Lion Crappy

As the ex sales Director for HP ES Africa you could not find a better convert to Mac. That being said upgrading my Macbook pro 2,4 ghz, 4gb ram from Snow Leopard to Lion is driving me to consider going back to Windows. The system runs slower and Entourage takes 15 minutes to load. Besides trying to reinstall Snow is there a patch or ugrade??

Something's mucking up your system. It should be at least as fast as SL, if not much faster.
Create a new User.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
Then, go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > "+" (make it an admin acct) and test the apps in this new account, if they work the problem is isolated to your User and not systemwide.
I don't use Entourage, so I can't comment there.

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Color Management Trouble! HP, Lion, CS5 ***!

Hey there,
I've spent the last 6 hours on and off the phone with HP tech support, which is blaming Mac OS Lion and Adobe Creative Suite 5 for the crappy color management that I'm getting out of a new HP Laserjet CP5225.
Can anyone give me some tips to improve my color output?
I can print the same color to a Canon Pixma Pro, a small cheap Epson RGB printer, and an HP Indigo Digital Press, but it comes out too dark and lacking yellow in the mix via printing on the mac.
I have had more problems with color management in my Macs than I had in 15 years of owning PCs. I figure that the solution is probably more complex, with the driver, the Color Sync "utility," and Adobe all getting in the mix to screw up the reliable output of color.
Any tips would be very much appreciated.
HP suggests that I give up the idea of being able to print in CMYK and just try to convert and print everything using an RGB color profile.
I have been writing down settings, changing one at a time, and printing a sample... and so forth... since 3:30 p.m. this afternoon -- and no luck... Good color seems impossible to achieve.
Should I just send back the printer tomorrow and give up now? I just went through a terrible experience with a Konica Minolta Grafx, so maybe I should cut my losses quick on this one.
Any help or suggestions would be terrific.

Hey there,
I've spent the last 6 hours on and off the phone with HP tech support, which is blaming Mac OS Lion and Adobe Creative Suite 5 for the crappy color management that I'm getting out of a new HP Laserjet CP5225.
Can anyone give me some tips to improve my color output?
I can print the same color to a Canon Pixma Pro, a small cheap Epson RGB printer, and an HP Indigo Digital Press, but it comes out too dark and lacking yellow in the mix via printing on the mac.
I have had more problems with color management in my Macs than I had in 15 years of owning PCs. I figure that the solution is probably more complex, with the driver, the Color Sync "utility," and Adobe all getting in the mix to screw up the reliable output of color.
Any tips would be very much appreciated.
HP suggests that I give up the idea of being able to print in CMYK and just try to convert and print everything using an RGB color profile.
I have been writing down settings, changing one at a time, and printing a sample... and so forth... since 3:30 p.m. this afternoon -- and no luck... Good color seems impossible to achieve.
Should I just send back the printer tomorrow and give up now? I just went through a terrible experience with a Konica Minolta Grafx, so maybe I should cut my losses quick on this one.
Any help or suggestions would be terrific.

USB Card Reader no longer works after Lion update.

My USB card reader/writers no loger work since I "upgraded" to Lion 10.7.4. All was well with Snow Leopard, but with no built-in SD card reader I must rely on USB readers. Anyone know how to fix this issue? Are there updates avaiable or coming soon to resolve this issue?

Hi MissMedia 83 and welcome to the forums!!
This has been a trend that a lot of AppleCare advisors have been seeing as call drivers. Essentially, many of the USB internet modems that are used widely require a 32bit kernel to operate. In Snow Leopard, although the system was in 64bit by defauly, people had the option of booting the computer into a 32bit mode to use the USB modems successfully.
With Lion, however, no such options exists. If your USB modem device is only compatible with a 32bit machine, then your only options are to either downgrade to Snow Leopard or find a different provider that supports 64bit.
Sorry to be the bearer of crappy news. My suggestion is to use something like a pocket wifi or personal hotspot, where you have a wifi network that is being created by a small device that connects to the cell network. Much much easier and your computer thinks it's just a regular wifi network.
This is what I think the issue is anyway. Could be wrong.
Any other suggestions?

How can i download mountain lion, if it tells me it is damaged or not signed?

I recently bought Mountain lion and tried to download it the first time it went well, but due to a internet faiure the dowload was canceled when I tried to download it again I couldnt it said that it was either damaged or not signed... what does that even means!!!!! I want to download mountain lion as soon as possible!!!

