Lion Startup Question

I have Lion installed and now every time at startup my calendar and mail opens. What can I do to stop that from opening? Thanks...

I have the opposite problem. I cannot get my ICal to open at all. I am really frustrated with LION!!

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How does one silence mountain lion startup sound?

How does one silence mountain lion startup sound?

After asking this question many times and always getting the ususal fixes (that don't work in Mountain Lion) Psst, Startninja, turn down the sound when you shut down, yada yada yada. And the "why don't you just put it to sleep" comments :/ duh.. Sometime we want to shut it down!! Even Apple support has no idea how to do it. Here's is the fix and it is so simple it hurts.
Controlling the volume of the startup chime is easy to set in the System Preferences Sound panel, but you need to make two different settings if you have external speakers connected to your Mac. There is no need to use scripts or any other coding to make this adjustment.
There are both internal and external speaker output settings in the sound preference pane. In order to adjust (or turn off) the volume of your Mac's internal speakers, nothing must be plugged into the headphone jack. Keep in mind that this setting completely controls the volume of your internal Mac speakers, so if you mute the sound, and have no external speakers, you will get no sound at all from your Mac.
To adjust the volume on your Mac's internal speakers:
Unplug speakers or headphones from the headphone jack.
Go to System Prefs > Sound, then click on the Output tab.
You will then see Internal Speakers (Type built-in) highlighted in the window.
Adjust the output volume (which also controls the chime volume) in the slider at the bottom of the window. Remember if you mute it there will be no internal speaker sound.
To set the volume for your external speakers:
Plug in speakers or headphones to the headphone jack.
Go to System Prefs > Sound >, then click on the Output tab.
You will then see Headphones (Type built-in) highlighted in the window.
Adjust the output volume (which controls the chime volume in the external speakers) with the slider at the bottom of the window. Remember if you mute it there will be no external speaker sound.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120513121111656
Lovin my Mac but thanks for nothing Apple support and community on this very easy to adjust issue.

I love osx mountain lion my question is why was air play taken out of specific app like quick time and iTunes i dont always want to display my whole computer when i am in airplay mode

i love osx mountain lion my question is why was air play taken out of specific app like quick time and iTunes i dont always want to display my whole computer when i am in airplay mode

Funny, my iTunes still has AirPlay capability without AirPlay Mirroring active.

I just bought a 2009 macbook pro with an os upgrade to lion. my question is how do i take the previous owners name (like when i bluetooth) to my name???

I just bought a 2009 macbook pro with an os upgrade to lion. my question is how do i change the previous owners name (like when i bluetooth) to my name???

Your MBP should have been given to you with the original installation disks and OS. The Lion OS is licensed to the person who sold it to you. You will have create your own account and purchase Lion if you wish to use it. Those are the stipulations in the licensing agreements.
Ciao.

Create Lion startup on Sandisk Cruzer?

I'd like to create a Lion startup disk on an 8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive for the sole purpose of running Disk Warrior on my main startup drive without having to boot from the DW DVD (which is painfully slow).
Suggestions?
I have re-partitioned the Cruzer with one (1) GUID partition, and Disk Utility indicates it has a capacity of 7.14GB, with 7.63GB available (yes, that's not a typo), and that the GUID partition is only 7.14GB. I am wondering why the single partition can't use more of the flash drive.
I created an installation of Lion on a 80GB USB drive, then added Disk Warrior, but because of the smaller partition, I have been unable to use DU to "Restore" from the "utility system" to the flash drive.
Ideas?

I have three of those little flash drives, all SandDisk Cruzers. I simply connected them, opened Disk Utility, and immediately formatted them. I did not bother to check if there was anything on the drive since I was not interested in it. I then used the instructions to create a bootable Lion install on one and the recovery assistant on the second (the third is brand new and I just formatted it - see screenshots below). There were/are no Sandisk folders on my hard drive, nor did I have a problem formatting them or using the restore function.
For the OP:
Initial screenshot:
After formatting:
(the disk1s1 is greyed out - not mounted - contains several MB of files and is named EFI, so that is the firmware. This results in the "regular" disk to only have 7.63 GB available).

