Post by: Paddy on July 29, 2011, 11:16:41 AM
This one looks quite useful - I haven't run into the problem yet myself, but for those who have, it's been a real head-scratcher.
http://ryanarmstrong.net.au/blog/mac-osx-l...ion-failed.html
Post by: daryl66 on August 02, 2011, 05:44:37 PM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jul 29 2011, 11:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thought I'd start a thread with useful things that people have discovered about Lion.
This one looks quite useful - I haven't run into the problem yet myself, but for those who have, it's been a real head-scratcher.
http://ryanarmstrong.net.au/blog/mac-osx-l...ion-failed.html
This one looks quite useful - I haven't run into the problem yet myself, but for those who have, it's been a real head-scratcher.
http://ryanarmstrong.net.au/blog/mac-osx-l...ion-failed.html
If you are using a Magic Track pad, do not throw away all of your usb mouses. After upgrading the mini it could NOT find the trackpad. I had to plug in the mouse to get started. Eventually got the Trackpad recognized but do not know how that would have been accomplished without the mouse.
So far about what was expected. Found 4-5 PPC apps that won't work but nothing disasterous .YET
Daryl
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 02, 2011, 10:08:50 PM
Post by: daryl66 on August 03, 2011, 11:20:51 AM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Aug 2 2011, 10:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just discovered that one can use a two-fingered swipe instead of the back/forward button in Safari.. I'm getting used to the pad, but it seems to take extra pressure for a 'click' than the old scroll-ball or the Magic Mouse...it could be that the Pad is sitting on the rather firm anti-static desk top pad, I may move that pad further to the left and put the Magic Pad on the normal table top.
Suspect you will find that it is just "the nature of the beast" re the "click pressure"
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 03, 2011, 12:06:19 PM
...that reminds me, I haven't got Typinator installed/working...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 04, 2011, 02:50:44 PM
<Here are the instructions from Apple> (might want to print this page out). And, if you've avoided getting an Apple ID, why not byte the bullet <right now>, I just know you'll feel better being a registered member of the Apple Club.
Now, there is another way to do this same thing but it requires using Terminal after restarting into the Recovery partition. Not any more secure than the old way but maybe faster since no optical drive/media is involved. 
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 05, 2011, 06:38:15 PM
The audacity of the OS!!! 
So, I looked for ways to stop this unwanted 'auto-correction' and found many sites suggesting it just be turned OFF ("Language & Text" Pref Panel). Well, yeah, that would probably stop it...but what about those 1 in a million times when I actually make a misteak?! So I decided to just use the little "+" button under the list of "Use symbol and text substitutions" and see if I could teach/demand the OS to behave a little better. So far, it works only if I type the things out, if Typinator does it for me, the OS claims dibs and adds the space between the two words. 
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 05, 2011, 08:54:34 PM
- 1. In Terminal, paste the following: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{ “tile-type” = “spacer-tile”; }’
2. Press 'return'
3. Type "kill Dock" (without the quotation marks, of course
And 'elbowing' things nearby!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 07, 2011, 10:32:47 PM
I have several shortcuts set up in Typinator to insert the text codes that insert certain faovorite 'smilies' in my entries at TS. Some of them are two-word names such as wallbash, laughhard, rolleyes, etc. Naturally, Lion wants to separate the two words which breaks the whole process. :-(
I tried setting up some spelling corrections in Typinator and it seems to be working. The shortcut for wallbash is .+h+b (looks more like a 'head bash!) which spits out
. Lion had previously been changing that to :wall + space + bash: I'm now having to write this out in this manner to keep Typinator from changing it back to what I really need to insert at that forum! 
So, if you have Typinator, Text Expander or something similar, try this method of 'taming' the Lion's spel chequer! ;-)
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 08, 2011, 04:31:40 PM
The tip on 'tricking the Spel Chekor only works if you type the whole thing in manually. Having Typinator insert it gives the OS the opportunity to be the last one that gets to make corrections. If I don't type anything at the end of an inserted smilie code, the OS leaves it alone and I can then click Send. Otherwise, continuing to type will let the OS 'see' the 'error' and replace it with a useless, two-word do nothing text.However, it's still a possibly useful method of avoid manually typing from being automatically 'corrected' by the OS.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 10, 2011, 09:07:28 AM
What is weird is that iOS doesn't do this word splitting, at least in the older version that I run. Maybe the newer versions have "improved" the algorithms?!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 11, 2011, 08:03:43 PM
- Using an app, you create a document/visit a site/etc. for a while. You quit the app, eat lunch/dinner/supper (depending on your culture/location), even turn off the Mac.
Next day, you decide to work on another version created in the same app. You find it and double-click it's icon.
- What's this?! You now have two documents open! The one you wanted, the one you double-clicked, but why is that other one open? Oh yeah, that's the last one you had open when you last used this app.
Wasn't me, I know that...Seems to me that Apple has made something very irritating out of something that was very simple to do, when the user wanted to do it!
