The much anticiapted upgrade to OS X hasn’t gone so well. We spent a week testing one machine with all our RIPs, printers and other devices and most seemed fine. With the one or two that wasn’t ok we found a workaround anyway so off we went and upgraded the whole studio. Then things went badly wrong.
We run a Windows 2003 RAID server and the OS X finder seems to have a problem seeing files we’ve just updated, the result being that we have to wait a few minuites for the server to update before we can use the file on OS X. For the first couple of days we couldn’t figure out why the files we were dropping onto the imposition program weren’t the updated ones. Then there are the odd things to do with filename lengths.
There also seems to be an issue with postscripts made in Quark 6 and 6.5 but lets not go there.
Generally while we were able to do things at a fast pace with Mac OS9 and the server we’re now having to wait for OS X to agree with the server on what’s there before we progress with any job. Oh and sometimes doing “save as…” in Quark 6 will make some of the images disappear. I could go on but I’d rather spend the time doing something constructive but needless to say we’re not happy.
Oh joy.
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