I know, tech support told me this as well. However, after doing the clean install, things went a lot smoother in all areas. I am not sure why many of us seem to be experiencing better results with a clean install, but, it does seem to be the case.
On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > I must admit that I haven't tried the clean install of lion yet either, but > every time I asked Apple tech support if they thought it would make any > significant difference, they insisted that clean installs weren't necessary. > I have a lion DVD made, though, so if I ever get really curious, I suppose I > could try it just for fun. On the other hand, under SL, everything is fully > up-to-date and is working as well as I think it's ever going to, so there's a > part of me that says if it ain't broke, don't fix it. LOL! > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Snyder > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Lion, a lemon? > > Hi Mike, > You did a clean install, and I wonder if that had something to do with your > luck. You put together a very nice podcast on doing that, and I believe I > might try that over the weekend if I get a spare hour or so. If it doesn't > work out, I always have my time machine backup. :) > > Friendly, > Chris > > -------------- > I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one. > > > > > > On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> I also have not had any major issues, as far as using it, actually it's >> exactly the same as snow leppard for me, I don't use any of the new IOS like >> features. >> On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I am one of those politically incorrect people who haven't had a single >>> problem with Lion. I installed it on day 1 and haven't looked back since. I >>> will probably get flamed for saying this, but i think it has to do with >>> learning. After all, Lion had several new features and several >>> modifications were made to the way we work, and of corse, it goes almost >>> without saying that we have to rethink how we do things. I haven't had more >>> busy signals than usual with Safari in Lion. The only issues i have had is >>> a bug in the swedish nuance voices where certain letters aren't pronounced >>> correctly, but i was aware of that bug already before i upgraded and wanted >>> to try Lion out despite that, and i've found a workaround for the bug, so >>> all is well there and besides, Apple are aware of that bug and they seem to >>> have fixed it on the IOs side, so i have good hopes that they will fix it >>> here too, eventually. >>> /Krister >>> >>> 10 nov 2011 kl. 08:31 skrev Chris Snyder: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I want to start off this post by saying that I installed Lion the day it >>>> came out on my Macbook Pro. Before doing so, I made a time machine backup >>>> of my Snow Leopard system, and I can't tell you how glad I am that I did. >>>> I tried Lion for a week, and found it to be terribly buggy and not nearly >>>> as intuitive to use as SL. I restored my computer back to SL, and have >>>> continued using it since. Recently, a friend of mine got a brand new iMac >>>> with Lion installed. He has been calling me asking for help understanding >>>> how to do some very simple things. using the mail program, entering a tun >>>> of contacts into his address book, and using Safari to listen to a webcast >>>> he particularly likes. While we handled mail without much difficulty, I >>>> must say that Safari and Address Book have been riddled with problems. >>>> Safari will often give us the busy signal, and the address book kicks us >>>> out of the fields and deposits us in some sort of no mans land where we >>>> must command tab back and forth to get free. He has updated to Lion >>>> 10.7.2, and yet this hasn't really fixed the issues. The nonsense with >>>> creating multiple desktops and such was a bit annoying too. I wonder if >>>> maybe simple is better some times. It's sad, but as I purchased a snow >>>> leopard full installation disc for him, I'm going to go down to his house >>>> and put SL on his machine so that he can actually have a good experience >>>> using his mac rather than the flawed and terribly buggy one he's been >>>> having. That's not to say that SL doesn't have its problems, but they are >>>> far fewer than Lion it seems. I hope that Apple will take a page from >>>> Microsoft and move quickly on to the next OS as Microsoft did from Vista >>>> to 7. I'm afraid Lion is a lemon. >>>> I'm curious to know about your experiences with Lion versus Snow Leopard. >>>> >>>> Friendly, >>>> Chris >>>> -------------- >>>> I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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