Since installing Lion the desktop view occassionally jumps to 'grid' view when I turn the computer on. Why? It is set to manual in the view menu.

Thanks for that information!
I'm sure I will be calling AppleCare, but the problem is, they charge for the phone calls don't they? Because I don't have money to be spending to be on the phone with a support service.
In other things, it seemed like the only time my MacBook was working was when I had Snow Leopard without the 10.6.8 update download that was supposed to be done to prepare for OS X Lion.
When I look at the information of my HD it says that I have 10.6.8 but that was the install that it claimed to have failed and caused me to restart resulting in all of the repeated problems.
Also, because my computer is currently down, and I've lost all files how would that effect the use of my iPhone? Because if it doesn't get fixed by the time OS 5 is released, how would I be able to upgrade?!

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Since installing Lion my desktop runs slow...

My desktop runs very slow from one application to another.. for example if I am switching back from Photo Shop to iMovie or iTunes the idling is too long and sometimes apllication like photoShop crash... I have 4 GB of Ram Intel 2.0 ghz Need help please.

Based upon the scant information you gave regarding your Mac I would have choosen not to install Lion but remain with Snow Leopard.

After installing Lion, I get an audio "instillation failed" message every tine I turn on computer. everything seems to work except microphone on roseta stone software.

I have reinstalled OS Lion with same results.

If you have an older version of Rosetta Stone, it was coded in PowerPC code which Lion is not capable of executing. I understand that they either have or will have a new version that is compatable with Lion.
Allan

Since installing Lion, no Finder window will open on the desktop. I can see them through "Quick Look" and "View all Windows" in the contextual menu for Finder in the

Since installing Lion, no Finder window will open on the desktop. I can see them through "Quick Look" and "View all Windows" in the contextual menu for Finder in the dock.

Help please!

Since installing Lion on my desktop, I cannot sync pictures to my IPAD. How do I fix this? Thanks

Since installing Lion on my desktop, I cannot sync pictures to my IPAD. How do I fix this? ThanksSyn

Some people have found that deleting the photo cache has fixed it - the location of it, and how to delete it, is described on this page : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

Since installing Lion I keep getting the error message 'there was a problem connecting to the server. URLs with the type 'file:" are not supported"' How can I fix this?

since installing Lion I keep getting the error message 'there was a problem connecting to the server. URLs with the type 'file:" are not supported"' How can I fix this?

A Davey1 wrote:
Not a nice answer!
Posting "Check the 'More like this'" area and not simply providing the answer is a great way to make these groups worthless.
You're ignoring context. On the old Apple Discussion Groups I never posted replies like that, instead giving people relatively detailed answers. The new Apple Support Communities made things worse by introducing certain inefficiencies. Then came Lion. The flood of messages that came with Lion required a painful choice for any of the people who had been helping here: (1) Give quality responses to a few questions and ignore the rest. (2) When applicable, give a brief answer such as the one that you found objectionable. (3) Give up all the other normal activities of life and spend full time trying to answer questions here.
People who needed help with Lion problems seemed to have trouble discovering existing message threads that described how to solve their problems. I never posted the suggestion of "Check the 'More like this' area" without verifying that the help that the poster needed could be found there. Even doing that, what I posted saved me time that I could use to help someone else.
The people helping here are all volunteers. None of them is being paid for the time they spend here. They all have a life outside of Apple Support Communities. It's arrogant of you to demand that people helping here spend more time than they already do.

SInce i installed Lion, my desktop icons are lining up like regimented Windows icons! how do i get them to stay where i put them, like they used to do? thanks! ellen

SInce i installed Lion, my desktop icons are lining up like regimented Windows icons!
how do i get them to stay where i put them, like they used to do?
thanks!
ellen

In that case, there may be a problem with your Finder preferences or window settings.
Try removing these files, then restarting:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
~/Desktop/.DS_Store
Let me know if you're not sure how to do that.

Since installing Lion, I am unable to add to iPhoto from an e mail or desk top. Something about power pc. I thought I had a Mac! What should I do to restore the facility?

since installing Lion, I am unable to add to iPhoto from an e mail or desk top. Something about power pc. I thought I had a Mac! What should I do to restore the facility?

As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

My MacBook pro has gradually slowed down to a halt since installing lion. The spooning rainbow is still going after an hour and it won't force quit. Anybody know what to do? Ps new to this! Thanks in advance.

My MacBook pro has gradually slowed down to a halt since installing lion. The spooning rainbow is still going after an hour and it won't force quit. Anybody know what to do? Ps new to this! Thanks in advance.

