OS X 10.7, Lion (Mac is dropped from the marketing name)
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Homebrew permissions & multiple users needing to brew update
I'm using Homebrew to manage package installs on Lion (Lion Server actually but this shouldn't matter).
Homebrew was installed under one user. Now a different user would like to add a package and ...
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mid-2011 Macbook Air changes applications on wake from sleep
When my new Macbook Air (13" mid-2011, Lion) wakes from sleep (by opening the lid, clicking the mouse or pressing the space bar), it usually wakes to the last application I was using, then changes ...
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How can I customize the Lion login screen to remove the vignette effect?
Just upgraded to Lion, but the new login screen needs some colour. I found someone online who posted the address of the image that's in the background, so I went and replaced that.
Only, after ...
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Is it possible to remove the Dock in Lion?
Is there a defaults write command to remove the dock in Lion.
I tried the steps mentioned but that does not seem to work on Lion. I can still see the dock. Are there hidden defaults that can make the ...
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How to disable Preview from opening up the last couple items viewed? osx lion
When I download a PDF and open it in Preview on OS X Lion, Preview opens the last couple documents that I viewed. It seems to arbitrarily open anywhere from the last document to the last x documents. ...
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How to delete the saved version in Lion
The new Versions feature in Lion stores old versions of the document I'm working on in case to revert back to some older version of the document. However, how can I delete the version files for a ...
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Spotlight reports “Indexing and searching disabled” in Lion
Lion keeps "losing track" of Spotlight information. Directories and Applications disappear, full text searches stop working, etc. I seem to need to re-index it once a week or so.
However, now it ...
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How do I share NTFS folder from OSX Lion to Window 7
I have an NTFS drive in my mac and use paragon to read and write from it. All good. I now want to share it with my windows 7 pc. I did this by using the "File Sharing" feature in System Preferences.
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Set ForkLift as default file viewer
Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see http://cocoatech.com/faqs#3, but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect ...
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How can I best use an SSD?
I have a Mac Pro, and I've added an Intel 80GB SSD to improve performance in LightRoom and Photoshop. So far so good.
But after moving all of my current work, catalogs, etc. to the SSD, I still have ...
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How can I disable rounded window corners in OS X
Is there any way that the rounded window corners can be disabled in OS X Lion (10.7.3) ?
Update: It's the bottom two corners that I have problem with as they show up even in full screen mode.
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Control program other than iTunes with bluetooth headphones
I am using bluetooth headphones with OS X Lion. The headphones (like most bluetooth headsets) have built-in play/pause and back/forward controls. Using the play button will always launch iTunes, ...
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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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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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Can I restore a Snow Leopard backup onto a Lion machine?
So I am a little confused and slightly worried, and I was wondering if someone could answer this.
I have a Time Machine backup saved on an external HD for my Mac mini that is running the latest ...
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How can I create a Saved Search that excludes a specific folder from the results?
I'm trying to set up a Saved Search of my Mac that will exclude files in a folder called 'XYZ' from the search results. The reason is because I'm getting a ton of false positives from that folder that ...
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Reinstalling Lion
My Mac has gotten pretty dirty from all the stuff I've installed and the files I have accumulated these past months. I have tried reinstalling by holding Command-R and following the process. However, ...
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Is the installation of Xcode from App Store enough for having the developer tools?
today I tried to install the new version of Xcode.
Before that I removed the developer tools with the following command:
sudo /Library/Developer/Shared/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
I also had ...
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MacBook Pro won’t sleep automatically — no process preventing sleep according to pmset. What’s going on?
i noticed the following problem with my MBP 8,1 running 10.7.2 — automatic sleep just doesn’t happen. Since I usually put my Macbook to sleep manually before leaving the desk etc. I just noticed this ...
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Proper group ID (gid) for Lion?
If you create a brand new admin account in Lion, the following will be your id and group memberships (from $ id [new Lion account] | perl -lne 's/ /\n/g; s/,/\n\t/g; print;'):
uid=504(lt)
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Install 2 different OS X versions on the same machine/hdd
OK, here's my situation :
I am a developer needing to debug under different OS X versions
I currently own 2 macs : a MacBook Pro and an iMac
the iMac has Snow Leopard (10.6) on it - it came ...
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How can I delete saved commands from Terminal?
As all of you know, Mac OS X stores all commands that run from Terminal in Terminal itself, however, I want to delete (for example) the last 3 commands from the terminal. How can I do this?
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How can I install an SSD on my new Lion MBP w/out install disks?
I just got a new MBP that came with Lion, and they didn't give me any install disks. If I swap in my new SSD, how can I install Lion on the new drive?
Update: There is the Mac OS X Utilities that I ...
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Hide ONLY .app file extensions but show the rest
Is there a way to hide ONLY .app file extension? I know that you can enable or disable the visibility of file extensions in Finder but I'm interested in avoiding .app file extensions from showing up. ...
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How Should I Correct the Owners and Permissions in an OS X Lion User Folder?
My issue is that I've seriously busted all of the owners and permissions on my user folder and subfolders and it's causing lots of issues using lots of applications.
The initial cause was that I had ...
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How do I kill the Application Switcher?
All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:
Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it?
UPDATE: Logging off fixed this.
UPDATE 2: I came to a ...