Means you have a corrupted DL. All I can suggest is try again or post your issue to http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact.html?form=account and let them deal with this crappy delivery system.

Exporting OS X Mail from Mountain Lion to Snow Leopard

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I partitioned my iMac HD to have two partitions: Macintosh HD has Mountain Lion; I reinstalled Snow Leopard on Macintosh HD 2. Best part: you can access your user-created files from EITHER disk partition. But not so OS X Mail. I wanted to revert to Snow Leopard, since I don't like the iOS-like Mountain Lion (swipe THIS!), but Mail was a problem since all my Snow Leopard Mail was successfully migrated over to Mountain Lion during upgrade. But I think I found a way to Export Mail from ML to (a clean install of) SL.
Try this:
1. Open Mail in ML. For each folder you wish to have back in SL, Export it to your ML Desktop as an .mbox file. Depending on the folder size, this can take from a few seconds to several minutes. You'll see an .mbox icon for the particular folder on your Desktop. If the word "partial" appears between the folder name and the .mbox suffix, wait a few moments for the Export to complete, at which time the word "partial" will disappear. E.g., for a folder named "Mary", if it's a huge one, the icon will first appear as "Mary.partial.mbox"; when the Export is done, you'll see "Mary.mbox".
2. When you've Exported all your desired folders as above, you can exit ML and re-start your Mac in SL. Open Mail in Snow Leopard, and once again, for each file you just Exported in ML to the Desktop there, select "Import Data From Apple Mail" and choose the folder from the Desktop in ML to which your mboxes were Exported. When the Import starts, you can see via a progress bar how far along it is. When done, you'll see a new folder in your SL Mail called "Import"; click on it to reveal the folder you just Imported!
3. Then drag the folder you just Imported out of the Import folder to "On My Mac" in SL Mail; you can then delete the Import folder.
4. Repeat until all your folders are where you want them (in SL).
5. When you have time, go back into ML and clear all those .mbox files from your Desktop.
There MAY be an easier way, but this is what worked for me.

The iOS view vs classic view in Mail is not the problem; I've already configured for classic view.
Mountain Lion itself is.
My short list (to date) of crappy Mountain Lion behavior; items marked with a double asterisk (**)represent the worst of Mountain Lion for me.
** No up/down arrows in scroll bar slider;
Expose` not as easy to navigate as in Snow Leopard;
Mail does not request passwords for either receive or send;
No "Save Draft" icon in Mail compose window (workaround: use command-s);
"Save As" selection missing in most app menus;
No separate Search window in Safari (workaround: use Firefox or Opera);
** Can't export Mail from Mountain Lion into Snow Leopard if downgrading (I compiled this list before I stumbled on the method in this thread, but I'd prefer to effect this with Unix symbolic links);
iWork 09 seems to have "circled the wagons" re compatibility with MS Office or LibreOffice (workaround: just use Libreoffice);

Sound not working under Lion. No output device. Need fix!

Hi there,
after installing Lion 10.7 I never managed to get my sound working. Under System Preferences -> Sound I got no sound devices installed. Same happens when I open Audio-Midi-Setup. Everything is greyed out, can't even add something. Audio-Midi-Setup also will CRASH when trying to configure anything.
I tried already everything as suggested in forums:
- Repaired Disk Permissions
- Rebootet several times
- Reset PRAM
- Reinstalled OSX Lion again again and again
- Updated to 10.7.2 (all the same crap)
- Deleted some plists and stuff as suggested by users
- Ran Apple Hardware Test from my second SL Applications Disk
I've spent hours and nothing seems to work with this crappy OS. Apple, we really need a fix for this!
Lion = Windows Vista!

Hi,
not sure if this helps, but you can try. I installed Lion today and found myself in a Czech localization of Mac OS. (I had Czech set as my preferred language, but Czech localization was not available before Lion, so this was new for me.) Since I found the localized folder names extremely confusing, I decided to switch to English. However, after a reboot the sound stopped working and I experienced exactly the same problems as you're describing. Out of desperation I tried switching the localization back to Czech and voila, the sound is working again. Let's hope this gets fixed soon.

