Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3 & Snow Leopard - Match made in ****

Been happily using an Evoluent Vertical Mouse for some time now with Leopard. Today I set up Snow Leopard as well as installing USB Overdrive as I'd done previously and while I can program buttons on the Evoluent, it will not work at all with Expose. Additionally on hover, the mouse will not highlight and will not trigger sub-menus where present. Hugely frustrating and could honestly be a deal breaker for me as the Evoluent is the only mouse I've ever found to be truly comfortable for extended periods of time.
I've also tried SteerMouse but that seems to be even less stable.
Help!

Assume you mean the following section but all that says is that Evoluent doesn't offer a driver for the Mac and to use the two third-party drivers I've already tried:
Mac
▪ 2 buttons and a scroll wheel in OS X or newer without a driver: Click here to see why Evoluent does not supply a Mac driver.
▪ Shareware drivers are available at
www.plentycom.jp/en/steermouse and
www.usboverdrive.com for programming the buttons.
(Evoluent has no business relationship with these vendors.)
▪ USB port.

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Lost functionality in keyboard and mouse in Snow Leopard

Hi,
Since installing Snow Leopard I have lost the following functions:
"enter" key on number pad not working
scrolling horizontal w/mighty mouse not working. scrolling vertical with"nub" is superfast. System Pref's no help
Can't print using "Command" "p" in text edit.
I have tried the Combo 10.6.1 updater again but no luck.
Anyone else having these problems?
20" iMac 2008 Intel, thin alum keyboard.

Just a thought: Adding your problem, which is different from the original posters' (he's using an Apple Keyboard and probably had OS issues), to a thread that has been dead for a couple of months is not the best way to get help.
I'd start a new thread that mentions your keyboard brand in the title, and a complete description of how you installed SL and what you have done (as far as permissions repairs, update reinstallations, keyboard vendor support statements) to solve your issue already.
Who knows, others that are using the same keyboard may recognize the problem and may know a solution from the thread title, plus you will have people working on your problem, not the original posters' (he never posted back, so I assume he fixed his problem).

Issues with Bluetooth/Wireless Mighty Mouse since Snow Leopard Install

Hi,
I am having issues with my bluetooth wireless mighty mouse. It was fine after initially having installed Snow Leopard. However, in the past week it has become progressively more and more unresponsive. It functions perfectly normal for the first while after startup, then after a short period of time it becomes slow to respond to the mouse movements that move the cursor. Eventually it gets to the point that moving the mouse results in no cursor movement whatsoever. It also becomes unresponsive to squeezing the side buttons. There are no issues with clicking or scrolling with the track ball.
I have searched the discussion forums to find issues that pertain to "bluetooth" and "wireless mighty mouse" and have tried the following suggested remedies... Repairing my Mouse with my Mac mini. Renaming my mouse. Deleting the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file from Macintosh HD\Library\Preferences and restarting my Mac. Reset PRAM and NVRAM. Also tried to install Bluetooth Firmware update 2.0.1 but I get an indication that the update is not needed on my Mac mini. I have also checked for software updates but there are none...
I am going to attempt resetting the SMC but am doubtful that this will help...
Can anyone help... Please... ?
Thanks,
Des

I had read in another forum where someone had an understanding that the bluetooth problem had something to do with Airport/Time Capsule. I had also read about how someone was having an issue with being unable to turn off airport. (I had this same problem.)
Upon deleting a few airport related plist files (see below url) I was able to turn off/on airport AND my Mouse issue has no longer appeared... everything is working a-ok now.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10125976&#10125976

Snow Leopard has made my computer unusable

Please advise:
Upgraded to Snow Leopard last week. After the install and software update (10.6.1), my iMac (24-inch : 2.66GHz,2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) totally freaked out: freezes during start up leaving the wallpaper but no menu bar or dock; apps like Safari, Firefox, and even iTunes crash the system and won't force quit; iPhone won't synch. I restarted up in Safe Boot mode and it worked fine, albeit with the limited functionality of Safe Boot.
I thought it was a bad install, so I restored the computer to 10.5.8 using Time Machine. This took hours. I installed Snow Leopard again, the crashing and freezing started immediately. I repaired permissions, verified fonts and all the usual suspects, but no problems were apparent.
Tech support suggested first that I remove all startup items. The computer finally booted up, but then crashed minutes later. I called back and the new guy suggested I erase the hard drive, then reinstall. He suggested I set up the computer first, then migrate all my data from a Time Machine backup as if I had just bought the computer. This took hours. As soon as my documents, settings, and apps came over, the system started crashing again.
Now I have a computer taht only works in Safe Boot mode. I guess I can just restore 10.5.8 using the Time Machine (again). is it possible for year-old Mac is not compatible with Snow Leopard? Is all this crashing soing any harm to my system?
Suggestions? I've never experienced problems of this magnitude with Apple software. I'm a relatively expereinced user, but have never seen anything like this.

