Panther FileVault Troubles?

Maybe Apple should do a more thorough beta testing. This is getting quite embarrasing, no? :(

Could a damaged keychain lead to being locked out of your filevault? I guess, if that's the only place your key word is stored (besides one's typically not too accurate head). Doesn't sound like a pleasant bug to me...

M.

Apple should be investigating their Quality Control Department. Something is wrong.

Seems as though there are quite a few problems with 10.3. Perhaps 10.3.1 will be released soon. FileVault appears to have the largest problems.

I actually was one of the first to discover a major problem with Panther and Final Cut Express. If you have your scratch disk (i.e. your video clips) in your home folder and you encrypt home folder with FileVault, it will prevent playback of digital video. The video stream is trying to play but is also being decrypted as it "leaves" the home folder. This can't be done with these computers. Too much computing power needed. Apple should have known this in advance. I called minutes after I installed and encrypted and found the problem on the first Panther release day. (Oct. 24) I think the same problem applies with imovie.

I bought an Apple to avoid these issues and I've spent more time on the phone with AppleCare than in the first 2 months of owning my G5 I thought I would in 3 years! Now my ne Epson printer won't work with 10.3! What a nightmare.

P.S. I was just about to buy a Firewire 800 External drive on Oct. 31 when Firewire Direct told me about the Oxford 922 chipset problem with Panther. It seems all manufactures have fixed this problem but sheeesh! What next?

That's why I didn't get OS X when it first came out, nor Jaguar when it first came out, nor Panther...always wait for the fixes, and let others jump ahead and flail.

I've had no issues with FileVault on a clean install.

10.3 was widely seed tested by developers and others. Unfortunately, it seems they rushed the latest builds to make the 10/24 date. Like Freg, said, we should see an update soon.

I personally learned from the 1.2.8 debacle, I will never update right away, nor will I buy new hardware right away no matter who makes it. I am getting more and more of an “if it aint broke, don’t fix it” attitude

I hate to say this but there is a reason why MS posts release candidates 6 months to a year in advance of release. I honestly don't remember this many problems with the internal apps, security is another matter, and features when 2K and XP came out.
This is more then a little embarrassing for Apple. Maybe its just me but this smacks of something being rushed to market in time for X-mas and winter sales. I'm somewhat glad now that I'm not getting a Mac until next summer at the earliest. Hopefully they can work out the bugs by then. :(

Originally posted by voicegy
That's why I didn't get OS X when it first came out, nor Jaguar when it first came out, nor Panther...always wait for the fixes, and let others jump ahead and flail.

Ah, the selflessness, the solidarity! I guess the only folding you do is your laundry (or does your wife do that).

M.

PS. ;) I don't fold. Never. Not when competing, not with laundry not with my computer. But I do like to try out software. I only use Windows ME! And I never back-up anything! Live life on the edge! The feeling that my data is never safe give me a permanent adrenaline rush!! wheeheeeeee!! I'm risking the final draft of my PhD thesis as I type this!! Years of hard w*&%# &^








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