OSX Lion

displaced dub

Sad Professor wrote: »

displaced dub wrote: »

Cheers prof, hard disc is dead just got confirmation so this iMac is going back tomorrow and it's only 8 months old

I suspected as much. Hard luck it failing just after the installation. At least you have a backup!

Backed up before install so I won't be missing anything.

What's involved with hd replacement and how long will PC world have my machine?

opinion guy

Sad Professor wrote: »

I suspected as much. Hard luck it failing just after the installation. At least you have a backup!

Is it hard luck ? Installation related perhaps ?

portcrap

I missed the tutorial on the initial startup after lion installation. I had an icon with a tux show up. how do i get this going again?

displaced dub

opinion guy wrote: »

Is it hard luck ? Installation related perhaps ?

apparently its quite common, was speaking to one of the guys from our IT dept over the last hour and he says its more common than you think during and just after an OS install, he works on the mac side of the IT dept as apposed to the windows/regular failure or problem side

Dont be at yourself

opinion guy wrote: »

Is it hard luck ? Installation related perhaps ?

I think the installation creates a hidden Restore partition, so could be related.

displaced dub

displaced dub wrote: »

apparently its quite common, was speaking to one of the guys from our IT dept over the last hour and he says its more common than you think during and just after an OS install, he works on the mac side of the IT dept as apposed to the windows/regular failure or problem side

just had a thought for a good T-Shirt

"come to the Mac side (with jobs saying) i am your father"

Sad Professor

displaced dub wrote: »

What's involved with hd replacement and how long will PC world have my machine?

It's pretty straightforward. A technician would be able to do it in 30 minutes or less. But it's PC World, so... I'd give them a few days.

opinion guy wrote: »

Is it hard luck ? Installation related perhaps ?

It's possible all the hard drive activity during the install killed it sooner, but it would have died anyway.

8 months is actually pretty good for a hard drive. I've had them fail after 8 weeks. The HDD is a crappy, antiquated technology that can't be replaced soon enough.

whiterebel

displaced dub wrote: »

im in serious trouble here, installed this am and everything seemed to be fine until 10 minutes ago, my first ever mac freeze which it wouldnt shake out of, then i just pulled the plug.

Now all i get is a flashing folder after resart, i suppose Lion has legged it and im most likely left with getting the startup disc out.

Just aswell i backed up before installing lion.

Anyone any ideas what i should do?

You don't mean literally:eek::eek:

portcrap

actually i think its called the set up assistant. does anyone know how i can restart this as i closed it down before i finished it?

darragh o meara

Anyone having bother with the Internet on lion? Mine keeps loosing connection and I have to switch wifi off and on to get it back. Machine was 100% before the update.

Sean Quagmire

gah, i was bored so i went for it.

now i have this bloody screen, no progress in the last hour. Seems like a lot of people are having this problem.

might cancel it altogether I have a bad feeling about Lion that i just cant shake

displaced dub

whiterebel wrote: »

displaced dub wrote: »

im in serious trouble here, installed this am and everything seemed to be fine until 10 minutes ago, my first ever mac freeze which it wouldnt shake out of, then i just pulled the plug.

Now all i get is a flashing folder after resart, i suppose Lion has legged it and im most likely left with getting the startup disc out.

Just aswell i backed up before installing lion.

Anyone any ideas what i should do?

You don't mean literally:eek::eek:

Yep straight out without touching the sides!

I'd be dangerous in icu in any hospital just pulling plugs out all over the gaff

Sad Professor

You should never pull the plug. Just hold the power button to force a restart.

opinion guy

Sad Professor wrote: »

You should never pull the plug. Just hold the power button to force a restart.

Sometimes it feels good to hurt the computer back!!! :P

displaced dub

Sad Professor wrote: »

You should never pull the plug. Just hold the power button to force a restart.

It should be just happy that the magic mouse didn't follow the keyboard through the screen, the plug is the least of it's problems!

Nodferatu

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

gah, i was bored so i went for it.

now i have this bloody screen, no progress in the last hour. Seems like a lot of people are having this problem.

might cancel it altogether I have a bad feeling about Lion that i just cant shake

have same problem, when i click install nothing happens, the button disappears as if its about to start downloading but reappears back up 5 secnds later. i too have a bad feeling about lion!!

silvine

No SMB support, installation problems etc. Lion is looking more and more like Vista.

backthephilup

Installed Lion on my iMac and MBP yesterday. Took approximately an hour each and other than having to uncheck the upside down scrolling its working perfectly. In fairness i didn't "have to" uncheck the natural scrolling i just prefer it the unnatural way

5uspect

silvine wrote: »

No SMB support, installation problems etc. Lion is looking more and more like Vista.

SMB works fine. They just dropped Samba.

Sad Professor

SMB 2.0 works okay. SMB 1.0 doesn't work at all. This is a problem for people with media players that use SMB.

displaced dub

Sad Professor wrote: »

SMB 2.0 works okay. SMB 1.0 doesn't work at all. This is a problem for people with media players that use SMB.

I prefer smack my bitch(SMB) 1.0

talla

Having a very weird problem. Upgraded lion on iMac and Macbook Pro without any issues. Went to try and upgrade on 2010 Macbook Air, launch App store and go to purchases tab. Either the tab doesn't load or it will just say no purchases. If I try the app store on my iMac and Macbook Pro, same problem happens now. Nothing appears in the purchases tab or it doesn't load.
It was fine at 9pm when I started the upgrade process on the Macbook Pro.
Any ideas?

fasty

So apparently the new EULA allows this sort of thing...

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/45875/167949.png

silvine

I thought SMB was short for Samba?

fasty

Samba is an open source implementation of the SMB protocol.

talla

talla wrote: »

Having a very weird problem. Upgraded lion on iMac and Macbook Pro without any issues. Went to try and upgrade on 2010 Macbook Air, launch App store and go to purchases tab. Either the tab doesn't load or it will just say no purchases. If I try the app store on my iMac and Macbook Pro, same problem happens now. Nothing appears in the purchases tab or it doesn't load.
It was fine at 9pm when I started the upgrade process on the Macbook Pro.
Any ideas?

Just downloaded and installed a new app. Still nothing appearing on purchases tab.

Dublinstiofán

Gone back to Snow Leopard for a while. Lion doesn't have support for my stuff at the moment.

I think on first impressions Snow Leopard was a more solid OS in comparison. Lion has the iOS feel about everything and i'm not sure i like that. I'm glad it was only €23.99!

And they took 'Front Row' away for no reason which i used a lot.

talla

Must have been a glitch with the App Store itself. All purchases have re-appeared in the App Store on all machines and I'm now able to install on the Macbook Air.

Zapp Brannigan

Downloading now!

lads,

in case anyone is using Logic Express 8.0.2 , don't upgrade to Lion yet.
it pops up and error saying it not supported

there's a work around by typing this into terminal
work around
or just follow the path to the file itself and click it.
it opens the program and seems to work ok but don't now how stable this will be in the long run.
Unlikely as it is, i hope they release a patch for this.
Its the one and only problem i've had with Lion, otherwise i'm really liking it so far