Upgrading to lion: concern currently i amMac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) with a windows dual boot (boot camp)

Upgrading to lion: concern currently i am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) with a windows dual boot (boot camp) on a imac, hardward configuration is good. my question is if i upgrade to lion will it effect my boot camp windows environment in any manner shape or form or will it stay pristine and I will be able to access it with no problem. as for the upgrade does it give you a clean install and upgrade options
any insight would be appreciated.
Also has anyone, added another partition and installed lion in their leaving the snow leopard partion intact.

I would ask myself these questions first
What features am I hoping to benefit from by upgrading?
What apps do I have on OSX that I need to still fucntion? (research that they will)
Just a cautionary note - I have had problems, but only upgraded to see what was new - needed nothing, lost a lot

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HT202008 I am having issues with my Window 7 on boot camp. My hardware is Macbook Pro Mid 2010 model and working on OS X 10.9.5. Recently I went to windows 7 to do a system upgrade but failed and was told to update the bootcamp drivers.

I am having issues with my Window 7 on boot camp. My hardware is Macbook Pro Mid 2010 model and working on OS X 10.9.5. Recently I went to windows 7 to do a system upgrade but failed and was told to update the bootcamp drivers. I installed boot camp5 but seem to be the wrong version and change to boot camp 4 which was updated okay. However I still cannot do the updates. Can someone advice me please? Thank you!

Please see Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems - Apple Support for the appropriate version of drivers related to the specific version of Windows 7.
MacBook Pro
(13-inch, Mid 2010)
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4
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MacBook Pro
(15-inch, Mid 2010)
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MacBook Pro
(17-inch, Mid 2010)
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5
4
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Be careful with Windows Updates, especially driver updates. Standard WHQL drivers can cause problems.

Upgrading to Lion concerns

Just wondering, if I upgrade to Lion from my current Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 will all my info stay on my imac. Including photos, emails, etc.
I am running time machine backup, but I'm not even certain if it will run correctly on the new opperating system. Will I have to reset up the time machine?
And will everything backed up on it currently still be accessible in the new system?

You don't need to go through Migration Assistant since you will be upgrading the version of Mac OS X on the single machine. All material SHOULD convey over, however, it is always wise to make a clean backup before doing a major upgrade just in case something goes wrong.
It is also wise to go through your settings, such as email, networking, etc., before and then after the upgrade to make sure nothing has been changed during the process.
With the upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, you will want to go into System Preferences, iCloud and setup your iCloud account if you already have one. If you don't and do not plan on using iCloud then there is nothing you need to do.
It is also good to check Time Machine after the upgrade to see nothing has been changed.
All just good housekeeping principles

HT2020 we upgraded to Lion and lost iChat. Is there any way to continue with iChat?

We use iChat for conference calls. When we upgraded to Lion it was replaced with facetime so it appears we lost the ability to use iChat. It does not appear facetime allows conference calls (more than 2 locations to connect at the same time). Is there any way to obtain a multipul connection so we can continue with multipul connections?

HI,
Lion = OS X 10.7.x and comes with iChat 6
Mountain Lion = OS X 10.8.x and comes with Messages.
Messages is iChat +
The Plus bit is the iMessages Service from the iOS stable.
It is compatible with Messages on the iPhone and iPad.
It takes an Apple ID to "register" with the iMessages service.
However all the "Accounts" you had with AIM or Jabber work just the same in Messages.
By default the Buddy lists are combined (but can be unlinked in the general section of the Preferences) are are not on show at the App Start.
As the Other thread says you get sent to Make your iMessages Registration first before looking at what were iChat Logins.
From your Buddy Lists you can make the same 3 or 4 way Video chats you did in iChat.
8:24 PM Monday; December 17, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

ITunes 10.5 Upgrade fails to Install. The Error Message is: "There is a Problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor."

When Upgrading on my laptop from iTunes 10.2.11 to 10.5.0 the message I get is: "There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. Aprogram run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or pacakge vendor.

After reading all these posts, one by one did not resolve my problem until I got the very end. Regardless of what step would resolve your problem, these are the steps I would recomment to everyone for a what seems to be a safe and fool-proof upgrade to iTunes 10.5.
1. Stand alone upgrade to the latest Quicktime version
2. Go to control panel and "change" then select repair to the following applications in the order specified by the post on Oct 27. (Notice I skipped Quicktime because it had been upgrade manually,and Bonjour did not have a "repair" option)
iTunes; Apple Software Update: Mobile Device Support; Apple Applications Support
Some of these applications may not appear if they do not apply to your configuration (no iPhone, or no iPad, or other apple devices).
Once all updated, I did not need to restart nor launch any applications, I simply went straight into the 10.5 upgrade, and where it normally got stuck, this time the installation continued for a while longer until it completed successfully.
Great work everyone who contributed! Thank you very much!

