Doubt about Dualbooting Yosemite - Mountain Lion on a FD.

My question is: If I install Mountain Lion on another partition on my disc, along with Yosemite, how can I set Mountain Lion to NOT use the SSD? I mean, using only the optical disk. Or it's done by itself?

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A PowerBook G4 does not support Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard as these versions of Mac OS are for Intel based Macs. A PowerBook G4 is PowerPC based Macs. The last version of Mac OS released that is compatible with PowerPC based Macs is Mac OS 10.5.8 Leopard.

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Thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion. Family members use different devices, but all on one apple account.

Will we be able to view our individual facebook accounts on our individual devices, all have our individual games with Mountain Lion or will it automatically synchronise to the same thing? If so, what do we need to do to separate our devices? Would we have to purchase separate Mountain Lions for each device if we did separate them?

Will we be able to view our individual facebook accounts on our individual devices, all have our individual games with Mountain Lion or will it automatically synchronise to the same thing? If so, what do we need to do to separate our devices? Would we have to purchase separate Mountain Lions for each device if we did separate them?

Question about upgrading to Mountain Lion on two computers with two different users

I am running Lion on my MacBook Pro, and I intend to get the Mountain Lion upgrade. Someone else in my household has an aluminium iMac running Snow Leopard, so I was wondering how to upgrade that computer as well, considering that it has a different user with a separate Apple ID.
Can I open App Store and log in with my own ID temporarily to download the update? Or can I save the bandwidth and login-switching and burn an extracted installation disk image to a DVD and put that DVD into the iMac to upgrade from 10.6 to 10.8?

Yes you should be able to upgrade all the Macs you control in your home (including children at college) from one downloaded copy of Mountain Lion. Just make sure you make a copy of the installer before attempting to install it on the first system, as the install process deletes the installer when finished, so you want that copy before the install starts or you need to download it again.
You can make an installer DVD, or you can copy the installer to the other Mac(s).
Also large capacity USB thumb drives are dirt cheap theses days (assuming you do some on-line shopping <http://dealmac.com>). DVD is fine as well.

Worried about updating to mountain lion

i wanted to update from lion to mountain lion but im just wondering if the update is going to wipe all my current settings on my mac off,

See these resources as well:
Using Migration Assistant on Lion - Apple OSX and Time Machine Tips

HT1338 about upgrading to Mountain lion OS

Hi, i bought Mac air 13 inch type fro ur store in July, 2012 and informed can upgraded to Mountain lion version by free for me. Pls instructed me how i proceed it ? Thank u. B.rgds

Go to this link: http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/ and follow the instructions, you should then receive 2 emails within 72 hours (one with a locked PDF with the code and one with the password for the PDF file).

I am thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and am wondering if I have to download the older Lion first. Any ideas if I can do it ?

I'm not sure if I will lose any software. The only thing I worry about is Microsoft Office that my wife needs for work.

Follow-up to Linc Davis ... this shows the application that will lilely not work in ML: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

I am thinking about getting the Mountain Lion OS, compatibility concerns

but I'm afraid its not compatible with my MS Office '08 for mac. Anyone have issues with this?

It's compatible. You must update it to the most recent version

Mountain Lion 10.8.2 wont install?

Hey guys! So I bought a MacBook Pro with Retina Display and all was OK until I tried to update iPhoto. It said that "OS X version 10.8.2 or newer" is required. So I clicked on the Apple logo and selected "software update", but no OS update was available! What should I do? I also tried downloadingthe OS separately, but I got a message saying that "OS X Mountain Lion is not compatible with this computer", yet I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.2. What can I do?

Try this!
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1611
About OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 2.0
This update addresses an issue with Keychain that can affect 2012 Mac systems.
This update is recommended for all Mac systems introduced in 2012.

How do I ensure bootcamp partition works after upgrading snow leopard to mountain lion

I am very apprehensive about upgrading to Mountain Lion due to performance concerns and the debacle with the new Auto Save feature which seems like a very poor and confusing solution to a problem that didn't really exist. I am only considering the upgrade, so that I can get the latest version of Xcode - 4.3; for some reason, 4.2 for SL is no longer available and my current 4.0 version is no longer supported, so I feel forced to upgrade to ML. Also, I have a bootcamp partition that I need to be able to use without issues after having upgraded to ML. So the essence of my question is this: what steps do I need to take prior to upgrading to ML to ensure that my Bootcamp partition is left intact and bootable. I have already created a compressed backup disk image and stored on a separate external hard disk for precautionary reasons. Is there anything else I should know beore going ahead with the upgrade?
Thanks.

