Updating Mac OS to X Lion
Hi There,
I live in the Netherlands and in July is comming the new Mac OS X Lion.
Is there allready someone who runs on this OS and uses the S4 and it’s software?
I want to know if there are problems or not, so i can decide to purache the new OS when it’s out.
Thanx…
i tested lion OSX and had no problems running traktor pro 2 and ableton live 8.
Padi has as well and his reports have all been pretty good.
Thank you guys, then I already know enough…
Yup 
I’d still wait just a bit…but I’ve gotten burned by OS X updates in the past. Granted, that was my fault for not waiting for Avid to certify it, and it broke nothing but Pro Tools.
I’d still wait…give it a couple days and google “OS X Lion” with the names of the software you really need to run. Let the hardcore early adopters figure out if stuff works, 'cuz it takes forever to roll-back an update.
It’s always better to be on the safe side (I still have snow leo as my main boot) and yes, roll backs are a pain.
I’m hoping nothing pops up in the final build.
Avid are the only reason I won’t but updating straight away, i’ll give them a couple of weeks to sort themselves out with the update first before I even think about it.
A little off topic, I’m not the most literate computer person in the world i can make it do what i want when i want and have enough knowledge to do what i need to do.
My question is I’m currently running the latest version of Snow Leopard and will want to upgrade to Lion, but can i just download the Lion upgrade and click the installer and not have to have a clean install, because i have no way of backing up my current files. I just want to be able to do a straight swap of Snow Leopard to Lion and leave all my files exactly where they were applications/music/documents etc.
Will i be able to do this?
Pretty sure you will.
Dude,
Do yourself a favor and buy a 1TB drive they’re only $100. Time Machine is a LIFE saver. I partioned a 1 TB drive into 600GB and 400GB the 600 is my time machine drive and the 400 is just a bonus swap drive. I can backup my entire computer along with my music. Then there’s no worries.
Lion will be available on the Mac App Store. Not even the need for a restart once installed, apparently!
It is something i have thought about time and time again, i just haven’t got round to buying one.
So what do you do set Time Machine to back up your complete system then just duplicate your music folder copy and paste style over to the 400GB partition?
I just backup everything. It keeps old versions and doesn’t miss a thing. You can chuck your mac off a bridge, get a new one, plug it in and a couple of hours later it’s just as it was. Except less wet.
does anybody know if there is some kind of family licence on Lion as there was on SL?
Don’t think so, just a licence to install it on all of one user’s authorised machines. I may be wrong though.
It copies everything the first time, then it does incremental on modified/added files.
Couple weeks? Try 6 months.
Seriously. I accidentally did an OS X update at about the same time as a Pro Tools update once and it was 6 months before I could start Pro Tools again. It lead to me selling my MBox.
My new 13" Macbook Pro i5 still isn’t an avid-qualified system. I don’t expect it before the fall.
You have much bigger problems than not being able to do an OS update.
Remember how much people made fun of Skrillex for not having a backup? Yeah…you’re one spilled cocktail away from that.
Go buy a backup drive and a firewire enclosure. Hell, buy 2. Use Time Machine. It’s really pretty good.
IDK what he does with the 400GB partition…probably something like that. Time Machine works as an rsync front end…which basically doesn’t mean anything to you. Don’t take this as an insult, but I’m going to explain it.
It copies your entire system (everything that isn’t on the OS X install disk) when you start using it (or switch to a new backup drive) and then stores changes to your system. It keep dated, versioned backups of everything you do in the form of “snapshots” for whenever you do backups. If your time machine drive is connected all the time, it does it once an hour until the end of the day, merges them to once a day, then week, etc. until the backup drive is full (it’ll warn you when it gets close).
As long as you’re not encrypting your home directory or boot drive with File Vault–which you shouldn’t be doing if you’re using it for music stuff anyway–it’s really kind of idiot proof. DO NOT use FileVault with Time Machine, it doesn’t work right.
Then, as long as that backup is up to date, you can format your drive, reinstall OS X, and during the install just tell it you want to restore from a time machine backup. It takes quite a bit of time to do it, but when you finish the install, it’s like you just went back to exactly the way your computer was at the moment you last completed a Time Machine backup.
Hint: that also works if you buy a new computer. It’s not the only backup system that works like that, but it is just about the easiest. It’s kind of freaking genius.
You can also launch the Time Machine backup to roll-back specific files/folders to earlier versions and restore deleted files (as long as they were backed up).
The only real downside is if you keep your computer and your backup drive in the same physical location…then your apartment/house/office catching fire could destroy everything. But there’s an easy way to deal with that too: buy two identical backup drives. Get a safety deposit box at a local bank. Swap out the backup drives every week or so.
Worst case scenario, you lose a week’s worth of stuff.
Seriously…expensive Terabyte drives are under $200: OWC 1.0TB Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable 5400RPM... at MacSales.com
You do want one with FW800 if your mac has FW800…the speed boost is very noticeable, especially for that first backup.
And, safety deposit boxes big enough for a backup drive and a few basic forms (will & testament, birth certificate, social security card, etc.) don’t cost but a few dollars a month. Just go do it now…
It’s kind of the same theory as a condom…better to have a backup and not need it than need it and not have it. Except that computers–even macs–have higher “failure rates” than hope, rhythm, and prayer do for keeping girls not pregnant.
I can’t count the number of corrupted systems; stolen, lost, or broken computers; hard drive failures; or viruses I’ve had over the years. But I can count the number that have caused me to lose meaningful data: one.
The first one.
It’s tied to your Mac AppStore account, which is kind of like your iTunes account if you have one…they’re both tied to your appleID, which is probably tied to the email address you registered your first Apple to. I think I remember their PR material saying you could authorize either 5 or 10 machines per purchase.
mostapha thank you so very much, I’ve read and taken a lot of advice on board since joining this forum, this so far has to be the most well explained and informative post for a topic I’m currently intrigued about. Thanks for your information and I’m now about to sift through Google research in a bid to find the best external drive for my needs.
Anyone following this post have any recommendations for external hard drives?
thanks.
so if i have two macs registered to my email, i can update these two.