Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 2a.
- Re: audio book not syncing in order From: mirate
- 2b.
- Re: audio book not syncing in order From: mirate
- 2c.
- Re: audio book not syncing in order From: Otto Nikolaus
- 3a.
- Re: Directories From: Tod Hopkins
- 3b.
- Re: Directories From: Tod Hopkins
- 3c.
- Re: Directories From: Bill B.
- 3d.
- Re: Directories From: Bill B.
- 3e.
- Re: Directories From: Bill B.
- 3f.
- Re: Directories From: Jeannie
- 3g.
- Re: Directories From: James Robertson
- 3h.
- Re: Directories From: James Robertson
- 4a.
- Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion From: Harry Flaxman
- 4b.
- Re: Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion From: Bob Cook
- 4c.
- Re: Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion From: Harry Flaxman
- 5.
- itunes won't play From: nhoward5040
- 6a.
- OT: uSD card From: Harry Flaxman
- 6b.
- Re: OT: uSD card From: Jay Abraham
- 7.1.
- Lion Upgrade From: Kathy Benitez
- 7.2.
- Re: Lion Upgrade From: Harry Flaxman
- 7.3.
- Re: Lion Upgrade From: Jeannie
- 8a.
- Re: iDefrag 2 News From: Bill B.
- 9.
- Printer, firefox and Lion From: Jeannie
- 10a.
- Re: Tivo Transfer on Lion From: nhoward5040
Messages
- 1.1.
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Re: 3
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:00 am (PST)
Not so much with 10.7. It seems you now have to enter your password to
place files/folders *outside* of Home.
But yes, it's crazy *not* to place all your files/folders in the place
meant for them!
Otto
On 15 November 2011 09:19, Christopher Collins <maclist@analogdigital.com.au
> wrote:
> It's true in any OS, no matter what it's basic structure.
>
> Vista & Win7 have made it easier for users to start from their home folder.
>
> So, yes, you still can even in Vista & 7.
>
> But you shouldn't!
>
> Any folder you create for your files should be created within your home
> folder.
>
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- 1.2.
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Re: 3
Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com chloe898
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:04 am (PST)
Thank you, Dan. I just checked it, and it is excluding only one thing, a
2tb drive that is my backup drive and my photoshop scratch disk. I
understand that, but does that mean that it is also backing up my 2 other
photo drives?
Jeannie
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> Time Machine by default backs up everything.
>
> To exclude things from back up you open Time Machine panel in System
> Preferences and click the Options button.
>
> A drop down card appears labeled "Exclude these items from backups"
>
> Drag a file or a folder or a drive icon to this drop down card (or use
> the Plus button to navigate to and select the item) and it won't be
> backed up.
>
> As a side note, there is a similar feature in the Spotlight panel.
> It's called the Privacy tab. Add an item to it if you don't wan't
> Spotlight to index it.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:02:51 -0700, Jeannie wrote:
> > I don't know. How would I tell. I would want every folder to be backed up
> > while I was working on them.
> >
> > Jeannie
>
>
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- 2a.
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Re: audio book not syncing in order
Posted by: "mirate" talk@signifydesign.com ojosabroso
Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:36 am (PST)
Hi, Barry,
I'd done something like that when movements of classical concerti were out of order, so I shoulda thought of that.
Thanks,
Nicky
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Barry Austern <barryaus@..com .> wrote:
>
> At 9:23 PM +0000 11/14/11, mirate wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I am trying to help a friend who has a 30 GB Classic Windows iPod. I
> >am using a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.5.
> >
> >He has an audio book version of the Bible. The original version of
> >the books is on a CD. In iTunes, after manually importing the MP3s,
> >I changed the format of the books from Music to Audio Book.
> >
> >In the iTunes window, the order is correct. In the iPod's Audio
> >Books list, everything is in alphabetical order. How can I make the
> >iPod list appear in the table of contents order?
>
> The easiest work around would simply be to append leading numbers to
> each section. Remember that the sorting would be in ASCII order,
> probably, so 11 would come between 1 and 2. In other words, Genesis
> can be 01Genesis, etc.
