Anyone finding it the mac completely freezes with the new lion software?

have just converted from PC and downloaded the new OS X Lion.. anyone finding it freezing quite frequently?

Try running disk utility on your hard drive to verify/repair also repair the permissions.

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HT1338 I own the Mac Pro Desktop with the older OS X 10.5.8. Can I upgrade to a newer version?

I own the Mac Pro Desktop with the older OS X 10.5.8. Can I upgrade to a newer version? Will it affect my docs etc currently stored on hard drive's? How much will this cost?

If you have a 2006 or 2007 model you can upgrade it to Lion - 10.7.x. If it's a 2008 or later model you can upgrade to the current version of Mountain Lion. Doing so requires Snow Leopard 10.6.8:
Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion
You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard — Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
     Snow Leopard General Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
       2. 1GB of memory
       3. 5GB of available disk space
       4. DVD drive for installation
       5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
           fees may apply.
       6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
           terms apply.
Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service — this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
     Lion System Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
           or Xeon processor
       2. 2GB of memory
       3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
       4. 7GB of available space
       5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
     OS X Mountain Lion — System Requirements
       Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 7,1 or later
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) —
             Model Identifier 5,1 or later
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 2,1 or later
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         7. Xserve (Early 2009) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table — RoaringApps.
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Back up your current system to an external drive or to an available internal drive by making a bootable clone:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

I just purchased the Mac Mini Server with the intention of replacing Lion Server with Lion for the first hard drive while installing Windows 7 thru Bootcamp on the second hard drive. Is it possible for me to do this? Thanks.

I just purchased the Mac Mini Server with the intention of replacing Lion Server with Lion for the first hard drive while installing Windows 7 thru Bootcamp on the second hard drive. Is it possible for me to do this? Thanks.

I would use Parallels or VMWare and use the second drive to hold the virtual machine. That way the VM only uses the space that it needs and you can still use the remainder of the drive for other things, not to mention that you would not need to reboot to run windows.
Also Time Machine does not back up a boot camp partition.

Is it possible to have the lid open on a MacBook Pro connected to a Cinema Display and have the Mac display blank with the Cinema in highest definition?

Is it possible to have the lid open on a MacBook Pro connected to a Cinema Display and have the Mac display blank with the Cinema in highest definition?

Hi,
Create a play list that you wish to burn. Select playlist, the file from main menu which gives to an option to burn the playlist. A pop up box appears allowing you to select burn speed and disc format.
Jim

Hello I have a 24-inch iMac 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with OS X Leopard 10.5.8. Is the Mac I kompaktibel with the new OS X Lion Mountain? Thanks for the answer. E.Monti

Hello I have a 24-inch iMac 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with OS X Leopard 10.5.8. Is the Mac I kompaktibel with the new OS X Lion Mountain? Thanks for the answer. E.Monti

Hi,
This is the compatibility list
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
if your iMac is mid2007 or newer - yes.
You will need to upgrade to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) first buy DVD from online apple store
Then to 10.7 Lion - buy and download via Store App included in SL
and then 10.8 Mountain Lion upgrade the same steps as Lion

Why I cannot show what I am playing on my Mac on my TV? The Mac has connected with the TV

My product: Mac Pro.Retina, OS X Version 10.9.5
                    Processor-2.3GH Intel Corei7
                    Memory 16GB 1600MHz DDR3
                    Graphics NVIDIAGeForceGT750M2048MB
                    Serial No. C02MK36VFD57
                    Software OS X 10.9.5(13F34)
The Mac has connected with my TV but my TV shows: no message!
I used this method to show my playing videos from the Mac to this TV before but it cannot work now. I'd love to know how come.
please tell me where the problem is.
Thank you very much!

Hi Isaiah,
Your set up is not completely clear to me, in particular what kind of TV you have and how it connects to your MacBook Pro, but this article may give you some help with getting your computer to work with your TV for video -
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Is normal in the mac book pro with the retina make fan noise al the time ?

Is normal that the new macbook pro with retina make fan noise all the time?

