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Open the Disk Utility program (by choosing it from the menu bar), select your disk and first click 'Repair permissions' then 'Repair disk' (in this order).Last night, I was reading the Ars Technica review of Mountain Lion, which included the following quote about iCloud:Hi, I am trying to get Lion installed on my Asus N53SV, however I don't have a copy of Lion, so I intend to install SL 10.6.8 first then upgrade to Lion 10.7. Press and hold the (aka option key) as soon as you hear the start sound, so you'll be able to choose to boot from the DVD. Insert your Mac OS X Install DVD and restart the computer.
Lion Timed Out Waiting Waiing For Helper Registration Password Is PrettyEven Appleâs own iDisk did this. To help with cases where a particular device is not showing the data that you expect to see, traditional cloud storage services provide a Web interface to the canonical data store. Sure, this is all supposed to âjust work.â But when it doesnât, even expert users have very little recourse. For OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mountain Lion (10.8), and Lion (10.7) with Recovery Mode: Boot into the Mac OS X boot loader menu by holding down the. I have so many tonymacx86 forum tabs open in my browser, and I have read so much.Resetting a forgotten Mac password is pretty easy if you have an installer disk, drive, or the recovery partition handy, which method you use here will depend on the version of OS X the Mac is running.![]() ![]() Note that this changes after the upgrade to Lion â instead being in a temporary directory (for me, it was $TMPDIR/./C/com.apple.appstore/APPID)Once it was downloaded, I made sure to copy the install application to a thumb drive, so that I can install it on the desktop later without another hefty download. There were a few false starts with the App Store overloaded initially, but once it got purchased the download was fast.You can check download progress in the âPurchasesâ tab â though since the store was timing out I found it easier to look in ~/Library/Application Support/AppStore/APPID. In that light, digital distribution was a welcome change â particularly being able to start downloading it in the middle of the night here as soon as it was out, and having it ready when I woke up. Iâll be well prepared for that one with both a Time Machine backup and a clone by Carbon Copy Cloner to a different portable drive! Getting ItIn my previous post, youâll see I had some hassle getting a functional install disc for Snow Leopard. It spent its 45 minutes installing, rebooted, and came back to the new login screen. The InstallThe install process is very similar to that of Snow Leopard, though I had no problems such as I did that time. While I havenât tried it yet, thereâs plenty of instructions out there for installing from physical media â such as this one (though this isnât necessary, as you can just run the install app again on the other Snow Leopard machine). The Basics Growl style (text always comes up black, switched to the âMonoâ theme from the same site instead)Parallels went out of their way to email today and say that my old copy of Parallels Desktop 4 wonât work in Lion, though Iâm yet to try it. The Omnifocus mail integration (re-installed from OmniFocus preferences again) Skype had some UI glitches related to scrolling (upgrading to 5.2 fixed it) TruePreview (Mail extension to avoid marking as read immediately, will have to live without it for now) Xcode Command Line ToolsThis has been a problem for a while â each new release you could get a smaller download from Software Update, or the multi-gigabyte one from the Developer Center. One or two (like Dovecot) I wonât find out until I try again on the iMac. Iâm not inclined to pay for an upgrade, so it might be time to try VirtualBox again.Some other things that I had previously been using (like MailTags and Mail Act-on) didnât survive the Snow Leopard upgrade, so that made things simpler. I should be able to keep using that. I closed the window and everything seems installed, but it hasnât removed the installer application. Beyond that, it seems to get stuck at the very end of the progress bar and never ends. First, it requires that you close iTunes even if it isnât running â to correct that I had to kill iTunesHelper from the command line. You can then copy that around to install elsewhere (though Iâm yet to try â weâll see if the App Store still recognises it).This installs Xcode as well as the command line tools â Iâm not sure at this point if there is a leaner option.The installer has some oddities though. Itâs a large download, but the good news is that after âinstallingâ, it just puts an âInstall Xcodeâ application in place, like Lion itself. Chrome has the button to go fullscreen, but not the one to go back and permanent scrollbars (this has now been written about) BugsIâm sure Iâll find several issues as I go along, but for now it has been fairly limited. I found that I had to go to the âJava Preferencesâ panel and check the box that allows applets, as they had been disabled by default. Java AppletsIt was a bit unclear at first why, but pages with applets werenât working in either Safari or Chrome. After installation, I immediately went to a terminal and typed âjavaâ, at which point it prompted to download it for me, and worked just fine after that. JavaThe concern about Java not being installed on Lion seemed to have died down, and it was pretty much a non-event in this case. Romance games for macThis seems to be a result of setting it from iPhoto â09 â exporting and setting by right clicking on the JPEG workedMy initial impression of Lion seems to fit with the majority of the observers â a worthwhile upgrade for the price. My original desktop background disappeared on the iMac (fine on the Macbook), replaced by a starfield, and today replaced by a blank blue background. The 2.4 release from seems to resolve them but hasnât been announced yet (but must be close!) I might try iChat over Adium for a while again to compare, since it now supports all those old Yahoo messenger buddies I have.Aside from that, Iâm not going to bother reviewing the features, as plenty have done that so far (the most detailed as always being John Siracusa at Ars Technica).Using the Maven GPG Plugin makes it easy to sign a large number of artifacts when performing a release with Maven.However, one of the annoying parts is that interactive password entry is not particularly easy, and you often have to put it on the command line or into your settings file in plaintext, which is not very comfortable. Honestly the UI changes donât really excite me a lot either â it overall doesnât feel too different to Snow Leopard.The new 3-pane interface and threaded view in Mail is welcome, though otherwise there doesnât seem to be too much different in this release. The feature Iâm most looking forward to seeing in practice is the document versioning and application state restoration, but itâs not that useful when itâs only in TextEdit right now.The UI changes make sense to me so far, though I had to forcefully hide the scrollbars for the reverse swiping to make sense again (the default for the old Macbook trackpad was always on).
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