Q: Problems With Lion (Found So Far).....

I also want to down grade to SL 10.6.7 [not even .8]

as OCBC bank not yet OK with Lion.

How to down grade my MB to SL 10.6.7?

Thanks

TM

Happy using Lion for few days and now wants to down grade to SL 10.6.7

Problem:

1) Cannot type text "TM", in Outlook, in the mail body if I type TM it auto become super like TradeMark font, smaller font

2) Manyweb site not competible, I am using for OCBC Bank and not support for Lion yet

Need help how to down grade back to SL 10.6.7  as my MBA, I misplaced my original DVD.

Any suggestion please.

Thanks

TM

tigereye19 wrote:

 

Happy using Lion for few days and now wants to down grade to SL 10.6.7

 

Problem:

 

1) Cannot type text "TM", in Outlook, in the mail body if I type TM it auto become super like TradeMark font, smaller font

2) Manyweb site not competible, I am using for OCBC Bank and not support for Lion yet

 

Need help how to down grade back to SL 10.6.7  as my MBA, I misplaced my original DVD.

 

Any suggestion please.

 

Thanks

 

TM

Err...

for your first point, that's easily solved. System Preferences/Language & Text/Text. Uncheck the box next to tm.

for your second point, how are the sites 'incompatible', and could you perhaps supply the relevant URL? I went to <http://www.ocbc.com/global/main/index.shtm> without the slightest problems. Safari 5.1, Firefox 5. Safari 5.1 ships with Lion and is available for SL, Firefox is available for both Lion and SL.

If you want to downgrade to SL, you really should have a backup, then it's easy.

Yes I would really make sure you can't live with Lion before going back to SL. I susspect with a bit of trial and error you should be fine. Going back is not always as simple as it sounds even if you have TM backups. You need SL 10.6 disk, then restore system from TM, but if you import a lion back up 'settings' from TM then that causes issues. So you then have to update to 10.6.7 and set everything up again. I would wait until 10.7.1 and that will sort out a lot of problems. Never worth going backwards with technology.

SBB

the issue seems to be flash related, as far as we found out. see our blog entry on this issue: http://bit.ly/pNtLWS

also, if you want to downgrade - you can backup your machine, keeping all the files in /User/yourname/ - plus the Keychains and you are ready to go. the "Application Support" folder structure and format did not change from 10.6 to lion...

Yes Simon, I would agree with that. One thing about going back to Snow Leopard 10.6. I haven't tried this yet so, don't know if it will work but, I would like to hope that in 10.7 when we boot into recovery mode, we can restore from a Time Machine backup from that mode and not need the Snow Leopard DVD.

First bug... The clear button on my wired keyboard don't clear anything in the dashboard calculator LOL

only in the Calculator.app

Another bug. After installing Lion, my MBP's battery status on the menu bar doesn't increase past 97-98% no matter how long it's been connected. While if I click on Show-Time instead of Show-Percentage it says (Charged).   

Another bug. Not only am I getting 2 to 3 hours less battery life on my MBP with Lion, when I set the battery status to show the amount of time left it erratically jumps back and forth between times upto several times within a minute. E.g. 5:05 - 10 secs later - 4:33 - 25 secs later - 4:56, and so on.

Make sure Mail is quit.  Open finder.  Click Go from the toolbar while holding down "option".  Click on library.  In the library folder, go into your Mail folder.  In the mail folder there should be a file called Envelope Index.  Drag that file to your desktop.  Open mail and wait for it to reimport all your messages.

Another bug. When using Dictionary with the "All" tab selected, if you click on another word or link under any of the categories (or "reference sources") listed it will then only display the description of that word under that specific category instead of showing you its description under all the categories even though the tab remains set to "All".  

Don't enable Trim support on your drive Iceman, I read many articles in regards to this, but basically a lot of the ssd drives have better native garbage collection than TRIM, and it actually significantly degrades your performance to enable it manually. I also wouldn't trust the enabler quite yet...

Your system has a hardware issue, and any software loaded on it won't make a difference.

I would be extremely happy that the hardware test detected an issue because most of the time it doesn't.

10.7 has nothing to do with hardware issues, however it makes heavier use of the existing hardware -- which can manifest latent hardware issues.

I used to see this happening a lot with the video card when people with OS 9 would upgrade to OS X.  The video card had a hardware issue with the hardware acceleration, however OS 9 rarely used hardware acceleration, whereas OS X used it all the time, so their system would give all sorts of video issues. OS X wasn't at fault, it was simply showing you an existing hardware issue and making you pay attention to it.

Be thankful that the hardware issue was detected and you didn't have to go through even more trouble with randomly occurring hardware issues.

As for the comments about Lion.. we're early adopters so there's always quirks to deal with. I've had several crashes with Mail and Safari, however when opening them back up they always save their stuff -- drafts and windows, so I'm fairly happy with it so far.  I won't recommend it to my customers yet until 10.7.1 or 10.7.2 though.

I think 4 GB will be fine depending on what you use the system for.

Definitely Apple's Vista. How bout a 7 in a lion update apple?

Can I add Energy Saver not working any more to the list. The setting in System Preferences clearly sets the Display to go to sleep after 10 minutes on power and on battery, and it always did with Snow Leopard, but it won't do it any more.

The display will not go to sleep on its own!

I'm not using Safari any more and am pleased to say that Firefox seems to be working smoothly for me.