Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

My Preview and TextEdit both default to the desktop in Lion and have from day one. But, they did that in SL so you may be right about carried over settings.

Dr.Head wrote:

My Preview and TextEdit both default to the desktop in Lion and have from day one. But, they did that in SL so you may be right about carried over settings.

Mine did in SL, but not in Lion.

Why is your text always so gigantic?? 😝

Well that’s odd, I guess. Seems like there would be an obvious setting for that.

I write in TextEdit and paste to forum. Spell check does not work on forum.

Dr.Head wrote:

Well that’s odd, I guess. Seems like there would be an obvious setting for that.

I ran Onyx and it's still doing it. Preview absolutely will not let me change the default "save" location from the Pictures folder. Also, Skim will not open documents created by Image Capture, so I'm still stuck using Preview. 😠

Dr.Head wrote:

I write in TextEdit and paste to forum. Spell check does not work on forum.

There's a spell check button in the upper right corner of the reply window. You have to click it in order for it to work; it doesn't automatically underline spelling errors in red, unfortunately! 😝

...I write in TextEdit and paste to forum....

In Textedit, Format menu, Make Plain Text. This will remove the font size info from the words. Then copy and past into the forums.

I use Textedit before posting to the forums for various reasons, including this post, which as you can see is not in a large font.

Thanks for the spell check tip. Seems to me that spell check in SL worked better. I think the Dictionary worked better, too. Some of these Lion tweaks make no sense. It took me a few frustrating weeks to find the Arrange By folder window options I always used in SL have been moved to Clean Up By. I complained about it in here and a few guys tried but could not help. Even Apple tech didn't know when I ran it by them. I just stumbled on to it. I don't like, want or need Versions or AutoSave. I was glad to be able to turn Resume off. Will be glad when I can turn turn V and A off as well.

Dr.Head wrote:

Thanks for the spell check tip. Seems to me that spell check in SL worked better.

I think this is a change in the forums, not part of Lion.

Dr.Head wrote:

Will be glad when I can turn turn V and A off as well.

Oh God, THIS!

Lion ... recommendation ... not yet. Still too buggy and multitude of problems have overshadowed greatly any of the positive parts. I wish I had not upgraded until maybe ... 2012.

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.

Oh I get it, if you don't like Apple, go back to Windows? What a dope.

I've been using Apples since the Apple II. Probably before you were born or gained consciousness, if that's what it's called. I have enjoyed more or less each OS upgrade but one ... this one.

The reality is that most of the complaints are not about features offered by Windows but about features offered by Apple -- old favorites now gone, and new ones that are a waste of time, not worth the effort it takes to work around. Of course, that's subjective. Other problems aren't, they're actual design failures affecting the performance of machines or their use. You don't have to read about it here, you can read about it in the Apple Store or on MacWorld and similar reliable mouthpieces for Apple. Lion is now rated a paltry 3.5 stars in the Apple Store and it looks like 0.5 of that is about to disappear.

Next time make a sensible, useful, respectful comment or stop cluttering up this forum.

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.

I was going to respond to this, but I couldn’t have said it any better than you put it, Bob. Spot on. What a dope, indeed. I have always used Apples from my start on a clone with 7.6 in 1997. Not as long as some, but I can say that I have never experienced such a miserable OS as Lion. One can only hope that Apple will hear the outrage and fix this debacle they call an upgrade.

They should have called this one, “Polecat” instead of Lion.

No, I mean Lion. Spell Check and Dictionary worked better in Snow Leopard.

The reality is that most of the complaints are not about features offered by Windows but about features offered by Apple -- old favorites now gone, and new ones that are a waste of time, not worth the effort it takes to work around.

Totally agree, I think this version of the OS is totally about Consuming, not Creating anything of your own... unless it's a tweet! 😟

...I can say that I have never experienced such a miserable OS as Lion. One can only hope that Apple will hear the outrage and fix this debacle they call an upgrade.

They should have called this one, “Polecat” instead of Lion.

Dr. Head, thanks for your quoting me, but I don't think that things are quite that bad. For $30, you get what you pay for (although I paid less for Snow Leopard, if I recall). Lion is less an outrage than it is a sport (as in genetics). It might find a home with crossover device aficionados, of whom there are plenty. It's unfortunate that Lion wasn't sufficiently tested or that the testers didn't report back -- maybe they didn't have time to fully experiment with it. Too bad that restoring Snow Leopard is so difficult, but Lion isn't terminal for most users. In any case, I'm guessing that the next Apple OS won't be an encore.

Personally, I'm over feline names. How about naming future OSs after future computer scientists and social media stars, complete with future histories of their lives? Be creative. Think Different.

Whitecity wrote:

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?

Let's see how Versions should work: the documents should have no clue whatsoever about Versions. What it is in the directory is the plain document as it has always been. With no links to its old versions or anything.

All Versions information are kept in the folder /.DocumentRevisions-V100 . There there is a database with references to the versioned documents and all their copies. Modifications made through Finder should keep the versions (for example I renamed a file and Versions made a new version for it with the new file name. Pretty cool actually. That wasn't possible if Versions wasn't embedded into the OS).

So basically, if one wants to get a rid fo all Versions in a system(for example for privacy issues) s/he must know the administrator password and delete that Folder. It's probably better to do it via Terminal with the command:

rm -rf /.DocumentRevisions-V100

All original documents will be kept intact as they must stay. It should work from Finder as well. Just be careful that this removes all versions for all users.

Whitecity wrote:

It's a good thing you uninstalled Norton Antivirus - it's malware.

Indeed! 😀