Crashing is not great for a machine or system. No, your machine is Sno compatible. I would go back to Leo again--using TM, Then, I would make a bootable clone of this system on an external firewire 800 drive. This installation is your backup and fail safe device. Restoring the clone to your internal will be faster than from TM if you ever want to go back to Leo again.
Then, I would do an erase and install of Sno. In doing an erase and install, I would first repair disk. I would just use the quick erase method. At the end of the installation process, you will have the opportunity to restore your data and other things to your new installation from your clone or your TM. I would restore only my data--and from the clone. After doing so, I would reinstall all apps by hand (not by restoring from the clone). Repair permissions after your install is complete. I would use the same user name and password that you now are using on your Sno install. Be sure and be connected to the internet when installing and that all peripherals are unplugged.
I definitely would not restore your users and settings from your Leo install or your TM. If you do, then you may bring your problems to the new install. Above I said to reinstall your apps by hand. You might choose to take a small risk and to restore them from your clone to keep from having to reinstall all your apps assuming that reinstalling them would be a daunting task. If you are missing items after your install, then they will be in your home folder on the clone.

Installing PyMSNt on Snow Leopard Server 10.6

OK, it's that time again, new OS X Server release and thus, new efforts to get PyMSNt running.
Firstly, make sure you have the latest Developer Tools (XCode) installed. Also, assume that all of these commands need to be run as root, so you can prefix each command with sudo, or you can switch to root using:
sudo su.
There are a couple required prerequisites in the form of Python modules. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard has made things quite a bit more challenging due to the inclusion of Python 2.5 and 2.6 and the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit.
I've had issues getting PyMSNt to run with the default version of 2.6. Due to what I assume is Apple's own dependencies on 2.6 (calendar/wiki server), I'm not comfortable switching the system default to 2.5.
2.5 seems to now have pycrypto built in, so the only dependency is pyOpenSSL. pyOpenSSL happens to be built in to Apple's Python 2.6, but we have to compile and install it for 2.5. You can get the latest pyOpenSSL 0.9 here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyopenssl/files/pyopenssl/0.9/pyOpenSSL-0.9.tar. gz/download
The download page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyopenssl/files/
Now, the installation directions say to use the standard pair of commands: python setup.py build and then python setup.py install. Unfortunately, this will default to Python 2.6 and compile and install it as a 2.6 module, which is NOT what we want. So, modify these commands to be:
python2.5 setup.py build
python2.5 setup.py install
Now, if you want avatar support beyond PNG, you need to install Python Image Library. That's particularly hairy and not required, so I'm going to skip that now, and discuss it at the end.
Next, you need to prepare iChat server for PyMSNt. Edit /etc/jabberd/router-users.xml
You will notice an existing block like this:
<users>
<user>
<name>jabberd</name>
<secret>asdf!ghjk#</secret>
</user>
</users>
You need to add another user for your MSN transport. Let's assume your primary Jabber ID is example.com. You should add a block for a user named msn.example.com. This does not need to resolve via DNS. So when done, it should look like this:
<users>
<user>
<name>jabberd</name>
<secret>asdf!ghjk#</secret>
</user>
<user>
<name>msn.example.com</name>
<secret>asdf!ghjk#</secret>
</user>
</users>
I found that in the past, I was able to use a different secret for the MSN handshake, but I had issues with that this time, so make the msn.example.com secret match the existing one for jabberd. Also, note this secret down as you'll need it shortly.
The PyMSNt project has changed hands, but there are no files at the new location, so this tutorial expects you to download the latest 0.11.3 from http://delx.net.au/projects/pymsnt/tarballs/pymsnt-0.11.3.tar.gz (the download page is http://delx.net.au/projects/pymsnt/downloads.html)
Decompress this archive and for the sake of this tutorial, store it at /var/jabber/modules/pymsnt . You can store it anywhere else you want, but you'll need to adjust the commands and files below accordingly.
Once you have placed it there, make sure it is owned by the jabber user/group with:
chown -R jabber:jabber /var/jabber/modules/pymsnt
Let's cd to that directory for the next few commands:
cd /var/jabber/modules/pymsnt/
Now, you need to copy the config example and edit it:
cp -p config-example.xml config.xml
(the -p makes sure the resulting file is the same permissions, i.e. still owned by user jabber)
nano config.xml
(use any appropriate text editor you want. I like nano)
OK, so:
1. You need to set the Jabber ID (<jid>) to the name you defined in the router-users.xml file, e.g. msn.example.com
2. Set the <host> to your primary hostname (this must resolve!)
3. Commend out <background/>, making that line look like this:

