Mac OS X Lion Discussion

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Mohit Singhal

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Hi Guys,

I am downloading it now.

Just one quick question, is it advisable that instead of installing it on ext HDD or on a new partition I just install it on the main Snow Leopard partition.

Would there be any data (Music, Movies etc) loss and would my existing application run fine, especially Microsoft Office 2011.

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Mohit

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Quillz

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Since it's a developer preview, I think it's most wise to install to a location outside of your primary OS install. In my case, I installed to an external hard drive. But you can upgrade right over Snow Leopard if you want, and everything should be left in place.

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celticpride678

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Hi Guys,

I am downloading it now.

Just one quick question, is it advisable that instead of installing it on ext HDD or on a new partition I just install it on the main Snow Leopard partition.

Would there be any data (Music, Movies etc) loss and would my existing application run fine, especially Microsoft Office 2011.

Cheers,

Mohit

It's a beta, so I wouldn't use it as my main OS. I partitioned off 25 GB on my hard drive and installed Lion there. Worked fine.

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celticpride678

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I agree, that's how I'm gonna do it too. I'll make a second little partition from the same HD just for Lion beta. To access it i should press alt button at boot and select the Lion partition, shouldn't I?

Right after you install Lion, that partition will become your startup disk. If you change it back to Snow Leopard, then yes, alt button at startup.

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It's a beta, so I wouldn't use it as my main OS. I partitioned off 25 GB on my hard drive and installed Lion there. Worked fine.

I'm planning to install it as my primary OS, but just in case I decide to switch back, am I right in thinking the Snow Leopard setup lets you restore from a Time Machine drive?

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Quillz

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I'm planning to install it as my primary OS, but just in case I decide to switch back, am I right in thinking the Snow Leopard setup lets you restore from a Time Machine drive?

It should. Just insert the Snow Leopard DVD, reboot and go into Utilities and I think from there you can run Disk Utility or Time Machine.

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Chlorpromazine

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oh dear god no, thats 1 feature i do not want to see in lion D:

PLEASE, tell me there's a way to turn off this obnoxious feature WITHOUT completely turning off the spell check.

I'm planning to install it as my primary OS, but just in case I decide to switch back, am I right in thinking the Snow Leopard setup lets you restore from a Time Machine drive?

I made a mirror and bootable copy of my SL HDD on an external FW drive. If anything goes crazy, I can boot from FW and re-copy my external drive into the internal.

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Quillz

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Good idea, I don't have a FW drive but how slow is running from USB?

I'm running Lion on an external USB hard drive and it's quite a bit slower than my local hard disk, but not by much. The OS still feels rather quick, and it can be quickly wiped and reinstalled as new builds are released.

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Quillz

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So lion is shipping with Apeture now?

also I hate that my old macbook pro can't change settings for inverted scrolling...

Nope, here's what a default Lion install has...

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As for your second point, are you sure? Check Trackpad, the very first option should be to restore traditional scrolling (make sure you uncheck it.)

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Quillz

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What model MacBook do you have? I'm using the earliest unibody model that was released, the late 2008 MacBook, and the option is there for me:

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Looking at your Trackpad preferences, do you have one of the discreet MacBook Pros that lacked the glass trackpad? If so, that must be why the option to reverse the scrolling isn't there.

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