Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

All this fuss over Versions. Just don't use software that

utilizes the feature.

Kittenmommy, I meant no offense. I was just messing up.

If you don't like Versions, I am sorry. I am afraid that in few months from now there will be very few applications not using it. Hopefully the third party applications will have an option to disable it. I am pretty sure it is technically possible. Apple decided to make it mandatory on all its applications that use it. That's the way of Apple, which is often criticized by the competition.

Personally I prefer this to the MS or Linux one. Less options to make OS X more intuitive and more homogenous through the platforms that use the same version (intended as Lion, SL and others). Obviously the price to pay is the lack of customization.

What happens to the versions information when you send someone a file, either by email or by copying it to another drive? I presume the version information is discarded?

Yes, it is discarded.

Kittenmommy, I'd recommend downloading OnyX (free), which will allow you to clean out all your caches and possibly fix your default save option (have a look at the screenshot below).

I've seen people say this is a 'must have' maintenance app for years, but I never bothered with it before Lion because, frankly, I never had any maintenance issues with SL. However, with Lion, I have to join the chorus of 'must havers'. 🙂

softwater wrote:

Kittenmommy, I'd recommend downloading OnyX (free), which will allow you to clean out all your caches and possibly fix your default save option (have a look at the screenshot below).

I used to have Onyx, but it stopped working in Lion. Maybe they've updated it...

Thanks! 😁

They have.

Whitecity wrote:

They have.

Yay! Thank you! 😁

OS X Lion is horrible! Since upgrading I found Norton Antivirus is not compatible, it was causing spinning beach balls and system lockups. I had to uninstall it. I found several programs no longer would run. I found 2 gig of ram isn't remotely enough to have for Lion, it won't run on 2 gig of ram! Random lockups upon bootup (think it might have to do with an external drive plugged in even though it isn;t the bootup drive). Flip Video camera software isn't compatible and will not upgraded for OSX 10.7. The most recent problem is it breaks Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, all imports from a Canon GL2 camera produces way out of sync audio. Only weeks before the OSX upgrade from 10.6 to 10.7 everything was fine, the only thing that changed was the OS. I don't want to spend $$$ on a new Final Cut Pro program as I don't know that it would fix anything.

It's a good thing you uninstalled Norton Antivirus - it's malware. You're right - 2 gigs is not enough. iMovie is much better than the software they ship with the flip - that's why they are no longer updating it.

Greetings,

I highly recommend it - Still, I have no real issues. I removed any incompatible software/hardware, before I installed Lion, on all 5 of my Macs, and some at work. Again no issues.

There are some features that I don't like, but some, if not most of them are configurable in System Preferences. Some of the new features I'm not crazy about, but I'm adjusting to them, for now.

There are going to be some people that can't be made happy, no matter what Apple does, and those folks are always among us after each major update, or new OS, constantly complaining, when all the time, it's something they have done, or didn't do. Most of those are Winblows converts, which I wish would go back to Winblows, and quit cluttering up these forums.

Yup, overall, it's a good OS, and it works well. I will say that I liked Snow Leopard better, in most ways, but one should move forward, if possible, to take advantage of all the new stuff out there.

Some people will beat their brains out trying to get an incompatible printer, other hardware, or software to work, when it won't, unless the manufacturer comes out with a necessary update, a driver, new fiirmware, etc - that's not Apple's fault in any way. Everyone had plenty of time to get their new software, and updated drivers, etc, to Apple, but many failed to do so. This happens every time.

In the future, people need to pay attention - read the specs, check software to make sure it will work, check on your hardware to make sure it will work, before you upgrade. Get rid of any PPC centric software - it's old news and Apple carried it longer than it should of, in my opinion.

If you can't live without PPC dependent software, then don't upgrade - no one is saying that you have too, only if you want the latest and greatest. If what you have works, then use it. I still have a G-4 tower running Tiger, acting as a file server - it works fine.

Cheers,

M.

I would wait. Im regretting doing the upgrade, 1) Snow Leapord is very good 2) Lion is crazy buggy. Mail is a shvtshow and I am hoping it can get fixed. Im searching everynite trying to have some to tell me all I need to do is erase a pList or do something but nothing has work. Really bummer. I love Apple but this is not right for it to be like this IMHO

xdonniedarkox wrote:

Mail is a shvtshow and I am hoping it can get fixed.

You can go back to classic view by going to Mail > Preferences > Viewing and checking "Use classic layout". Then in the View menu, unselect "Organize by conversation". 😁

Yeah, I hated the new Mail too! 😠

No where in any documentation does Apple indicate the growing number of programs which no longer function including ones written by Apple. In the specs it says 2 gig is fine, NOPE, can't run at all on 2 gig. They don't say anything about Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 getting messed up. Aperature 3 (latest version) has crashed several times since the upgrade. My hardware is compatible but they don't mention that spinning beach balls are a norm. I've been buying Apple for 20+ years, I write software, I shoot pro video and photography, I'm a systems administrator for a large company using PC's and Mac's. OS X 10.7 is by far the buggest and worse upgrade in the history of Apple. Stay away from it!

No, i have an Imac early 2008, with no tird party software, and after upgrade my machine keeps crashing, it works ok for some programs after i upgrade it to 4 gb of ram. So I would wait for a more stable version.