Listen up people!!! Before upgrading to Lion, make a backup!!!

And not just a TimeMachine backup -- go out and buy an external hard drive (they are cheap) and use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to make a bootable clone of the disk.

cathy fasano wrote:
And not just a TimeMachine backup -- go out and buy an external hard drive (they are cheap) and use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to make a bootable clone of the disk.
I wish I had done a backup other than TM. Lion is working perfectly on my MBP (2010) except it will not recognize my TM backup on a WD MyBookWorld external drive any longer. I posted elsewhere and had a response that said that Western Digital is aware of the problem and is working on a work around.
Does anyone here know of a fix for this?

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I'm on a Macbook Pro and all of my software is up-to-date.
The photos and events, etc. appear to be present in my photo library, but I cannot see the actual images--only an outlined placeholder.

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to rebuild the thumbnails. This can take 3 or 4 goes to work.

TS4009 before upgrading to Lion, I switched from MobileMe to iCloud. At that time I used my MobileMe user name and password. I purchased additional storage space to 20GB. I was unabl to send any emails during this time. After researching, I upgraded t

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Please help!

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Unfortunately you can't, the additional storage belongs to your first account, you can't transfer it.

Is a bootable clone necessary before upgrading to Lion (also Parallels 6)?

I'm thinking about upgrading to Lion on the MBP and the MacPro where I am running Parallels 6 with Windows 7.
Two questions:
1. How bad of an idea is it to do this without running a backup that includes a full bootable clone? I have a full backup of the machines but I think (?) someone advised doing a bootable clone before doing this upgrade. Not sure but wondering if anyone has any good advice on this. I guess the need for the bootable clone (assuming I am moving to Lion) would be in case I need to reload all the settings and everything from the year and a half I spent getting everything to my liking (no small amount of work)? I mean, I wouldn't re-load the bootable clone and then only work off of Snow Leopard so I guess (?) I am asking if there is other info in the bootable clone that makes it different from a normal backup in such an instance.
2. Does anyone know of any definitive documentation that tells me whether to upgrade to Parallels 7 first or if I go to Lion first for the upgrade? Does one need to go before the other?
Thanks.
Jon

hotwheels 22 wrote:
1. How bad of an idea is it to do this without running a backup that includes a full bootable clone?
If your Lion upgrade hoses, like it usually does for those upgrading over a complicated Snow Leopard, a hold the option key bootable clone of Snow Leopard on a external drive will get you using the computer in the time it takes to boot off of it.
It will also allow you to completely erase the internal drive and reverse clone Snow Leopard right back on.
If you do have to erase Lion, make sure you do it via the Partiton tab, so the entire drive is erased, not just the Lion OS X Partition.
2. Does anyone know of any definitive documentation that tells me whether to upgrade to Parallels 7 first or if I go to Lion first for the upgrade? Does one need to go before the other?
You'll have to talk to Parallels, but if the software works with 10.6 and 10.7 then it's best to upgrade to the 10.6/10.7 version on 10.6 (make a clone first before doing anything) then checking it out well before updating the clone.
Take your time, investigate all your software before making a leap, a clone or two will most certainly be of valuable assistance.
Move slowly and carefully, don't do too much at once or you won't know what is causing your issues.
Remember software like Parallels and others install kext files that can break on OS X upgrades, if you get a gray screen, simply hold Shift key and reboot to get into the machine.
Ideally it's best to install Snow Leopard fresh, then upgrade to Lion, then install all programs then user files last, hopefully you won't have to do all that but it is the most reliable method of insuring a pristine system and upgrade free of the unknowns.
Learn how to do clone here, formatting and other instructions too.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

Removing Classic before upgrading to Lion

My Intel Mac has a lot of old Classic stuff on it, as the result of using Migration Assistant from an older Mac. Before I upgrade to Lion, I have been eliminating or replacing old PowerPC apps. I also want to clean out old Classic stuff. Some of it easy to identify. But I'm not sure about one area in particular.
I have a folder labeled "System", which has an X on the folder icon (for Mac OS X), which contains the subfolder "Library". I also have a folder labeled "System Folder" without the X. It contains a lot of things which I can definitely identify as Classic (Mac OS 9).
Is this "System Folder" left over from OS 9, and can I delete the whole thing?
Thanks,
Marcia

Kappy, thanks for the very quick answer. I did remove that folder, and everything works fine. But I have a further question.
I now see that the folder labeled "System" which has in it one subfolder labeled "Library", is almost (but not quite) the duplicate of another top level folder labeled "Library". See simple hierarchy below. Is one of these also left over from OS 9?
MacIntosh HD
     Library
     System
          Library
And perhaps a better question, when I upgrade to Lion, will these folders be overwritten by new ones, and is all my worrying a moot point?
Thanks again,
Marcia

Are there benefits of erasing disc before upgrading from Lion to Mavrick?

