Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

An anonymous reader writes "MacScoop reports that 'Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.' The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs almost half a gigabyte and should be available soon."

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Re:Service pack 3?

[TheRaven64]

huh? So you were a fan of file vault till they came out with time machine and then suddenly File vault is useless? Well, yes, since when I upgraded to 10.5 my File Vault home directory became inaccessible in 10.5 (although my 10.4 machine could still read it without problems) and I haven't wanted to try reactivating it yet because I'm not a huge fan of losing data. (Before you ask, yes I did file this as a bug report and it was marked as a duplicate).

So they have features that cannot be used together, big deal. File vault is mainly for laptops that risk exposure or shared machines in neither case is Time Machine going to be the preferred way of backing up the machine so it's not a big crossections of folks that needs both on one machine I'd say. Huh? File Vault is most useful to laptop users (i.e. most Mac users), since laptops are the most likely machines to be stolen. Time Machine is most useful to laptop users (i.e. most Mac users) since laptop drives are the most likely to fail (due to increased stresses from being bounced around) and most likely to be lost / stolen. How are these not overlapping sets?

Considering the number of people who have complained about File Vault losing data, people using File Vault are likely to be the ones most in need of a good backup solution.

The thing that most bugs me about this is that there is absolutely no reason for Time Machine to not work with File Vault. A correct implementation would keep an encrypted disk image on the backup device with the same password as the original, have hard links in the image for versioning inside the image and copy files in whenever you ran the backup utility, just as it does on the main filesystem with unencrypted images. Then you would have to either have your password or the file vault master password in order to run the backup, which seems completely understandable.