> --
> Barry Austern
> barryaus@...
>
- 2b.
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Re: audio book not syncing in order
Posted by: "mirate" talk@signifydesign.com ojosabroso
Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:40 am (PST)
Hi Otto,
I was unable to import the books' audio automatically, as though they were songs. I had to select all of the MP3s, and then open them from the Finder. I kept wondering if the audio book company had mastered things incorrectly, or if I had simply encountered a bug or limitation in iTunes's audio books format. I guess I'll just use the approach that Barry suggested.
I'll send an update if I find any easy way.
Thanks,
Nicky
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@com ...> wrote:
>
> On 14 November 2011 21:48, Barry Austern <barryaus@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > The easiest work around would simply be to append leading numbers to
> > each section. Remember that the sorting would be in ASCII order,
> > probably, so 11 would come between 1 and 2. In other words, Genesis
> > can be 01Genesis, etc.
> >
>
> There's an option to do that automatically for music imports in iTunes.
> Does the same apply for audiobooks? I don't have any to try it on.
>
> Otto
>
>
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>
- 2c.
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Re: audio book not syncing in order
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:07 am (PST)
iLounge has some excellent articles on making the best use of iTunes. Try <
http://bit.ly/E98Yg > > Importing Audiobooks.
Otto
On 15 November 2011 13:40, mirate <talk@signifydesign.com > wrote:
> Hi Otto,
>
> I was unable to import the books' audio automatically, as though they were
> songs. I had to select all of the MP3s, and then open them from the Finder.
> I kept wondering if the audio book company had mastered things incorrectly,
> or if I had simply encountered a bug or limitation in iTunes's audio books
> format. I guess I'll just use the approach that Barry suggested.
>
> I'll send an update if I find any easy way.
>
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- 3a.
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:45 am (PST)
On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Denver Dan wrote:
> Lion is another nudge toward a more responsible Folder/File system for
> users.
Warning. Rant. Don't take personally, Dan. ;)
In whose opinion is this "responsible" and when did it become the designers job to make me "responsible." Sorry, I'm quite touchy on this subject. There is a fine line between helpful and patronizing. Windows and Apple crossed it quite a while ago with file systems and permissions and it's only getting worse. The OS is designed by people like you and me, who fix systems and deal with problems. We are obsessed with "troubleshooting" because that's what we do. We design to make OUR issues easier, often without regard to whether this helps the user. But we didn't make it easier. We created a nightmare.
How can an end user possibly be expected to understand the nightmare created by "virtual" folders buried several layers deep where the user never sees them directly. And the Unix "permissions" structure. Please! Created entirely by and for IT managers. It requires a special utility to maintain it! And we force this on end users. How can the user possibly be expected to understand it? I barely understand it.
Personally, I think the Windows and Mac data file structures (which are basically the same) are horrible. Why? Because they make my life harder, not easier. I used to enforce a simple file structure that my employees understood. They have given up trying to understand the native OS structures. Fortunately, we have servers, where the file structure is much simpler.
Just another point of view.
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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- 3b.
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:52 am (PST)
On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:10 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> Because they want you not to foul up the OS and to put them in the user area.
>
So lock the sensitive folders and leave the rest open. In fact, why isn't everything else hidden with a one button reveal? That way the user could have complete freedom in the visible area and not worry about "permissions" at all. In for a penny and all...
> The User folders, in particular the Home folder are where back up software is going to look for your stuff.
>
Why? You can just as easily use "exclusion." "Inclusion" is inherently dangerous. That's why Time Machine does not work that way. It backs up everything except what it knows is useless. The best strategy.
> It is the same on Windows computers.
>
That alone should tell us that it's not in the user's interest.
Cheers,
tod
>
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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- 3c.
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com kernos501
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:48 am (PST)
At 4:33 PM -0800 11/14/11, James Robertson wrote:
>I discovered that myself. I just assumed (wrongly) that things were the same in Snow Leopard as they are in Lion. I think Lion's restriction makes oodles of sense, for all the reasons I and others have stated, even if it's possible to put files and folders at the root level in earlier versions of the OS).<<
Ir only makes "oodles of sense" if more than 1 person uses a computer otherwise it is a PITA. There are work-arounds: Login as Root, eg.