A friend suggested backing up only my necessary files on my Lion based MBP, wiping the disc clean (erasing), and then installing Maverick. He says it will clean out any old junk and make my MBP run really fast. If true I would like to do that, but would like confirmation and suggestions on best steps to accomplish the feat. Thanks!

Yes. On the off chance your old system is somewhat corrupted a fresh install prevents any of that from corrupting the new system. I recommend it. But, if that is not feasible to do, then be sure you do this before any change:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion
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
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 then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.

Before upgrading to Lion

I read some different stories on FCS 3 and Lion. Is it save to upgrade? Or do I loose functionality like my blackmagic intensity card and the voice over tool.
FCP is running on a mac pro 2.66ghz 2009
TIA

Pjotr1964 wrote:
First thing is that iCloud isn't working on 10.6.8 and I use mobile.me for storage and sync. Don't want to loose that.
Second thing is that I think Apple will move towards more iApps and functionality in Lion.
But I want to stick with FCP 7 for now. Until it's clear if Apple admits it's mistake with FCP X and supports FCP 7 again (don't think so)
You don't lose Mobile Me by moving to Lion. Syncing is moved to iCloud only if you sign up for it. Storage stays on your MM iDisk. FCP 7 -actually all of FCS 2009, works fine in Lion too.

How can I make lion to recognize my USB 3.5g ZTE mf626 modem? It worked before upgrade fine.

The modem worked fine before upgrading to LION, now the hardware isn't recognized by the MBP, I unistalled the software and started the installing again, but nothing happened. It simply doesn't work.

Your Mac is probably running in 64-bit mode under Lion while the driver is still 32-bit. You'll need a new 64-bit driver for Lion, which may be an issue depending on the vendor.
See item 2 here:
http://www.macmedics.com/blog/2011/07/20/os-x-lion-and-lion-server-available-fro m-the-mac-app-store/
I've just order a US Robotics USR5637 modem as that's meant to work under Lion—Apple's Apple Modem is no longer supported.

Will Lion make my Office documents not open?

I have MANY .doc and .docx documents from my PC days that I NEED. Does this upgrade to Lion make those not open in Pages like they used to? I enjoyed using Pages for .doc and .docx files along with Pages files. I was hearing that Lion makes Office files not open or work anymore. Is this so?

No, no. That's just silly confused people who have old versions of Office which require Rosetta to run (or an older PPC-based Mac), and Lion no longer includes - and can't run - Rosetta.
An upgrade to Lion will not affect the ability of your Pages application to open those files.

Since upgrading to Lion, iDVD does an unexpected end when I click the burn icon ... ?

I'm trying to burn an iDVD project to a DVD-R disk and each time I click the Burn icon, iDVD goes into an unexpected end and closes. I burned this project numerous times before upgrading to Lion, with no issues. Anyone have any ideas on a solution? I'm running iDVD version 7.1.2 on a MacBook Pro

Thanks again but I have no peripheral devices connected. It's very annoying whenever I close the lid the logo stays lit and the computer does not go to sleep (light on front stays solid white). Each time it happens I have to open and close the lid 3-4 times before it finally goes to sleep. It's as if the computer gets hung up trying to go to sleep.

Upgraded to Lion and Safari won't open. I have completed all available software upgrades, reset the macbook several times, no luck. Any suggestions?

I'm using a 2008 macbook 10.7.4 operating system.
I had purchased lion a while ago but had to wait for a fast internet connection to download and install.
I did that today and now safari won't open.
I have reported the issue as it does automatically.
But obviously I would love to have a solution to the problem.
I do have time machine and completed a back-up just before upgrading to Lion - so if I have to I can reverse back to snow leopard, but that's a last resort.
Any solutions or work-arounds for this? I can't seem to find any other solutions from the blogs.

Before anything else...try...
Quit Safari.
Go to ~/Library/Preferences
Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari. If that helped, move the.plist file to the Trash. If not, move it back to the Preferences folder.
~ (Tilde) character represents the Home folder

Aperture 3.1.3 won't open after upgrade to Lion

Using latest Aperture 3.1.3 on Mac Mini, 2.53 Core Duo, 4GB. Worked fine before upgrade to Lion last week.
Repaired permissions, deleted com.apple.aperture preferences (in now hidden ~/Library), deleted program and reinstalled as new download from App store.
Error message upon startup says:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
BTW - "Option - Cmd" during startup won't get to Aperture repair option.
Maybe I am missing something simple. Anybody have any ideas? Thank you!