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Choosing native screen resolution aspect ratio when screen sharing
I have two Macs both running Lion:
iMac (early 2009, iMac9,1 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120)
MacBook Air (Early 2011, first of the new shape 11.6")
I often screen share using the Macbook Air as the ...
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How do I open a file as root in TextEdit on Lion?
How do I open a file as root, in TextEdit? I've tried these commands as root, but TextEdit always say it's locked:
open -e /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
open -e -F /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
open -e -F -W ...
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Mac OS X Lion and sshpass
I've upgraded from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Lion. I used several scripts with sshpass but after I upgraded to Lion the following error appears:
Permission denied, please try again.
debug1: ...
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Installing a Lion Vm within Mountain Lion
I have a few issues with Mountain Lion that mean I need to have occasional access to a Lion installation. I have bootable clones of my old Lion install before I upgraded, but sometimes I only need to ...
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Disabling startup items that run despite being unchecked on the “login items” list
I have a number of (background) programs that startup automatically on login even though they have been disabled (unchecked) on the Login Items pane of the Users & Groups System Preferences. ...
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What is the Sixth Step of MacBook Repair?
My Macbook has crashed once or twice daily ever since I installed Lion. I am unable to return to Snow Leopard because my Time Machine is now coupled with Lion.
I went through the sequence:
Reset ...
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How do I rename the Downloads folder (in Lion)?
For whatever perverse reasons I wish to rename the Downloads folder to Temp. I would also be happy with a way of making it appear to me, in both the GUI and the CLI, as Temp. I am aware I can do this ...
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How do I change a disk partition map scheme from MBR to GUID Partitions Table?
I just finished the huge download of Mac OS X Lion, started the installer, and now I have a problem. The installer says that I must have the GUID-Partitions Table Scheme.
The problem is that when I ...
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Tracking down frequent (every 20 seconds) SCSI hard disk drive access in 10.7
In a Lion Server (10.7.3 and 10.7.4 tried) system with multiple drives attached to an HPT SATA controller, there is some process that keeps accessing the hard disk drives exactly every 20 seconds. As ...
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How to fix Disk Utility, About This Mac, and Finder that disagree on hard drive space usage?
Has anyone seen this issue and know how to fix it?
Look at the free space reported by running "Get Info" on my hard drive (Macintosh HD) in the Finder, "About This Mac" from the Apple Menu, and Disk ...
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Subversion 1.7 for OS X Lion
I am quite lost, how do I get this to work. I can't find any GUI Programs that support 1.7 yet. Commandline would be okay, but I can't seem to find one!
Also how would the diff work on the ...
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MacBook Pro doesn't detect external display after Lion upgrade
Asking on behalf of a friend.
His 2011 MacBook Pro (no Thunderbolt) was running Snow Leopard and was being connected to a Dell monitor in the standard way.
He upgraded to Lion and now the MacBook ...
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Configuring OS X 10.7 Lion Server to serve Rails Apps via Apache
I have a number of Rails Apps working just great under Snow Leopard, but would like to migrate these to Lion.
However, like many others, the rug has been pulled from under my feet by the changes that ...
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Trackpad Gestures - Three-finger swipe unresponsive until I use two-finger scroll (OS X Lion)
Sometime within the last week or so, I noticed this really weird glitch with my trackpad. I have always used the three-finger swipe to navigate forwards and backwards on web browsers, between tabs in ...
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Is there an application like Connectify for Mac OS X Lion?
There is a well known app for Windows named: Connectify, used to share a wifi connection between a computer that only has wifi with other devices which requests that connection from the computer.
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Why is Preview excessively slow after upgrading to Lion?
After upgrading to OS X Lion, I noticed that my preview app is now excessively slow, taking minutes to open a file instead of seconds, even when opening a local file. In addition, it is often ...
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Chax with Mac OS X Lion?
Has anybody tried Chax with Mac OS X Lion?
I got it to install perfectly, but I do not see a Chax tab in iChat preferences.
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Is there a way to run one application in Full Screen mode on one display and still be able to view and access applications on a second display?
When I make an app go full screen on my primary display - a 24" Apple Display - everything previously visible and accessible on my second display - my MacBook Pro screen - is hidden by the default ...
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Can I cause auto-correct in Lion to beep and to get a summary of the changes?
Auto-correct in Lion is great, but I need to know when it has made a substitution so I can check it.
Is there a way to set an audio alert so that OS X makes a sound to alert me everytime it ...
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How do I truly flush Safari's Cache?
There have been countless times where I run into a problem after I edit HTML on a Mac. The issue derives from me uploading the updated file to my server through FTP, and I'll navigate to the website ...
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How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder?
I'm a web developer. I really need to use .htaccess file.
How can make Finder show only the .htaccess file and not all the file prefixed with .?
I am running OS X Lion.
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Have to reconnect to WiFi every time computer goes to sleep
I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (2011) with Lion preinstalled. There is this persistent and incredibly annoying problem that is occurring with the WiFi. Every time I close the lid or let the ...
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How can I remove a folder that no longer exists from my Finder sidebar in Lion?
There is a folder in my favorites in the sidebar of the finder on my Mac. That folder no longer exists, but for some reason it started showing up again as soon as I upgraded to Lion
When I ...
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PDF rendering bug in OS X and iOS
I received a PDF by e-mail which is unreadable on my Mac (Lion 10.7.3) and on my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1) but the same PDF renders perfectly on Windows. If I use Chrome on my Mac, (which has its own built ...