Gray Startup Question Mark. I've tried everything!

Ok, so my Mac has been running slightly slow these past couple days, nothing I thought I should worry about, until today when I tried to restart it, it would not start up. It would come up with the gray screen and apple logo then just shut off. Then I tried the recovery mode to fix the disks. It told me to repair the HDD, which I tried; however, it couldn't be repaired. So I reformatted it, tried to reinstall Mavericks, but when that wasn't successful I tried to install Mountain Lion, but once again failed. It can't even find the startup disk.
Should I just buy a new hard drive or is there a way to fix that?
Also I don't really care about the files that were on there, most of them weren't important, and the ones that were I could easily have access to them in the future.
Help me out! Please, I need to fix my baby!

Question (?) Mark, Blinking Folder, or Gray Screen at Startup
These are related but not identical issues. Their causes are outlined in Intel-based Mac- Startup sequence and error codes, symbols. Solutions may be found in:
A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac
Mac OS X- Gray screen appears during startup
In most cases the problems may be caused by:
Problem with the computer's PRAM - See Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM.
Boot drive's directory has been corrupted - Repair with Disk Utility.
Critical system files are damaged or deleted - Reinstall OS X.
The disk drive is physically non-functional - Replace the hard drive.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
The main difference if you are using Lion or Mountain Lion is that you must first boot from the Recovery HD:
How to Boot From The Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstall Snow Leopard Without Erasing The drive
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing The Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

How do I resize my Lion startup partition?

Hi there,
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion by partitioning my drive and clean installing Lion on a blank partition. I copied most of my documents from the Snow Leopard partition onto an external hard drive to free up some space for the Lion partition. Then I made a blank partition and installed Lion on that partition, and used Migration Assistant to pull in my Applications, Settings, etc. Now I have a fully functional version of Lion, with most of my files on the Lion partition. However, the partition is virtually full, and I still have files on my external hard drive I need to swap onto the Lion partition. So naturally, I need to enlarge the Lion partition. The problem is that it's also my startup disk and the only partition with an operating system on it.
I deleted my Snow Leopard partition because frankly I'm satisfied with Lion and I don't need the old one. Yet my Lion partition cannot expand to fill that empty partition. I can leave my former Snow Leopard partition as unformatted Free Space (which is of course not writeable) or format it with HFS+ and use it as a regular storage partition. I would like to have just the one partition for my entire disk, though. I want all my files on the same partition, on the same drive, so my goal is to expand the Lion partition to occupy the entire drive. My understanding is that I can resize the startup volume, but I can't move it. Since my startup volume is #2 and the former Snow Leopard partition is #1, I would need to swap their order and delete the Snow Leopard partition to expand the Lion partition.
(The diskutil command in Terminal lists my blank/useless partition as disk0s2 and the Lion partition as disk0s3, so my current startup disk is definitely sequentially after my old one.)
The solutions I can think of:
-Use the Snow Leopard installation disk to run Disk Utility and resize the Lion partition while it is not the boot disk (but Disk Utility doesn't move partitions)
-Use iPartition to move the Lion partition and expand it to fill the entire disk (but iPartition can't resize the live disk - I would need to make a bootable DVD to run it)
-Use the former Snow Leopard partition for storage - say, a photograph archive or my iTunes library (acceptable but not ideal)
I would really appreciate any suggestions or information. Thank you!

Unfortunately, you cannot enlarge a Lion OSX partition with Disk Utility now (perhaps after an update), so even if you copy it to the old SL partition, you won't be able to expand it afterwards. Plus, the Recovery HD won't be copied.
You could "clone" your Lion partition, boot from the clone, reformat your internal HD, and re-clone back to it. That will work, with one very large exception: the Recovery HD will not be cloned, so you'll be out of luck trying to do anything from it. See Using the Recovery HD
You might be able to do the clone, reformat your internal HD, re-download the Lion Installer, install it on the internal, then use Setup Assistant to copy your stuff from the clone. See Using Setup Assistant on Lion

New to Mac (Lion USB Questions)