Upgraded 2 Lion 10.7.1, can't access the folders on my office's windows server. HELP!

After upgrading my MacBook Pro (13" 2.66 ghz dual core) to lion OS X 10.7.1 I have been unable to connext to the servers at my office. The server is a windows based system. I am able to print to the printers that are on the network and get to the internet without any problem, but the actual files on the server are what I cannot access. I can see the server folders, but when I try to connect to them it tells me that the "connection failed". HELP!!!

After upgrading my MacBook Pro (13" 2.66 ghz dual core) to lion OS X 10.7.1 I have been unable to connext to the servers at my office. The server is a windows based system. I am able to print to the printers that are on the network and get to the internet without any problem, but the actual files on the server are what I cannot access. I can see the server folders, but when I try to connect to them it tells me that the "connection failed". HELP!!!

After upgrading to lion, my bluetooth headphones (sony dr-bt22) ceased to work well with Skype.

I can't choose the mono profile, only the stereo is available. In SL everything was right.

Your english is very good! For Handoff/Continuity to work you need Bluetooth turned on on both devices and they need to be in range of each other -- but you do NOT go to the Bluetooth setting on either device and pair them. I know that is unusual and can think of no other case where that is done using Bluetooth, but that is how it works for Handoff & Continuity.
The following are the other things needed from Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity
How to get started:
Sign in to the same iCloud account on all your devices.
Turn on Bluetooth on all the devices you want to use. Make sure your devices are near each other.
Connect all your devices to the same Wi-Fi network.
Turn off Handoff
To turn off Handoff on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps, and turn off the setting.
On your Mac, go to System Preferences > General and deselect the option to allow Handoff.
Phone calls
With Continuity, you can make and receive cellular phone calls from your iPad, iPod touch, or Mac when your iPhone is on the same Wi-Fi network.
To make and receive phone calls, here's what you need:
Sign in to the same iCloud account on all your devices, including your Mac.
Your iPhone and your iPad or iPod touch need to use iOS 8 or later. Your Mac needs to use OS X Yosemite.
All devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network.
All devices must be signed in to FaceTime using the same iCloud account. This means any device that shares your Apple ID will get your phone calls. Look below for instructions on how to turn off iPhone cellular calls.
Wi-Fi Calling needs to be off. Go to Settings > Phone. If you see Wi-Fi Calling, turn it off.

Updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion, now my system is freezing on startup. Can anyone help?

Updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion, now my system is freezing on startup. Can anyone help?

Try a Safe Boot: Restart holding down the shift key until you (hopefully) see a grey progress bar. Once booted restart as normal from the Apple menu. Any change?
How much RAM do you have installed?

Upgraded to Lion and no longer able to burn music cds in itunes... anyone else with same problem?

does anyone have similar problems, or a solution for this situation?
thanks in advance

I bought a three-year-old MacBook from a co-worker, no longer under warranty, that was recently upgraded to Lion. I can't see CDs or DVDs, blank or with media on them. I see other people having similar problems, but no solutions yet from Apple. I know, I should have checked this before I bought the machine, but now it's my problem. Do I need to back out of Lion or does someone know if there is a solution on the horizon?

I just upgraded to Lion on my work computer.

I just upgraded to Lion on my work computer. Can't connect to iCloud with my @me.com account. I go to system preferences iCloud and put in my email and password and tries to move my MobileMe account to iCloud. Which I had already done. And then show my account status with An error was returned from the server. Please try again later. That is as far as it will let me go.

About 40. They used to sit alphabeticly on the left. When i selected the playlist i wanted songs in the Play list would show up as a list on the right.

Finder disappears after upgrading to Lion

Hello,
I've had this problem since I've upgraded to Lion OS X on my Mac Mini:
When I click on Finder, no window pops up.
I can see that Finder has launched, because there is a spotlight underneath the icon.
I've tried to set the option to Assign to This Window as well as Assign to All Windows - but with random success only.
Sometimes just by virtue of random toggling of this option, the Finder pops up in one of the windows.
At other times, when I hit one of the Hot Corners to show all my Spaces, I will see Finder is open - but just for a fraction of a second, before it disappears again.
Also, the frustrating part is, when I hit the Hot Corner, to show all open applications in a particular window, Finder comes up, but when I try to click on it, it disappears again.
Can someone please guide me to the solution?