4. Make <secret> match the <secret> you specified in router-users.xml
Save your changes and exit. That should do it for the config file for now.
Also, thanks to Tim Harris, you need to make an edit to the source as described here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7865180&#7865180
Next, we want to configure launchd to launch PyMSNt. Initially, under previous versions of OSXS, I set this up to launch onDemand only if the jabber server was running. I accomplished this by using a launchd key called QueueDirectories, which only launches the job if files appear in a directory. I set it to watch the /var/run/jabber directory as Jabber server placed pid files in there at launch. Unfortunately, it seems that in 10.6 it doesn't clean these files up at quit, but I believe this is due to a change in Python's Twisted removal of the removePID function (something that affects PyMSNt as well), and I expect Apple to fix it in the future. So, this plist will work now, and also in the future once Apple fix this.
Also, you'll notice that you must invoke PyMSNt using python2.5, not python.
Place these contents in /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.cjb.delx.pymsnt.plist :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>net.cjb.delx.pymsnt</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/python2.5</string>
<string>./PyMSNt.py</string>
</array>
<key>QueueDirectories</key>
<array>
<string>/var/run/jabberd</string>
</array>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>_jabber</string>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/var/jabberd/modules/pymsnt</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/var/log/pymsnt.log</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/var/log/pymsnt.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>
You can leave out the StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath path if you don't care about logging, but they're helpful at least for getting this up and running. However, the log file needs to be owned by Jabber, so create it and change the owner if you're going to keep those keys in:
touch /var/log/pymsnt.log
chown jabber /var/log/pymsnt.log
Last, but not least, load the launchd plist with:
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.cjb.delx.pymsnt.plist
Make sure iChat server is running and login.
*KNOWN ISSUES*
*You must register!*
You still need to use an application like PSI to register for the transport. That's beyond the scope of this tutorial. Note that you need to use an older version, discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2159145&tstart=0
Snow Leopard might have improved the jabber servers authentication methods to not require the old version, but I didn't bother looking in to that yet as the solution in the aforementioned topic worked fine.
*Calendar Server Clash*
The default port for unencrypted calendar server communications is port 8008. It seems that when launched, it creates two additional listeners on the next 2 highest adjacent ports, being 8009 and 8010 in the default configuration. Unfortunately, naughty Apple has trounced on xmpp's reserved port usage of 8010. Bad Apple! Also, there is little documentation about what 8010 is used for. Initially, I tried shifting the unencrypted Calendar server port to something else. As I only use the encrypted port for communication, I didn't really care. However, most annoyingly, the wiki server calendar client looks for the calendar server at 8008, and I don't know how to change that.
What can you do?
Believe it or now, if you launch PyMSNt first, and Calendar Server after, everything is dandy. Unfortunately, that's not how the startup sequence works, so you'll find the need to do this shuffle after restart. I believe there are dependencies one can put in launchd plist files, but I haven't experimented with that yet.
What else can you do?
You can make PyMSNt listen for file transfers at a different port. In config.xml, the directive to change is <ftJabberPort>8010</ftJabberPort> and pick a different number. I've tried changing this to something quite different, like 18010 and then doing port mapping on my router to map the public 8010 to 18010 since the calendar server doesn't need public access to 8010, only via localhost. I haven't been able to test this thoroughly yet. Also, this is of no use to someone not using port mapping. It would be great if I could bind PyMSNt to NOT use localhost to avoid the conflict, but that's beyond my knowledge.
*Python Image Library*
This is a topic worthy of its own post, but I'll stick it in here. Python Image Library or PIL has two optional dependencies, libjpeg and freetype. You need libjpeg to view non-PNG MSN avatars.
Many instructions on the internet will direct you to jpegsrcv6b. I could not get that to work. Instead, I did succeed with jpegsrc7:
http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz (download page: http://www.ijg.org/)
But here's the problem. Python 2.5 runs in 32 bit mode. The compilers try to compile libjpeg in 64 bit mode. If you've been following info about the way Snow Leopard works, 32 bit processes won't load 64 big libraries/plugins and vice versa. SO, you have to compile libjpeg for 32-bit. To do that, I used:
CC="gcc -arch i386" ./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
make install
Freetype-2.3.9 installed normally without a hitch.
And then finally, I could install PIL, making sure to specify python2.5 as necessary:
python2.5 setup.py build_ext -i
After running that, TEST it with:
python2.5 selftest.py
This MUST pass. If it doesn't something is wrong.
Finally:
python2.5 setup.py install
Uggh. So after all of that, I got PIL happily installed and working. But guess what, avatars still don't work, or to be more descriptive, when using iChat, every MSN contact show my avatar as theirs.
I see an avatar related exception in /var/log/pymsnt.log, but I don't really know what to do with it.