Photo booth image size after lion upgrade

While in Snow Leopard, whenever I take a photo using Photo Booth and drag and drop it onto an email message in a web browser, it pastes a smaller (approx 60-70kb) size of the image.
With Lion, whenever I do this it pastes a bigger image (around 150-200kb). My current internet connection is a bit crappy and it takes a wee bit of a while to upload.
I know that I can use Mail and specify what image size should be sent, but I don't use Mail
Is it possible to revert to the old image size for Photo Booth?

Dragging and dropping to a web-based email (gmail) makes the photo appear inside the message itself, and not as an attachment, which is what I wanted.

I want my Mountain Lion wallpaper...

Snow Leopard.... I had a Snow Leopard
Lion... Yes, I had a lion...
Mountain Lion, I have a galaxy thing.. or a choice of 30 other crappy pics or the snow leopard or lion I used to have.
Yes I can google mountain lion pics and throw one on my screen but.... I want the apple one! (Stamps foot)
I want the apple logo mountain lion!
Give it to us apple, make the people happy!

It's possible that Mountain Lion is hidden, so unhide it > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4928 Then, you will be able to download Mountain Lion from the Purchases tab

MacBook Air 2011 Fan increased after installed mountain lion

Hi all,
I have a Macbook Air 2011, Intel core i7. After when I installed ML I noticed that battery go down very fast (about 2:40h) and the Fan speed RPM is about 6500 all time, but I haven't any strong operation pending or App. I have the same app open since lion (Internet, chat, jdownloader) in background (skydrive,evernote,weatherhd) the same app and background task I have with Lion.
In monitor activity all task is from 1% to 20-30% of usage.
Any Tips?

I only have the fan kick in when the graphics is getting hit hard (playing games, driving external displays, etc) with crappy intel on board graphics.
Is your MacBook Air in a protective case, skin or having anything block the vent hinge?
Definitely sounds like the OS thinks it needs to keep running the fan.
You might try this smart temperature desktop widget and monitor your temperature to see if there is any sane reason for the fans to be on (they are loud!).
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html
My CPU Temp A Diode reports 117 plugged into AC with no fan running on a 13" MBA mid 2011

How can I stop Lion from overwriting my apache conf files

I am at the point of abandoning OS X forever and returning to loading NetBSD on macs. I have never been so angry at a piece of Apple software.
On reboot, the server completely wiped out my apache configuration and rebuilt it. Thankfully I had backups.
How I can prevent Lion from interfering with my apache setup? I will NEVER use that crappy admin tool again. Webmin is FAR superior to it if I need a GUI tool. I can live in the shell very happily. I don't want to have to install a new webserver from source if I can avoid it. I just want to stop Lion from destroying my conf files.
How do I wrest control from this monster?

All we did was not modify httpd.conf other than adding an include at the end. If you put your content in other files, it doesn't seem to mess with them.

Does anyone know how to make WireTap Studio work with Lion?

I installed Lion in August, but I have been so busy that I haven't tried to use some of my applications with it until now. One of my favourite sotware suites, Wire Tap Studio, does not seem to be compatible with Lion. This is more than disappointing; it is such a disappointment that I am prepared to ditch Lion and go back to Snow Leopard, if I knew how. Has anyone had a similar experience, and is there a solution?

I am a bit late to the party . Just discovered that wiretap studio no longer works..Ive regularly upgraded the OS and recently I upgraded to Yosemite and its the first time I've had this issue.
I cant wiretap other than via a mic which results in crappy sound. Apparently Ambrosia are not going to make a fix..
Anyone know of an alternative that can capture sound internally without the use of a mic the way wiretop did. Ive looked at MixPAd... It doesnt capture internal sound as far as I can see and Onedesof Audio recorder came with a Firefox Warning about possible corruption or tampering .
I want to capture good quality sound so I can study the arrangements without background noise filtering in via a mic.

Mountain Lion freezes when opening Chrome, Firefox, and Safari

Hi, I have a mid-2012 750GB MacBook Pro 15" (NOT the retina display) with Mountain Lion 10.8.4.
As of a few weeks ago (mid July 2013), whenever I opened Chrome, the laptop would freeze a few minutes later. The arrow changed to the beach ball and could move, but I couldn't click anything and Force Quit would not open. I had to manually power down the laptop each time. I tried Safari and Firefox and got the same results.
HOWEVER, I downloaded a basic web browser called Lightning which hasn't caused any freezes at all.
But as it's a pretty crappy program, I'd like to have this problem fixed before I go back to college this fall.
Any ideas? Any other details/info I should post? All help is appreciated Thanks

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Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
{ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; sudo crontab -l; } 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
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Step 3
{ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -f -a TextEdit
Step 4
ls -A /e*/{la,mach}* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts .la* 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
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Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' | open -f -a TextEdit
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OS X Lion, NFS shares, Time Machine?