A difference I noticed between folders in SL an L is that in L to move an app into the Applications or Utilities Ÿ (the old symbol for folder) required an admin password, even if one was logged in as an admin. This is easily solved by changing the folder permissions to username (me) read and write or admin read and write. They will revert when permissions are repaired and perhaps on a restart (I trashed Lion, so cannot test), but is useful when one is installing or testing lots of apps.
BIll
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- 3d.
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com kernos501
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:50 am (PST)
At 7:43 PM -0500 11/14/11, Jim Smith wrote:
>With all the talk about 'sandboxing' things may get worse/better. As the file system is surely to be less flexible. We should all get use to doing things correctly (in Apple opinion).<
Frankly, I would much rather get around whatever Apple forces on us that results in loss of productivity.
BB
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com kernos501
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:58 am (PST)
At 8:44 PM -0500 11/14/11, Denver Dan wrote:
>Other steps have been introduced in various iterations of Mac OS X
>including the requirement to authenticate as an Admin user before
>removing files from certain folders.
But if one is logged is as an admin, why should one have to put in a password again. I use a strong, long password since it's used to encrypt filevault and it gets old fast typing it in.
BB
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com chloe898
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:58 am (PST)
I kinda agree with all this. I know that I do not know my Mac pro anywhere
as well as I knew my Pc. I always got in , and knew how things worked.
Nowhere in my reading before and after getting my Mac last January did I
see anything relating to this in any great detail. For that I am grateful
for this group.
I called a friend of mine in S.Dakota yesterday. She is both a long time
mac user and a photographer. She uses Folders as I do for her shots. She
told me that all her photos are sent into Pictures Directory while she is
working on them, so that is what I shall do. Eventually all my photo
fo;ders will be off the Macintosh drive, even though I know they are still
really there. I still have to admit that I don't see the reason for
this.Eventually the only 2 folders left on the mac HD will be the folder to
which I send my shots that are going to my on line gallery, and the folder
of those shots I have posted.
One thing that has mystified me was the lack of an in depth discussion of
this in my Pogue book, apple support, or on line.
Thanks again,
Jeannie
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Tod Hopkins <hoplist@hillmanncarr.com >wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Denver Dan wrote:
> > Lion is another nudge toward a more responsible Folder/File system for
> > users.
>
> Warning. Rant. Don't take personally, Dan. ;)
>
> In whose opinion is this "responsible" and when did it become the
> designers job to make me "responsible." Sorry, I'm quite touchy on this
> subject. There is a fine line between helpful and patronizing. Windows
> and Apple crossed it quite a while ago with file systems and permissions
> and it's only getting worse. The OS is designed by people like you and me,
> who fix systems and deal with problems. We are obsessed with
> "troubleshooting" because that's what we do. We design to make OUR issues
> easier, often without regard to whether this helps the user. But we
> didn't make it easier. We created a nightmare.
>
> How can an end user possibly be expected to understand the nightmare
> created by "virtual" folders buried several layers deep where the user
> never sees them directly. And the Unix "permissions" structure. Please!
> Created entirely by and for IT managers. It requires a special utility to
> maintain it! And we force this on end users. How can the user possibly be
> expected to understand it? I barely understand it.
>
> Personally, I think the Windows and Mac data file structures (which are
> basically the same) are horrible. Why? Because they make my life harder,
> not easier. I used to enforce a simple file structure that my employees
> understood. They have given up trying to understand the native OS
> structures. Fortunately, we have servers, where the file structure is much
> simpler.
>
> Just another point of view.
>
> Cheers,
> tod
>
> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:07 am (PST)
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Bill B. wrote:
> Ir [sic] only makes "oodles of sense" if more than 1 person uses a computer otherwise it is a PITA. There are work-arounds: Login as Root, eg.
