[X4U] Re: Updating to 10.4.2: yes or no? Mixed feeelings

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 2 09:22:25 PDT 2005


On 8/1/05 5:27 PM, George Harvey <gwil3 at charter.net> wrote:

> Eddie Hargreaves has good advice, and I  agree with him. However, whether you
> should upgrade depends on what  you have to use it for. I use 10.4.2 for about
> 80 percent of my work,  but I found Spotlight to be serious drawback when
> doing many searches  during the day on disks with large numbers of files.

I just want to clarify that my advice for updating to 10.4.2 applies only to
those who are using 10.4 or 10.4.1. If you are currently using Panther and
find it works well for you, I cannot recommend upgrading to 10.4. Spotlight
has made it *harder* to find things on my computer, not easier.





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