I use Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for all my work tasks. I do, in general, love it, but as with all applications or OSes, its got some bugs and idiosyncrasies.
I noticed after upgrading to Leopard, OS X stopped automatically attaching to wireless networks I’ve logged into before, and said ‘remember this network’. I loved that behavior as I could just turn on airport at work or at home, and connect up to the wireless. I tried creating new connection profiles, clearing those items out of my keychain, etc etc, to no avail.
I then read this article on macnn forums. I would link to the specific post if their forums let me, but down near the bottom, a little nugget of info finally caught my eye. If you’ve moved your System Preferences.app file out of Applications (like, into a subfolder like Utilities), none of the wireless network saving works right. So, follow the instructions by moving System Preferences.app to /Applications directly – delete all your current saved networks, check the keychain and remove any networks from there too, reboot, and join a new network and save it. You’ll be able to reconnect automatically from now on.
I guess this is what I get for being a organization freak – I’ve got all my apps compartmentalized into folders cause I hate having to scroll thorugh lists of apps (I do the same thing on my windows machine too).
The other thing I was dealing with was Entourage. Entourage (even 2008 with the latest service packs) doesn’t have an autoarchive function like Outlook does. This makes the Exchange overlords unhappy and they start locking your account for going over the storage limit. On Tiger and Entourage 2004, I was using the autoarchive applescript from the Entourage Help Page on mvps.org. It worked all fine and dandy until I upgraded.
This autoarchive applescript file is based on that script, but updated to work properly with Leopard and Entourage 2008. It is set up the exact same way as the script from mvps.org (Drop it on your machine (~/Library/Scripts seems to be a good place), add a schedule in Entourage to run that applescript). Be aware, it does use the Spotlight search feature – so if you get errors about missing messages, be sure to run the ‘Rebuild’ from the Entourage->Preferences->Spotlight menu. If you want to configure the number of days it archives back from (it’s currently set at 15 days), you can edit the scpt file and recompile.
Hopefully that helps some people.
