OSX Lion

grizzly · 22-07-2011 5:09pm

thehomeofDob wrote: »

Anyone notice this bug?
Start a full screen app (in my case it's chrome).
Swipe three fingers to the right which will open dashboard.
The dock at the bottom will appear and will not disappear when you go back to the full screen app.

I noticed that the dock wouldn't appear until I swipped over it a couple of times while in full screen Chrome. I imagine it'll be a fix in .1.

thehomeofDob · 22-07-2011 5:12pm

Yeah it's weird. I'm not really too fond of full screen apps now. Everything seems to be slightly more effort to do when you're in the app.

54kroc · 22-07-2011 5:28pm

How do I make a shortcut to my devices?
I've four external hard drives and I'd like to make a shortcut I could put in the dock.

jack presley · 22-07-2011 6:40pm

Nodferatu wrote: »

whats wrong with safari?

I switched to Safari once I got Lion and one thing I don't like is to do with bookmarks. In Chrome and Firefox if you hover over a folder in your bookmarks bar, all the websites within that folder can be seen and clicked whereas in Safari you have to actually click the fodder name for the websites to become visible. I know it's only 1 extra click but it is a small pain.

jonseyblub · 22-07-2011 6:53pm

If anyone uses carbonite as a back-up its not compatible yet either.:(

milltown · 22-07-2011 6:57pm

thehomeofDob wrote: »

Yeah it's weird. I'm not really too fond of full screen apps now. Everything seems to be slightly more effort to do when you're in the app.

On the plus side, my 13" mbp just got bigger

rottenhat · 22-07-2011 7:42pm

Seems a bit slow and buggy all right, but I am so pleased that Mail finally shows your sent messages in threads (really, how has it taken them six years to catch up with Gmail?) that I'm willing to overlook the other deficiencies for the moment. Of course, I haven't had any real problems to speak of....

nesf · 22-07-2011 7:49pm

Bleh, two RBoD freezes in a row. Think it might be gfxCardStatus causing some of the problems. It's been updated for Lion but switching cards seems to trigger something.

Stark · 22-07-2011 7:58pm

Seems a bit slow and buggy for me too. Could be issues due to doing upgrade rather than clean install. It did become more responsive after it had time to settle down following the upgrade. So far I've only upgraded my machine in work to Lion, I've left my personal machine alone running Snow Leopard.

displaced dub · 22-07-2011 8:22pm

apoch632 wrote: »

Same thing happened to me and I killed the power as well

This is how I solved it.

Booted from the Snow Leopard disk (Put the disk in and hold C "i think" during startup)
Ran all the diagnostics and it turned out there was some issue with my hard drive
Erased the hard drive and restored the last Time Machine backup I had
Started up in Snow Leopard then installed Lion and it worked fine

Thanks for the PM and the solution above.

Sadly for me this wont work as my HD is fried. Going to Mactivate on monday for repair and im going to upgrade to 1TB HD

silvine · 22-07-2011 9:39pm

Lion won't install onto my Macbook. It's saying my startup HDD doesn't use the GUID partition. Going to try burning to a DVD. This is fairly convoluted for Apple. I recently installed an SDD drive and was able to restore my time machine backup onto it without issue. Can't understand why Lion is proving more difficult.

DualFrontDiscs · 22-07-2011 9:49pm

Nodferatu wrote: »

whats wrong with safari?

Two gripes for me on Safari. When you open a new tab, it puts it at the end of tab list, so if you've lots of tabs open, it's a pain. Please correct me if there's a way to have Safari mirror Chrome's action in this regard.

Secondly, the address bar is not a search bar, minor gripe admittedly, but all the same.

I like the gestures in Safari, but prefer Chrome for the reason above.

DFD.

Sad Professor · 22-07-2011 10:04pm

silvine wrote: »

Lion won't install onto my Macbook. It's saying my startup HDD doesn't use the GUID partition. Going to try burning to a DVD. This is fairly convoluted for Apple. I recently installed an SDD drive and was able to restore my time machine backup onto it without issue. Can't understand why Lion is proving more difficult.

And is it GUID? Because I'm not sure how you are currently booting from it if it isn't.

silvine · 22-07-2011 10:04pm

It won't install via the boot DVD either. Any ideas? I'm stuck with an OS I can't install.

silvine · 22-07-2011 10:05pm

How can I check it it's GUID? It says Apple partition Map on disk utility.

Sad Professor · 22-07-2011 10:06pm

In Disk Utility. At the bottom it will say what the partition scheme is.

silvine · 22-07-2011 10:07pm

It says MAc OS Extended journaled.

Sad Professor · 22-07-2011 10:11pm

silvine wrote: »

How can I check it it's GUID? It says Apple partition Map on disk utility.

You'll need to reformat it as GUID. I thought Disk Utility did this automatically since SL, but if not go into the partitions tab and do it from there. Intel macs need GUID to boot so I don't know how you were booting using APM.

silvine · 22-07-2011 10:13pm

The Format menu is greyed out. My drive is an 60GB SDD which I installed last week.

Sad Professor · 22-07-2011 10:54pm

Follow the instructions here to reformat the drive as GUID:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1600

finno · 22-07-2011 11:10pm

When i download lion will start to install itself straight away?

nesf · 22-07-2011 11:12pm

finno wrote: »

When i download lion will start to install itself straight away?

No, it presents a screen and waits for you to initialise the process.

Zapp Brannigan · 22-07-2011 11:56pm

milltown wrote: »

Ditto. Dunno how many times already I've seen that widgets page trying to go back a page with a two finger swipe.

I got it working. If you switch the swipe between pages to 2 or 3 fingers it works again in Chrome, iTunes, Finder et al.

silvine · 23-07-2011 12:37am

I had to burn a disc image of Lion, format my HDD and do a clean install of Lion.

Optical media might not be dead after all.

towger · 23-07-2011 12:59am

My USB headset does not work since the upgrade . It is not detected at all. Anybody with a similar issue ?

Zapp Brannigan · 23-07-2011 3:00am

Anyone get the 3 finger double tap thing to work? Does it only work in certain apps?

Can't get the 2 finger double tap smart zoom to work either.

fifth · 23-07-2011 10:34am

Had a particularly unpleasant experience this morning with OSX Lion. Downloaded an MP3, clicked 'show in finder' then clicked play (within the folder) and listened to about half of the song - all grand. Then I dragged and dropped it into iTunes. Stopped playing the file in the folder and went to play it in iTunes, it played for a few seconds, the iMac then hung, and an ear piercingly loud sound that I can only describe as similar to an alarm was blasting out of the speakers. derrrrrr.....derrrrrr.....derrrrrr... had to emergency shut down.

This happened with snow leopard as well when I visited a particularly flash heavy site though it was strange it happened with iTunes.

Another thing, searching for files in finder always seems to hang my system for about 10 seconds. Also 3 finger double tap hasn't worked for me.

dubmick · 23-07-2011 11:24am

it's going to take a while to get used to scrolling in the other direction when using Chrome

Bigcheeze · 23-07-2011 11:41am

dubmick wrote: »

it's going to take a while to get used to scrolling in the other direction when using Chrome

you don't have to. I was going to give it a go but as I use a windows machine in work it would just be a pain in the arse to switch daily.

dubmick · 23-07-2011 12:08pm

so how so you change it back?

OSX Lion

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