OS X 10.7, Lion (Mac is dropped from the marketing name)
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Why can't I open DMG files which reside on a read-only NFS filesystem?
I've discovered a strange problem... if I have disk image files (DMGs) which reside on a read-only NFS share, I cannot open these in Mac OS X 10.7.5. The same files open fine when accessed over AFP. ...
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File sizes greyed out (strange extended attributes) in Finder on Lion?
I just got a new machine with Lion preinstalled. After transferring all my applications, I noticed that the file sizes (and only the sizes) of some applications and folders are greyed out:
Does ...
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Apart from being able to encypt an entire volume, what are the other differences of FileVault 2 over FileVault?
Does FileVault 2 in Lion have any other differences compared to the old version, FileVault in previous releases of the system? Are there any additional benefits to using the new version?
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How can I replace the 'Linen' that is prevalent in many Lion apps?
There are many places where the "linen" texture is used in Lion, from the Login Window to various app backgrounds like Safari and so on.
Is it possible to replace this image with something else? ...
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Can I force Mac OS X to select certain Wifi network?
When I turn on Wifi on my MacBook, it always selects some open network.
Can I somehow force the system to choose another network (it is password-protected but I have the password stored in the ...
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Lock keyboard in lion
Is there a way to lock the keyboard in Lion? By "lock keyboard" I mean some way to make the computer ignore almost any keypresses, except some special "unlock" sequence. Maybe an OS X feature or ...
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Is there a way to get Terminal on Lion to start up cleanly (without the buffered history)?
How can I prevent Terminal from showing me my old output when it starts?
I would like it to always start with a clean window.
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How do so set “date added” metadata in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
The Finder in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion shows a new piece of file metadata, "Date Added," which tracks the date an item was added to a folder. After upgrading to 10.7, none of the items in my ~/Downloads ...
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Why do emoji like ๐ฉ appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome?
Why do emoji like ๐ฉ appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome on the same MacBook running Lion? Both browsers use WebKit, and I'd imagine font support comes from the OS, not the application.
For ...
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Which text editors take advantage of Lion's Versions feature?
I've been a fervent user of Textmate for many a year, and I hope to continue to be one. However, the versions feature of OSX seems like a great and easy to use idea.
I'm mostly doing HTML, CSS and ...
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FAT or exFAT or NTFS
I recently brought Western Digital's Passport Essential, and will be using with my MacBook (running Snow Leopard), MacBook Air (running Lion) and Windows 7 Desktop. I should be able to read-write data ...
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Is screen zoom broken in Lion?
For years I've zoomed the whole Mac OS X screen with Control โ + two finger scroll on the trackpad.
It was very useful when giving demos and when wanting to zoom in on a YouTube video.
Since I ...
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How can I make the Cisco VPN Client work with Lion?
Worked in Snow Leopard and now gives error 51 and the sudo restart system command in Terminal i used to use doesn't work. Any idea?
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How do I use only the external display with my MacBook Pro lid open on Lion?
Sorry for the wordy title, but my problem is thus:
When I'm at my desk, I would like to use only the external display.
With the nifty gestures in Lion, I have decided I would like to use the ...
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What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display Without Eject Key?
I read that if you want to put your display into sleep the keyboard shortcut is Control โ+Shift โง+Eject โ, but what is it in Mountain Lion or Lion using a retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without an ...
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How can I improve/replace View Source in Safari?
As a new convert to Safari, I am astonished by how unbearably ugly default page source view is.
The font is miserably small and unaliased, leave alone color highlighting.
Is there a way to enhance ...
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MacBook Air with small SSD, BootCamp, Windows 7. Can I use an external hard disk for dual boot?
I'd like to setup a dual boot onto my MacBookAir 128GB, with Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate in BootCamp. However, I'm already close to the 128GB limit (games + CS suite + Eclipse + XCode + a lot of Web ...
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Lion version of vim crashing repeatably - caught deadly signal SEGV
whenever I work on multiple files in different vim buffers/tabs and do a :w to save, vim crashes with a segmentation fault.
I'm using vim 7.3 that came long with Lion (Actually with SnowLeopard ...
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How can I expand the number of special characters I can type using my keyboard?
I am aware that when I press โฅ or โงโฅ on my Mac, I can type a variety of special characters. I also know that I can insert special characters using the character palette. Is there a way to expand the ...
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Why doesn't AirDrop work on older network adapters?
Apple has stated that AirDrop will support only the following models:
AirDrop supports the following Mac models:
MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
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Why does Spotlight keep reindexing my system after updating to Lion?
Since I installed Lion, the Spotlight database keeps reindexing (which is taking several hours). It does this at least every second day.
Are any other users experiencing this problem with Lion (i.e. ...
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Unsaved Files in OS X Lion
Where do unsaved files go in Lion?
I quit TextEdit without saving since I had no intention of saving, but with autosave the file still got save somewhere since when I reopen TextEdit the file I was ...
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Is there a way to make Preview not open all previously opened files?
Usually when I use Preview, it is when I see a .jpg or .png and I double click on the file to take a look at the file, but sometimes Preview will open up all the .pdf and .png I opened previously, ...
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Where did /usr/bin/git come from?
I have a small problem. At some point I used git but I don't remember if it was installed by default on Lion.
Here is the version and path of git:
$ git --version
git version 1.7.5.4
$ which git
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How do I show hidden files in Finder with a keyboard shortcut?