Ok - found my own solution after a more thorough search of forums. Tried it and this solved the problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15111356#15111356
(Thanks!!!)
In a nutshell,my guess is that my installing Motion 5 was the culptrit, as there seems to be something that installing Final Cut and /or Motion does to affect the Library structure of Aperture.
The suggested deleting and re-downloading of the plugin manager buried deep in /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.frameworks/Versions/B/PluginManager did the trick.
Aperture works like it should.

How do I make a back up on Time Machine before upgrading to Mountain Lion?

A detailed process would be greatly appreciated. I've heard I should use time machine before upgrading to Mountain Lion for reasons I cannot remember.
Thanks!

Connect an external drive to your Mac. Open Disk Utility, it is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, and see if the external is formated Mac Extended (Journaled) and if it is not you can either use the Partition tab to Re-partition it as one partition and format it Mac Extended (Journaled) or you can use the Erase tab to Erase the drive and format it the Mac format. Name it anything you like.
Once that is done close Disk Utility and open System Preferences and go to the Time Machine Applet. Once that is open, If OS X doesn't ask you if you want to use that external as a TM backup disk, select "SelectBackup Disk" and select that external as a place to store backups. Then move the slider from Off to On and then TM will start the process of making a backup of your system. Once it is finished I suggest you turn it back off.

Is there any way to make a snow leopard partition on an early 2011 MacBook Pro that was upgraded to Lion, without the original boot disk?

So I have an early 2011 MacBook pro, I believe it shipped with snow leopard originally, as I purchased and upgraded to Lion fairly early on. I am trying to make a partition right now and have it run snow leopard so I can use programs that have PowerPC.
I should note, I replaced both the RAM and the harddrive in my Macbook pro. I changed from 4 GB of ram (that came shipped) to 8 GB of ram from a 3rd party, that I installed on my own months ago, have registered in the computer and have been working fine for quite some time now.
Also I should note I replaced my harddrive. I went from what ever the standard 500 GB harddrive that shipped with 15 inch early 2011 MB pro's. I now have a 3rd party SSD that's 240GB's that I also installed on my own, (at the same time as the RAM---Black friday items) The harddrive has been working just fine since then.
In installing the harddrive I borrowed a friends external harddrive and used a program called carbon copy cloner to get everything over to the SSD.
Now here is my issue. I have ordered the Snow Leopard (10.6.3) install disks from apple, I have created a partition on my SSD for snow leopard, but when I try to select the install disc for snow leopard at boot I get three beeps.
I know this issue has been posted elsewere but it said answered and the answer is no longer available. I also am unsure if any of the RAM or Harddrive swapping could have been causing the issue. I have the old harddrive and RAM still, but unfortunatley have no external harddrive anymore or money to afford one.
Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them ] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks).
Let me know If there is anything I can do. I'm a now broke college student so i'd like to spend as little $$$$ as possible
*PS I should also note the DVD drive is working fine, it reads the disk, the disk is brand new, it plays DVD's fine and has never had any issues in the years i've used it for similar tasks*
sorry for the long drawn out post, I just wanted to include as much as possible from what I've seen other people have issues with

BrettGoudy wrote:
...Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them ] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks)...
As the last post suggests, call Apple and order a replacement original disc for about $17. They will ask you the model and serial numbers.
Your retail version of Snow Leopard OS 10.6.3 will not work on that Mac as it requires a minimum of OS X 10.6.7 to boot and operate.
Another alternative is to again borrow another Mac to install your retail Snow Leopard into an external HD or partition, upgrade it to 10.6.8 and then clone it back to a partition on your MBP.

Before upgrading my system from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion I had taken a backup of iPhoto in my external drive. But now when I try to open that package, I'm directed to app store to buy new iPhoto. How can I retrieve my photos without buying iPhoto?

Before upgrading my system from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion I had taken a backup of iPhoto library in my external drive. But now when I try to open that package, I'm directed to app store to buy new iPhoto. Why would apple install iPhoto by default with Snow Leapord and make us import all our photos in it at the first place, and now ask for money if we want to retrieve our photos back on mountain lion? What if they make contacts a paid app with the next OS upgrade, and then bully us to pay money if we want our contacts? This is something very dissappointing on Apple's part. I need answers here.

I fail to remember if the installer gave me an option to keep my applications.
The Mountain Lion installer will not delete applications. It will only mark applications, that are not compatible with your current system with a "forbidden" sign in the icon. And you cannot launch them.
Does your iPhoto icon in the Applications folder look like this?
Then your iPhoto version is incompatible and cannot run with Mt. Lion. If it is iPhoto '11, with a versionnumber starting with 9.x.x., you can upgrade it by downloading a newer version from the Apple downloads site http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1650.
But if you have 8.x.x, you need to buy an upgrade.
Regards
Léonie

Listen up people!!! Before upgrading to Lion, make a backup!!!

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