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VLC is my back up, I think the UI feels clunky but it plays basically everything. Movist with the Perian plug-in is the most pleasant to use imo.
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Why not just clean install Lion? Saves some time.
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Jul 22, 2011 17:26
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Yeah if you make a bootable Lion disk on USB or a DVD you can do a full installation on an empty wiped drive. I guess it's not a big deal though since it's only saving you 30 minutes of time. Though I don't really know how Time Machine backup works so someone else should chime in on that. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jul 22, 2011 |
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Jul 22, 2011 17:32
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Krakkles posted:So I couldn't create the Lion disc because my system removed the installer after it installed. I put in my SL DVD and held down C, got to the bootup, ran disk utility, and erased/reformatted my drive. Try going back to Disk Utility and follow this guide http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-Mac-OS-X-v10-5-Leopard/751/1 I think something got messed up when you manually wiped the drive. It would have done it for you in the correct format when installing Snow Leopard.
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Jul 22, 2011 19:28
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Technically, yes. But if you know anyone that has Lion or can get your hands on a Lion boot disk you'll be able to clean install Lion. You'll have to wipe the drive first though, you can't do an upgrade. http://www.macworld.com/article/161087/2011/07/install_lion_over_leopard.html Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jul 23, 2011 |
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Jul 23, 2011 08:59
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Lion isn't associated with anything, you can use the installer to do as many installs as you want. It doesn't use any CD keys or anything like that. If you're selling the computer I'd just install Lion but give them the original SL discs of course.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:09
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So much bitching. After reading the last 20 pages I'm definitely holding off on upgrading my iMac to Lion. Snow Leopard has been fine and I have no complaints. I can put Lion on the laptop to play around with it though. It's not like Lion really adds much for desktop users.
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Jul 27, 2011 23:22
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Space Racist posted:Huh? The only Lion feature that really screams 'laptop' is the fullscreen apps thing, and even that can be nice on the desktop in certain scenarios. Not saying your usage patterns are identical to mine, but I'm loving Lion on my iMac so far. I was thinking all the gestures, spaces with full screen apps, launchpad, and some other small things like natural scrolling are kind of useless for me. I use a mouse and keyboard and my display is big enough that I never need to use spaces and full screen apps look dumb on 2560 x 1440. I'm going to install Lion eventually. I'm just going to play around with it first on my MBP before I put it on the desktop. Is there any reason to rush into Lion on my iMac? What features do you like the best? I'm assuming Apple will release a big patch like they always do with a new OS, might wait for that first to clean out the small kinks.
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Jul 28, 2011 00:47
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I just installed an SSD on my MBP. Are there any tweaks I should be doing in Lion for maintenance? It's an OWC 120gig and they claim that it doesn't need TRIM and has garbage collection built-in.
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Jul 29, 2011 01:10
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Yes, I just tried it right now in Firefox and Safari
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Jul 30, 2011 03:10
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duck monster posted:Is anyone else having a problem with firefox being flakey as all gently caress? Firefox has been working fine for me except every time I try to play a youtube video it says some error message even though the video plays fine.
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Jul 30, 2011 04:43
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Tried this? http://lifehacker.com/251758/mac-tip--how-to-burn-an-iso-or-dmg-file-to-disc
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Jul 30, 2011 20:21
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Since you already own 10.6 can't you just find a copy using Google? It's not like they come with serial keys or anything. Just make a boot disk with that and you can use it to verify/repair your hard drive. I also ran into the same problem when I was installing Windows 7 but I do have the recovery discs that came with the iMac. It just takes a minute or two to repair. Do you know anyone else with any OSX installation discs or a USB boot disk? Another thing is if you're going to buy Lion then you can download that first and create a USB boot disk off that. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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Aug 3, 2011 18:48
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Anandtech says the upgrade is worth it and some benchmarks show it's over 20% faster. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4554/apples-11inch-macbook-air-core-i7-18ghz-review-update/2
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Aug 5, 2011 18:28
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Did anyone upgrade to Lion while also having a boot camped Windows? If I try to hold down the option key while booting up I'll get a kernel panic. Also if I pick Windows 7 from the Startup Disk in Preferences it will hang in the grey screen once in a while. I can successfully boot into Windows sometimes but these freezes and panics are annoying. I'm thinking of wiping everything to do a fresh Lion install and do boot camp partition afterwards again.
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Aug 7, 2011 21:58
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You can re-download all the apps from iTunes the next chance you get without problems. Don't know about backing up your pdfs though
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Aug 9, 2011 21:23
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I stopped using Perian or VLC after I found Movist. It plays practically everything and it has a nice UI.
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Aug 12, 2011 04:22
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Don't lift the MBP lid?
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Aug 14, 2011 03:08
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I used a 15" Powerbook G4 (aka Firebooks) in closed clamshell mode for a couple years without problems. Yeah it got really hot and my room became an oven and I could hear the fans from the kitchen but it wasn't damaged. I thought all Macbook Pros were designed to be used this way? Is your 2007 model the one where they put a shitload of thermal paste on it, causing it to overheat?
