AOL Desktop for Mac Beta 18 Released
Posted Jun 8th 2008 9:30PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: Beta News, AOL Desktop for Mac
We're Listening to Our Users!
The whole Mac team reviews comments from the Feedback button and posts on the AOL Mac Message Boards. We have addressed the top issues reported by our customers and we released AOL Desktop for Mac Beta 18 on the AOL Beta Central site.
If you're using the GM 1.0 version and haven't participated in a Beta program in the past, please wait until we release AOL Desktop for Mac 1.1 in the very near future!
Fixed Issues for Beta 17/18
- Fixed mail performance issues. Now, mailboxes with hundreds of messages (or even thousands) are synched on first run without slowing the system
- Fixed mail display issues with incorrect content
- Fixed Address Book issues that may have not properly switched to the correct screen name when syncing
- Fixed Address Book sync failures which resulted in no contacts
- Address Book sort by last name has been added to this release
- Fixed sorting in Address Book when clicking the column headers
- Fixed sporadic Leopard crash when clicking mailto: links
- Fixed Mac OS X 10.5.3 issues with Buddy List search
- Fixed Mac OS X 10.5.3 issues that may have caused a crash in AIM
- Fixed performance for auto-complete for AIM when user has a large Address Book
Note to Beta Users: If you are running the AOL Desktop for Mac released version, we are now separating the Application Support folders for Beta and GM releases. If you have imported or saved mail using a pre-Beta 16, you will need to move the mail folder (in the ~/Library/Application Support/AOL Desktop/Users) to the new AOL Desktop Beta folder. The GM (released version) saves all application support files in the AOL Desktop folder, Beta 17 and 18 save all data in AOL Desktop Beta folder.
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Welcome to the Mac@AOL Blog. My name is Lee Givens and I'm the Product Lead for the Mac products at AOL. You can find the latest information on AOL's software development on the Mac and any cool happenings at AOL. The purpose of the blog is to create a feedback loop so we can hear from our loyal AOL Mac users. Managing a blog is a lot of work, so I enlisted support from the whole team...the Mac team is made up of dedicated Macintosh developers, QA engineers and Product folks.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Thanks VERY much for the updates. I'd like to see the following in the mac version SOON.
When I reply to an email is there a way to put my signature above the copied text of the reply & under the cursor where I'll type my message? It's done this way in the online and Windows versions.
Also Please, please place copy in saved mail you've sent when replying to an incoming email. Again the windows version operates this way and has saved my skin many times.
These are among the very few reasons for me to stick with aol.
Thanks for working hard on these many issues and bringing us great service.
John
Posted at 12:15PM on Jun 10th 2008 by John
2. Thank you for fixing all the problems with mail! I thought I was going crazy when I opened an email from one person to find the content from another person! Plus the system would get so slow I could type an entire email without a single thing appearing on the screen until I was almost done!
Posted at 6:55PM on Jun 10th 2008 by Noirin
3. Has there been any movement on converting .pfc's from windows AOL to MAC AOL Desktop?
Posted at 11:41AM on Jun 11th 2008 by Joe
4. Having problems with downloading the new beta 18
Posted at 10:22AM on Jun 12th 2008 by Jenna