Furthermore, this behavior is System-wide rather than a pref for each app. I would have much rather have had to turn this 'feature' OFF manually because it would have been enabled by default for each app. As it is now, turning it off kills it in all apps. And yet Apple wants developers to make this available in their apps; I can hear the complaints to a developer when it doesn't work in some updated app because the user forgot that it had been turned off several weeks ago...in the System Prefs.There are 'work-arounds,' of course:
- 1. Close all windows/tabs before quitting an app (or leave open the one you want to see when the app starts).
2. Suck it up and quit complaining!
3. Turn it off and never see it anywhere again.
4. Use option + command + Q (Quit and discard windows)
5. Try some 'default write' commands in Terminal. Just keep a record of which defaults you've changed...and be prepared to re-enter the changes after an update to that app. (I found one that supposedly works for Safari. I suspect it will work for any app that has this ability by simply changing the text to include the name of the app.)
6. Be aware that the option + command + Q is actually a 'toggle.' If you use a 'default.write' command in Terminal, the optioned command actually becomes "Quit and Keep Windows!"
7. Never quit any app, just close all the windows. After all, all apps work nicely with each other, never use more memory than they need. Plus, OS X doesn't freeze just because one app crashes and we all have way more RAM than we really need, too. Just ask Bill Gates!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 18, 2011, 10:34:23 AM
I thought that's what the iWork Updater 6 was supposed to have provided! Who would have thought I should have investigated the actual 'proof-of-concept!" No, I blithely accepted Apple's promise and 100% accuracy of their previous updates... Checking the Apple Forums revealed that others had discovered the same behavior (from all three iWork apps). Software update claimed my versions were up-to-date (which was true). Unzipping my archived versions did get SU to decide those versions needed updating, but it did not create versions that would work in Lion.
Not even if I downloaded the updater from Apple directly.The only solution that seemed to work, as stated in the Forums, was to completely un-install the apps, re-install from whatever media they came on and then do the updating. Fortunately, that also worked for me. I have no idea why, however.
Along the way, I discovered that there don't seem to be any ".bom" files in any Receipts directory. This may be part of the recent "buy-from-the-Mac-App-Store-and-we'll-keep-track-of-everything" philosophy at Apple. The directory is still there but the only ".bom" files are from non-Apple apps/developers. The actual app installations are now kept in a "InstallHistory.plist" file. One advantage might be to provide a list of all the files an installer creates, even though the locations aren't listed. The list also includes how the instal occurred; Software Update, the developer's installer, etc.
Aside/Rant:
I'm trying to be a 'security-conscious' user and forcing a password login. But, once again, I'm growing weary of constantly being asked for that password to make changes in the /Library. In fact, duplicating/archiving a 'System" file provides no request for a password. The OS acts like it is following my command and even beeps when it is 'complete.' However, nothing actually happens (unless the action is putting the file somewhere else on the drive!)! In order to do my standard 'archive-before-updating' method, I have to copy the system file to somewhere in my Home directory. That move then requests my password.
I'm not actually sure this is because I changed the way I log in or if it is the "Lion" way of operating.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 07, 2011, 07:25:49 PM
Revert can do exactly the same thing as TM but so much more! You can replace the whole file, if you want. But the file can be much newer than the last TM backup. But the most important capability is to just view the current and the backups, side by side. And all the previous versions are available! But the real beauty of the system is that you can copy anything in any version and paste it directly into the current one...without leaving the Revert setup. This can really be useful if you brain storm, cut, delete, edit every other minute! Most likely all your work is still available even if you don't have an external drive connected!!!
This feature makes many of the things people are unhappy about almost worth the upgrade!!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 12, 2011, 09:20:12 AM
I've installed the app (which really does need to be in the Applications folder, not in a lower-level area, BTW. It is completely free (although I think a donation would be appropriate!). It is convenient. It works!
One item I wanted to check out was the ability to turn Resume off in single apps. Photoshop Elements was frustratingly always including the last image I had edited, even though I had developed a habit of closing every last image before quitting the app. I used Lion Tweaks to disable Resume in Elements. Opened Elements and noted that the last image still appeared.
Quit Elements and went on checking Lion Tweaks , assuming that, like many other things Adobe, it simply didn't care about co-operating with anything Apple. Within a few seconds, I got the larger than normal, "Adobe, in it's infinite wisdom, has detected that Elements has unexpectedly quit. Would you like to read the rest of this dialog and wonder why it takes so long for Adobe to realize this or why they feel inclined to highjack this OS function or would you rather just close the dialog?" But that indicated that Adobe may have actually got the message about how I wanted it to operate, so I opened it again and much to my enjoyment, it opened without including any old images!!! Thanks, Fredrik!!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 12, 2011, 09:38:08 AM
)Has anyone noticed the new "About This Mac" behavior? You still get the normal little dialog noting the flavor of the OS and some more meager info about your Mac. But now, when you click the "More info..." button (I can just hear the complainers start bemoaning that they don't get the System Information app now...) you now get a slightly larger window with several useful tabs and general info about specific hardware. Each tab has a button giving you direct access to an appropriate utility (Disk Utility, System Information, Display Prefs, etc.). Nice attention to detail and providing more info in a easier to use form. :thumb up:
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