A couple of users over at the Apple discussion boards came up with something that works. Based on what they did, here is what worked for me on several computers:

1. Quit Mail.app
2. Rename the Mail folder at Users/Library to something like MailX
3. Start Mail.app (Appears to rebuild the accounts)
4. Close Mail
5. Restart Mail.app (Appears to re download and sync the directory structure and messages)

ENJOY!

===============UPDATE 10/29/2007 @ 23:15================

Matt Baker of Galaxy Design Pty Ltd reports another possible fix

“I have just deleted the Rules left over from Mail 2.0 and the IMAP is all working.

All of the mail in the folders that were not showing up are there now. Woohoo!!!”

by: Philip Hayes

Ok….  where do I start?

I spent several hours on Saturday waiting for support. Here’s how it went.  After an hour and half of initial waiting, I spoke to a Level 1 Support Technician.  After 15 minutes, I was immediately escalated to a Level 2 Support Technician.  After waiting an additional 30 minutes for Level 2 to pick-up, I got disconnected. So I waited for another hour for Level 1 to pick up again, just so I could be connected to Level 2… again!

Yawn!

Eventually, I did get through to a Level 2 Tech who was awesome, even if he wouldn’t volunteer any inside info about the problem.

He did take all my information and forwarded it to an engineer.  It included info about my OS and the type of IMAP Server I was trying to connect to.  Unfortunately, he could not give me any more information other than that “they are working on it”.   But he did give me his email and told me that if I didn’t hear back from him within 5 days, to give him a call or email him.

Today… 10/29/2007…

The Level 2 Support Technician called me back and asked if I could help by sending some information about my system.  Of course, I was more than willing to do that! I want this thing FIXED!

We spent an hour in a Terminal window and a special Apple utility that does many different things.  Of course… errors were being thrown all over the place so he he didn’t get everything he wanted from me…. at least not initially.   Although he hung up with me, I’m still working on getting him the info he requested.  I’m trying to get him the info from any of  my four computers I upgraded to Leopard.

At least they are “working on it” .

by: Philip Hayes

HOW TO GET MYSQL RUNNING AGAIN AFTER UPGRADING TO LEOPARD

It appears that the MySQL Preference Pane will not work properly in Leopard.  To get MYSQL to start, you need to do the following (info I found from several other websites).

1. Start MySQL in a terminal window with the following command:
   sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld
2. Open a new terminal window (Command-N). Type the following:
   sudo mkdir /var/mysql/
3. Create a symbolic link to point the default socket file:
   sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

WHAT TO DO IF YOU NEED TO DO COLDFUSION PROGRAMMING AND YOU UPGRADED TO LEOPARD

It appears that ColdFusion 8 is incompatible with the latest version of Apache which is part of Leopard.  As of now, there is no fix or indication from Adobe as to when (if ever) a hotfix will be available.

According to one web report I read, “it appears that ADC (Apple Developer Connection) developers who have been getting Leopard seeds prior to its release have known about the problem since August.”

If you upgraded to Leopard and need to do ColdFusion development, you may want to consider running ColdFusion under Windows, using either Parallels Desktop or VMWare’s Fusion. I prefer the VMWare product for speed reasons, but either will work.  Doing it this way will also give you access to SQL Server and Internet Explorer for browser compatibility testing.

Good luck!

by: Philip Hayes

Before you upgrade, you may want to consider who or what server is used to host your IMAP email. It appears that the new Apple Mail in Leopard is initially incompatible with mDaemon’s IMAP service. If you upgrade your Mac, you will see all your folders and downloaded preview emails, but it will NOT pick-up any new email. If you do a clean install, it will download the folders within each account, but no messages appear in Mail.app.

On The Apple Discussion Forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5647673&tstart=0

Since I did not recognize the issue right away and upgraded all my Macs (as all looked well when I saw my emails in the upgraded machine), I have at least temporarily switched to using Mozilla’s Thunderbird. Thunderbird is FREE and seems to work just fine with mDaemon.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

If I had known or seen the issue during the first machine upgrade, I would not have upgraded to Leopard. Of all things to go wrong, this is the worst case scenario for me!�

by: Philip Hayes

As we count down the final hours to the long awaited release of OS X 10.5 Leopard perhaps given the news I wrote about last evening regarding FileMaker (FileMaker’s Not Leopard Compatible? What the Heck?) we should all exercise some caution and critical judgment as we get ready to go.

Earlier today MacFixIt.com published a great article entitled Philosophical and practical notes on installing Leopard that is well worth the time to read and will help you get your upgrade plan in order.

by: Jerrald Hayes

MacWorld published a story today FileMaker not compatible with Mac OS X Leopard . That’s certainly not anything I was looking forward to hearing.

However when checking the link in the story about ‘…a support note posted to FileMaker’s Web site’ that was reported to say:

“We are currently working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. At this time FileMaker does not recommend the use of FileMaker 9 products on computers running Mac OS X Leopard,”

….I found that the link to that note was a dead end. That support note was gone and when I searched the FM site for Leopard news I found this Knowledge Base article instead, FileMaker Products and Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) , that then read:

"We continue to test FileMaker 9 products under Leopard. We will have a compatibility announcement when Leopard is released October 26th.

If you would like to be notified when we have additional information, please select the button below.

