Help w/OS X Lion

I'm hearing OS X Lion runs the battery down much faster. Comments? Suggestions?
Thanks
LC

Where did you hear this? Lion has been out for only one day.

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What is the best manual to help me learn Mountain Lion and the Mac?

What is the best manual to help me learn Mountain Lion and the Mac?

The internet is your friend. http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/, http://www.tuaw.com/tag/mountain%20lion%20101/

Please help needed os x lion I wish to transfer photos from the iPhoto library to a album or folder then delete them from the Library but when I do this it also deletes them from the album ? how do I do this please.

Please help needed os x lion I wish to transfer photos from the iPhoto library to a album or folder then delete them from the Library but when I do this it also deletes them from the album ? how do I do this please.

Albums are not places to store photos, they're more like "labels" you can apply to photos to better organize them. A single image file can be in multiple albums... they are not copies, it's simply been labelled as being in all those albums. So what you're trying to do doesn't make sense, because it's based on incorrect assumptions.
The iPhoto library will always show all photos that you have added to iPhoto.

Hi. installed mountain lion. Not Happy. How do i revert to Lion. thanks. Please Help., Hi. installed mountain lion. Not Happy. How do i revert to Lion. thanks. Please Help.

Hi. installed mountain lion. Not Happy. How do i revert to Lion. thanks. Please Help., Hi. installed mountain lion. Not Happy. How do i revert to Lion. thanks. Please Help.

Only way is if you made a backup of your system before you installed Mt Lion.
Or if your system came with Lion Pre-Installed you boot to the online recovery system, Hold down Command+option+r at startup until you see a spinning globe in the center of the screen.

Could anyone help me get mountain lion i have currently got mac osx 10.5.8

could anyone help me get mountain lion i have currently got mac osx 10.5.8 is it poss
thank you

Mac OS X 10.5.8 is Leopard. From the bottom of step 2:
If you’re running OS X Leopard and would like to upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion, first you’ll need to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard. You can purchase OS X Snow Leopard here.
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Help with installing OSX Lion on iMac with broken display

Hi,
Having some trouble installing OSX Lion on my 5 year old iMac which has a broken display.
The display has been dead for a couple of years now and I've been using an external monitor without any problems. Today I decided to upgrade to Lion - I downloaded the installer from the App Store and started the install which rebooted the machine. After reboot I'm presented with a grey 'thatched' background image on the external display and nothing else, no menu bar, installation menu etc.
I presume the internal display is showing the menu I need but I can't see it as that screen is broken. Is there a way to turn on mirroring during the install process so I can use my external display? I've tried various shortcuts held down during startup - OPTION-F14, CMD-F1, CMD-F2 - but none have worked.
If this isn't possible, is there a way to abort the Lion install process and go back to using my Snow Leopard install? Whenever I boot the machine I am taken to the OS X Lion installer and don't know how to get back to my Snow Leopard install. I tried holding down OPTION key on startup to choose the list of available OS installs, but again, the internal display is being used so I can't see what to do.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Genius idea, thank you. Was able to step through the install procedure using voiceover and the screenshots on this page http://www.macstories.net/mac/os-x-lion-installation-guide-boot-discs-and-qa/
Definitely a first for me, installing an OS with voice only

Tips and help with re-installing Lion over Snow Leopard

I had MAJOR issues with my initial Lion install on my Mid-2009 MBP- so much so, that I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install Snow Leopard and all my applications. My major issues were as follows:
1. All my files were locked out- I could open them in most cases, but I couldn't overwrite them- Lion had aded some funky permissions scheme that I didn't recognize, and my user name wasn't present on any of them. In some cases, I couldn't even open files, even though they were resident on my hard drive (and in my own user folder) before the upgrade to Lion.
2. Apple's own Universal Binary apps wouldn't work after the upgrade. Final Cut Pro 6, in particular, came up with a message that it was a "PowerPC" app and wouldn't run- yet Shake 4.1 would run just fine!
3. Adobe Creative Suite 3- after the upgrade, my Abode Ceative Suite 3 apps worked just fine, for about a day- that is, until I tried to correct the file permissions issue by changing permission on a few of my folders in my User folder (and electing to change permissions in the files contained therein)- at which point my Adobe apps told me that they were damaged and needed to be reinstalled. Yet after uninstaling and reinstalling the entire Creative Suite 3 times, I still would get the same message.
My entire workflow is Adobe CS and FCS2- why chould I have to pay the upgrade costs just to use Lion? FCPX is completely brkoen for my workflow and eqipment, and Adobe can't even guarantee that CS5 works with Lion- so why does Apple insist on Lion when it's hardly even compatible with its own products?
I really want to use Lion, but I am looking for some tips on instalation to kep these problems from happening again. I didn' have ANY of these problems with upgrading OS 10.2 through 10.6. Any help with prepping my system/files for upgrading would be helpful. Thanks!

any new Apple kB articles
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=articles
Me, I think clone backups are more useful, and only use T.M. as secondary.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
I'd assume that professional apps may need to be tested still; and of course check to see what you have that depends on PowerPC code and Rosetta first. That has some in a tither.
A clone lets you still be able to boot Snow Leopard. Check out Carbon Copy, SuperDuper.