Reinstall.
(i.e., restart, hold down 'command' and 'r', then choose recovery disk)
I just did a new install of Lion on my external disk; all went well, but when the machine finally booted up there was no Dock!
Nothing for it but to do it again.

Safari behaves strangely after upgrading to Lion

After upgrading to Lion, Safari is behaving strangely. When re-opening Safari after quitting, all windows from previous session re-opens. It didn't used to happen and also quite annoying. How can that be fixed? I only want my homepage to open, if I individually quit the windows by the red x-button, and then quite Safari normally, it opens up as priviously. Any ideas?
thanks

It is one of the over 250 new features of the World's Most Advanced Operating System called Resume.
If this is all that's bothering you just close all windows before quitting Safari or hold Shift when you launch Safari
If the whole resume thing is overbearing then...
Also in System Preferences > General there is a hard-to-find checkbox under "Number of recent items" you can turn off.
Also, you can hold the shift key to disable resume on a one time basis.
If you want to turn it off on a per app basis, (TextEdit is by example, replace TextEdit with the name of the app)
Launch Terminal and copy/paste this at the prompt...
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Press return.
YOu can aslo accomplish this thriugh the GUI by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State/TextEdit and delete that file/
To turn off Resume globally...
chflags uchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"
Press return
The reverse of the first one is to replace false with true.
The reverse of the second one is
chflags nouchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"
Again, you can accomplish this through Finder by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State and deleting the folder.

I bought my 20" iMac in Nov of 2007 and when I try to purchase the upgrade for lion I'm told I need 2GB of memory and I only have 1GB. How can I get more? I am currently running snow leopard

Trying to upgrade to Lion on my 20" iMac that I bought in Nov. 2007. Currently I'm running on MAC OS X version 10.6.8. When I tried to buy the upgrade I got a response that Lion requires 2 GB of memory and I only have 1 GB. How can I get more memory and will my computer be compatible with Lion when I do get more memory?

Yes you can install more RAM. Up to 6 GBs. Two - 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMMs. For the maximum use one 4 GB and one 2 GB. Otherwise install a pair of 2 GB modules for a total of 4 GBs.
You can purchase suitable RAM at DataMem or OWC. OWC also has video tutorials on installation.

I have an iMac purchased new about 5 years ago with OS 10.4.11. I would like to upgrade to Lion. I currently have a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB of ram. Can I upgrade to Lion, and what is the best way to do so?

I have an iMac purchased new about 5 years ago with OS 10.4.11. I would like to upgrade to Lion. I currently have a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB of ram. Can I upgrade to Lion, and what is the best way to do so?

From what I read here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/06/lion-...u-2-gb-of-ram/
s long as they already have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed in it.All a person needs to do with that type of iMac is to upgrade/max out their Ram. They claim that an Interl iMac with Core 2 Duo is all that is needed, as long as it has OS 10.6.8 installed. They say you don`t need the "Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor"
But I wonder about the RAM speed, the iMac 2.33Ghz uses DDR2 SDRAM, which I believe is rated at 667Mhz. Lion maybe installed but it might be problems running smoothly or not?
Did some quick checking and the iMacs apple is selling this year use 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM.
The only thing to do is to make sure you have a good back-up, Install your RAM and install Snow Leo, then wait a couple of hours and install Lion.
Good Luck

I currently have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I want to upgrade to Lion 7.4. I see no upgrades available to get there. Can someone help me?

I currently have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I want to upgrade to Lion 7.4. I see no upgrades available to get there. Can someone help me?

WZZZ wrote:
Maybe they've pulled Lion temporarily in order to clear server bandwidth for the expected feeding frenzy over ML?
There's always that possibility but I suspect that any Lion purchases today will be just a drop in the bucket. Still, there really ought to be some provision for those whose Macs can't go beyond Lion to upgrade since continued Snow Leopard support is now in question (the reason I finally moved to Lion).
There are a lot of people complaining that their free upgrade redeem codes for ML aren't working so I bet keeping Lion available is way down on Apple's to-do list.

Upgrading to lion: concern currently i amMac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) with a windows dual boot (boot camp)

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