How to go from lion to mountain lion?

i want to go from mac os lion to mountain lion.i am worrie about my photos in iphoto,my documents and any files in my lion.these items will remove or not by this update?what can i do?

you can do a layered installation, this will happen by default if you launch mountain lion download from Lion, this will not delete any of your user files.

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How to escape from Lion Upgrade ?

Hi,
I own 1 Imac and 2 Mac Book Air,
The OS Lion is on the 2 MBA since I bought them, and I really recommand to avoid this OS.
Since I use the OS Lion I have trouble on my Mac: connection, applications... Is this OS the end of the Apple Quality ?
I called the assistance : solution given are to kill some programms and restart (great solution isn't...)
Moreover it is impossible to downgrade the MBAs to Snow Leopard (because Lion was orignally on it), I am about to send back the 2 laptops due to that and move back to pc and Windows (which is bad but known for).
If someone have a clue to cure the Lion, it would be good.
A very disappointed customer.
Maxime

I think after taking ldif backup for config and user data, you may simply re-install the original DS5.2 without patch.
However for schema and config data changes, it is your responsibility to scrutinize them and restore back the "correct" one.
So you may need to edit the ldif backup to suit the rolled back schema and config, prior to restore via ldif,..
Just my 2-cent, never done it.
Gary

How to boot from Lion without disk

Iv'e done this before but seem to have problems remembering which keys to holddown during restart to get to disk utilities Comand R?

Cmd-R doesn't always work. If not, hold the Option key while starting. That will show the Startup Manager, where you can select from all available startup sources, including the Recovery HD:

HT5361 I want to permanently remove years old emails from my IMac Mountain Lion system. How can I do this by year instead of laboriously doing it one message at a time?

I want to permanently remove years old emails from my IMac Mountain Lion system. How can I do so by year rather than slowly removing one message at a time? Many thanks.

Another option is to create a smart mailbox that includes emails with date received before a desired date.
Then, select one message in the Smart Mailbox and cmd-A to select all. Then delete.

I need to have both Snow leopard and Lion...Mountain lion running on my iMac. How do I install Lion or Mountain lion on an Ext H D and boot from it?

My software is obsolete (and now dead) in 10.7 so I need to keep Snow leopard alive to run that- but now things like TurboTax are dropping support for 10.6 or lower and I have to have lion or Mountain Lion available. I actually downloaded Lion onto a thumb drive but never installed it when I found out that it would immedaitely render all my FreeHand files inaccessible (years of work!), Now that I am forced to have an OS above 10.6 I was hoping I could install whichever--Lion or Mountain Lion onto an external hard drive and figure out how to boot from that (found something in archives I think, but I need words of one syllable or less). This way I could, ideally, boot from either the External hard drive in the higher OS when needed, or from the internal hard drive when I need to use Snow leopard. There is a long story here, but I think this is the gist. I wasn not sure if this should be asked here or in either Lion or Mountain Lion (both of which I have, essentially, ignored since I would not be moving up until I could figure out how to access those old files of forms and drawings00but now I have no choice. I am panicking now that I HAVE to make the move anbd cannot afford to buy another Mac just to keep two separately running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. i asked Apple when Lion came out and they said there was no way to partition (even if I KNEW how to do that) the haaard drive and install both on my iMac-- but I "think" this is a bit different and possible??? Thanks (once/if I figure this out, I need to figure out how to back-up but that is another matter)

You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

How can I upgrade from Lion OS X to Mountain Lion OS X

Hi my question is "How can I upgrade from Lion OS X to Mountain Lion OS X?"
I don't want to lose any data from my current Lion OS X, at the same time I don't have enough external HDD to backup. I tried to do the same was as http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/ says but I didn't get Mountain Lion OS X as an option for update.
Pleade advice,
Mustafa

Well, right. In 99.99% of cases you shouldn't lose any data.
But if something goes wrong, well, if you don't have a backup you're SOL.
You truly don't have ANY drive that you're using for Time Machine?
FYI: It's not a matter of IF, but WHEN, your hard drive will fail. It will eventually happen, so you should have a backup, unless you don't have any data you care about.

I don't want Mavericks yet, how do I upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion?

Been reading lots of good and bad about Mavericks so I'm not ready to upgrade from Lion to Mavericks yet. I would like to upgrade my OS to Mountain Lion. How can I do this when the App store doesn't offer Mountain Lion anymore?
Thanks

http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion-consumer -single

HT4007 Downgraded OS from Mavericks to Mountain Lion, how to get Aperture to work on Mountain Lion?