Please help me install Mountain Lion from my USB on my ERASED Macintosh HD partition.

Hi, So my Macbook 7.1 (running macosx 10.6.8) was running really slow due to poor user maintenance. I decided that i should purchase Mountain Lion and install it over the 10.6.8 version. That worked but my computer turned SUPER SLOW. So i decided to completely startover and erase the partition, and install from the USB. Unfortunately for me this is where my skillset ends, and I need help.
After erasing the Macintosh HD, i created a new GUID partition, and then clicked Restore. I dragged my USB drive under the "source", and dragged my new partition under the "destination". That didnt work so i erasaed the partition again. At this time, i got an error message saying that i cant erase the partition because its not unmounted.
So thats where Im at. I guess i need to know how to unmount the drive, then how to erase it, then partition it, and then install Mountain Lion from the bootable USB.
Appreciate your help!
Nick

I did the erase from Disk Utility. At the time I had started the computer by holding down Ctrl+R, so i am not sure which recovery drive it used. I can say however that I do still have the recovery partition.
Im a bit dense when it comes to Apples. How do i go about re-installing from the recovery? Also, how do i get around the unmouting issue?

Help installing Snow Leopard/Lion on MacBook 2,1

Hi.
I am currently trying to upgrade the OS on my old MacBook to the latest version it can handle. It appears OS X 7 (Lion) is the most I can upgrade it to.
Apologies if this gets confusing or long winded...
I also have a Mac Mini which is running the latest OS, and purchased Lion a few years back. I was hoping to use that purchase on my MacBook, which is currently running Version 10.5.8. I was told by Apple I need to first upgrade to Snow Leopard to download the App Store on it before I can install Lion.
After inserting the Snow Leopard installation discs (that came with my Mac Mini) in the MacBook, I hit a road block.
I received a prompt telling me "Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this computer".
I checked the minimum requirements which it appears to meet...
I have an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB Memory (RAM), 35GB of disk space available. After speaking with the Apple technical support they suggested the problem may lay with my Graphics card which is an Intel GMA 950. Have looked around online, this doesn't seem to be an issue or have stopped others who made the upgrade.
Is there any workaround this, without having to replace the internal components? I'd greatly appreciate any help, as I would like to use my MacBook when I go on holiday next week. Thanks.

That seems a bit long winded and not a certain option that will work. Not to mention I have to pay £14.99 and wait 1-2 business days for it to be dispatched when I have already paid for and purchased Lion, a version that is compatible with my MacBook. Is there no other option to install it without having to pay and install the previous OS before it?

Help! UI mountain lion installation

Hi All (Updated)
I have a mac mini (circ. 2010). its UI becomes non-responsive after it wakes up displays from sleep. The UI seems frozen. When the displays are asleep, moving the mouse or punching the keyboard wakes the displays up. (I have two)
When I move the mouse to hot corners, even though I don't see the mouse cursor, the displays fall asleep. Rebooting the machine of course brings back the mouse and So it doesn't seem to be a bluetooth hardware issue. Rebooting the system brings back the UI resposiveness, until mini displays are put to sleep again.
The behavior just started after upgrading to Mountain Lion. The computer doesn't have any rogue processes, and it hasn't crashed. I can ssh into the box. The system and process are behaving nicely. I can see the shares on the mini and manipulate them from another machine. I cannot, however, connect via "Share Screen"... That seems to just cycle.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated
Ahmed.
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Yes, restart the computer and then run Software Update. If you still have trouble then your installation or download may have become corrupted. This would mean you need to start over or take the machine into your local Apple Store or AASP for them to help you. If you have been backing up then it shouldn't be too painful.

Need help viewing items in Lion Finder folder.

Hello! I just recently migrated to a Mac with Lion and have a question regarding viewing files in the Finder window. I currently like sorting my folders using "Kind" then sorting by "Name", which works great for me except one problem. How do you have the Finder window "Show All" by default instead of having to click on the "Show All" everytime? See my example folder in the pic.
Any help for a Mac noob would be greatly appreciated! Thank You in advance!

Hi Peter
This is a change in version 9.
Adobe removed the previous choice in preferences, without asking customers.
Many of us who used earlier versions don’t like it.
If you feel the product is not what you reasonably expected, request a full refund or ask your credit card company for a refund and chargeback.

Help! While downloading Lion, I lost WIFI and got error message . . .

While downloading Lion, I lost WIFI and got error message "An error has occurred." Tried to re-download and the dowload icon says "OSX Lion--Waiting . . . " Please help!! What should I do?

Don't worry about the download, you can go back to the AppStore > Purchases tab and download it again.
Or from another Mac if you have one. Try a restart, it may even start the download where it left off.

