Disable App store on Lion

THOMAS! This could indeed be the case.

But before I get back to that, why do you think I am posting "anti Apple rants"? I own 4 Macs. I've been using the Mac since 1985 and have been a key member of several teams that have created industry creating technology, all on the Mac.

What I am trying to find an answer to are some of the signifiant usability issues that are in Lion and appear to be going in to the Mac operating systems that will come after it.

I have installed Lion on 2 of my Macs (Quad 17" MBP 8 GB RAM and quad 27" iMac with 12 GB RAM). It was a usability nightmare and switched them back as I was able.

Friends of mine who have been key Apple team members in the past (QuickTime) have contacted me and expressed the same frustrations with Lion and many of the new features Apple is putting in to the OS.

I'm asking again how to solve problems that I continue to see when I have to use Lion as I have wasted too much time in the past trying to get it to be as useful as Snow Leopard. My time trying out Lion was a net financial loss in productivity and time wasted.

I want the Mac to continue to be the awesome machine we want to use, not something we use because we have to.

Now, I did not do the Lion install on the Mac in the office (just the system updates to 10.7.2) and I did notice that setting Firefox to launch on user login also failed. But this is a vanilla install. Permissions have been checked and fixed repeatedly. I've got no idea why the dock doesn't want to remember that the App Store has been pulled but ya, this does sound like a permissions issue (even though I've repaired them recently.)

I think you pointed me in the right direction. I'll check out the com.apple.doc.plist file permissions when I get in to the office on Monday.

Thomas. You assume too much. I have gone through the troubleshooting and wasted too much time with Lion issues.

This is the 3rd machine that I've used where Lion has had loads of problems that I simply don't see in Snow Leopard. There is a point when you say "I'm sick of this". Sadly, I do have to use this machine and have deliverables, if you have an issue with professionals having problems with Apple products and getting upset bacause of it, then pressure Apple to make better products.

I got a phone call from them on Thursday in fact.

But here's the point. I've done QA in the past (I was Macromedia's first QA Architect). I don't have time to properly write up each and every bug and tell Apple how to do their job.

My employer needs me to produce code and apps. I don't have infinite time to properly research, write up and handle all of these issues.

If I were independently wealthy and didn't have any other thing to do with my time, I would.

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Hello SJF. I just dragged it out of the dock. But I think that Thomas got my mind pointed in the right direction. Even though I've repaired the permissions many times, this reeks of a permissions error with the dock pList file not saving the changes and not reporting an error.

Oddly, this is on a vanilla Lion install now upgraded to 10.7.2

But I also noticed that I can't add an app (Firefox) to start on user login, so there is likely to be some permissions error in the /Library/Preferences directory or on the file itself

But I would expect this not to be the case since I have run permissions repair several times. Hopefully I can spare 5 mintes on this come Monday and get it wrapped up quickly.

In any case, I'll make sure to try your tip.

Thanks!