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Aug 14, 2011 03:18
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Yep I downloaded the Windows support software when it prompted me to. It's about 600 megs and you can just put it on a USB drive. You just have to run the setup.exe after loading Windows.
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Aug 15, 2011 18:54
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Epic Fail Guy posted:Is there any way to format a thumb drive to FAT32 from within Lion? Disk Utility -> Erase -> MS-DOS
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Aug 20, 2011 02:36
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Cyne posted:Edit: Actually, it's producing a FAT16 filesystem for me here. I could have sworn it was FAT32... I mean, why wouldn't it be? I'm looking around the Apple support forums and it looks like Disk Utility now does FAT16 or 32 depending on the capacity of the device? This is weird. I guess if it's 2gb or less it will go with 16.
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Stare-Out posted:So is the Logitech Control Center just a turd or is there a reason why my Back/Forward thumb buttons don't work in Finder? If I set them to the cmd-right/cmd-left keypress, they work but they constantly reset back to back/forward and stop working in Finder. Back/forward work fine in Chrome, for instance. I've never had trouble with LCC in the past 6-7 years on Macs. This is how I set it up, just assign the back button to "back" and forward to "forward." Not those key combos. Maybe you have to get a new version of LCC after a Lion upgrade? A new version came out July 20 http://www.logitech.com/en-us/584/3129 
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Aug 20, 2011 17:37
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Scrolls fine for me
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Aug 21, 2011 22:28
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Sigma posted:http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/11/build-your-own-lion-install-usb-thumb-drive-for-cheap/ I don't think it will let you re-download the Lion installer if it came with Lion. The MBA also uses some newer build of Lion and won't install with the standard one. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Aug 22, 2011 |
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Aug 22, 2011 04:21
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I still see some ads and pop ups when I use Chrome so I still use Firefox. I hope the ad block guys can make it as good as the Firefox version. That's really the only complaint.
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Aug 24, 2011 06:37
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Plays smooth for me, just tried a 1080p video on Youtube
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Sep 4, 2011 16:57
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It doesn't feel that different to me. It lets you see the different spaces more easily but I never used them in the first place.
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carry on then posted:"Chicken of the VNC" is the best app name I've ever seen Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Sep 5, 2011 |
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Sep 5, 2011 01:54
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I LOVE DICKS AND PUSSY
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Sep 17, 2011 00:56
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Thanks, I am now using Sparrow!
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That's strange. Maybe it needs 2 usb ports to power it up? FAT32 shows up fine on my Macs.
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Sep 17, 2011 12:09
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Jolan posted:Just got a new iMac with Lion to complement my MacBook with Snow Leopard, and I'm having some issues. First off, Text Editor is weird. On my MB, it opens an empty file whenever I click on the icon to start it up, it doesn't save changes automatically (always asks) and it doesn't re-open windows from the last time it was open. Now, it does. How can I 'fix' this? Welcome to Lion You can use this guide to revert some of the changes http://lifehacker.com/5824564/how-to-de+ios+ify-mac-os-x-lion Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 21, 2011 |
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Sep 21, 2011 17:39
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Granite Octopus posted:Absolutely. I cannot believe how bad flash is on YouTube for example. On a freshly installed machine, running Chrome, viewing a video using flash on a website built by the same god drat company as the browser and yet it still somehow does not work. Wouldn't this be the fault of Chrome? Never had a problem with Flash using Firefox. Even using Safari without any ad block extension Youtube works fine.
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Jeratain posted:This is a really basic question, but here it goes. Just use Movist to play videos. It handles nearly everything and it's not bloated like VLC. Very simple interface and starts up super quick.
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Sep 29, 2011 00:36
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If I make my own Lion USB boot disk does it work now on the Macbook Air or Mini? I know in the past the MBA/Mini had separate Lion versions or something. I just downloaded Lion again and it says it was last updated Oct 13.
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A FUCKTON OF WEED posted:Howdy OS X thread- I'm helping a friend of mine with her iMac; she's wanting to wipe the drive because she is going to be selling it to a roommate and using her MacBook pro as her primary machine. The problem is that she doesn't have her install DVD anywhere, it went missing some time ago. We do, however, have the Lion installer that she kept when she upgraded. Can we put the iMac into target mode, hook that up to her MBP, then use the MBP's disk utility to wipe the drive and then instal Lion using the installer we downloaded from the App Store? I remember when it came out, Lion was an upgrade app only but wasn't sure if that's changed. It's easier and faster to make a Lion Installer on a USB stick. http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/
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It's normal. The SD stuff is meant to watch on your iPhone/iPad etc. I'm also not aware of a way to cancel those downloads. It just forces you to download the SD ones even if you don't need them.
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angor posted:I've run all the updates on my 15"MBP and I'm having WiFi issues. It shows that the airport is connected to my home network, but I don't have a connection. It takes about a minute to actually get any data traffic. When I open Safari, it tells me I'm not connected. If I click Network Diagnostics it says that everything is working. Have you tried this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0LQV_OQ_Sc
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I played around with Launchbar and reverse scrolling for 5 minutes and then reverted back to the way god intended. "natural" scrolling makes no sense at all if you use a mouse.
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