Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Kittenmommy wrote:

Tried it. Nope, Preview still defaults to exporting to the Pictures folder. It seems to be unchangeable.

I can't believe this. The last thing I can think of is the file ~/Libary/ByHost/com.apple.Preview.<number>.plist if you have any (I don't but I remember I deleted it already for Preview). I don't even know what that ByHost folder is for, tho.

You could try enabling the guest account in Users&Groups preference panel, log in as guest and see if it is working at least there. If it doesn't something must be corrupted in the system files and not in the users ones.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

...And I'm pretty sure that you're wrong. I bought a 5-user SL installation disk for $135, which translates to $27.00 an installation. These disks were widely avaialble and very popular. Many sold in the secondary market for $125, reducing the price per installation to $25.

That was before Apple got hip and realized it could rack up additional profits by making it imposisble to economize in this fashion. In the Apple Store, you always pay top dollar.

As a native of Southern California, I'm sorry you don't have access to the beach, volleyball, and surfing. It's a good life for people whose success permits them to afford it. Yours is a poor choice of contrived negative metaphors. Never saw a beachball in my entire time living there.

Well, not that I want to argue about this, even because I know a little, but with the Lion license form the MAS, can't we install up to 5 Macs using the same Apple ID to download it? That's what I've read around at least. That would make less than $6 per license!!

BTW Beach Volley was invented in South California, tho. Also I am from Italy. Do you really think I don't have access to the beach? 😀

Hey- beach volleyball ain't so bad. Niente male if you look here. 🙂

Kittenmommy have you tried Default Folder as I suggested?

Michelasso wrote:

Kittenmommy wrote:

Tried it. Nope, Preview still defaults to exporting to the Pictures folder. It seems to be unchangeable.

I can't believe this.

LOL. I know, right??

Michelasso wrote:

The last thing I can think of is the file ~/Libary/ByHost/com.apple.Preview.<number>.plist if you have any (I don't but I remember I deleted it already for Preview). I don't even know what that ByHost folder is for, tho.

You could try enabling the guest account in Users&Groups preference panel, log in as guest and see if it is working at least there. If it doesn't something must be corrupted in the system files and not in the users ones.

Maybe I'll try that later. I'm not awake yet! 😝

Tom in London wrote:

Kittenmommy have you tried Default Folder as I suggested?

...maybe? I don't remember. I've tried so many different things so far! 😝

Default Folder - take a look.

Tom in London wrote:

Default Folder - take a look.

Thanks! I don't know if I want to pay thirty bucks for something that my Mac is supposed to do anyway! I think taht would irritate me even more, LOL. 😠

Tom in London wrote:

Hey- beach volleyball ain't so bad. Niente male if you look here. 🙂

Oh yeah.. As long as THEY play it, nor out Macs!! 😀

As I understand it, Macs are made in China so the beachball phenomenon should be traced back to there.

Apologies, we do seem to be getting farther and farther away from...well, everything, really!)

I don't like Lion. Mail stalls out whenever there is an enclosed movie of some sort, ******* thing scrolls all the time, windows where I don't want the left bar keep coming back with the $*%*&$&*% bar.

LION IS A MAJOR LEAP BACKWARDS.

I feel that OSX Lion.. is pretty cool, the whole idea and concept they had before it came out..

and it is interesting now that I'm using it

BUT

there seems to be a whole lot of lagging going on.. or bugs.. and when I think back, Snow Leopard had lesser problems. I feel like I'm using a downgraded Macbook with Lion though, mainly from seeing things lag..

Safari hanging.. the 3 finger slide even to a different screen has that 'windows powerpoint' look/effect too... i don't really like it, thought they'd make it looks nicer with a smoother effect.

Well, hope they have software updates that'll improve it eventually ..

I wasn’t aware that I was quoting you, sorry. My computer skills are intermediate and my Adobe skills may be a bit better than that. Some users, such as myself, are less tolerant of this OS because it is harder to deal with the issues involved than it is for someone who is an advanced user, such as yourself. Things might not be that bad for you, but it is that bad for some of us who are less forgiving. I had a fairly uneventful installation on my MBP. Other than a few expected bugs and quirks the upgrade process did not bother me, unlike many users posting on this forum. It’s the OS itself that I find miserable. I have come to like a few features and I continue to work with Lion. However, over all I just don’t like it and I feel Apple has created a less utilitarian OS with the introduction of iOS features. My MBP is running slower, hotter and the fan is noticeably louder than it was during the first few weeks after upgrading. I am running maintenance programs more frequently. I am working harder not smarter -- what happened to, “It just works”? So for me this Lion is a fiasco. I don’t care what they call it. I just want it to work and to work well.

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

Does that disable Versions permanently in the OS?

29.99 Euros is $40.35.

I know the spell check in forums is separate from the OS spell check.

I have only used spell check in the forums since installing Lion.

I don’t know what was like before that. I’m not talking about forum

spell check. I’m talking about OS spell check.

Spell check in Lion OS doesn’t work as well

as spell check did in SL OS. Same is true for

Dictionary.