Comments on: OS X 10.6.3 Update Brings Record Number of Fixes

By: Gibb Cornwell

Gibb Cornwell — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:42:11 +0000

Hello..
When I upgraded from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3, my iMac would not boot (the Apple icon switched to the Ø icon). It booted (omission of some menu bar buttons; spotlight inoperative, etc.) with holding down the shift key. Running Diskwarrior identified many errors which were repaired (report below), but no change in success in booting machine. A second running of DW showed only 1 error (not reported), but no change in booting behavior.

Diskwarrior report “Upgraded 10.6.2 to 10.6.3″ (5/12/10)

DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named “Mac OS X 10.6.2.” The new directory is ready to replace the original directory.! ! All file and folder data was easily located.!
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Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 12,357,962 comparison tests were performed.!
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• Errors, if any, in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node links, indexes and more have been repaired.! ! • 39 files had a directory entry with an incorrect text encoding value that was repaired.!
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• 100 files had a damaged extended attribute that was repaired.! ! • 4 folders had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.! ! • 7 folders had a damaged extended attribute that was repaired.! ! • Incorrect values in the Volume Information were repaired.! ! • Critical values in the Volume Information were incorrect and were repaired.! ! • 1 folder will have more items.! ! • 2 files had a Name that changed.! ! Disk Information:! ! Files: 434,856! Folders: 134,448! Free Space: 447.73 GB! Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)! Block Size: 4 K! Disk Sectors: 976,101,344! Media: ST3500630AS Q! ! Time: 5/10/10 2:30:56 PM! DiskWarrior Version: 4.0

By: jomac

jomac — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:42:36 +0000

Since the BIG update I cannot use my VPN, there are 4 pages of permissions when checked - all related with the Airport Utility upgrade. I can no longer access one of my iDiscs - other is still OK.

Never had probs before - anyone else going loco?

iMac - Very recent model - lots of memory and HD

By: Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:09:23 +0000

The last year or so, after updating Mac OSX, I run Monolingual. I have found a large part of the updates are language files. I delete all but English and save a ton of space afterward each time. Which means if Apple would post these updates in single languages, the updates would be about 1/5 of the size. I haven't downloaded this one yet but the past one was about 700 mb. When I ran Monolingual it said it saved me 600 mb. Yes, I had already run Monolingual before updating.

By: HZC

HZC — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:49 +0000

The Mac OS X Server v10.6.3 Update is different from Security Update 2010-002. The former (719MB for client, 897MB for server), is for Snow Leopard and bring both general OS fixes and security fixes, while the latter (78MB for client, 361MB for server) is for Leopard and are only security patches.

By: OS X 10.6.3 Update Brings Record Number of Fixes « Apple News Daily

OS X 10.6.3 Update Brings Record Number of Fixes « Apple News Daily — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:36:03 +0000

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By: feckinirish

feckinirish — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:30:53 +0000

700MB! Holy crap batman. Could this update BE any bigger?

By: Prnx

Prnx — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:14:03 +0000

Since the upgrade, Mail refuse to display images attached to emails. So, for example, when I get a promo email from the iTunes store, it's full of blank space : no album cover is displayed.

By: Josiah W

Josiah W — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:56:47 +0000

Yeah, I've run into an issue: My keychain file got corrupted somehow, so I called apple and we got the issue resolved that must've been the wierdest problem I have ever had happen to our computer

By: cantubury

cantubury — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:54:59 +0000

700 mb, lets see that is 7/10 of a gig. I remember reading years ago that in the 1880's that saddle bags, 8 x 11 inches, all 2 of them could hold almost all of the information in the world. Ergo, the Pony Express could deliver it from coast to coast in 7 days. An improvement over todays snail mail. But I diverge: Can't those genius programmers use Ajax or some non-obese language to deliver these updates. Nowonder hard drive space is in the petra-bytes by now!