Downgraded OS from Mavericks to Mountain Lion, how to get Aperture to work on Mountain Lion? My iMac (Intel) is older and Apple told me this model doesn't handle Mavericks well, recommended I step back to Mountain Lion, which was where Aperture was originally used. Aperture was upgraded when I installed Mavericks, need to go back to older version. How?

Erase disk drive
Restore backup made prior to upgrade
Allan

Just switched from Lion to Mountain Lion - Now terminal shows up during boot up and when shutting down. How do I stop this?

Just switched from Lion to Mountain Lion - Now, when I start my machine, the terminal shows up and runs through it's thing and then the normal screen shows up. This also happens when I shut down as well - the terminal shows up again. I have a MAC running Mountain Lion at work and this doesn't happen so I'm assuming this is not normal.
While my machine still runs, it's annoying and I fear this will lead to problems if I don't address the situation. How do I ge this to stop? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

They are being sent to the All Mail folder. The inbox is pretty much unaffected.
I don't want to hide the All Mail folder and forget about it. I am after the messages gone forever. Especially from the All Mail folder.
I'm the kind of person who uses email like sms. I use it to contact people annd delete 95% of the messages after reading. I don't want them archived. I don't want them stored in the All Mail folder. I want them totally gone.
And yes it seems Mail is downloading all my messages over and over. So my question is how to stop the messages being stored/archived and to instead be totally deleted.
In the gmail settings I found:
Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server.
When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Immediately delete the message forever. Instead of archiving it like I had set before. I'm not 100% sure if that'll fix the issue I am having. I'm sure you'll be able to tell me if I am on the right track.
And thanks for the quick reply.

How do I get MS Office 2011 to install from DVD on Mountain Lion?

I just did a clean install of OS X Mountain Lion from a prepared bootable SD-Card on a new partition of my harddrive and wanted to install Microsoft Office 2011 using the original disc. But after double clicking the installer icon nothing happened besides the rainbow colored spinner showing up and disappearing shortly after and my optical drive making some noise. Activity Monitor indicated that the process of the Installer application doesn't react so I had to force quit it. I tried it multiple times to install MS Office this way using the disc but the problem persisted, also after a reboot.
So far my system is still in a pretty fresh state since I installed hardly any separate apps yet and the most intrusive one of them is probably merely Sophos. OS X's Installer app worked the way it should when I was installing iLife the day before using the Applications Install DVD that came with my Mac.
When I installed Office 2011 the first time, presumably one year ago on another partition on the same Mac which was running OS 10.6, everything worked fine and the same is true for the time when I upgraded to OS 10.7 (although I didn't install Office again, I just kept everything on the same partition).
So is there anyone out there who experienced similiar problems and can please help solve this problem?

Well, that depends on what you mean when you say "verified". But as I wrote in the first post I was able to install iLife from disc on Mountain Lion without much ado. And just now I tested a DVD with some pictures on it and the disc drive would read and display all photos in Preview.
And given the facts that I rarely use my optical drive at all and that my machine is only little more than a year old, a drive failure seems quite unlikely. But thanks for your response anyway!

Fresh Install of Mountain Lion how do I export users from Lion Server

I've been having some issues with Lion Server, mainly Kerberos related and Profile Manager. So I want to start fresh with Mountain Lion.
I've installed ML and Server, and profile manager is working now for the first time (yay!)
Now I want to Import all my existing Open Directory users from Lion, I don't want to Import the entire OD though because I think some of my kerberos issues will just get carried over to ML.
I would like to just export the Users to a file then use ML server to import users from file, but I can't see an option to export in Lion Server, I have tried doing it from WGM on Lion but the 'users' file is not recognised by ML server

Great thanks for the reply, I'll try it tonight when everyone has logged off.
Yeah I was very pleased initially with kerberos on Lion, it worked great to start with, now I'm just getting expired tickets for a default realm when some users log in, yet other users continue to work fine.
I was planning to slowly install Mountain Lion Server and test is thouroghly but I've had a bit of a disaster that if forcing me to go live with ML server quicker than I wanted to!
Basically because on Lion Server I have all the Service Data on a separate drive, and I upgraded to ML server on a backup copy of Lion Server just to see what it was like, though now I've rebooted the original Lion drive but half of the services are now screwwed up because the ML Server must have changed them, so things like Wiki Server and Profile Manager are now broken from the Lion Server boot, they just show "Error Reading Settings"
I realise now I should have moved the Service data back to the local drive before doing a test upgrade so I wouldn't have messed it up! but now it seems like my best way forward is a fresh install of ML Server

