TinkerTool System Release 2
Known Issues
There are currently no known issues for this product.
Release Notes
When removing language support packages from software components, the presence of more than one package for the same language will cause removal of one package only: Some specific software components shipped as part of Mac OS X Leopard may contain a subtle packaging error regarding their support for different languages. In this particular case, a software product comes with more than one language package for exactly the same language variant. For example, an application could contain two packages to support the Japanese language, one with the label “Japanese”, the other with the ISO 631 language code “ja”. In this case, neither Mac OS X nor TinkerTool System can decide which package is the correct one when the user wishes to remove Japanese language support. TinkerTool System will automatically select one of the affected packages and remove it, but not the extra ones. Typically, some communication drivers for EPSON® printers, the EPSON EPI Jet Printer Driver Library Version 2 (EPIJPrDrvLib2), and the Java Applet Launcher show this type of packaging problem.
Workaround: Run a second pass of the language removal procedure for the affected components. The excess packages will be removed as well.
The report of the weekly periodic task may show an error message for “sort“ when updating the locate database: When running the operating system's maintenance scripts for weekly tasks via TinkerTool System, the error message “sort: fflush failed: standard output: Broken pipe sort: write error” may be recorded in the report while updating the search database for the command-line program locate. This only affects Mac OS X 10.5, not 10.6.
Workaround: In specific call situations, a sort operation of the locate database update script will fail due to problems with the environment for temporary files. The locate command should work nevertheless. Not only Mac OS X, but other Unix systems are affected by this problem as well. Upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard if possible to avoid this problem.
In specific versions of Mac OS X Leopard, the Network pane in System Preferences will not correctly reflect the MTU settings for network interfaces: After you have used the System > Network feature of TinkerTool System to change the MTU setting of a network interface and you have made your change permanent, the user interface of System Preferences (via Network > Advanced > Ethernet > Configure: Manually > MTU) might still show the old default value, not the current value for the MTU setting.
Workaround: This is a known defect of the System Preferences application in Mac OS X 10.5. The display won't even be correct when you save a new MTU value in System Preferences itself and then restart the application. You should not trust the display in System Preferences. Always use TinkerTool System to display and modify the true MTU setting. Alternatively, upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard if possible to avoid this problem.
Inheritance settings in Access Control Lists might be ignored when creating document-like files via an application on the graphical user interface: If you have defined an Access Control Entry for a folder and this entry uses one of the ACL inheritance features, the settings will be inherited correctly onto new files created in that folder when a low-level program, for example a command-line utility, is used to create the files. However, the inheritance will fail when a high-level application using the typical document features of Mac OS X is used to create the files.
Workaround: This is a known defect in all current versions of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. Although this is a serious, security-relevant problem, it is currently unknown when Apple will fix this bug. No workaround is known.
The system does not keep a print job history, even if the setting System > Miscellaneous > Keep print job history in the Mac OS X printing system is switched on: The operating system might fail to store the history of print jobs, no matter how you set the respective preference of the printing subsystem via TinkerTool System.
Workaround: This is a known defect of Mac OS X 10.5.7.
Upgrade to a later operating system version to fix this.