I'm a lowly end user, so no doubt out of my depth here, but I think that's being too hard on Apple. They've built an ecosystem predicated on the assumption that most end users will take advantage of how it all works together. If the end user can put his letters to his mom in the System Folder, notes to himself about how he wants MS Word to work in the /Library/Application Support/Microsft/ folder (or perhaps the /Library/Spotlight/ folder because he remembered that Spotlight would help him SEARCH for things), or put many dozens of folders and hundreds of files on the root level of his hard drive, who is supposed to help him clean up that mess when it all blows up?
A guy who needs no support yet for some reason wants that freedom can probably dig himself out of it, but I think most of us will at some time need help, and with a basic installation of the OS before we add any data to it consisting of many thousands of files, some limits on the end-user's ability to screw things up seem a wise design decision.
JMO,
--
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- 3h.
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Re: Directories
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:18 am (PST)
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Bill B. wrote:
> But if one is logged is as an admin, why should one have to put in a password again. I use a strong, long password since it's used to encrypt filevault and it gets old fast typing it in.
Because you're not the typical new computer user who buys a Mac and sets himself up as an administrator and needs a reminder now and then that it's not a good idea to do certain things.
Anybody can turn on a band saw. It takes a bit of training to use it safely. Some help from the manufacturer to that end is probably "a good thing."
Perhaps what's REALLY needed, is an option, at Setup Assistant time, to choose a user access level appropriate for tinkerers that's not hidden from the computer's primary user; i.e., root access. That's what it seems you're advocating, but I'd bet quite a bit that you wouldn't want your grandmother who's just completed an email class at the Senior Center to configure that new iMac you just bought her to give herself unfettered root access. Setup Assistant doesn't discourage her from giving herself Admin access, which is dangerous enough!
And, if you want root access and know its benefits AND dangers, you already know how to get it.
Again, JMO.
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- 4a.
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Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:15 am (PST)
I just tried to boot from a Win 7 install dvd that I purchased awhile ago. In Lion, the disc is not recognized as a boot disc. I have two optical drives, including the internal, and neither of them recognize it.
I thought, perhaps the drives are out of alignment, or need replacing, so I created and then burned back, a disc image.
Has anyone had an issue with this?
I don't believe that firmware was changed anywhere during the Lion upgrade, so I can't imagine what's causing this.
TIA
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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- 4b.
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Re: Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion
Posted by: "Bob Cook" cookrd1@discoveryowners.com cookrd1
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:31 am (PST)
Harry,
If you don't get a response, I will try when I get home. Only Win7 works
with Lion, so make sure it is not Vista or XP.
Bob
On Nov 15, 2011 9:15 AM, "Harry Flaxman" <harry.flaxman@comcast.net > wrote:
> **
>
>
> I just tried to boot from a Win 7 install dvd that I purchased awhile ago.
> In Lion, the disc is not recognized as a boot disc. I have two optical
> drives, including the internal, and neither of them recognize it.
>
> I thought, perhaps the drives are out of alignment, or need replacing, so
> I created and then burned back, a disc image.
>
> Has anyone had an issue with this?
>
> I don't believe that firmware was changed anywhere during the Lion
> upgrade, so I can't imagine what's causing this.
>
> TIA
>
> Harry
>
> Harry Flaxman
> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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- 4c.
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Re: Win 7 Boot Issue In Lion
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:43 am (PST)
Nope, definitely Win 7. I have the Ultimate disc.
Like I say, I don't believe there was any firmware update with my iMac prior to the Lion upgrade.
The machine is still capable of booting XP. Firmware is in control of that, not Lion. Lion's version of the Bootcamp software does not support XP or lower.
We have a few people running Lion that still have XP partitions. I'm assuming they can boot from the XP dads.
Would appreciate you trying later on!
Thanks Bob!!
Harry
On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Bob Cook wrote:
> Harry,
> If you don't get a response, I will try when I get home. Only Win7 works
> with Lion, so make sure it is not Vista or XP.
> Bob
> On Nov 15, 2011 9:15 AM, "Harry Flaxman" <harry.flaxman@comcast.net > wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> I just tried to boot from a Win 7 install dvd that I purchased awhile ago.
>> In Lion, the disc is not recognized as a boot disc. I have two optical
>> drives, including the internal, and neither of them recognize it.