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

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I just updated to Lion and am having the same problem since moving to the cloud. iCal won't let me click on SHOW NOTIFICATIONS. It is greyyed it on the menu. Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Very erratic behaviour since installing Lion - where do I start

Since installing Lion a few weeks ago on my Macmini I've have a couple of issues which are bugging (no pun intended) the life out of me. I'm almost at the point of doing a complete erase and install of Lion it's that bad. Normally I always do an erase and install when upgrading OSX but the setup of my mini is such that it would take me a long time to rebuild it from scratch. That'll teach me.. I just upgraded Lion on top of Snow Leopeard, whereas on my MBP I did a clean install of Lion and no problems.
Here are the issues on my mini:
1) In the past couple of days I've had a couple of kernal panics "You need to restart your computer..." I've never had this before on any of my Mac's. The only thing that has changed on my system is that I've updated a driver for my WD MyBook drive, which I use as my TM backup. Since upgrading to Lion I switched off time machine and only turned this back on because I thought I'd reached a general steady state with my system and after installing the driver update. I've since disabled TM so fingers crossed no more problems..
2) On serveral occasions, whilst using back to my mac, to screenshare my mini on my MBP, I've had windows and hard drives disappear off screen. If I do a right mouse click on my finder I can view the windows on screen but when I select them they disapear. I have a feeling that mission control is doing something, but I never use this, nor do I have anything set-up, other than the intial configuration. This is *really* doing my head in. I can usually fix it by changing the screen dimensions on my mini through the Display control panel or switching my TV over to the hdmi input so I can view the desktop directly on my TV (as opposed to screensharing).
I'm not really sure if this is a problem with mission control, or back to my mac, or a video input problem (I'm using a mini displayport to dvi and dvi to hdmi cable to connect the mini to my TV).
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated, particulalry for issue 2.
VP

Since I don't do any cloudy stuff, all I can address is the KPs.See
What is a kernel panic,
Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics,
Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ,
Resolving Kernel Panics, and
Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics for more details.

Videos won't play in iPhoto since installing Lion

Ever since i installed Lion the video clips stored in iPhoto will not play when double clicked. I have to drag them out of iphot to the desktop and then double click them for quicktime to play them? Never had this problem before installing Lion. HELP!

Wake95,
Are you in the event browser or are you in the actual event itself? If you have the event open, then the video will play if you double click it. Also, are you sure that they are in a movie file format that QuickTime understands?
Hope this helps,
O.C.

Weird keyboard quirks since installing Lion

Ever since installing Lion, my keyboard has been acting weird.
I can't quite figure out what's going on. So far, I've just discovered a few weird things, like:
I can't use left shift to capitalize T, though it can capitalize every other letter, and I can capitalize it with right shift. What?
Normally I use cmd-shift-[ or cmd-shift-] to switch through tabs in Google Chrome. I can't use the right cmd to activate this, and I can only use it to select the previous tab, with [. Also tried adding cmd-shift-] as a shortcut in sys prefs, but it won't accept it.
The sys prefs F1-12 behavior preference is flipped from what it should be.
I'm sure there will be more, but that's just what I've discovered so far. There are no hardware issues with any keys. Restarting doesn't help. I'm totally baffled.

@willadler,
Check to see if this issue is occuring system-wide by creating a test account (System Preferences > Users & Groups). After creating a new account and logging in as that new user, does the issue still occur? If so, then it might be a system-wide Login Item, so try Safe Boot to be sure, however, if the keyboard works fine in that new user account, then try the following:
• Delete (or Move) the following files from your home folder:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist.lockfile
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist.lockfile
• Logout and log back in for the changes to take effect, and test the keyboard (NOTE: deleting the above files will reset much of the customizations you have made in System Preferences, so I'd recommend Moving them to the Desktop in case you need to restore them)

Get "missing operating system" message when trying to access bootcamp since installing Lion.

I cannot access bootcamp since installing Lion, either through Bootpicker or after holding down the option key after restart. I get the message "Missing operating system." I have access to the bootcamp partition. It shows up on my Mac desktop and was able to run disk verify and repair on it from disk utility. No change. I am using a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Did Lion relabel the bootcamp disk when it created the recovery disk? Thanks.

See here the solution:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3199163?start=0&tstart=0

Many years ago synced iCal with Microsoft program. Since installing Lion whenever I try to create an event in iCal it flashes up message "Unable to open Microsoft sync services Power PC applications no longer supported." How do I get rid of message?

Many years ago synced iCal with Microsoft program. Since installing Lion whenever I try to create an event in iCal it flashes up message "Unable to open Microsoft sync services Power PC applications no longer supported." How do I get rid of message?

Lion no longer supports PowerPC apps. If this is Microsoft Office 2008 (Entourage 2008) then you should disable the syncing services. (I don't have Office 2008 installed anymore so I don't know exactly what it's called anymore.) If you have Microsoft Office 2004 or earlier, then it can't be run on Lion at all since Lion removed Rosetta, which is what allowed a PPC app to run on an Intel based Mac.
Also, I believe Microsoft removed sync services from the current Outlook 2011 (which replaces Entourage) so even upgrading to a newer version of Microsoft Office will not get you back that calendar sync feature. Supposedly Microsoft is working on a new syncing system, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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