OMG just how bad does Tiger have to get before we give up on it?

[octavedoctor]

Follow-up

Yes it is as I thought. Even with the mouse plugged into a main USB port on the back of the machine, it isn't picked up by the OS until it's unplugged and reconnected.

Scratch that idea then...

[ex2bot]

In your case, it really sounds like some obscure Tiger bugs are causing you some grief. I will say that I have had problems with CDs not unmounting. And I wasn't able to find any apps that were holding them. On at least two occasions I have had to reboot to get the CDs out.

So what about reverting to 10.3.9? Is that an option? Does the Mighty Mouse work with .3.9? Of, if not, what about reverting to 10.4.2 or whatever point release will allow your mouse to work correctly?

Doug

[octavedoctor]

MM works with 3.9, but you lose most of the really cool functions like horizontal scrolling and application switching from the ball-button.

The bugs are annoying but not enough to make me give up on it. It just irritates me that the whole thing seems so unfinished. It's not what i expect from a Mac. Reverting to 10.4.2 is certainly an option; it's what I did before but I'd rather try and crack this particular nut.

I think that the problem with the flash drive is something to do with Apple Works; I've had this problem before (Norton auto-protect used to be an obstacle to unmounting 'til I got rid of it) but holding the command key down while selecting "Eject" from the menu usually did it. This time nothing works, i just have to unplug it and get told off for not ejecting it first.

The problem I have with the mouse is similar to a problem i had with my keyboard after a Jaguar update when I had to unplug the keyboard and plug it back in after restarting in order to get it to see the keyboard, but this didn't happen every time, it was intermittent and disappeared when I upgraded to Panther, since then no problems, until now...