In particular, users are having success with booting from their Mac OS X installation disc (by holding the 'C' key during startup with the disc inserted), then going to the 'Utilities' menu, selecting 'Disk Utility' and repairing the startup disk, as well as repairing permissions on the startup disk. If you are experiencing a similar issue, you may want to try some of the suggestions listed in this tutorial. Some users are then unable to successfully restart, even after re-attempting application of the update.

Startup will not proceed after update process fails Several users are running into an issue where Mac OS X 10.4.6 installation seems to proceed normally but stalls suddenly and presents an error message indicating that the update was placed in the trash, and the installer should be re-launched from the Finder. Re-apply combo updater In many cases, the solution for this issue is to re-apply the current combination updater ( PowerPC or Intel). This happens on some Mac models like the iMac G4/2GHz but not in others like the PowerMac G4/500MHz.'ĭisable then re-enable afflicted fonts Launch Font Book, located in the Applications folder, then disable and re-enable any fonts that are not available in applications after the update. 'Additionally, after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4.6, Word 2004 v.11.2.3 and earlier versions may give the message that many fonts are corrupt when trying to open a Word file (which actually do not contain such fonts at all). but there has still been some flakiness with fonts.' So i ran font book, which seemed to re-load the fonts somehow. I checked my user fonts folder and my fonts were still there.

'I had the same experience as your reader with only having the system-installed fonts available after the update. More on Font issues - fixes We continue to report on font issues that occur after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.6, particularly a problem where certain fonts appear to be missing (or turned off), or applications provide an error message indicating that fonts are corrupt.

You should generally operate your system with at least 10% of hard drive capacity free for memory swapping, temporary files and other purposes. Having less can result in a partial installation and other severe issues. Reminder: Have enough free drive space before installing Although Apple states that Mac OS X 10.4.6 installation requires only 430 MB of free space on the designated startup volume, make sure that you have at least 2.5 GB of free hard drive space before attempting the update.

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