Evernote on Snow Leopard (Updated)

Product updates | 31 Aug 200931 Aug 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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UPDATE We’ve put together a release candidate of the upcoming Evernote for Mac version 1.4.9, which should fix many of the Snow Leopard issues mentioned below. Please be aware that this is not the final release, so you may encounter bugs and other issues. We plan to release the final patch through our normal autoupdate system next week.

Release candidate installation

Quit Evernote (if you have it running)
Go to you Applications folder and drag Evernote into trash
Download and install the release candidate

We’re really excited about Apple’s Snow Leopard release (OS 10.6). It’ll help make future versions of both Evernote for Mac and Evernote for iPhone much more powerful. The current version of Evernote for Mac runs well on Snow Leopard, though we (and you) have identified some issues. We’re working on an update that will be out soon. In the meantime, here are some workarounds.

Safari Clipper

Problem: Safari Clipper doesn’t clip when running Safari in “64-bit mode”
Workaround : Switch your Safari to 32-bit mode by locating Safari.app in your Applications folder, select it, then right-click and choose Get Info (or use Cmd+I) to open the Information panel. Click the “Open in 32-bit mode” checkbox as shown in the screenshot below.

safari

iSight Note

Problem: iSight Note doesn’t save the picture
Workaround: Take the photo using Photobooth and drag it into Evernote

Quick Look

Problem: Quick look for file attachments doesn’t display a preview
Workaround: Double click the file to launch it.

Firefox Clipper

Problem: If you have Evernote for Mac installed, the Firefox clipper sends clipped pages to the web first, instead of sending them to Evernote on your desktop.
Workaround: No workaround for this one. You are still clipping the page, it just goes to the web first. We’re working on a fix to bring back the old functionality.

We’re also investigating a few reports related to synchronization and Spotlight.

A fix will be available soon. In the interim, please use these workarounds.

ABarkaloff

I’ve only had CPU usage problems with Evernote in Snow Leopard. I also missed the elegant clipper and in Snow Leopard both Firefox and Safari had the less robust web clipper. BUT here’s what I did — I used Firefox with Rosetta. When I restarted Firefox I was told there was an update for Evernote webclipper (this update was not there in 64-bit mode). I installed the update, exited Firefox and then switched Firefox again to 64-bit mode by unchecking Rosetta). Wow, it works like the old Leopard installation again.

As for Safari, just run in 32-bit mode. Safari 64-bit keeps crashing anyways. The clipper works well in that mode.
John

I downloaded the release candidate, and it still won’t sync. It’s a disaster for me. I rely on Evernote for my work and now it’s busted!

This is the error:
Evernote is unable to connect with the Evernote Service. This may be due to a network problem or service maintenance. Please try again later. If enabled, automatic synchronization will resume once the Service becomes available.
http://www.anttitahtinen.com Antti

Did the release of the Snow Leopard come as a surprise to the Evernote Developers or what? I thought Apple always gives beta versions for the developers to play with, wouldn’t this allow you to prepare for the bugs and such? Why didn’t you?

(Not to be mean, I’m really curious – how come you guys are totally unprepared? Is it because Apple doesn’t give the developer versions to everyone or why?)
http://esgetology.com Christopher Esget

Snow Leopard beta working great for me. Thanks for a great product!
Philip Hayes

I hope Evernote takes the opportunity to capitalize on Snow Leopards new Services Architecture. I don’t see any talk about it yet.
CBarnes

Latest release still hangs on sync for me every time. I have to force quit. (Snow Leopard)
Carol

why don’t all my folder for Evernote show up on my iphone? Any help out there?
GW

Keeps hanging on me too, I eventually installed an older version to start using it again and ignore the sync issues for now. It keeps saying

- The note XXX could not be synced. The content is not valid

Now I add the tag synissue to each new item and refrain from editing old items

Hope this doesn’t take too long to fix!
- Adam
  
  the note was just fine, then i added 4 more text lines on top. and since then i have the same synch problem message “The content is not valid”
  
  and if i copy the content of the note to a new note under different name. then it also will bring the same synch error message.
GW

Just installed Evernote_57356.dmg which delivers Version 1.4.9 (57356). This one works! Got 2 machines with Evernote & Snow Leopard, some files which I created with the wrong version gave sync errors, deleted them and imported the content again with text edit, it’s working now!
oliver

With OSX “Find in evernote” on menu bar circumnavigates login screen (you can just move it out of way) with full access to everything – please can you make more secure?

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