Auto Save is actually a very useful feature. If you are typing a paper in Pages and you haven't saved in a long time, and then your battery dies suddenly, your paper is saved. Before Auto Save, you would have lost all your progress.
Your BootCamp partition will not even be touched during the install of Mountain Lion. As long as you make sure to select your Mac OS partition during setup, nothing will happen to your Windows side and everything will still work fine.

Point of view on running Mountain Lion on a late 2011 Mac Book Pro?

I bought my MacBook Pro a couple of days before the current genneration came out in June of 2012. I was told that Mountain Lion would run well even on the older genneration and I was convinced by the 'genius' that it would be well worth it to buy the old one since I could get the old gen 15 inch for the price of the new gen 13 inch. I love mac, and my macbook but ive been hearing some stuff about how its Mountain Lion just doesnt run smoothly with the old gen hardware....im starting to agree with them. I havent got to use a new gen with mountain lion but i assume the freeze ups and the delays dont happen as much. Just looking for some thoughts from other people who have experienced this issue.....
biggest issue chat has just messed up texting with my iphone i had to delete it, notifying me randomly form days ago and other times not notifiying me at all

I have a late model 2011 mac and I ran mountain lion on it for a few months. It ran ok but I ended up reinstalling lion on it about a week ago just because I found lion ran better. I don't think it has anything to with the "slightly" older hardware. I think mountain lion is just a resource pig. One thing was very noticeable and that was the shut down time. With lion my mac shuts down in a second or 2. with mountain lion it took 5-10+ seconds and that was with a clean install of mountain lion.
If you don't need any of the newer feature, whatever they are, then just stay with lion. I read a article this morning that apple is coming out with 10.9 in a couple of months. So I'll try that, in a separate partition this time, when it comes out and see how I like it.

Mountain Lion upload after restoring factory setting to Mac book pro.

I have just cleaned up my Macbook Pro by restoring it to Factory settings but now I want to download all my bought and paid for apps to my now cleaned laptop. How do I go about this. Mountain Lion for instance does not seem to have installed with the software upgrade.
Where do I go to sort this? I have tried to view my purchases in apple store but nothing comes up.
Look forward to some guidance. Thank you.

Thanks jeanphicrosoft, but unfortunately although the purchase of the upgrade to mountain lion shows up there is now where for me to click to download it again and when i go to the App store it doesn't say that I have already installed it and therefore shows that I would have to pay for it again.
Is there anyway I can contact the App store?

Apache/MySQL/PHP and Mountain Lion

I was about to buy Mountain Lion, but I just read by a reviewer that there is an issue with the webserver or websharing capabilities of it. The reviewer was saying he/she had to go into the terminal and launch it from there!
Is anybody else having issues with developing database driven sites on Mountain Lion, or are you getting on OK with it?
I currently use xammp as my apache/mysql/php server. Is anybody on Mountain Lion using xammp, if not, what equivalent are you using?
Thanks.
Mat

Starting Apache is very easy. Simply type the following into a terminal:
sudo apachectl start
I think that they removed the tick box because it's so easy to do from terminal, and not something that most OSX users need.
As SnakEyez02 mentioned, using a package like MAMP or XAMPP doesn't require this. Those apps run their own Apache

Colors Oversaturated in Mountain Lion

I've just now finally upgraded to ML from Lion, and find that the colors on my display are out of kilter. The icons on my dock, for instance, are way oversaturated.
I've searched Apple Discussions and Google and seen a lot of mentions of problems along these lines, but haven't found any solutions. I've tried repairing permissions, restarting, changing color profiles, and recalibrating with Colormunki Smile.
I saw one person suggested installing something called basICColor, but I don't want to spend money on another calibration system to fix this.
I thought I'd try for a solution one last time here, and then will just downgrade back to Lion (luckily I made a clone before I upgraded).