>>
>> I thought, perhaps the drives are out of alignment, or need replacing, so
>> I created and then burned back, a disc image.
>>
>> Has anyone had an issue with this?
>>
>> I don't believe that firmware was changed anywhere during the Lion
>> upgrade, so I can't imagine what's causing this.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> Harry Flaxman
>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
>
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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itunes won't play
Posted by: "nhoward5040" lists5040@comcast.net nhoward5040
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:05 am (PST)
My husband recently started having a problem with iTunes. (He is running Snow Leopard on a 4 year-old MacBook Pro.). All of a sudden it wouldn't open; the beach ball would just go round and round. He couldn't quit it either, even from the dock. He had to force quit it in order to stop the beach ball. We repaired permissions, removed the preferences, ran Disk Utility and Disk Warrior. The situation didn't change. So we then trashed the iTunes app and it's preferences, and downloaded a new copy of iTunes from Apple's website. After installing it, iTunes worked fine for a day. Now it's back to the beach ball and the inability to quit it. I saved the report that comes up when you force quit a non-responding app, if that would help anyone diagnose the problem. I didn't post it here because it is so long.
Any suggestions of what to try next?
Thanks for any help
Nancy
- 6a.
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OT: uSD card
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:08 am (PST)
Here's one that's a little OT, but figured I'd ask anyway.
I have a couple of micro-SD cards that were used in an older Android tablet. Since using them there, they seem to be tagged as read only. I recall being able to move these cards between my iMac's SD card reader and the tablet and having no trouble with writing from the Mac at all.
Now, that I don't have the tablet any longer, I have two uSD cards that are reporting read only when I attempt to do anything using the Mac's card reader, or any card reader for that matter.
Has anyone experienced anything like this?
It's not way OT, I hope.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: OT: uSD card
Posted by: "Jay Abraham" jaygroups@abrahamgroup.net kerala01212001
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:25 am (PST)
Harry,
Is it possible to reformat with Disk Utility?
Jay
On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> Here's one that's a little OT, but figured I'd ask anyway.
>
> I have a couple of micro-SD cards that were used in an older Android tablet. Since using them there, they seem to be tagged as read only. I recall being able to move these cards between my iMac's SD card reader and the tablet and having no trouble with writing from the Mac at all.
>
> Now, that I don't have the tablet any longer, I have two uSD cards that are reporting read only when I attempt to do anything using the Mac's card reader, or any card reader for that matter.
>
> Has anyone experienced anything like this?
>
> It's not way OT, I hope.
>
> Harry
>
> Harry Flaxman
> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Lion Upgrade
Posted by: "Kathy Benitez" kabenitez@gmail.com kabenitez
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:09 am (PST)
I'm currently using Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I've hesitated upgrading to Lion due to problems discussed in this group.
I think in order to use iCloud I have to update to Lion.
So, I'm asking for a general opinion on whether updating to Lion can be
accomplished with few glitches?
Thank you all in advance for your learned opinion
Kathy Benitez
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Re: Lion Upgrade
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:15 am (PST)
You can probably hear many differing opinions on this. I am sorry I upgraded, for the most part. I have seen every install that I have done gradually degrade to the point where I get strange OS errors that I've never seen before. I have not migrated, so it's not an 'inherited' issue. It's got to be exclusive to my install of Lion. Having done the reinstall 3 times since the public release, I am not happy with it.
I've created a second partition with SL on it, and that's what I usually use for day to day work. I've given up on iCloud, because it's not supported under SL.
I have been on the phone with Apple several times, only to be told to do an erase and install, each time.
That's BS, IMO. I am able to figure out OS problems as a rule. I usually just didn't do the erase and install, but found the problem. That would be OK until another one that was unrelated, showed up.
That's my opinion.
Harry
On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Kathy Benitez wrote:
> I'm currently using Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
>
> I've hesitated upgrading to Lion due to problems discussed in this group.
>
> I think in order to use iCloud I have to update to Lion.
>
> So, I'm asking for a general opinion on whether updating to Lion can be
> accomplished with few glitches?