A few years ago I bought a Mac Mini server. I wanted to use it as a storage server using attached drives. I got everything up and running but kept running into the same problem: The NFS server deamon would stop / crash for no apparent reason when I was writing large files to the server over NFS.
I spent some time troubleshooting the issue but never resolved it and eventually resorted to wiping out OS X on the Mac Mini server an install CentOS Linux instead. The NFS deamon here is rock solid and I have used it ever since.
Fast forward to today where my Time Capsule died due to the usual power supply failures (thanks to Apple for a crappy design). I then realized that I could use my Mac Mini Server as a host for Time Machine, I'd just need to get it running OS X Server again. I would still want to serve writeable NFS shares so this leads to my question:
Does anyone know for sure whether OS X Mountain Lion has had any improvements to the NFS deamon over previous versions? I'd be quite happy to buy the new OS, but I'd prefer to be a little more confident that all the work would pay off (in the form of a stable NFS service)

The Server.app and Server Admin utilities for Lion no longer let you configure NFS. However the NFS software is still there and in fact was significantly upgraded and now supports NFS v4.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4695

Reformat of hard drive wiped lion recovery partition

and internet recovery takes an eternity, i am redownloading lion from the appstore (to build a usb recovery pen) but i had to pay for it despite it coming preloaded on my laptop
can i be reimbursed for this?
system is an early 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 2.2ghz i7 that came preloaded with lion, so no reinstall disks just a recovery partition (thats gone) and internet recovery

it only took so long because i have a crappy internet connection i think it downloads basically the files from the recovery partition from online.
i lost the recovery partition by formatting my drive when restoring a time machine backup, and when that installation wouldn't let me past the login screen i restarted going into the internet recovery, it took around 1.5hrs to download the necessary files (~1mb connection ) and loaded straight into what looked like the recovery partition, now in order to partition my hard drive for windows(says i have a broken partition map, fixing that can only be done outside of the operating system).
hence i'm downloading lion as we speak from the appstore to keep on a usb stick
edit: also internet recovery when it's downloading shows just a spinning globe with a progress bar and a timer at the bottom, it also appears to not save the files it's downloaded, just caches them

Lion & Logic 9.1.5 Fail

Not since Windows Vista drove me to Mac 4 years ago have I been so frustrated with an OS & a pro audio program.
Got a brand new mac mini about 4 weeks ago - upgraded from an early 2010 MBP - and installed Logic and began working on both new projects and projects I had archived on my external HD.
A month into it I am still having daily issues with Lion and Logic that crash my program, cause audio to suddenly quit working, cause beach balls to appear from nowhere and spin endlessly - Fail with both Apogee Duet and now Apogee One, and the kicker is, Apple makes both Lion and Logic!! Every bit of hardware and software (aside from the Apogee interface) are made by Apple, yet the program is as unstable as my old 2002 desktop PC system!
On the MBP with Snow Leopard, everything worked. It always just worked. And I didn't even have to think twice about it.
Now? I can't get through a writing session without a crash or ridiculous delay that completely saps the creativity right out of the session.
I don't know what else to say. I can't look for specific issues, because honestly, I think it's just a matter of the two programs not working together!
What will happen first? Will Apple get Lion and Logic to play nice, or will this writer and producer be looking at a crappy Win 7 system just to get through a single session without a hang or crash???
Just frustrated! Apple isn't supposed to be like this!

facing the same epic fail issues since i bought my mac pro with Lion preinstalled and downloaded (ARGH!) Logic Pro 9 ... using an apogee rosetta as i/o and wordclock via optical .. never a problem with a G5 and Tiger... lion and logic f*** up everything (workflow?! what exactly was that?) ... constant digi-clicks tell me that the apogee clock ist ignored, logic produces a klick with constant dropouts only and no way to sync audio to the click or whatever .....
worst is: they (e.g. apple) keeps us from downgrading to Snow Leopard, no help, no support, no responsibility ...

Lion Crappy

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