I finally got avatar support working as well thanks to this post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/py-transports/msg/f3cdd998a5c7a97a
For me, that was line 2553 of src/legacy/msn/msn.py and changing:
DATA = 0x20
to
DATA = 0x1000020
After doing that, avatars work!!!

Trouble with HP Photosmart 2710 after Snow Leopard installation

I recently upgraded my Mac desktop and laptop to Snow Leopard. After installing this on the Mac I was unable to scan so I re-installed HP software. This solved the scanning issue but now I can't print, getting a message saying "Software not fully installed". I re-installed from disk and then tried again as a download but still have same problem.
On the Laptop, (also upgraded to Snow Leopard) I made no changes to the printer installation and I can still print but I can't scan. Help please!

Try removing the printer from the list first, then reinstall the drivers.

Snow Leopard Upgrade Questions

Hello Folks,
I am a newbie to MacBooks. I just "created" two MacBooks using "donor" parts (which I affectionately call "FrankenMacs" LOL). Both MacBooks are Model A1181, late 2007-vintage with the Intel 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor and running Leopard 10.5.8. Thankfully, both work quite well :-)
I purchased a Snow Leopard "Family Pack" CD through eBay which had 4 uses left. I installed Snow Leopard, then made upgrades, on the computer I am using now and there are no issues.
I have several questions with regard to this upgrade:
First, the original hard drives were 120GB, and there were 80GB (for OSX) and 40GB NTFS (for Boot Camp/Windows) partitions on each drive. I plan on leaving the 120GB drive on one of the MacBooks and putting in a 320GB or 750GB hard drive on the other. I would like to either repartition the drive on the 120GB so the NTFS partition is much smaller, or eliminate that partition altogether. I tried changing that using the Disk Utility but it will not do it, presumably because it is the primary drive. Is there any other way I can do that? Regarding the larger drive, which was originally all NTFS format, can I install that drive (I will use Seagate Sea Tools for DOS to erase that with my Linux OS desktop computer) in the MacBook, boot it using the Snow Leopard Disc, then formatting and installing Snow Leopard? If I can, how is that done?
If I cannot install Snow Leopard with an erased drive, can I install it on another drive and clone that drive using Seagate Sea Tools for DOS? I tried cloning the 120GB drive (which had Leopard on it) to the 320GB drive, but I ended up with an 80GB partition and the remainder was NTFS. That drive booted up but, like the 120GB drive, I could not repartition or erase/eliminate the NTFS.
I would like to use the 64-bit version of Snow Leopard (according to Apple, this processor is 64-bit capable); will that install automatically, or is there something I need to do?
Finally, would it be worth my while to eventually upgrade to Lion? I don't think I can go to Mountain Lion with this MacBook, but Lion would be OK if it would be worth spending the extra quid.
Thanks so much in advance for your advice.
Sean

Bee Bee wrote:
Will I need to install any prior version to use the upgrade using only serial numbers,
No,
or do I only need the serial numbers for the prior upgrades?
Yes
Doesn't the upgrade software need to detect an installed prior version?
No
Thanks for your help.
You're welcome
A

Is MaxMenus working on Snow Leopard?

I've been referring to http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ and developer sites to see if my apps are compatible before I upgrade, but there are still a whole bunch of applications I don't know the status.
Most important on that list is an app called MaxMenus, which puts menus in corners. The app is fantastic as it gives fast access to applications and folders, and I cannot live without it.
Does anyone know if it works on Snow Leopard? If possible, could you download it and test it out?
Appreciate the help.

