I’m a web developer and photographer, and I’m moving to Leopard full-time after a week of testing on my PowerMac G5. My critical apps that work with 10.5:

• Aperture (update to 1.5.6)
• Coda 1.0.5
• BBEdit 6.5.3 (I know, 6.x is a dinosaur… but it’s a solid, capable dinosaur)
• Transmit 2.6.2
• Photoshop CS3
• Firefox 2 and various developer extensions

Have you moved to 10.5? Waiting for an app to be Leopardized?

Apple updated Aperture to version 1.5.6 on October 26th.

Besides stability tweaks and modifications to make Aperture work smoothly with OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, changes include compatibility improvements with iPhoto, iLife Media Browser and with reliability when recovering an Aperture Library from a Vault.

Run Software Update to get the update.

If you add a To Do item when offline, Mail.app might crash repeatedly when you go online, with no way out of the crashing loop (!).

I found the solution to this nasty Mail.app crash here.

Start Terminal application: it’s in Applications/Utitlities/ folder. In the following, do not type the quotes, just type what’s in the quotes.

Go to ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-email_address@mailserver/.OfflineCache like this

"cd ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-email_address@mailserver/.OfflineCache"

and list the contents like this

"ls -al"

Then delete all the files with numbers, like this

"rm 1"

WARNING: this worked for me. If you’re not comfortable with any of this, don’t do it. Back up the .OfflineCache folder first if you’re uncomfortable, but brave.

OS X 10.5 “Leopard” hits shelves at 6pm Friday, and expectations are high.

See our Official Leopard Hands On thread where we’ll talk about first impressions.

Vote in the Will You Buy Leopard? poll.

I’m interested in what the community will see as its best feature. Time Machine? Spaces? Let us know what you think.