Ok, so I'm coming in a bit late on this one,..I meant to reply a while ago, but just got stuck with work and didn't get back to it,.. So I'm going to add my 2cents worth now,...
Firstly, good post (as per normal Ronni) on getting things ready for Lion and secondly, I'm not waiting to sound like a nay-sayer, just wanting to add some thoughts on it. So here goes,... If you're not in a major hurry for Lion,.. Don't Upgrade as soon as it comes out! More so if it's your main machine and you're not 100% sure that everything will run as you want it to do. This can be your Applications, your printers, your scanners, your iPhone(s), iPad(s) etc,... If you have a second machine, or an external hard drive then install it on that. Test it. See how it goes. Check for problems. Or sit back for a week or two and watch the forums and "Lion sites". See what updates come up for things you use. See what problems get reported and fixes for it. Sure, we all love to jump in and grab the "new stuff" for the "cool new features". But it's not that great is all we're left with is some great new cool features,..but our printer drives no longer work in Lion so we can't do work til it's fixed. Or MYOB that we were running for our day to day accounts has a "bug" with Lion and it's going to be 2 weeks before a patch is out for it. Sure,..2 weeks no work. Might sound like fun,..but I'm sure our bills wouldn't think so,..lol. I'm not trying to sound all bad, and definitely not saying that bad things may happen,..it's just a pre warning. If meaning we have to wait a week or two to ensure that things will work, then to me that seems a lot better in the long run then jumping in early and finding you're not going to be able to work fully, or have to spend hours and hours trying to troubleshoot things just to do your "Day to day stuff". Plus if we all jump on and download 4GB all at the same time to get Lion, the internet might die :o) (lol) The reason I mention some of these is that a few clients I've seen or spoken to are all looking forward to installing Lion. When I spoke to them about it a bit more and we looked into their systems and Applications and we went over things a bit more they hadn't realised that some of the things they still use were "older applications". Appleworks is a big one for quite a few clients, as well as some older versions of FileMaker. (Sure they run fine now under Rosetta under 10.6, but as you don't see Rosetta running you don't realise). So explaining to them we'd need to check what they use and would need to either wait or upgrade their software to later versions for what they need for work. Which was fine for some instances, but not fine for others. They were happy to wait a bit longer before getting Lion. I'm not telling them "Don't Upgrade",..I'm just advising them to "wait and see" a bit longer. Again, it's not meant to sound harsh, or solely negative, and others may disagree with what I've said, it's more just a "bit of a warning". I know I won't be installing it straight away on my main laptop. That's my workhorse and I want to be 100% sure that I can grab it and take it out to work and do everything I need on the road without running into issues on consult jobs or work I'm doing. That's not to say I won't be installing it on my other machine (MacPro) to play with it and see. But that way I can ensure things are "just going to work" once I know I'm ready to upgrade the laptop. And I won't lose downtime, or worse,..have to wait ages for something to be upgraded (HP printers always spring to mind when Apple upgrade Operating Systems - not that I have HP) or a big cash outlay on upgrading software. (I'm pretty sure everything I have now is fine,..I just prefer to be 100% sure). I'm sure I had more points I was going to mention,...but I think I've rambled on long enough,....just wanted to put it out there,.... Sorry for the long post. Hopefully something there may be useful to some. And if it saves at least one person having massive upgrade issues or massive work downtime,..then I'm happy :o)) Enjoy! Bring on the Lion!! :o) Kind regards Daniel On 9/6/11 8:39 PM, "Ronda Brown" <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 09/06/2011, at 6:26 PM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: > >> >> Would appreciate help in this preparation if someone knows of a Safe software >> that can automatically erase the KIND of application files such as Classic >> and PowerPc. >> I know Ronni has written her usual knowledgeable and appreciated advice prior >> to installations of Snow Leopard, but I cannot find them. >> Living in hope >> Regards >> Darrel > > Hi Darrel & other members interesting in preparing for Lion OS X 10.7, > > Prepare For Lion OS X 10.7 > > 1. Make sure your Mac can run Lion: > > Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon > processor to run Lion. > Find out if your current Mac has one of these processors by clicking the Apple > icon at the top left of your screen, then choosing About This Mac. > > 2. Make sure you have the latest version of Snow Leopard. > > Get up to date with the latest version of OS X Snow Leopard to purchase OS X > Lion from the Mac App Store. If you have Snow Leopard, click the Apple icon > and choose Software Update to install the latest version. > > 3. Check your Applications > > A) Use System Profiler to check all your Applications. Go to "About This Mac" > under the Apple Menu, and click the "More Info" button. This will launch > System Profiler. > > Scroll down the list of contents at the left of the window until you get to > the "Software" section and click on "Applications". > > Give the list a few moments to populate, then look for your application in the > list. Widen the window if necessary until you see the "Kind" column. You can > sort this column by clicking on the column header to make searching easier. > > Any items labelled "Classic" or "PowerPC" will not work with Lion. > ONLY Universal & Intel will run in Lion OS X 10.7 > > B) Check all your Applications you might be running and see if they have > updates. > > C) Clean Up your computer. Uninstall old software you no longer use or require > (if you don¹t have the uninstaller for the application, download & use > AppZapper (which is not free) <http://www.appzapper.com/> or AppCleaner (free) > <http://appcleaner.en.softonic.com/mac> > I prefer using AppZapper to delete any applications. > > D) Delete any old files you no longer need. > > E) If you use any add-on software such as plug-ins for mail or programs that > rely on input managers such as 1Password & Google Desktop, make sure you have > upgraded to Lion-compatible versions before you upgrade. > > 4. Download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store. > When OS X Lion is released in July, open the Mac App Store from your Dock to > buy and download it. > Then follow the onscreen instructions to install Lion. > > DON¹T FORGET: > 1. Backup your system BEFORE installing > > 2. Repair Permissions before installing > > 3. Turn OFF Time Machine in System Preferences > > 4. Unmount & Disconnect any External USB & Firewire Drives / Time Machine > > 5. Run Software Update after installing > > 7. Repair Permissions > > 8. Connect your Backup Drive > > 9. Go to System Preferences > Time Machine and Turn Time Machine ON > Let Time Machine complete a backup. > > ** Apple warning for installing Updates: > Do not interrupt the installation process once you have started to update your > system. > > As I have said numerous times on WAMUG List ³Do Not Upgrade if anything is > amiss with your system². > > As is the case with all upgrades/updates, if there¹s anything at all amiss > with your system before the upgrade/update, the upgrade/update is likely to > expose them. > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 ³Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