Hi everyone.
I just bought an mac book pro retina , 15 inches , 2 GHz, Core i7, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. I'm a programmer , so, I really don't give to the mac book an exhaustive use, so the performance of the machine is good for me. But recently , I discovery some kind of issue : a noise fan when I reproduce a video from Internet, in full screen mode.
I download the iStatus Menus program for mac, to has a complete dashboard of the situation , and I got this :
1) When recently start the mac book, the statistics are
All in order, the revolutions of the fan are OK, no fan noise at all.
But , just opened a video in full screen , a few seconds after opened start it, the machine increase the temperature from (normal) 40° to 98° (so high), and the statistics change dramatically , as follow :
As you can see, the fan revolution increase 3x , from 2000 to 6000 . The use of Google Helper increase over 200% . And obviously the noise fan make me crazy,
I've only seen this "issue" on that scenario, ( internet video full screen reproduction ). That's not happen , even when many applications are open.
Should I worry about this ?, or, this is a normal behaviour on the machine ?.
I'll appreciate any advice or answer.
Kindly regards.

TS3477 How can I view movies, pictures, etc from Mac Book Pro (bought in he States) on a Sony TV(in Europe). Do you have change the settings on the Mac to comply with the european TV ?

I have a Mac book pro ( 7,1 version ) bought in the US and want to see some videos, pictures and movies on a Sony TV with HDMI connection (in Europe).
When connecting both the pc and the tv, I get on the tv the opening screen of a mac book pro but although a movie is playing on the pc it does not show on the tv. Do I have to change something in the displays on the system preference screen ?
Thanks for helping out.

By 'opening screen' do you mean the spiral galaxy desktop? If so, then, with the TV connected to the MBP, open System Preferences ➜ Displays ➜ Arrangement. You will see an image of two screens. At the top of the smaller of the two screens in the image is a small bar, this represents the menu bar at the top of your display. Drag this small bar to the top of the larger of the two screens in the image. The menu bar and dock will now appear on the TV which is now the primary display and all the action will take place there.

Putting the Mac to sleep with the remote

One of the recent Mac tips involved using the remote with Keynote to put the MBP to sleep.
Well, being curious, I decided to see if it worked outside Keynote, and it does!
Just press the large round button in the center of your remote and hold it.
Within a very short time an interesting "snooze" icon appears in the center of the screen and then the MBP enters into the arms of Morpheus.
I have never seen this icon before - it is a graphic representation of the remote itself!
Pressing any button on the remote reawakens the computer.

I have been using the remote as a volume control since I got my first MBP, but I just found out about this sleep thing yesterday.
I have one of those RadioShack IR extender systems around the house so I can control my sound system and TV, but it also works with the Mac remote, so I can turn the volume up or down from another room, which is convenient when using the AirPort express WiFi unit to drive remote speakers in another room.
Now, I can remotely put the MBP to sleep.
As an interesting prank, I can take the remote with me when I visit friends with MBPs and put their computers to sleep on them, since few know that it's possible with the remote.

Hi-- the mac keeps freezing. The log refers to LS Service failure, copied below. Any assistance will be most appreciated. Thanks

Apple System Log (ASL) Messages:
Source:          /var/log/asl
Size:          131 KB (131,261 bytes)
Last Modified:          9/30/13 9:49 PM
Recent Contents:          ...
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 com.apple.launchd[1]: Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 com.apple.launchd[1]: Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2013-09-30 21:45:36 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: Saved crash report for avgnotifyd[249] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/avgnotifyd_2013-09-30-214536_Oded-Kadoshs-MacBo ok-Air.crash
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 com.apple.launchd[1]: Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 com.apple.launchd[1]: Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2013-09-30 21:45:37 -0400 ReportCrash[250]: Saved crash report for avgconfigd[251] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/avgconfigd_2013-09-30-214537_Oded-Kadoshs-MacBo ok-Air.crash

Back up all data, then remove AVG Internet Security/Antivirus according to the developer's instructions. You may have to boot in safe mode in order to complete the uninstallation. Reboot and test.