>
> Thank you all in advance for your learned opinion
>
> Kathy Benitez
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Lion Upgrade
Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com chloe898
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:16 am (PST)
I had no trouble upgrading at all. It all went smoothly. I had one program
that went with my Spyder that would no longer work in Lion, But I was able
to download one that did work.Other than that..no problems installing.
Jeannie
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Harry Flaxman <harry.flaxman@comcast.net >wrote:
> You can probably hear many differing opinions on this. I am sorry I
> upgraded, for the most part. I have seen every install that I have done
> gradually degrade to the point where I get strange OS errors that I've
> never seen before. I have not migrated, so it's not an 'inherited' issue.
> It's got to be exclusive to my install of Lion. Having done the reinstall
> 3 times since the public release, I am not happy with it.
>
> I've created a second partition with SL on it, and that's what I usually
> use for day to day work. I've given up on iCloud, because it's not
> supported under SL.
>
> I have been on the phone with Apple several times, only to be told to do
> an erase and install, each time.
>
> That's BS, IMO. I am able to figure out OS problems as a rule. I usually
> just didn't do the erase and install, but found the problem. That would be
> OK until another one that was unrelated, showed up.
>
> That's my opinion.
>
> Harry
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Kathy Benitez wrote:
>
> > I'm currently using Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
> >
> > I've hesitated upgrading to Lion due to problems discussed in this group.
> >
> > I think in order to use iCloud I have to update to Lion.
> >
> > So, I'm asking for a general opinion on whether updating to Lion can be
> > accomplished with few glitches?
> >
> > Thank you all in advance for your learned opinion
> >
> > Kathy Benitez
>
> Harry Flaxman
> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>
>
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Re: iDefrag 2 News
Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com kernos501
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:17 am (PST)
At 12:49 PM -0600 11/14/11, Steve B. wrote:
>Sounds like Alsoft's old Control Panel defragger in Systems 7 to 9.
>
>Much as I like iDefrag, boy is it slow. So slow that I probably don't run it more than once per year.
>
>I'll purchase the upgrade and see if things are improved. Appreciate the update.
Back in those days we were not using TB sized disks with hundreds of GB of data to be moved around. And if fragmentation is really bad the head has to move all over the place just to find all the fragments, move them to a temp area, verify, eventually move them to a final area, verify again etc. It is going to take time. I suppose you could speed it up by skipping verifying, but that's a bad idea, imo.
If you need speed just do a defrag and not an optimize.
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Printer, firefox and Lion
Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com chloe898
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:24 am (PST)
I have noticed something since I installed Lion. When I am trying to print
something from Gmail, on line etc, I no longer have the print preview , so
that I can see which pages to print. However, If I were to go to safari,
which I don't use, then I see a beautiful print preview. I also seem to
have lost teh suto complete function in the adrress bar, unless I have
already been to a site, then I have a drop down box from which to choose.
Does anyone else using Fire fox have this as well? Is there anything to be
done? I have looked through all options and tools, as well as help on
Firefox.
Jeannie
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Re: Tivo Transfer on Lion
Posted by: "nhoward5040" lists5040@comcast.net nhoward5040
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:31 am (PST)
Hi Jay,
It's been a while since I set up my computer with Tivo Transfer, but I think that you have to go into it's preferences and enter the Media Access number from your Tivo Machine. I think that you can get this either from your older Mac, or probably on the screen of your TV in the Tivo settings part.
Also, I don't follow the part in your post where you say it won't play the already transferred programs. Where are these programs? - if they are on your new computer, then it must have recognized it to transfer them. If they aren't, then they aren't there to play - or did you just copy them from the old to the new computer?
Nancy
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Jay Abraham <jaygroups@.com ..> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Hope some of you have experience with the Tivo Transfer utility which is part of Toast.
>
> I recently upgraded to a new Mac mini with Lion on it from a Power PC G5 Tower. I was using Toast 8 and when I ran it to see if it worked under the Intel chip it did. However now that I have installed it on my new computer, it doesn't recognize my Tivo's nor the already transferred programs.
>
> If I double click on the transferred shows that were on my old Tower, the Mac Mini will launch them and they will start playing in the Toast Video player but no sound comes through.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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