Ok, so I'm completely new to Macs, unless you consider a Mac 2 way back in the day (booted the os to ram from 2 or 3 floppy discs). I recently bought a macbook pro off of ebay that needed a little repair, but works non-the-less. I borrowed a Leapard CD from a friend and installed it. I updated everything as much as I could, and just used it here and there for the past month maybe, just getting use to the interface. The LCD is somewhat messed up, so I haven't used it as a daily device at all. So I logged into iTunes on it for the first time just 2-3 days ago, and apparently there is a security flaw, and my account got hacked and an attempted charge of gift cards to give to some other account were charged to paypal. Luckily, paypal saw the multiple charges for the same thing in less then a minute and automatically put them into dispute (I wasn't charged).
The actual fraud at this point isn't the issue, because I've changed the passwords and security questions for everything attached to iTunes (paypal, email, apple id), so all is secure on that front, and paypal is clearing up the charges as I type this out. The issue is that it happened in the first place. I'm guessing because it's an older version of the OS, it was a security flaw that is known about (since there is a 70 page post somewhere about similar instances), and I'm guessing it's fixed in Lion.
If it is, then I'm wanting to upgrade to Lion and be done with it. I just don't feel safe installing from the app store from an OS that is known to have had an account stolen on it. So, I'd like to install from scratch. I'm planning on installing from the thumbdrive via a physical store location (to impatient to order online at this point ). I'm mainly wanting to know, if I install from the USB device, can I do a full and complete system wipe and still install it from the USB drive without having to install an older OS first, like you do if you install it from the app store?
O-o maybe I should have only asked the questions in the last paragraph, but meh... I'm still furious about my account being stolen in the first month or so on mac os, when I've been using windows for over a decade (on the internet even) and have had no fraud what so ever... At this point, I'm going to just say it's the older OS, and get the newest one, and see. I just want to make sure I don't waste $70 getting the thumbdrive just to have to get Snow leapard to install it. I really don't trust the os I currently have installed, and would like to start from complete scratch.

"I'm mainly wanting to know, if I install from the USB device, can I do a full and complete system wipe and still install it from the USB drive without having to install an older OS first,"
Yes, you can do a clean install from the flash drive. You can only upgrade from Snow Leopard with the flash drive.
I cannot answer your questions about fraud. We don't know the specifics of what happened to you nor whether this was the result of a security flaw in the OS or elsewhere or simply a failure on your part to maintain the security of your data.

Can't purchase Mountain Lion - security questions

i can't purchase Mountain Lion because i'm given three mandatory security questions, when i only defined ONE (plus date of birth) in my Profiles Security Settings - which was done automatically upon creation of profile, one question, not three.
i've tried going to my Profile and add the required two questions, but that option isn't available.
thank you! - (this is quite urgent...)

 Account Security Team (AST) 
Check the AppleCare number for your country here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE131
Call them up, and let them know you would like to be transferred to the Account Security Team.
Or… click on the blue "Start your support request online" links.

Startup Question Mark

I'm troubleshooting someone's G4 Cube (500 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB HD) which has a startup issue. I assume the flashing question mark/folder at startup means that the CPU can't find the Startup Disk, but I can't resolve the problem. I ran the Apple Hardware Test (everything's okay), but it still won't boot. I tried the Software Restore and Software Install disks, but they won't work. I've tried restarting by holding down the "C" key (nothing) and the option key (I get the CD and arrow icons, but nothing works). I've also zapped the PRAM and let the Cube chime 4 times, still nothing. Anyone with anymore suggestions?
(I don't know what version of Mac OS is installed, I assume somewhere between 10.1 to 10.3)

Startup the computer from another boot volume, i.e. an external Firewire device. Remove any other unnecessary devices from the Computer.
It could be the drive has totally failed.
Shutdown the computer and then boot it up again, but note if you hear any HD activity at all. Make sure the room is as quiet as possible and ask the customer to listen out as they know what noises their machine makes better than anyone, so they will notice anything out of the ordinary.
If your not getting an HD icon in Startup Manager then it could be the system, directories or something is corrupt. Or the drive has failed.
Has he had this problem before? Did anything change or was installed prior to the problem occurring?

