Rush Limbaugh wants Apple to fix several Leopard bugs
- February 15th, 2008
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Rush Limbaugh needs your help, Apple. He can’t get Back to My Mac or Time Machine to work properly.
The radio talk show host spent some time on his show recently pleading with Apple to fix certain problems introduced with Leopard. For one, Time Machine, the automated backup app, doesn’t work with Limbaugh’s Mail.app. (Limbaugh says he “lives” in Mail.app, partly because his hearing problem prevents him from adequately using the telephone.) Why can’t he go back in time to find an e-mail he accidentally deleted?
Secondly, Back to My Mac isn’t bringing Limbaugh any closer to his Macs. He’s got six of them and only one is properly working with the .Mac service; Limbaugh says all six Macs are identical. A feature not a bug?
Limbaugh’s politics aside, this news should be welcomed by Mac users. What could be better than to have a high-profile individual draw attention to software bugs in hopes of getting them fixed, hopefully with the next point release? (10.5.2 was released earlier this week.)
I don’t use either .Mac, and by extension Back to My Mac, nor do I use Time Machine, so I can’t say that I’ve replicated these problems. But numerous message boards and forums I’ve visited at least show that the problems Rush is having aren’t invented.
Now let’s see if Apple responds.
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mathew (Who am I?)
4 months ago
“Why can’t he go back in time to find an e-mail he accidentally deleted?”
Because he’s a retarded idiot? It works perfectly fine for me. While I’m in Mail I click the Time Machine icon, and I can go back and see how my mail folders were at any point in history.
John Q Public (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Let the fat bastich swing in the wind.
Ewan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Rush is not alone.
I just bought a new faster hard disk for my MBP. Initially I just copied everything over with Super Duper - but then Time Machine wanted to start a whole new backup of everything (no incremental backup) which was distressing.
So - I booted off DVD and did a full Time Machine restore. You know what - Time Machine STILL does not recognise the newly restored disk as its own, does a deep inspection of every file and wants to do a complete backup again.
But worse than this - Apple Mail needs to rebuild the index of every mail folder. I have 110,000 emails and Mail crashes every time at about email 250 or so. So Time Machine can NOT restore an Apple Mail system and I think that is what Rush is (rightly) raising a stink about.
Why must people who don’t know what they are talking about assume a man who runs 4 Mac Pros must be a ‘Retarded idiot’? I challenge matthew to get TM to continue backing up next time he upgrades his mac…