Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) install

Just completed an install of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) over the top of Mac OS X 10.5 – and it was painless.

Backed up the MacBook Pro using Time Machine and then ran the installation. All went very smoothly with no problems encountered. The full install took around 50 minutes and I seem to have recovered around 10 GB of hard-disk space!!!

Upon restart I did encounter two problems:

i) Mail complained about the OmniFocus plugin

Sent out a Tweet about this and within 30 mins got a reply from Omni telling me there was a new Snow Leopard version of OmniFocus online. Down loaded it, installed it, and all is fine.

ii) Mac OS X 10.6 kept asking to install Rosetta as it was needed by Microsoft Office 2004

It appears this was needed by the Microsoft Office 2004 update system. Discovered a very simple solution to fix this. I removed Office. (And I feel much better for that…)

One additional point, and I don’t really know if this was problem/coincidence or something else, but SpamSieve didn’t seem to open automatically when the first new email arrived. I shut down Mail, started SpamSieve, re-installed the Mail pluggin (command in the SpamSieve menu), re-started Mail and all now seems to be working.

So, bottom line (and famous last words), so far so good. And no ‘show-stopper’ problems encountered.

And one final point, the new ‘click and hold’ on icons in the dock has finally meant I have cleared all that rubbish (some 400 files) off my desktop as it was shocking to keep seeing those appear.

Anyway, go and grab you new copy of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) over at Apple.