Locating games in a new Lion install on ext drive

A friend in the UK has installed Lion on an external drive attached to his 27" iMac, given that he has a number of 3d party games that work only with Snow Leopard.
He asks "Where are the games, intrinsic to the OS (e.g. Snow Leopard) in the new Lion and how/where do I find them on the ext drive?"
Anyone able to help him with some advice?

They're located in the Applications folder on that drive, or wherever they were placed in the case of manual installation or installers which allow the operator to choose the destination folder.
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I have just reinstalled Lion from the recovery partition, straight Lion install so no Snow Leopard to Lion upgrade.
I have carried out all software updates etc. However, when I attempt to watch videos on youtube the player freezes my page and it fails to load. I have also experienced problems going fullscreen. I use safari and not a third party browser.
I have a 2.4ghz Core i5, with 4gb ram and a 10mbps broadband connection, so can't really see this being a performance issue.
The laptop should still be under Applecare so if needs be it is an option, but if I can get this is something quick and easy to fix then that would be ideal.
Also it might be worth to note that sometimes the laptop has problems coming out of a sleeping state, the keyboard will light up and I can see a very dark picture on my screen if I concentrate, the only way I can recover from this is to hold the power button to turn it off.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, these problems have been driving me insane!

Most YouTube videos require the Flash plugin. Try troubleshooting ..
Quit Safari.
Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Storage tab. Click: Delete All
Now uninstall the Flash plugin then reinstall new > Troubleshoot Flash Player | Mac OS
Very important to uninstall the currently installed Flash plugin first before re installing.
Launch Safari From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Empty Cache
Now try a video.
BTW... if you have the ClickToFlash extension installed, that can prevent Flash based video from streaming. It can also be installed as a plugin in /Library/Internet-Plug-Ins.
And check to see if Safari is running in 32 bit mode. Right or control click the Safari icon in your Applications folder then click Get Info. If the box next to: Open in 32 bit mode is selected, deselect, quit then relaunch Safari.
Also it might be worth to note that sometimes the laptop has problems coming out of a sleeping state, the keyboard will light up and I can see a very dark picture on my screen
Try resetting the Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
Doubtful the Flash issue is related to sleep mode.

How do I do a completely new Lion install?

I had a Macbook Pro for 5 years, just got a new one. Used Migration Assistant to bring everything over from the old one to the new one and I'm in place. I'm selling the old one so what I want to do is wipe it clean, get ALL my data files, songs, applications, photos, everything off it so that it just has a clean install of Lion (its current operating system) and nothing else.
I tried rebooting to cmd-R and reinstalling Lion, and it completed successfully but all my stuff is still there. It didn't give me any options to wipe the hard drive clean and then reinstall Lion, at least that I could see.
How do I do this? I'd really appreciate any advice, thanks.

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If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal 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.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
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Why does a clean new Lion install seem to leave older & incompatible versions of certain utilities in place?

After upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopare I can't run Migration Assistant (which is v3) and Disk Utility (v11,5,1) warns it may crash... I've tried reinstalling Lion, running Software Update, deleting the apparently older version utilities, nothing works!
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If you did a "clean install" (erasing the volume then installing Lion), nothing would have been left.
If you did an upgrade, the only way those apps would be left would be if you'd moved them from their default locations in /Applications/Utilities before upgrading.
Most likely, you've got both versions; the new ones in /Applications/Utilities, and the old ones somewhere else. If you had them in your Dock, or other places such as Finder sidebars, or alias anywhere, delete all those and empty the trash.
Then find the new ones in /Applications/Utilities.
That's just one of the reasons you should not move apps from their default locations. Another is, some won't get updated by Software Update.

No gestures in new Lion install?

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I bought a used mac mini with Lion 10.7.2 on it.
I would like to a complete re-install to mack sure there is nothing left from the privious owner.

My information is from the Apple SLA's (additionally, there have been other posts regarding the same problem). It may be unfair, but that is what Apple's rules are. They are very specific regarding the sale/transfer of a Mac with Lion on it. Anyone buying or selling a used Mac needs to be aware of these rules.
If he had purchased a Mac with 10.6 and the disks, it would be easy: a) the software license allows the transfer of the OS and b) he could simply use the disk to erase and reinstall.
You can download the SLA's here:
http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
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B. License from Mac App Store or on Physical Media. If you obtained a license for the AppleSoftware from the Mac App Store or on Apple-branded physical media, then subject to theterms and conditions of this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules setforth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“UsageRules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:
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As for my testing this scenario - quite obviously I am not able to since I do not have a used machine I just purchased. Here is one of the recent similar threads to this one:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16395314#16395314
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Cannot select local disk in Time Machine - New Lion Install

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-Aaron

Hi a:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
I am preaching, but +"wiping/erasing a HD"+ should be reserved for true disasters. That is a Windows process.
Now, trying to help (I treasure my own photos - a lot), go to your home folder (~pictures). If something called iPhoto library is there, highlight it, open Time Machine, and then restore it.
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You can upgrade from either disk. The install program allows you to select where do you want to install Mountain Lion.

Lion install DVD/USB for newer Mac?

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I have searched for a way to create a Lion install USB/DVD. The only results that I get are those relevant to people whom still have the install file in their applications folder. I don't have that. I really need the option of having a way of performing a clean wipe on the HDD, but I need some sort of external version of the Lion installer to do that. If you could help I would appreciate it, thanks.

Once you follow the instruction in jsd2's link for getting, downloading and saving, the Lion install files and you extract the InstallESD.DMG file don't bother with Disk Utility to create the USB thumb drive. In stead use LionDiskMaker, Google it, to created the Lion Install USB Thumb Drive. It works much better first time every time to create that USB drive.
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Lotus notes is incompatible with 10.8. The app store will not let me redownload lion even though i paid for it. I do have the "installESD.dmg" and I get the message that the new system is newer so it won't install it. Any suggestions? I need to install 10.7 on an external drive as school starts next week and I have to do a bootcamp prior to learn the school's sytem of doing things. TIA. Welcome to the cloud way of doing things, I don't like it.
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Beware: if you run Lion on a separate drive, don't update aperture

I'm not sure how MacOSX managed it, but I ran Aperture tonight (on SnowLeopard) and it tells me that I can't run this version of Aperture on my operating system!
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I have Lion installed on another drive. It has nothing to do with my Snow Leopard drive, there's no connections to it. But after I updated Aperture on that drive, on Lion, it must have decided to update my Snow Leopard partition as well - and bypassed all the obvious problems with that.
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AppStore runs around all drives looking for Application folders to update, regardless of OS?

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takoateli wrote:
Wrong again.
Have you ever installed to an external drive while booted 10.7 from the internal? I have, multiple times, and always the same result. I end up with the same account I was booted into on the internal at the time of install, duplicated on the external drive. Same account name, same password, and it's a *user* account. Not admin.
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Right YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!!!!!
Sorry but I am not wrong.
Boot the system from either the Recovery HD partition or if you have a Lion Install USB thumb drive boot from that. Then select Re-Install OS X and point it to the external drive. Do not start the Install from inside the OS installed on the internal drive.
I thought that would be apparent, but I guess not.
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SweetDee,
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