Leopard 10.5.1 is now available

Leopard bugs got you down? Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1. It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty "potential data loss" issue with partitions in Finder. We heard about most of these fixes last week when the first build was seeded to developers, but there's a rundown of what actually made it after the break. Highlights include a fix to Time Machine drive limitations, a bunch of improvements to Finder's Shared Sidebar, and good old fashioned spanking of Mail.app's issues. Let us know if Apple didn't fix what ails you and we'll be sure to have our people talk to Steve's people.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

AirPort

• Allows password-protected accounts on AirPort Disks to show up on in the Finder's Shared Sidebar.
• Resolves an issue with saved passwords for wireless networks.

Back to My Mac

• Improves the reliability of Back to My Mac-enabled Macs appearing in the Finder's Shared Sidebar.
• Improves compatibility with D-Link NAT gateways.

Disk utilities

• Restores the functionality of the progress bar during permission repairs in Disk Utility.
• Addresses an issue that could produce an alert when creating disk images using Disk Utility or Terminal.
• Improves disk partitioning when multiple RAID sets are created on the same disk.

iCal

• iCal alarms are now more reliably delivered via email.
• Resolves an issue when inviting attendees via a CalDAV account.

Mail

• Improves stability when resizing columns in the message viewer or switching between Stationery templates in email messages.
• Addresses an issue in which attachments enclosed inside an HTML link may not be clickable in email messages.
• Fixes an issue with email accounts added using the "Simple Setup" feature in which messages cannot be sent due to an SMTP connection failure.
• Improves Smart Mailboxes compatibility with .Mac Sync, and addresses an issue with To Do's disappearing when using Smart Mailboxes.
• Resolves an issue with syncing Mail accounts with .Mac in which multiple On My Mac folders appear in the Mailbox pane.

Networking

• Addresses an issue in which Microsoft Windows shared folders may be read-only when connected via SMB.

Printing

• Resolves an issue in which user-selected values on Paper Feed PDE are reset to default while saving a custom preset.

Security, Firewall

• Addresses a code signing issue; third-party applications can now run when included in the Application Firewall or when whitelisted in Parental Controls.
• In Security preferences' Firewall tab, the "Block All" option is now called "Allow Only essential services"
• Includes recent Apple security updates.

System and Finder

• Addresses a potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder.
• Resolves an issue with login after turning off FileVault for a specific user account.
• Improves compatibility with Adobe Flash-based uploaders used by .Mac Web Gallery and certain other websites and applications.
• Resolves a potential text drawing issue with certain Adobe Flash-based websites and applications.

Time Machine

• Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine (specifically, single-partition MBR drives greater than 512 GB in size as well as NTFS drives of any size and partition scheme).
• Resolves an issue in which files restored in Time Machine may be restored to the backup hierarchy rather than the folders to which they belong.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 21st 2007 12:27AM]

but i thought macs were perfect and didnt need updates?
do not they just work out of the box?

wait are meaning to tell me that apple might kind of exaggerate how great their PC's are (yes i said PC...intel chipset = PC)...man i was under the impression that you would never need to update or do anything just plug it in and it just works...

so confused hahaha

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2007 6:12PM]

10.5.1
Made things worse. I installed it, restarted, then it tells me I need to re-register my copy. I register, it tells me to log in again, then tells me I need to re-register.

I better not have lost all my files.

Way to go apple!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2007 9:48PM]

Okay, so how about this one. How come people are suddenly getting my word attachments in Mail as .dat files? That can't continue. Happened as soon as I installed Leopard. Help.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 20th 2007 3:47PM]

I've had that problem in tiger for years. if you don't put the file extension in the file in tiger you get .dat files going to your friends' emails instead of word files (or any office documents for that matter).

Really sucks. and if this is still happening in leapard then it's inexcusable.

Not to mention how Apple Mail won't open a lot of outlook embedded attachments without the help of a shareware third party plugin. That too is inexcusable in what Apple is describing as an outlook-compatible business-ready professional mail tool.

Those two issues need to be built into apple mail or it will always be the tool that people try once before moving onto microsoft entourage (which, despite my hatred of microsoft products, is an excellent tool on the mac, along with all of MS office 2004 - I quite prefer it on the mac to on windows and find it faster and more stable on the mac as well).

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 21st 2007 3:28AM]

Well, to make matters worse, I am now receiving attachments in .dat formats. This is not a good way to experience this "upgrade." I could do with less graphics and more function. Switching back t0 10.4 may be in order. Either that or sounds like Entourage is the way to go. I have gotten used to mail so this is not what I want to have to be doing now, but perhaps that is the price for "progress." This problem has been wasting a lot of time.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2007 8:16AM]

I am beginner and I am more than willing use my own stationery or templates or email designs I don't know the right expression...
or by customizing the existing apple one's or by creating them to have as my own headletter (logo on top, text with or without images on the body and lines as adress,phone,fax,email and so on on footer) .

what I know is to do my own emails with my imac having leopard 10.5.1 latest mail software installed on the machine and use my photoshop, flash and dreamweaver I have on my old imac G4 to do the job and then transfert it to my new imac 24" with mail application inside leopard 10.5.1 !!

so as really not expert in html really much better with flash could you do a diagram or synoptic for peoples like me they understand better your explanations with example :

Where to go on the machine to find it ????
what iss the arborescence ????
how to drawn or modify ???
What to do and to change ???
which softwares are need ????
and so on....

drawings are better than thousands words !!
and much easier to understand....

I leave you my email address which is [e-mail] to have your answer with pics explanation for better understanding and to do my first designs for custom mails which will be in accordance with my documents and my flash website, for backgrounds, musics,videos and so on I have drawn and designed on it ..

Thanks a lot your help and support....

With friendly,

Chris

[e-mail]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2007 7:18PM]

***BEWARE OF UPGRADE!***
Well, after an hour with Apple tech support yesterday it looks like I have no choice but to ERASE THE DISK AND RE-INSTALL LEOPARD! Everything was fine UNTIL I downloaded and installed the 10.5.1 upgrade. Since I did, I get a grey window with the spinning gear that spins on endlessly. But Windows works like a charm under Bootcamp. Maybe I have been too hard on Windows for I see NO reason for a failure of this magnitude by simply attempting to install a fix for Leopard designed to make the o/s more stable.

So, BEWARE to all who wish to upgrade to 10.5.1...back-up your system before installing the upgrade as you may find yourself needing to take your Mac in to the shop for repairs as I must now do.
Dan Vanderburg