The problem is indeed Mountain Lion. I tested numerous ways to try and narrow down the issue. While newer Macs, like an iMac I worked on while doing a bit of freelance work, don't seem to be affected, other models are. We have two Mac Pros; a mid 2010 and a late 2008. Graphics card in use makes no difference. Both models showed exactly the same issue. In all cases, I installed only what was necessary to test, and that was OS X, Photoshop CS6 and the CoCo filter. Here's what I did:
1) Installed Snow Leopard on an erased drive, then Mountain Lion, then PS CS6 and CoCo.
2) Installed Snow Leopard on an erased drive, then Lion, then Mountain Lion, then PS CS6 and CoCo.
3) Installed Mountain Lion on an erased drive from a bootable thumb drive I made from the ML download, then PS CS6, then CoCo.
4) Repeat 1 and 2 but install PS CS6 and CoCo after Snow Leopard in order to allow Lion and/or Mountain Lion to be undisturbed by the installation of PS CS6 afterwards.
5) Finally, to see if Photoshop or the filter itself was changing something, I repeated 1, 2, and 3 above without installing PS or the CoCo filter, just OS X.
In every case, Mountain Lion itself is causing the color problem. Using the same wide gamut EIZO CG243W monitor, color on both Mac Pros is fine in SL and Lion, and breaks as soon as you install Mountain Lion, even if installed on an erased drive by itself.
I even have it narrowed down to where. The Dock, any open folder specifically in Icon View, and any other app which uses the system call for color as these two OS functions. The desktop itself, icons viewed when using Command+Tab, or folders in List or Column view are correct. As is any app which does not use the broken system call.
It also doesn't matter what profile you use for your monitor in the System Preferences. The wider the color space, the more obvious the problem. Being a much smaller color space, sRGB has the least distinction, but you can see a difference even in that.
To prove that little theory, I took a handle of apps from another drive and placed them on the desktop. Then copied them into a folder, also on the desktop. With the folder open and in icon view, the color of all items in the folder is wrong. See below:
At the right is the desktop, which I made white so it would match an open folder window, making it easier to compare color. Notice how far off color is in the folder's Icon View. The Dock exactly matches this incorrect color.
Looking at the MS Word and QT Player 7 icons in particular stuck out. I thought, this looks like same shift as the sky in the picture I took in Yellowstone. Upper image is correct and how it appears in the Photoshop interface. Lower image is how it appears in the CoCo filter.
It's what started my whole focus on this problem. We use CoCo dozens of times a day in Photoshop. Because of this color issue in ML, it makes it impossible to use. That is forcing us to stay in Snow Leopard (we can't stand Lion). If not for this issue, we'd be working in Mountain Lion as our day to day OS.
So anyway, I opened the above image in PS CS6, then CoCo. Success! With no corrections applied, the color on the right was immediately off, exactly the same as the left side when viewed on the desktop. See below:
It's compounded on the left in this image since the incorrect over saturated color is now applied twice. After taking a screen shot of the above photo, I opened both in Photoshop and dragged the lower image over the upper image, then moved it over so the right side (the incorrect desktop color as displayed in CoCo) was over the incorrect color of the folder icons at the left. Turning the upper layer on and off, the incorrect color is the same, pixel for pixel.
What that proves is that CoCo is using the same broken system call as OS X does for Icon View and the Dock. A few games and other apps I have also must use the same color function as they also are greatly over saturated only in Mountain Lion.
So anyway, I've managed to pinpoint the problem. This is, without a doubt, a bug in Mountain Lion.

Can I get a refund on recent purchase of Mountain Lion if unable to install?

I downloaded an upgrade of Mtn Lion and it will not install. Have been in phone contact with Apple Support twice and still unable to load. What are my options to start over with a refund or ?

Can you post the error messages (if any), or just describe in detail what happens when you try to install?
I'm assuming you're talking about having bought Mountain Lion on the Mac App Store, and you're trying to upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion.

HT1338 my macbook is not installing the osx mountain lion update, says contact apple care?

Ive been trying to instal osx moutain lion on my mac book pro, but its says installation fot this machine can not be found contact apple care? how do i go about installing osx mountain lion.

Mt Lion will not install on all Mac's. There are some that can run Lion but can not run Mt Lion. You may have one of those.
How are trying to do the install. Need more info on the Mac you have and how and where you got Mt Lion.

Doubt about Dualbooting Yosemite - Mountain Lion on a FD.

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