i got 10.1 on Saturday from Comp USA, and came home to install it over my 10.0.4 install. it took forever, but seemed to work ok. I logged into my existing account, and opened the System Prefs to change the monitor settings to 1600x1200, which is the resolution i prefer. i guess i accidentally selected 1600x1200 @85Hz, because it kicked me into the monitor's "Out of Scan Range" screen. In earlier versions of the Mac OS, holding down the mouse button would bring back the previous setting. not so in OS X.

i could no longer use OS X, because it kept booting the computer up in an invalid range and i couldn't see the OS to change the resolution. The mac has handled this kind of thing far more elegantly than Windows for at least a decade - to revert to this kind of unintuitive behavior is just inexcusable.

in any case, i could not do a thing to make this work. zapping the PRAM no longer resets the monitor values to a default like 640x480, and disconnecting the monitor, shutting down, booting, shutting down, plugging in the monitor and booting didn't do it either. After asking around on another BBS, i was able to get the system back. deleting the file:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist

while in 9.2 and rebooting into X worked fine. It inherited the settings from 9.2, and i'm now working from 10.1 again.

-perry

December 20 2001 Update: An alternative method of solving this problem is to restart with the shift key down during a reboot - this seems to now indicate to OS X "reset the monitor at startup" instead of "disable extensions". This solution courtesy of this thread on the MacNN forums.

Upon upgrading from OS X 10.0.4 to OS X 10.1 some users might experience that they can't set the time zone. The fix is to open a terminal and type:

sudo rm /var/db/TimeZone.cache

Then log out and log back in and you should be able to change your time zone.

nikon

OS 10.1 adds an option in the General prefs to have double-scroll arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar. Scott R. wrote in with a quick preferences hack to enable double-scroll arrows at BOTH ends of the scroll bars. If you'd like to enable this feature, simply start a terminal session and type:

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth

You then need to logout and login (or, perhaps, simply force quit the Finder) to see the effect ... but once you've done so, you should have double-scroll arrows at both ends of your scroll bars.

I'm not sure which combination of applications (Cocoa, Carbon, Java) this applies to, but it works for certain in the Finder and a couple of Carbon applications I quickly tested. To return to the normal mode, use:

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant Single

(or you could just open the General pane in the System Prefs and check "At top and bottom") or

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleMax

to put them together only at the bottom (again, this is equivalent to clicking "Together" in the General prefs panel for scroll arrows).

Use shift-command-3 (entire screen) and shift-command-4 (region) to take screenshots in OS X 10.1. The images are dropped on your desktop, saved in TIFF format, and they'll open in Preview when double-clicked.

SnapzProX offers more features for file formats, movie captures, and menu captures if you need those capabilities (and I do and I love the program ;-) -- but it's great to see the return of the easy-to-use built-in commands from Apple.

Hi--

i'm eagerly awaiting the new update released today...but had a moment of panic. i've spent the last few months configuring (and thoroughly enjoying) apache (with many public and private sites), mysql, php, a new ftp server, etc etc...and crossing my fingers that these will still work with the update.

does anyone know if i will i have to reinstall and reconfig these? granted this would be a great test of my new skills if i did have to...

thanks
ppmax

[Editor's note: Anyone installed a 10.1 upgrade over a customized system? I'm planning on installing on a newly emptied partition and then re-adding my custom pieces one at a time. From what I've read, much has changed at the deepest levels of the OS with this upgrade, and this may be the safest course of action. Any other thoughts?]

Hi
Once I get my hands on 10.1 I want to re-install to correct some poor partitioning etc.

Does any one know how I can take applications and data across from a backup.

My main concern is to bring across my mail from mail.app.

What type of preparation work would you suggest and what would be the smallest partition you recommend for 9.2 as I do not particularly need classic apps anymore.

I have a TiPB400 with 20GB HD.

Regards
Simon

Did you ever get annoyed when you cannot see the same files in the GUI as you do in terminal. Here is a quick and easy fix to enable just those folders you would like to see. Tools such as TinkerTool let you turn on all invisibles, but this method enables each folder on a case by case basis.

Read the rest of the article for step-by-step directions.

Further to the existing posting about enabling the root user (three ways to enable the root user) Apple has posted an updated Netinfo manager method on the KnowledgeBase (you know, I much preferred the term TIL). It is Article # 106290.

Johnny_H

[Editor: I tried to get a URL for pasting here, but the newfangled KnowledgeBase appears to be having technical difficulties. I don't know what this article discusses, but it's probably worth a read if you use your root account.]

I don't know if this has been already documented but it seems that pressing X at startup will force the Mac to start under MacOS X if the startup system folder is set to MacOS 9 (at least if your MacOS 9 system folder is on the same partition as X). I had to use this trick a couple of times because I couldn't start under MacOS 9 which always crashed during startup for an unknown reason.

Note: if you press L at startup, you won't start Linux nor Lisa (well, actually I haven't checked !) ;-)

[Editor's note: I haven't tested this on my machine, as my OS 9 partition is on a separate hard drive. I also don't know which Macs it may or may not work on, as I have not seen this documented elsewhere.]

The terminal's font spacing (even for monospaced fonts) suddenly went wacky and I haven't had any luck getting things back to normal.

Typed entries at the command line and even in editors like vi are offset by half a character to the right (relative to a normally positioned text, as output by "ls" for example). Pressing backspace returns the remaining characters to the "correct" position.

After deleting the terminal preferences, things go back to normal until the font size is changed from the default size.

Has anyone seen the following problem? If so is there a recommended remedy?