Web pages don't fill the screen completely and with the font settings on 16 or larger the links and letters/words overlay making it difficult to read.

Web pages don't fill the entire monitor screen and words overlay

You can use an extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.
*Default FullZoom Level: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-fullzoom-level/
*NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/
If you have increased the minimum font size then try the default setting "none" as a high value can cause such issues.
*Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced > Minimum Font Size (none)
Make sure that you allow websites to choose their fonts.
*Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced > [X] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Changing+fonts+and+colors

Does the Mac Pro come with the new keyboard?

I ask because on the configuration page it still shows the old white one, but on the iMac configuration page it shows the new aluminum one.
--Thanks.

No one here knows. Apple knows but they are very "closed mouthed" about these things. When they announce it, that's when.

Computer completely freezes when the letter "b" is typed

Recently, our 17" Macbook (early 2008), which we bought "refurbished" from Apple two months ago, would freeze up and give the message "You need to restart..." several times a day, then there were the three nasty start up sounds after that issue. The latter was rectified with new memory, and it occasionally gives the "You need to..." message.
However - now the computer completely freezes when the letter "b" is typed. And - No - I'm not making this up. Just freezes - the "b" doesn't show up at all. Sounds like a Monty Python routine - the one about the "travel agent". What could it be - and more importantly - should I ever buy a refurbished computer again?

Your refurb is covered by a warranty just like any other Apple product.
I had a refurb a few years ago and had a few minor issues with it. On the 4th trip to the "doctor's" Apple offered us a replacement and couriered a brand spanking new MBP to our doors.
The moral of this story is, Apple do care for their customers, take yours back to the shop.

I have a MAC Pro from 2011 currently running MAC OS 10.9.5. This weekend I cloned the MAC HD drive to a new SSD drive for improved performance. The clone was completed successfully with no errors. After the clone completed I successfull restarted my sy

I have a MAC Pro from 2011 currently running MAC OS 10.9.5. This weekend I cloned the MAC HD drive to a new SSD drive for improved performance. The clone was completed successfully with no errors. After the clone completed I successfully restarted my system using the SSD as the boot device. I then successfully tested all of my products, including Photoshop CS6 and all of its plug-ins. I successfully tested the key features that I frequently use. Today while attempting to launch Photoshop CS6 a message is being displayed indicating that a scratch disk cannot be found. All drives are available on the system via the Finder and Disk Utility. I can access all drives including the old MAC HD which is no longer the boot device. I've even attempted to launch Photoshop from the old device yet the same error persist. Is there a way to review/edit/change Photoshop preferences if Photoshop doesn't launch? I've even restarted my system several times to see if that would resolve the issues. Does anyone have any recommendations for this issue? Have you previously address this issue?
Thank you Gregg Williams

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Reset Preferences
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
1) Close the program and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (not reversible)
or
2) Move the Folder. See:
http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/illy.html
--OB

My wife has an NOKIA E71 and she syncs with iSync. Everything works well, but when she adds a meeting on her phone, it does appear on the computer after syncing. Anyone? We have an iMac 24" with the latest MAC OS.

My wife has an NOKIA E71 and she syncs with iSync. Everything works well, but when she adds a meeting on her phone, it does appear on the computer after syncing. Anyone?
We have an iMac 24" with the latest MAC OS.

Hello Kerrigaj,
After a re-install of OS X 10.5.8 uninstalled the E71 in iSync and moved it out of the bluetooth-device list first and completely re-installed it using the bluetooth manager (SystemPreferences/Hardware).
No extra thirdparty-software involved and ever since no problems.
Goodluck - hope it works for you.
(MDD 1Ghz DP/2Ghz/OS X 10.5.8 + E71)
Message Edited by nicle on 28-Aug-2009 07:23 PM
Message Edited by nicle on 28-Aug-2009 07:24 PM

Anyone finding it the mac completely freezes with the new lion software?

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