An error message that I don’t wish none of you to meet, but it’s happening to me these days on two Mac’s.
This post comes after the one I announced in the OS X update, not sure it’s OS 10.5.6 but I have some doubts on that. Solution 1 is the following:
Turn off iDisk Sync (click the Stop button in the iDisk pane of MobileMe preferences, in System Preferences).
Restart your computer.
From the Go menu, choose Home.
Open the Library folder.
For Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier: Remove the Mirrors folder
For Mac OS X 10.5: Remove the FileSync folder
Restart your computer.
Re-enable iDisk Sync.
Solution 2:
Someone calling themselves dotwaffle on the mac discussion boards gave the following solution:
… disconnect the iDisk, turn off Syncing, open a Finder with the iDisk mounted online, then opened iTerm (Terminal will do)
I navigated to my iDisk (in my case cd /Volumes/dotwaffle) and ran the following command:
Tiger users were able to use and download the widget from MacAmour.
But it seems it stopped working.
So here’s the how to fix it, then you’ll never get the “invalid zip code” error message again.
Recently the Leopard Movies widget, which Steve demoed along with Leopard, stopped working in Tiger. Leopard’s built-in Movies widget continues to function, while in Tiger, it gives an error of “invalid zip code.” You can make this widget function once again in 10.4.
Navigate to /Library/Widgets and find the Movies widget. Control-click on the widget and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then open parser.js in your favorite text editor, and replace all occurrences of A99D3D1A-774C-4914-9E3B-18645117428A with DE7E251E-7758-40A4-98E0-87557E9F31F0 and save. Close any open movie widget in Dashboard, then re-open it. Now it works.
I’m surprised to see many people complaining about the look of the new Leopard dock, most of them complaining on the fact it is very distractive, anyway, there’s a solution to revert to the previous looking version of the dock, just follow these steps to make it: Read the rest of this entry »
This post is intended to people like me who won’t install Leopard on an empty, clean Hard Drive.
I won’t have the courage to back up my 80 gigs + iTunes library or my movies and documents, so all I’m going to do is preparing my Mac to be updated to Leopard from Tiger.
It is Highly recommended to backup all of your datas before upgrading to Leopard anyways, there is a great article at Apple’s website on How to back up and restore your files.
Here are some advices I have to give and some others I collected here and there on some Mac sites.
According to AppleInsider, OS 10.5 Leopard’s is now “finalized” to the point where Apple has begun to provide Leopard-related support training materials to its support staff.
When it comes to the release date:
All signs have pointed to a public release of Leopard during the business week of Oct 22nd, with sources specifically singling out Oct 26 for the official launch.
AppleInsider also confirms the fact Apple will release a last update for Tiger (10.4.11):
The new builds focus primarily on Dashboard, according to some of the people testing the releases. This reportedly includes a fix for the software’s underlying Webkit foundation and word of two existing issues with number-oriented widgets.
According to this exhaustive FAQ on OS X kernel panic, it seems there are 5 main causes to that:
Directory
Drivers and Preference Panels
Widgets
Data corruption
Permissions
RAM and motherboards
I find this FAQ very useful especially because of the fact its author didn’t forget any of them (for the moment), for example the famous OS 10.2.5 USB hub caused KP.