Lion install questions

Hi, I Have A Couple of questions about installing lion, first can you run snow leopard apps? and second, i have root enabled in snow leopard, onced installed will i have to reenable it? thanks!

SilverArrow23 wrote:
first can you run snow leopard apps?
If by "snow leopard apps" you mean ppc apps, no you can not run those in Lion. check here for a compatibility list. Not sure about the other question.

Lion Performance Question

My wife's MacBook Pro has the 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM. It currently runs Snow Leopard. We've been using MobileMe to sync the calendar and address book with her iPhone, but that is going away. So if I upgrade the MS Office and VMWare Fusion, we can upgrade to Lion.
My question is whether Lion's performance is adequate on the 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, because that CPU is listed as the minimum CPU for Lion. Snow Leopard runs well and I don't want to upgrade and lose performance. Thanks in advance.

A Core 2 Duo is the minimum processor but not the actual one that's in your computer. It's quite sufficient for Lion. After all the first C2Ds ran at 2.0 GHz and are not nearly as fast as yours. Of greater importance is RAM. 2 GBs is the minimum, but 4 GBs would be much better. More if possible since you also run Fusion.

MacBook Pro running OS X Lion startup disk is full.

I am running OS X Lion on my startup disk is full. I checked my strorage in the about this mac window. 49.72GB of my HD space is taken up by Other. Also in Disk Utility under the partiton almost the entire rectangle is light blue. I am worried that my MacBook is to old to run the software. I use my machine to run Adobe CS4. The error turns up when I run photoshop so I am unable to run the program at all. Please Help!

Here is the link which was screwed up by the iCloud/Mobile Me transition.
1 this is the index go to 30 http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
This worked for me from a google search http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/30.html
http://Pondini.org/TM/30.html

Curious -- Startup question (Hard Disk icon appear and computer is frozen)

I came home today, turned on my new MacBook Pro 15" and stepped away. A very few seconds later I came back and instead of seeing everything all loaded up as usual, I got a grey screen with a picture of my hard drive in the center with an arrow pointing up towards it under it. I tried to use my mouse, to no effect. Everything was just frozen. No question mark or warning, just a photo-realistic picture of my hard drive (or a standard Apple hard drive) and that arrow. I clicked the power button, and it restarted and everything worked fine. Could someone give me some advice/feedback as to what this was? Is it symptomatic of a more serious hard drive problem?

Wonderlad: If your MBP started up just fine on the second try, and you were able to run Disk Utility's Repair Disc routine twice on it (as in fact you did) without any major problems showing up, you probably have nothing to worry about. It sounds as though you inadvertently pressed the Option key the first time you started up (when the hard disk icon appeared and the startup didn't continue), or made some other minor mistake of that sort.
Each of your hard drives is represented by at least two lines in the left pane of Disk Utility. The upper line for each drive shows the drive's manufacturer and model number (in the case of an external drive, it's the drive unit inside the enclosure, not the maker of the enclosure); the line or lines indented beneath that one are the volumes (partitions) you've created on the drive. It sounds as though each of your drives has only one volume on it, and if that's true, the Repair Disk button has the same effect regardless of whether you've selected the drive mechanism or the volume on it.
When there's a CD or DVD in your optical drive, the optical drive mechanism and the disc also appear in Disk Utility's left pane. Disk Utility can't repair them, though.

Mountian Lion Updating Question

Hey All!
I own a early 2011 13' Macbook Pro. I started downloading Mountian Lion and upon reading some reviews have decided to postpone installing it until an update is released that fixes some bugs. My question is, If I leave the install in the launchpad (just don't install), when I go to install it after the update, will it install with the newest version? Or will I have to install the old version of Mountian Lion then use software update.
Thanks guys!

It will install the current version. You would then use the App Store to update it.
EDIT:
Copy the installer to your Downloads folder for safe keeping. You can also make a USB flash drive installer;
Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer
1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash drive size.
3. Locate the saved Mountain/Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.

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