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Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files
Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files
A handful of recent threads on Apple's Support Discussion forums - backed up by our own testing - indicate that Snow Leopard suffers from a bug that prevents users from opening multiple recently downloaded files simultaneously. Upon attempting to open a group of downloaded files (that have not ...
A Finder-Copying Bug in Snow Leopard
A Finder-Copying Bug in Snow Leopard
db.tidbits.com — Here's a bug in Snow Leopard that I've isolated. I haven't seen it reported elsewhere (not in... precisely this form, at least), so I'll describe it and let you reproduce it for yourself. You'll need two computers, one of them running Snow Leopard. Preparation. Let's call the machines A and B. ... (more) A Finder-Copying Bug in Snow Leopard
Support - Discussions - Bug in Preview in Snow Leopard when ...
discussions.apple.com — I receive 50-200 pdf files by e-mail each day. I have historically saved the pdf attachments to... a folder, then selected all the pdf files in the folder (CMD A), then opened all the selected files in Preview (CMD O). After updating to Snow Leopard, ... (more) Support - Discussions - Bug in Preview in Snow Leopard ...
Opening Multiple Images
forums.macosxhints.com — Ok ... I've figured it out. My image files were "quarantined". I figured that there must be... some kind of permission issue so I did a long listing and got many files that looked like this: So I did some research and found out that the '@' sign at the ... (more) Opening Multiple Images
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Snow Leopard quirk prevents opening groups of recently downloaded files
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Reports of an odd bug affecting downloaded files in Snow Leopard have been circulating Apple's discussion boards recently. As reported by TidBITS, the issue appears to be affecting all computers running Snow Leopard. ...

Snow Leopard: Trouble opening groups of downloaded files
MacFixIt — Users are reporting a bug in Snow Leopard 's Finder that prevents groups of files that have been recently downloaded from being opened at the same time. In a real world scenario this could include downloading multiple images for use in design work or multiple video elements for use in film work, etc. This bug requires users to open each file individually, a limitation that can severely disrupt certain workflows. After testing these reports on my machine, I was not able to reproduce the problem. However, the issues on the forums ( 2 , 3 ) seem ...

Mac OS X 10.6.2 Addresses Myriad Bugs and Security Issues
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... You can now open multiple files reliably, a problem we covered in "Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files," 3 November 2009. ...

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