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Apple Issues Update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3

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Apple issued a software update for OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 this evening. Apple released Developer Preview 3 to developers. The update brings the build number of Mountain Lion up to 12A193i (from 12A178q).

If you already have Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 installed, choose Software Update from the Apple menu to download the update from the Mac App Store. Download Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 4 from the Mac Dev Center to continue building apps for Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 Update.

One change noted by 9to5Mac is the addition of a "Do Not Disturb" setting to Mountain Lion's Notifications Center:

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Are any of you guys having trouble installing Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 4? I get a Check Sum Error message each and every time that I try to open it up after downloading it successfully. I am Banned from the Apple Developer Forums but NOT the Program itself (Due to some Bad Behavior in the Apple Developer Forums), or else i would be asking this question there instead of here.

Can anyone with Mountain Lion check if it is able to search Windows File Shares? aka Samba shares not AFP ones.

On Lion you are unable to use the finders Search system for searching for any file on a Windows File Share. But it works fine on AFP ones. This isn't a bug but an intended change by Apple. I'm curious to know if they've altered this in Mountain Lion or not.

Thanks

I'm really, really tempted to install this on my MacBook Air. That Snow Leopard-style Expos? checkbox makes it worth the upgrade alone :laugh:. Anybody (that's not running it on a Hackintosh :p) noticing any weird behavior, or is it pretty stable?

I don?t know if it?s the installation of Mountain Lion that screwed it up, but I couldn?t use Boot Camp after that. Parallels was working fine, but using Boot Camp would end up with a black screen.

I guess I?ll install the final version and stay tuned with the changes instead. I don?t want to install Windows 7 a third time, it?s already painful enough just to do the updates once it?s installed.

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