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boo 20 Jul 2011 22:16:13 13,901 posts
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Trying to download it now.
15 mins and I've got 92mb. At this rate it's going to take about 8 hours!
And this is with an alleged 10meg line.

What the fuck is wrong with producing it on a disc?

Deleted user 20 July 2011 22:19:10

Your patience? It'll be in shops next month.

PhoenixFlames 20 Jul 2011 22:20:15 9,263 posts
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By the sounds of it I don't think I'll bother with it. What's it gonna enable me to do that I can't do now? I don't want for anything on my Mac so is it a waste of my time and money?

FWB 20 Jul 2011 22:20:47 56,369 posts
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Fair enough guys. Will have a gander at that. Still have a few other apps I can't use, but it's a start. Thanks very much.

HitchHiker 20 Jul 2011 22:38:36 2,892 posts
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According to Walt Mossberg's review in the WSJ, Apple will be releasing Lion on a USB thumb drive in August for $69. If you can wait.

Jeepers 20 Jul 2011 22:39:42 16,616 posts
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I've just noticed that the new Safari (5.1) handles the opening of new tabs more sensibly (it opens next to the parent tab, rather than at the furthest end).

mini-woot.

nickthegun 20 Jul 2011 22:48:39 87,712 posts
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Jeepers wrote:
I've just noticed that the new Safari (5.1) handles the opening of new tabs more sensibly (it opens next to the parent tab, rather than at the furthest end).

mini-woot.

Another great leap forward for basic apple functionality 3 years after it became standard.

boo 21 Jul 2011 06:53:58 13,901 posts
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Took about 4 hours to download.
Kicked off the install at about 6am this morning, and I've been staring at a black screen for about 40 mins now...

Power light is on, and it feels like there's occasional disk activity, but I'm starting to worry...

boo 21 Jul 2011 06:57:15 13,901 posts
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...and 30 seconds later it springs into life!

boo 21 Jul 2011 08:43:56 13,901 posts
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/grumble

So if I've gone to the trouble of going into System Preferences -> General, and unticking the 'Restore Windows on restart', or whatever the wording is, I'd say that was a pretty good indicator that I don't want the windows restored on restart.

So why the FUCK does the shutdown message now default to having the 'restore windows on restart' box ticked.

Sure, if I've closed everything down, then there'll be nothing to reopen, but if I'd just quit, wanting everything shutdown, then I'd expect that Sys Pref to determine what happens.

Roll on someone coming up with a hack.

Deleted user 21 July 2011 09:53:01

For those who want to un hide the Library folder use this command;

chflags nohidden ~/Library

Or hold alt on the "Go" menu and library will show there.

KayJay 21 Jul 2011 10:11:51 5,350 posts
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Great work Crispy.
Seriously, I was just trying to import my mail from Thunderbird to Mac Mail and couldn't find the thing anywhere. Good man.

Also, Usually when I screen cap (cmd+ctrl+shift+3) is pops the image on my desktop. Its not now... :/
Any ideas.

Deleted user 21 July 2011 10:14:06

shift+cmd+3 innit.

KayJay 21 Jul 2011 10:18:29 5,350 posts
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My Clipboard is full of screen shots...

cmd+ctrl+shift+3 = Clipboard
shift+cmd+3 = Desktop

/twat

Deleted user 21 July 2011 10:20:43

boo wrote:
/grumble

So if I've gone to the trouble of going into System Preferences -> General, and unticking the 'Restore Windows on restart', or whatever the wording is, I'd say that was a pretty good indicator that I don't want the windows restored on restart.

So why the FUCK does the shutdown message now default to having the 'restore windows on restart' box ticked.

Sure, if I've closed everything down, then there'll be nothing to reopen, but if I'd just quit, wanting everything shutdown, then I'd expect that Sys Pref to determine what happens.

Roll on someone coming up with a hack.

You're an absolute nutter.

Deleted user 21 July 2011 10:21:05

I HATE CHANGE!!!

Deleted user 21 July 2011 10:22:41

Yep. Or more like:

I HATE CHANGE!

/buys changes anyway

Deleted user 21 July 2011 10:27:35

Yes it does.

KayJay 21 Jul 2011 10:30:35 5,350 posts
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ecosse_011172 wrote:
Cmd-H doesn't hide quite a few of the apps such as iCal, Address Book..

iCal dosent hide when in "Full Screen". As with all Full screen apps.

Address book hides fine for me.

monkeyspasm 21 Jul 2011 10:38:30 2,971 posts
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Like Mission Control as I'm on a 13" MB Pro and so use Spaces a lot.

Only thing I'm not keen on is they've removed the application switcher from the multitouch gestures - it used to be 4 finger swipe left or right. Now 4 finger swiping switches between spaces, the same as 3 finger swiping. Basically there is no need to four finger swipe anymore as the 3 finger swipes do the same. You can still cmd-tab to get to the app switcher but why remove the functionality? Mission just shows the app that's active on the space you're on.

boo 21 Jul 2011 11:07:53 13,901 posts
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fr�d wrote:
Yep. Or more like:

I HATE CHANGE!

/buys changes anyway

I'll try it for a few days, but seriously considering dumping it and reinstalling Snow Leopard.

Deleted user 21 July 2011 11:10:02

lol

FiveManArmy 21 Jul 2011 11:13:56 506 posts
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I'm liking some of the minor new features & touches, but crumbs my 2010 Macbook Pro seems to be going much slower

I use Parallels quite a bit, and Office for mac seems to take an age to open Outlook etc.

Anyone else notice this?

Deleted user 21 July 2011 11:16:51

Nope, if it persists it may be worth doing a fresh install from the recovery partition.

Outlook? GTFO!!

monkeyspasm 21 Jul 2011 11:19:32 2,971 posts
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3 finger swiping to switch between Spaces is ace, and something I wanted since the first time I used Snow Leopard, so I'm happy.

Deleted user 21 July 2011 11:25:04

If only Valve would not let all this interfere with their games

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