I mentioned that I wanted to know BEFORE I upgrade.
Even if I had owned a copy of Snow Leopard, I made it very clear I hadn't installed it. Why would you consider it to be reasonable for me to spend hours to clone my Leopard as a bootable backup, spend an hour upgrading to Snow Leopard to check compatibility? Isn't it the point of these forums to share knowledge?
I'm sorry, but Kappy's response was not in the least bit reasonable. If I had several hours to kill, maybe, but not at all in the way that I phrased my post.

If I reinstall Snow Leopard to replace "user" with my own short name in accounts, will I wipe out all upgrades, mail settings, etc. that I have already set?

After buying a second-hand laptop running Snow Leopard, I made mistake of upgrading software, creating mail accounts, Safari preferences, etc., before noticing that the account name was "user". I want to replace this Admin account with my own short name, but can't seem to do it without completely reinstalling Snow Leopard. If I do this, will I lose everything I have done already? Thanks in advance,
DRJ

Kurt,
I have a question about that link....it said to change the name of the folder in the way you would change any folder....
There is where i am having the problem....I just got a mac and i am having windows withdraw...b/c i don't know how to do jack.......
When i have my finder window open and look under places i see the house icon with the (i assume) user's short name.....this will not let me rename this......Is there a reason why???
Thanks..
Daniel

Dreamweaver CS4 Crashing under Snow Leopard

I am having issues with Dreamweaver CS4 and Snow Leopard. Dreamweaver application opens fine, however, when I try to make edits to code on an HTML page, the program crashes.
Background info:
A Clean install of Snow Leopard was made on a new hard drive on my Intel Mac G5. (OS 10.5.7 Leopard is still loaded on another hard drive).
Adobe Creative Suite was then installed on the Snow Leopard drive.
Any feedback to try and work around this issue will be greatly appreciated.

I spent the whole holiday weekend troubleshooting this on my MBP. Dreamweaver would crash mostly in system dialogues but sometimes randomly.
What didn't work initially:
1. Clean install of SL but when it finished, I migrated my old user account minus apps.
2. Installed my usual apps and immediately had crashing at system dialogues with Dreamweaver CS4 and a few others.
3. Hit all troubleshooting blogs and forums including adobe and apple. Tried all the cache flushing, preferences rebuilding, plist deleting til the cows came home. Nothing was working.
Luckily I had carbon copy cloned my leopard install to a firewire 800 drive for a back up so I always had a way back but figured I would try it again.
So here's what did work for me:
1. Wiped my drive, installed SL cleanly, and upon completion I did NOT migrate ANY user settings from other computers or previous systems.
2. Installed CS4 first thing and tested. It worked straight away so I did a time machine backup and started adding other apps and bringing folders over by hand all while doing intermittent testing and time machine backups in case I hit some snag that started things crashing again.
3. I had iSynced my mail, address, calendar, bookmarks etc so that helped ease the pain of not migrating somewhat.... so I resynced everything back as a last step.
4. And Voila. Been enjoying rock solid performance for several days since... and zero crashing... even under intense use.
A little manual? Yes. Should it have been necessary to go to this length? Probably not.
But I will say my MBP is snappier than ever and everything is running tip top. So if you have the time, I still recommend doing it. Plus doing it a little manually helped cull my drive of a lot of crap I don't use or need anymore.
If you want pure automation and no maintenance maybe wait for an update.

IDVD Quality Changed after Snow Leopard Upgrade

I created two different iDVD projects (slide shows with music) and burned them to DVDs - great quality, no problems with transitions, or quality of slides displayed. These copies were viewed in a BlueRay player, etc. After I upgraded to Snow Leopard I made two more copies without adding anything to the projects or changing the project settings. Quality is now terrible. The transitions are choppy, and each slide is displayed slightly less bright than it should be, then it jumps to a normal brightness, then goes back to a dimmer setting as the photos change. This did not occur on the originals before the OS upgrade. If I run the project on my MAC it all looks fine. This problem comes up after burning to DVD.
Any ideas?