How the **** do i actually get from lion 10.7.5 to mountain lion

for the love of all holy please tell me
i have the following
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
it wont update because there is nothing more i tried to go to mountain lion and has been a massive pain in my neck--- it says you can but you cant download the file so then i used Macupdate and got it there but now on install it says need 10.8.0 to do 10.8.4

Check that your computer is compatible with Mountain Lion.
To check the model number hold down the option/alt key, go to the Apple menu and select System Information.
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) model number 3,1 or higher
Your Mac needs:
OS X v10.6.8 or OS X Lion already installed
2 GB or more of memory (More is better - 4 GB minimum seems to be the consensus)
8 GB or more of available space
Model Numbers Computer Compatibility - Apple
Check to make sure your applications are compatible.
Application Compatibility
Do a backup before installing.
Boot using the Recovery volume (command -R). Use Disk Utility to Verify/Repair the disk and run Repair Permissions.
Restart normally.
If you can/do upgrade, I recommend you make a copy of the installer and move it out of your Applications folder. The installer self-destructs. The copy will keep you from having to download the installer again. You can make a bootable DVD/USB stick to install using this free program.
Bootable Drive DVD or USB Flash Drive – Lion Diskmaker
If you need/want more RAM, the 2 places I’ve seen recommended most to buy reliable RAM are below. I have purchased RAM serveral times from Other World Computing and have always been very satisfied with the product and service.
Crucial
Other World Computing
From Kappy
Install Mountain Lion Successfully from 10.6.8
From a brody
Mountain Lion 10.8 Updating requirements
I typed too slow once again.

HT1444 How to update from os x lion 10.7.4 to os x mountain lion?

I've been waiting for this update but every time I check for software update, I receive a message saying that I have the latest software. How can I get OS X Mountain Lion? Help! I reall want the latest software.

concerneduser wrote:
I've been waiting for this update but every time I check for software update, I receive a message saying that I have the latest software. How can I get OS X Mountain Lion? Help! I reall want the latest software.
Go to App store. Buy it, Install it (backup first) Simple.
Cheers
Pete

How can I get my addresses from OS X (Mountain lion) on my iPod 3G

My iPod 3G refuse to overtake my Adresses from my iMac (Mountain lion) via iTunes. When I click in iTunes this side (Infos) and click an Contats, a window appear that says: No contacts availeble, but there are many contacts on my iMac.
The same procedere with Calenders. The strange thing is, that all my calenders appaeared on my iPod.
Who can help?

My iPod is working in German.
Normally he can show "ä" or "ö"......
I Think the problem happens in the export process on the iMac. I tried different letter codes like "Windows latin" or others, but the result is always the same: The special german letters are replaced by other characters.
I hoped, you could tell me which is the right letter code to export my addresses cerrectly to the vCards, so that my iPod can read it correctly.
I Know this is a special german Problem with our special letters, but I will not believe, that there is no solution for this problem.

At a Genius Bar appointment yesterday, we determined that I needed to go to Mountain Lion from Lion. I purchased Mountain Lion at the Bar, and paused the install so that I could resume from home. Now I can't find it to resume. Not in Downloads. ?????

When I upgraded to Lion, my Parallels stopped working and I got a Bootcamp error message. It had worked fine for the prior year. I upgraded to Parallels 7. No luck. At the Genius Bar, the Genius uninstalled Bootcamp. No luck. I still get "The Boot Camp partition /dev/diskOs4 used by Hard Drive 1 is missing."
Another Genius suggested upgrading to Mountain Lion. While at the Bar, I purchased Mountain Lion and then we paused the install so that I could resume it at home. Once I got home, I can't find the Mountain Lion installer to resume. It's not in the Downloads file. Any clue?
My business programs all run on Windows, so I have to get it operating. The Genius Bar isn't much help. Does anyone know how to get Mountain Lion installed? How to get Parallels working?

The "Geniuses" (and I use that word in sarcasm) at the Bar are lying to you. Upgrading from Lion to Mt Lion will not fix whatever problems you are having. In fact it will most likely make them worse.
If you want to try installing Mt Lion to fix the problems you are having you will need to open the Mac App Store link in your Dock, Login to your Apple ID account for the MAS and go to your Purchases area. Mt Lion should be in there and you will be able to do a proper download. Once you either set your Mac into sleep or shut down and then left the internet connection at the Bar all record of that download was lost. So you will need to restart it again from the beginning, like described above.
Good Luck

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