t know why it’s hit and miss like that.

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:19:19 +0000

Mail crashed on my first Air after the upgrade, and while I have been able to salvage the file (with all my GBs of past email), it gave me quite a scare.

I was running no add-ons.

The .plist fix worked, but Mail kept crashing and was generally unstable and untrustworthy.

I have since routed all of my email through Gmail, and it seems to be doing the trick.

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:03:50 +0000

Chris- THANK YOU for this post- I did the plist and “re apply combo update” trick and… so far so good. Thanks!

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:43:28 +0000

Sorry- Chris but it can’t be JUST the add-ins. No add-ins and started crashing after a Time Machine restore seemed to have fixed it.

By: doogald

doogald — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:18:54 +0000

I’ve applied it to all three of my Macs (one is two years old, the others just over a year old) and all three went fine. My two year old MacBook was the only one with a minor issue – Mail crashed on its first start – but then, after a restart and choosing an option to build a To Do folder for one of my imap accounts, it has worked perfectly since.

I also avoid any hacks or unsupported plugins like the plague.

By: Christopher Gavula

Christopher Gavula — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:47:50 +0000

It seems then, that the problem isn’t 10.5.6 – it’s the add-ins, which often hack the original code in unsupported ways to b=provide additional functionality. This often seems to be the case after Apple releases an update – the hacks break. Not much of a surprise there.

I tend to avoid add-ins and I’m not having any problems at this point. But who knows? I could hit one anytime.

I’m much more concerned about the hangups peoplke are having during installation. That seems pretty serious.