What is Ubuntu's CTRL+H equivalent in OSX Lion Finder to toggle display hidden files?
My all searches point me to use: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE which is not exactly the ...
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How to arrange two windows easily to left and right side?
In Windows 7, we can easily arrange two windows with these shortcuts: Option (Alt) โฅ + โ maximizes the window to the left side of the screen, and Option (Alt) โฅ + โ maximizes the window to the right ...
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Command+right/left stopped working
On a couple occasions since I installed Lion, the keyboard shortcuts โ+โ and โ+โ have stopped working to navigate to the beginning/end of a line inside text fields and such. Any ideas what's going ...
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How to re-download Lion from Mountain Lion
I'm currently running Mountain Lion, but I'd like to redownload Lion (to create a bootable install drive).
However, when I click the download button in the App Store, I receive a message telling me my ...
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How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications
Apps launched via Finder seem to not respect the PATH as set in .bash_profile. So when I try to run code from an IDE (Intellij) I no longer have access to programs in /usr/local/bin, which is ...
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No .bash_profile in OS X Lion?
I just did a clean install of OS X Lion and I see that now I have no .bash_profile file in my home directory.
Should I create this by hand? (I want to save in it some alias.)
Thank you.
PS : The ...
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In Lion, if I keep pressing a key, why doesn't it repeat?
I don't know if there are any settings to toggle, but I figured out that if I keep pressing a button on my keyboard it doesn't repeat it and displays only one character! Can this be fixed to go back ...
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Does “Secure Empty Trash” securely delete the hidden version files for documents in the Trash in OS X Lion?
The new Versions feature in Lion creates hidden files that store old versions of the document you're working on in case you want to revert back to some older version of the document. If I drag a ...
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How to share Mac System which has Lions OS 10.7?
I was able to share my mac system screen using VNC server in Snow leopard OS but now I have upgraded the my Mac OS to Lion OS. Now VNC server is not compatible with Lion OS.
So can any one help me how ...
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Can i change the default Mac App Store install folder?
I prefer to have all applications installed per-user, to ~/Applications/ rather than globally. The default location for apps installed from the Mac App Store is the global applications folder located ...
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Single desktop image for all desktops
I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Afterward when I would set a Desktop picture (either through System Preferences or iPhoto) it was applied to all desktops.
Yesterday I control clicked the ...
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Add an up button to the Lion Finder?
Is it possible to add a button to the Lion finder that goes up a directory? I looked at the buttons available under customize and didn't see one, but thought there might be a hack out there.
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How do I sync two folders in OS X Lion?
I have some files and folders on a USB drive connected to my iMac...I would like to sync them with a folder on my iMac...how do I do that?
Is there built-in functionality in Lion that allows me to do ...
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How to remove an accidentally dropped file shortcut icon from Finder toolbar?
I accidentally dropped a file in the Finder toolbar instead of the destination folder (the ZIP icon on the right of the screenshot):
How can I remove it from the toolbar?
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Dock on MBP Retina is using 80% CPU
The Dock on my MBP Retina is constantly using 70 - 80% of CPU.
This happens on the two account on the machine, both of which were migrated from my previous Lion MBP.
I don't have Parallels ...
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Can 'Find My Mac' work while the computer is sleeping?
Is the 'Find My Mac' feature of iCloud supposed to work while the computer is sleeping? I use this feature to check on things every once in a while, as well as show the feature off to other people. ...
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Why won't my MacBook Pro connect to Wi-Fi networks that use a sign-in page (captive portal)?
Some wi-fi networks require viewing and agreeing to terms before Internet access is allowed. When my MBP connects to such a network, it attempts to redirect and isn't able to connect. I tried all ...
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How do I disable Safari-only mode?
I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for ...
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Possible to run scripts on sleep and wake?
MacBook Pro 2010 running OS X Lion.
Is it possible to run scripts on sleep and wake events?
My specific application is that I've got Dropbox-synced Truecrypt volumes that I regularly use on both my ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut for Don't Save?
One thing I do a lot is Command โ-Tab over to TextEdit, jot down some notes, and then decide to throw them away. I can close the window with โ-W, but is there a way to not-save it from just the ...
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What's the correctly way to make Postfix run permanently on Lion (not server)
I can start Postfix temporarily with:
$ sudo launchctl
launchd% start org.postfix.master
However, Console.app shows that it only runs for a short time:
26/11/11 2:00:55.710 PM postfix/master: ...
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Set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler
Currently, Terminal is set to handle SSH urls. For example, if I do:
$ open ssh://machine.example.com
Then it will spawn a new SSH session in terminal. I'd like these to be opened in iTerm2 ...
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Is there a way to have Snow Leopard match the scrolling behavior of Lion?
I can see that I will quickly come to love the Lion way of scrolling.
My brain will soon become rewired to think of moving the content with my gestures instead of moving the controller down to slide ...
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What will happen to iChat in Lion once Messages beta expired?
Messages will replace iChat on OS X Lion when installed but it will expire at some point in the future.
What will happen to my Lion's iChat application when Messages expire? Will I be able to ...
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Why are some Mail messages shown as empty with “This message has no content”?
Sometimes new messages come in and Mail (on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion) shows them as empty, with "This message has no content" in the preview column. The message is empty in the full message view ...
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How to access a clicked URL in a URL handler application created in Automator
I'm currently trying to modify the default URL handling behavior in OS X. I would like, when clicking on any link outside of a web browser, to copy this URL to the pasteboard instead of opening it in ...
