Migrating to lion

What are the issues in migrating to lion from snow leopard?
I know appleworks will no longer work. Over five years, I've accumulated about 2,000 appleworks documents. The overwhelming majority of these are word processing files. I just want to verify past discussion; is it correct that pages will handle appleworks word processing files?
I'll go over my appleworks files to see if I need to open other files before appleworks goes away. Does this sound reasonable?
Are there known products that don't work with lion? In particular,I'm thinking about macspeech dictate?
If all else fails, is it possible to retain the ability to boot in snow leopard?
Are there any other issues?
Thanks.

stirling-dad wrote:
Are there known products that don't work with lion? In particular,I'm thinking about macspeech dictate?
Here's an unofficial status list: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
If all else fails, is it possible to retain the ability to boot in snow leopard?
With a second partition, yes. However, be aware that while you can shrink a Lion OSX partition, you cannot expand one via Disk Utility at this time. Perhaps in a future update.
So, installing Lion on an external HD might be wise.
When you do get Lion, after downloading but before installing, you might want to do this: Making a Lion Install disc or partition.
Are there any other issues?
But of course.
Here's a few changes and issues: Changes in Lion from Snow Leopard.

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Have XSAN 2.2 on OSX 10.6.8. 2 MDC servers. The backup MDC is also DNS and OD using ACLs, as well as network share.
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Promise Array with expansion chassis.
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While it will be double the work, I would suggest staying away from a new OS until you (and the community) had a chance to figure it all out. Also, see here: http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html that Apple has announced that Mountain will contain Xsan 3. So there is yet another wrinkle in your plan. There is next to no public details about this version.
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2: Make sure you estimate the time properly so as to not interrupt workflow - calculate for the worst
3: Remove all your clients from the SAN and upgrade them to Lion independently of SAN interaction
4: Stop the volume, validate it with cvfsck
5: Consider running the update on both controllers concurrently or remove the backup from the san so there is no interference.
Now, if you have the luxury, a nuke and pave often makes the most sense as you can ensure that the system is the cleanest. It can also reset the san volume and eliminate any pent up fragmentation.
Review these Kbase articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1862
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3755

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Which iMac? Which Macbook? Both have had several model
itertations, even within the framework of a Core2Duo processor.
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You just need to update your App to the newer version that is compatible with Lion.
Click here to download, then install: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1015
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Snow Leopard Time machine migration to Lion problem?

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I don't have the old mac to install this update on and update my time machine backup so what can I do??
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Thanks Pondini, I was concerned that my Snow Leopard backups may not be compatible with Time Machine on Lion and I was going to use the Migration Assistant instead of the Setup Assistant. I have the WD NAS which I'm aware currently has AFP issues like many other NAS drives. I'm holding thumbs that by the time I get my new iMac WD would have released the firmware update so I don't have any issues.
WD NAS users can setup a notification at the following link for when the new firmware becomes available:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7081
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See: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1695
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The migration seemed to run OK and all the user accounts seem to be working, however users are reporting that there are no email messages in their mailboxes.
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Hey tomgallagher!
You can use this article to help you troubleshoot the functionality of these Mail accounts if they are not functioning properly:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
If your saved emails did not come across properly in the Migration, you can always export the mail from the old computer and import it into the new computer manually:
Lion Mail: Export mailboxes
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4811
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Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Feedback

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Ever since I migrated (using Migration assistent and a LAN-connection) my data and prefs from my old MB (Leopard) to my new MBP (Lion) I get an error message saying that there was an error while trying to connect to a certain server. I believe the server the MBP wants to be connected to is the IP from my old MB that I used to migrate the data.
(It says: "There has been an error while connecting to the server '169.254.9.91'. – The server might not exist or ist not availible at this time. Check the server name or the IP-adress as well as the network connection and try it again.")
Usually the error just appears out of nowhere, however it can be reproduced e.g. when I connect my iPhone to the MBP.
As far as I can see, the console shows that iSync (which I know is no longer used in Lion) wants to establish that connection. In this case it's the AppleMobileDeviceHelper, but also iCalExternalSync or DashboardClient turn up in the console.
19.09.12 12:31:36,008 AppleMobileDeviceHelper: [0x1002180a0] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
19.09.12 12:31:36,008 [0x0-0xd80d8].com.apple.iTunes: 2012-09-19 12:31:36.007 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[1203:503] [0x1002180a0] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
19.09.12 12:32:06,162 AppleMobileDeviceHelper: [0x1002180a0] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
19.09.12 12:32:06,162 [0x0-0xd80d8].com.apple.iTunes: 2012-09-19 12:32:06.161 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[1203:503] [0x1002180a0] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
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19.09.12 12:32:36,316 [0x0-0xd80d8].com.apple.iTunes: 2012-09-19 12:32:36.315 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[1203:503] [0x1002180a0] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
When I click "OK", I get this:
19.09.12 12:32:43,026 SyncServer: [0x101216f20] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.isyncDU.ipod.A27001A9010C9 image file path /Volumes/Festgeplattet/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPodSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ipod_4g.tiff does not exist.
19.09.12 12:32:43,026 SyncServer: [0x101216f20] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.356901038821921 image file path /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/NOK6300.tiff does not exist.
19.09.12 12:32:43,027 SyncServer: [0x101216f20] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.356901038821921 sync alert tool path /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/MacOS/sync-tool does not exist.
19.09.12 12:32:43,027 SyncServer: [0x101216f20] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.356901038821921 formatter bundle path /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/Resources/Formatter.bundle does not exist.
How can I stop this error that seems to slow down the whole system?
What I did so far:
I already reinstalled Lion and used TimeMachine to get my data back but the error still appears.
I also deleted all files having iSync in their name and deleted the list of the "recent servers".
I reconnected my old MB with my new MBP once again using the old IP and disconnected properly.
If you need to know anything else, just ask.
(For all those of you capable of speaking German can read more here: http://www.apfeltalk.de/forum/showthread.php?t=410563)
Thanks in advance!

It seems that this should find a place somewhere on the Knowledge Base or a more visible location on ni.com...

Some ,mail messages won't load after migrating to Lion

I've migrated Mail from Snow Leopard to Lion on a new computer but from time to time some messages won't load. It's a real pain because I only dicover it when I go to read a message I want to read. Anyone have any ideas?

Mail, the application, should not cannot contain any message data assets. The Mail application must sit in the Applications folder, and be usable to every User Account on the Mac, and not just yours (understand you might be the only user, but making a point).
Mail, the folder of data for just your emails, should properly be at Home/Library/Mail.
Let me ask again -- in the Applications folder is there an Icon for Mail, and is it the Icon of a postage stamp, or is it perhaps the Icon of a folder?
However, let me note, that now that I have booted back into Snow Leopard, and used Get Info on the Mail Icon in the Applications folder, it is reported to be 77.5 MB! Looking at it from other boot volume (Leopard) does not see all the elements of its "package" apparently. My apologies.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
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