For notification of FileMaker patches and updates, and other important news, please subscribe to FileMaker News. "

The second statement seems a lot tamer than the first one reported and I guess we’ll only know tomorrow just what the real story is.

I recall a while back that FileMaker 8.5 had Windows Vista issues and an earlier version I don’t recall which had issues for a while with XP and FileMaker Inc. didn’t recommend FM use on Windows machines when they first came out my own testing at the time found the issues weren’t fatal. They we’re just ugly and/or really inconvenient. Still I wouldn’t trust any mission critical applications to run on Leopard until we get the good word from Apple and FileMaker.

Given that FileMaker, Inc. is owned by Apple, Inc. you have to wonder just how did this kind of glitch end up happening?

by: Jerrald Hayes

Justin Long, The Mac Guy, was born June 2, 1978 in Fairfeild, CT. Besides being “The Mac Guy” for all those Apple commercials, he is also known for his performances in the films Jeepers Creepers, Waiting…, Accepted, Dodgeball, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Live Free or Die Hard, and the TV series Ed.

Justin’s mother, Wendy Lesniak, is an actress who has mostly appeared on stage in NYC. His father, R. James Long, is a philosophy teacher at Fairfield University, in Fairfield, CT. He has two brothers: an older brother, Damian, who is a high school English teacher and a local stage actor, and a younger brother, Christian, who appears in the movie Accepted as the Sandwich Mascot. In his younger years, Justin attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school in Fairfield, CT where he was given the “Most Likely Not To Be Seen In Class” superlative. He later attended Vassar College. Before leaving, he worked at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut as an acting instructor/counseler for a children’s theatre group.

PC & Mac Guy

Some websites report that justin is private about his personal life and does not make a point of attending nightclubs and parties. But, his pictures on his personal website seem to show something else. Looks like the kind of guy I’d like to hang out with. Anyway, you may on occasion see him around town visiting. Say hi, if you do.Justin’s Web Site: http://www.justinlong.net

by: Philip Hayes

Do you need to do any of the following on a regular basis?

• Use different email signatures?
• Easily insert a customized signature with a few keystrokes.
• Need easy access to boilerplate paragraphs or filler text (i.e. form letters, thank you paragraphs, latin, greek, etc)?
• Correct certain words that you consistently seem to mis-type?
• Fill out the same information in form, after form, after form?
• If you are a web developer, do you need to add commonly used code quickly and easily

Text Expander Preference PaneWell… with TextExpander 2.0, you can do all that and more:

• For email signatures, make it easy on yourself by adding your address, email, phone and fax numbers to your snippet library.
• For boiler plate paragraphs, simply add them to your snippet library and insert them into your emails and contracts by typing a short abbreviation.
• Add common typos as triggers and TextExpander automatically replaces them with the correct spelling. TextExpander offers an AutoCorrect Snippet File with over 100 common misspellings!

TexExpander could quite possibly be the best productivity tool for the Mac ever created. I can’t live without it!

Made By: Smile On My MacWebsite: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/Trial Download: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/download.htmlCost: $29.95

by: Philip Hayes

I can remember from way back in my pre-OS X days (Systems 7, 8, & 9) how perhaps the most important utility and add-on to my system was a program from Now software that was part of the Now Utilities group called Boomerang and eventually Super Boomerang.

When I moved on to OSX it was one thing I really did miss however after a few months without it I found a replacement in a program from St. Clair Software called Default Folder X.

What was I missing and what do I get from DFX? DFX is an application that takes the OS X save and open dialogs and adds features to them that improves and enhance your navigation through all the places your computer has access to for file storage. The first or primary thing that the program does is it installs a toolbar to the open and save dialogs that puts the folders you commonly use or want to specify within easy one click access.

• The Utility button, the first of 5 buttons on the toolbar, allows you to assign a default ’save’ folder for any applications you have and also rename, move, archive, and delete files from within the save and open dialogs.
• The Computer button allows you to navigate through your mounted volumes via hierarchical menus.
• The Favorites button allows the user to create and navigate through a list of favorite places on their Mac to save and/or open files from.
• The Recents button, probably my favorite and most commonly used button, just as the name implies can contain up to 100 of your recent folder locations organized by date or name.
• And the Finder button will give you a list of all the open Finder windows you may have at any one time.

One that I don’t use much but that I know a lot of other do is the program can be set in the Preferences to show you how much available disk space you have in your open volumes too.

You can also assign shortcuts to actions and save/open locations you commonly use and create different sets of Favorites for different projects and task that you do. And there is still much more that the application can do that I haven’t mentioned here.

In short and in conclusion it a very easy to learn ‘enhanced productivity tool’ and well worth the $34.95 shareware fee.

Made By: St. Clair Software
Website: http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/
Trial Download: http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/
Cost: $34.95

by: Jerrald Hayes

Justine Ezarik (see Justine Ezarik [dot] com , iJustine - Live Video - Justin.tv & Justine Ezarik - Wikipedia ) is something of a modern self-designed pop marketing phenomena. Some of us have recognized and known her for a short while from her appearances on MacBreak Weekly . But she is perhaps best known to most of the world for her appearance in this self produced whimsical video criticizing the early method of the Apple IPhone billing process.

by: Jerrald Hayes