Any problems upgrading to lion?

Posted by: steve woodmansey on 29 July 2011

Has anybody experienced any problems with upgrading? I have an IMac running Snow Leopard and I use Aperture, iworks, Office for mac, Open Office and itunes amongst others. Would like to know if anyone has had any problems before making the change. Thanks.
Posted on: 29 July 2011 by Derek Wright

I assume you have a backup process in place. If not, get one in place.

 

I use Aperture, PS 3 etc etc and moved to Lion so far so good.

I had a problem caused by a DVI to ADC Adapter box that was plugged in and un powered. Once I removed the connecting cable my problem went away.  Only comment - I do not like the reduced colour brightness in the icons both in the Apple supplied apps (many gone to Monochrome) and the Dock icons.

 

If you use any Apps  using Rosetta (ie PowerPC aps) and they are key to your use of the system - do not proceed as Rosetta is not supported. Find alternative applications to do your work.

Posted on: 29 July 2011 by Steven Shaw

I've just bought a mac, pre-installed with lion. I'm having trouble accessing files on my ready nas (I think there is a problem with using lion and a readynas).

 

My father in laws mac with leopard had no trouble.

 

Posted on: 29 July 2011 by James L

Yes.

Sometimes it won't connect to the net via Safari.

It takes a toggling of the wi-fi to connect.

Many others are experiencing the same thing on the Mac forum.

Posted on: 29 July 2011 by RaceTripper

I've been using Lion since the developer GM seed came out. No major problems. Have had some minor annoyances with workspaces, Bluetooth, etc. and some of the Apple apps crash now and then, but otherwise it's very usable. You might want to wait for 10.7.1 or 10.7.2 if the point zero release bugs are going to bother you. I expect 10.7.2 to be out when iCloud goes live.

 

As mentioned, any older apps that are PowerPC only and relied on Rosetta under Snow Leopard will not run at all on Lion.

Posted on: 29 July 2011 by Timbo

A few problems:

 

Lion - third party printer support for Dymo Labeller and HiTi photo printer. Also awaiting for developers to catch up, notably Multisite for iWeb.

 

Lion Server - really screwed up my server, had to manually edit so that I could host multiple sites, various other problems not covered in the migration guide.

 

Getting used to some of the gestures, a nice step forward but is hampering productivity at present.

 

Tim

Posted on: 08 August 2011 by mudwolf

I've had no problems with it but need to buy a track pad to take advantage of it.  Getting used to a few things happening differently.  But I'm not in business.  Things like mail and Safari are really fast.

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Symonds14

No major problems.  Office for MAC has a problem but m/soft releaseing a fix.

Awaiting some third part Audio Unit providers to update apps.