We'll add more questions and answers as they come up and are answered, so check back. Feel free to add your own below, we might add them to this list on occasion. Please only post if you have an _answer_, too. Questions should be asked in our FlashChat (use the link in the forum menu) or in a separate thread. This one should provide _answers_. 
My Mac doesn't boot from the Tiger installation DVD. What can I do?
- Make sure your Mac meets the minimum requirements that are stated on the box or here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/ ...
- Insert the DVD, reboot and after the boot chime, hold down the "c" key until you're sure it's booting from the DVD.
Should I upgrade, archive & Install or clean install?
That depends.
- Many agree that a new version of the operating system like Tiger is one of the best times to start with a clean slate. That's also the most work, of course. It means backing up everything and to choose formatting your drive at installation time. After installation of the OS, install the third party (and Apple) software you have and lastly import your documents and settings - unless you want to get rid of them, too (which might be helpful if you had a lot of little problems with Jaguar or Panther).
- Archive & Install is almost as clean. It doesn't involve formatting your drive (is less thorough that way) but a lot easier to move the old files around (faster, too).
- To upgrade is the most simple thing. You simply upgrade - and off you go. Mail.app will take some time, btw., to import your E-Mails into the new format for Mail.app 2.0 once your installation is done. If you don't really want to clean install but are unsure, why not do the following: 1) Backup, 2) Upgrade and if all's well, that's it, if not - 3) Clean install.
Tiger uses much too much CPU power. Is this normal?
When you first install Tiger, Spotlight is indexing your harddrive(s). Whenever you attach a FW-drive, for example, Spotlight also does its job. In the first few hours (sometimes even days), Spotlight seems to eat a lot of CPU power for creating and adjusting its index(es). This is normal and gets better over time, until normal disk I/O operations are back to normal or even slightly faster. (Personal experience thing, I guess...)
Spotlight doesn't find everything?
Apart from it taking some time to display everything it finds (so you might have to, well, just wait a little longer, it could be that you're trying to find something that's on a FAT32 formatted (Windows) external drive. Those are <i>not</i> fully indexed by content/metadata, i.e. Spotlight will only find your search-terms in the filenames for those drives. There is not currently a solution to this (i.e. you won't be able to metadata-spotlight such a device). A workaround is to reformat the drive (make sure to back it up!) in Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format. But then you can't share the drive with PC users any longer.
Can't add a volume to the Spotlight Privacy area?
Then it's probably a FAT32 formatted volume. Read the entry above this one.
Why doesn't Dashboard show me the ripple effect?
Because your graphics card doesn't match the minimum requirements for Core Graphics and Core Video. There's really nothing you can do about it. But there are voices (including Fryke) who say they'd turn off the ripple effect on supported hardware if they could. So maybe you should simply be happy about it. At least concerning Dashboard.
Some application/utility/driver doesn't run or doesn't run well in Tiger. What now?
You go to www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com and check for the newest version of that particular application/utility/driver. Chances are that the developer has already done his/her task and prepared an updated version for use with Tiger. If not, bug him/her about it. Before that, you should check their website. Maybe they've already _announced_ a forthcoming update that's not available yet (and thus not on VT or MU).
We'll add more questions and answers as they come up and are answered, so check back. Feel free to add your own below, we might add them to this list on occasion. Please only post if you have an _answer_, too. Questions should be asked in our FlashChat (use the link in the forum menu) or in a separate thread. This one should provide _answers_.
My Mac doesn't boot from the Tiger installation DVD. What can I do?
- Make sure your Mac meets the minimum requirements that are stated on the box or here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/ ...
- Insert the DVD, reboot and after the boot chime, hold down the "c" key until you're sure it's booting from the DVD.
Should I upgrade, archive & Install or clean install?
That depends.
- Many agree that a new version of the operating system like Tiger is one of the best times to start with a clean slate. That's also the most work, of course. It means backing up everything and to choose formatting your drive at installation time. After installation of the OS, install the third party (and Apple) software you have and lastly import your documents and settings - unless you want to get rid of them, too (which might be helpful if you had a lot of little problems with Jaguar or Panther).
- Archive & Install is almost as clean. It doesn't involve formatting your drive (is less thorough that way) but a lot easier to move the old files around (faster, too).
- To upgrade is the most simple thing. You simply upgrade - and off you go. Mail.app will take some time, btw., to import your E-Mails into the new format for Mail.app 2.0 once your installation is done. If you don't really want to clean install but are unsure, why not do the following: 1) Backup, 2) Upgrade and if all's well, that's it, if not - 3) Clean install.
Tiger uses much too much CPU power. Is this normal?
When you first install Tiger, Spotlight is indexing your harddrive(s). Whenever you attach a FW-drive, for example, Spotlight also does its job. In the first few hours (sometimes even days), Spotlight seems to eat a lot of CPU power for creating and adjusting its index(es). This is normal and gets better over time, until normal disk I/O operations are back to normal or even slightly faster. (Personal experience thing, I guess...)
Spotlight doesn't find everything?
Apart from it taking some time to display everything it finds (so you might have to, well, just wait a little longer, it could be that you're trying to find something that's on a FAT32 formatted (Windows) external drive. Those are <i>not</i> fully indexed by content/metadata, i.e. Spotlight will only find your search-terms in the filenames for those drives. There is not currently a solution to this (i.e. you won't be able to metadata-spotlight such a device). A workaround is to reformat the drive (make sure to back it up!) in Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format. But then you can't share the drive with PC users any longer.
Can't add a volume to the Spotlight Privacy area?
Then it's probably a FAT32 formatted volume. Read the entry above this one.
Why doesn't Dashboard show me the ripple effect?
Because your graphics card doesn't match the minimum requirements for Core Graphics and Core Video. There's really nothing you can do about it. But there are voices (including Fryke) who say they'd turn off the ripple effect on supported hardware if they could. So maybe you should simply be happy about it. At least concerning Dashboard.
Some application/utility/driver doesn't run or doesn't run well in Tiger. What now?
You go to www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com and check for the newest version of that particular application/utility/driver. Chances are that the developer has already done his/her task and prepared an updated version for use with Tiger. If not, bug him/her about it. Before that, you should check their website. Maybe they've already _announced_ a forthcoming update that's not available yet (and thus not on VT or MU).
We'll add more questions and answers as they come up and are answered, so check back. Feel free to add your own below, we might add them to this list on occasion. Please only post if you have an _answer_, too. Questions should be asked in our FlashChat (use the link in the forum menu) or in a separate thread. This one should provide _answers_.