Need help with error on Lion Server (kernel: add_fsevent: unable to get path for vp ..)

I have had some Xsan issues and one of my volumes kept failing. I did a complete hard reboot of the entire system after trying all the cvfsck options. Now the volume seems to be ok but I am now getting the following errors and can not figure out what they are. Any help to a new Admin would be greatly appreciated.
5/7/12 1:59:13.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unabled to get a path for vp 0xb129000. dropping the event.
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unable to get path for vp 0xb12a4d0 (live.0.indexHead; ret 22; type 4)
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unabled to get a path for vp 0xb12a4d0. dropping the event.
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unable to get path for vp 0xb129de0 (live.1.indexHead; ret 22; type 4)
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unabled to get a path for vp 0xb129de0. dropping the event.
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unable to get path for vp 0xe3964d0 (live.2.indexHead; ret 22; type 4)
5/7/12 1:59:15.000 PM kernel: add_fsevent: unabled to get a path for vp 0xe3964d0. dropping the event.
5/7/12 2:01:22.024 PM mdworker32: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/7/12 2:01:22.525 PM com.apple.mdworker.pool.0: PSSniffer error: Invalid argument
5/7/12 2:01:24.697 PM mdworker: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Volumes/Matilda/Dexter/Randy project - Burke update/James E Burke Awards video revision/Past Video files/ETH742/tricyclestudios (After FX) Jeremy/Assets/FUTURA_4.TTF".
5/7/12 2:01:24.697 PM mdworker: FontImporter: Validation Result - "(
kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError
Then I got a few more of the errors like the top lines.
Please help!!
Thanks,
Kevin Rosenthal

Turns out there were disk issues that I repaired by rebooting into Lion Recovery Mode (restart, hold Command-R during startup) and running Disk Utility. Disk Utility reported:
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Invalid volume free block count
It fixed both problems and the drive then verified clean.
While I was there, I also repaired permissions, though I doubt that the permission oddities were the cause of the errors.
After rebooting into normal Lion, two things happend:
Time Machine quite happily went back to work and took a backup, no issue. Several hourlies have run since then, no problems.
Spotlight did some re-indexing. This caused some hangs (spinning beachballs) at first, but it self-cleared. It definitely didn't last long enough to re-index the entire drive; I'm guessing that it needed to re-index some of the repaired sections.
So far as I know, no files were corrupted -- but the drive is about 80% free space, so odds are that the orphaned blocks were not in a critical area.

Help with os x Lion download

Hi all, I am brand new here. I downloaded the new os x Lion, and ever since I did, I keep getting a message that looks like it is on a thumb drive that states:
"There was a problem connecting to the server. url's with the type "File" are not supported" This pops up, I click it away, then it pops up again, after the second time, I can use laptop without problems, but as I switch to different bookmarks etc. it happens again, can you help?
Thank you in advance!!!
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Welcome, aisboy1! We're all just other Mac users here, helping each other find solutions.
I have asked the hosts to remove your email address. Never post your email in a public forum. Yikes!
To be clear, you only see this message on Safari? Does it happen all of the time? Do you have periods when you can get through fine? Please post a few URLs of the ones you get the error message on.

Will a reinstall of 10.6 help performance prior to Lion

I have a 3 year old MBP that is running 10.6. System is running slow with a lot of beach ball time outs. I have a USB time machine backup of the whole system. Before I dive into a re-install, would a erase and reinstall of OS 10.6 then transfer back the data help my problems? I was going to Lion once a cisco VPN client is updated for it. So I'm thinking a reinstall at the snow leopard level would be of value vs doing a clean install of Lion. I do have the time machine backup but am concerned about getting all the data and apps back since I use this for work. thanks in advance

Before I dive into a re-install, would a erase and reinstall of OS 10.6 then transfer back the data help my problems?
Probably not, if you restore the whole system to the same state it's in now. But stranger things have happened. If I were you, I'd want to troubleshoot the problem and find out what's causing it.

HELP can't install lion can't use the recovery HD

After lion has sat there for an hour installing with the installation bar and after it had completed installing and restarted. When it boots back up it just sits there with a grey screen, apple logo and a little rotating circle. I have let that rotating circle sit there for an hour and nothing is happening. I did a force shut down and booted it up in the recovery HD. I went to reinstall lion, everytime there is nothing left on the bar a message pops up "Do you want to cancel this download?" and I never touched anything. After pressing cancel twice to continue the reinstallation it goes back to the menu it start with. What can I do?
Thanks for any help

I was too optimistic. Now I was able to install PS again from the Download link in the CC website.
I followed as PS was installed in CC console's "Find new apps" section. Everything OK here.
I can see "You installed Photoshop CC" in CC console/home. Everything OK here.
I can't fint the actual program anywhere. Nothing on Launchpad. Theres a folder "Adobe photoshop CC" in Finder/Applications. But it's relatively empty. Nothing to start the actual program with.
I restarted already. Problem remains.

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