Hi TJ1955
Welcome to apple discussions. Sorry to hear about the issues with burning to disc you are experiencing at the moment. I'm not sure I can help with this issue without being directly in front of your mac and seeing what's going on. So I'll simply supply you with the apple KB aticle detailing / troubleshooting burn issues to dvd.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
If you opt to return to the forum we'll also need more info on the mac model you are currently using and which third party items you have connected to it (if any). Lastly we will need to know how much available hard drive space is remaining on the boot volume (your main startup HD) as well as what type or brand of dvd's you are currently using and if it varied from the original /first burn.
As a final resort you may wish to try the following. Burn your iDvd project to a disc image from the file menu within iDvd (provided you have the available HD space). The disc image acts exactly like a dvd so use apple's dvd player to test for proper playback. Assuming it plays exactly as expected, then burn to Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, or Maxell Dvd-R at 4x. Please avoid using Memorex while we troubleshoot your issue here. This latter brand of dvd's tends to introduce additional variables into the equation making troubleshooting all that much more complicated. Thereafter, (assuming we resolve the issue) feel free to use whatever brand works best for you and your mac.
Hope this helps but if not come on back.
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Downgrading from Mavericks to Snow Leopard, can't boot from USB drive

I'm attempting to do a clean install of Snow Leopard on a 2010 Macbook. The MB had recently been upgraded to Mavericks, but because it was running slowly, I decided to downgrade. (If you respond to this post, please don't ask me why I'd make this decision.)
As with any other clean install I've done--all pre-Mountain Lion--I backed everything up, I created a .dmg file of the Snow Leopard, and made a perfectly good, bootable USB drive with the OS (1 partition, GUID table); I tested this USB drive on another Macbook, one currently running Snow Leopard, by holding option as I booted up. It works fine and gets to the installation screen.
I booted the Mavericks Macbook while holding command+r, and I erased the main HD. I then formatted it with 1 partition, with a GUID table. All was normal.
But here's where the problem starts. I plugged the USB drive into the formerly Mavericks computer, and held option for the bootloader. It recognizes the OS. But when I click the arrow to proceed, it inevitably has a kernel panic and tells me to restart the computer.
I re-made my bootable drive, and I tested it again on the other machine. Again, it's still fine. Plugged it into my main machine--again, a panic.
Using command+r to reach disk utility, I've now erased and repartitioned the computer's hard drive several times, even using the advanced-security erase feature. Still, the panic.
When I hold command+r at boot, it always forces me through the Internet Recovery. The only option offered to reinstall OS X is with Lion, which I didn't buy with my Apple ID.
What can I do?

Sorry, but this didn't help me. From what I gather, Mavericks (or maybe Mountain Lion) included a firmware update that, for some reason, prevents users from downgrading to anything before Lion. This makes things difficult, because I didn't buy Lion--I made the leap from SL to Mavericks.
Here's the strange part, I learned: When I enter Internet Recovery, I'm prompted to reinstall Lion, not Mavericks. And because I didn't buy Lion, my Apple ID/password, which are asked for, don't help.
Anyone else with suggestions? None of my USB-based installations are working, and I'm feeling out of luck. I don't want to spend money at the Apple store...

Export from FCE extremely slow after Snow leopard install

Instead of increasing my export times from FCE Snow Leopard has made them slower by a factor of ten. It is taking an hour to convert 3 minutes of 1080i to 720p !!!!! On an 8 core machine !!!
I am exporting 1080i to 720p with a bitrate of about 2000 for uploads to Utube. I tried using QT10 for export but I am not happy with the loss of control over my exports, it does work but not directly from FCE. The process called by QT10 is very fast and uses all 8 cores, but that process is not being called by FCE.
So at this point I wish I had never gone for the upgrade.
Lots of crashes with QT 7 during the open file dialogue and also same problem with MPEGStream Clip crashing on the file open dialogue as well after this OS upgrade

I may not be having a snow leopard problem at all.
Going back to an old project in 1080i of an 8 minute length. the estimated time to render is about 50 minutes it says @20% of the way thru. Thats about 6x real time.
Maybe thats what I should expect. I was hoping for a significant speed increase in rendering times with the new OS. What is teh factor averaging for other people ?
I am rendering down to 720p multi pass 2320 kbit rate .MP4 in h.264
Maybe I have a settings problem in project properties in my other project.
I also got inspired and moved the render folders to a separate disk from the source files and put the caches on a 3rd drive. my I/O readings now are at 60 reads/sec.
Thanks for helping me work this issue out with you guys. Will keep you posted.

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk?

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk? It is the start up disk and I can't figure out how to get it out of the computer so I can put my lion boot disk in. Thanks

turn the mac all the way off. turn the mac on by pressing the power button. as soon as the apple logo appears, pres and hold your mouse button(trackpad mouse clicker etc...) until the CD comes out.

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