I've experienced only two bugs or kinks, and both are rare so far. First, while I'm browsing the web on Safari, twice it seemed to me that my wifi connection had gone down, but, after making sure that wifi was fine, I restarted my computer and Safari was back. Second, sometimes when I accidentally do a gesture that zooms in toward text in a window (just like the one I'm typing in now to leave this message), I have experienced freezes, but nothing that refreshing the page didn't fix. I don't recall having either problem with Snow Leopard. Other than that, it has been smooth sailing.
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...nobody from Apple is reading this thread.
Not necessarily true. But I've reported a few more serious errors on the feedback page, and so should everyone here. Also my system sends all the crash reports back to Apple.
just bugs - useless
The lion-experience is turning out to be a nightmare. Obviously there is a lot of bugs going around. In Fotomagico its impossible to get access to the iTunes library. Safari crashed dozen of times yesterday. Ticking out the box: open windows after restart, does not make this useless feature to go away. Dropbox doesn't work. This is just to mention a few of the problems encountered the last few days.
Frankly, i don't have time for this ****. Time is money for professionals. The mac-experience (user since 1989) has always been: Power up and everything just works.
Well, now it don't. Then theres no edge over the pc any longer.
First fix: reinstall snow leopard from time machine backup. Run this as long as possible. Then, capitulate and get a PC.
mbp 13 2011. 2,7 ghz 8gb ram
The lion-experience is turning out to be a nightmare. Obviously there is a lot of bugs going around. In Fotomagico its impossible to get access to the iTunes library. Safari crashed dozen of times yesterday. Ticking out the box: open windows after restart, does not make this useless feature to go away. Dropbox doesn't work. This is just to mention a few of the problems encountered the last few days.
Frankly, i don't have time for this ****. Time is money for professionals. The mac-experience (user since 1989) has always been: Power up and everything just works.
Well, now it don't. Then theres no edge over the pc any longer.
First fix: reinstall snow leopard from time machine backup. Run this as long as possible. Then, capitulate and get a PC.
mbp 13 2011. 2,7 ghz 8gb ram
Lion Bugs
Want my money back! The only real ?improvement of Lion is that the mouse wheel has changed direction. On the other hand it has killed my Apple usb fax modem that I paid them for not so long ago . Also killed my scanner an old Scanjet 5p, fortunately got it working with Vuescan but at a cost. What a lemon!
Want my money back! The only real ?improvement of Lion is that the mouse wheel has changed direction. On the other hand it has killed my Apple usb fax modem that I paid them for not so long ago . Also killed my scanner an old Scanjet 5p, fortunately got it working with Vuescan but at a cost. What a lemon!
I did a Lion reinstall which fixed a couple of my numerous problems. Still not a clean install, but did help.
However in doing this I found another bug! The recovery partition has a choice for reinstall but it got hung up saying I needed to agree to changed Terms and Conditions. But it didn't show them or give me a button to accept them! It would not proceed. I had to boot back to Lion, go to the App store, and download an app from there (luckily there was one that needed to be upgraded) in order to get the new Terms and Conditions accepted!
Remember to do this with bugs: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
However in doing this I found another bug! The recovery partition has a choice for reinstall but it got hung up saying I needed to agree to changed Terms and Conditions. But it didn't show them or give me a button to accept them! It would not proceed. I had to boot back to Lion, go to the App store, and download an app from there (luckily there was one that needed to be upgraded) in order to get the new Terms and Conditions accepted!
Remember to do this with bugs: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I'm getting my money back. And yes, Lion is a lemon.
I sent in an email to the iTunes store two days ago, listing my main complaints about Lion (Laggy slowdowns, broken Wifi, iMac running much hotter).
I received an email reply this morning saying Apple is going to reverse the charge.
Snow Leopard is still running fine for me, unlike that buggy mess called Lion.
...nobody from Apple is reading this thread.
Just a reminder to report bugs here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I shut down the Macbook most nights, but today I turned it back on and I had also been logged out...? It never does that.
The doc messed up full screen iTunes...
I don't think it's supposed to look like that when using Mission Control
Also encountered a bug where it would only show less than half of my desktop picture... And rest would just be gray.
All this happens on an external monitor after going into clampshell mode (which is automatic now, delightful!)
I experienced all of this yesterday as I had most of the day to sit down with Lion. My bug list so far:
- Set "new finder window opens with" to a specific place. It has randomly reset to default "all my files" 3 times throughout the day.
- 3 separate video freezes with 3 different video sources (youtube, vimeo and even Apple's own movie trailer site). All requiring a hard reset.
- Problem with Steam. MACHD > Applications > Steam > Contents > MacOS folder pops up upon every restart no matter what I do. I have tried messing around with startup options. Uninstalled and reinstalled Steam and nothing.
- Chrome has crashed 3 times, mostly while trying to download images. (currently running Chrome 13 - so not sure if that has something to do with it).
- Safari has crashed 3 times as well, but only upon launch and at random.
- Typing sometimes comes to a crawl (such as right now) when I have a few browser windows open).
- Two graphical errors. The first one happened when I was trying to move a batch of files from one folder to another. The batch just expanded and froze on my desktop. Could not touch them. Had to reset.
- The other happened later when I was transferring some video from one of my externals. I was transferring two folders over. I did one first and then after that finished I started the other. I tried to move the first one to another folder and it froze half way and burned into my desktop once again (you can see that "BEGIN Japanology..." writing in the finder window. That is actually just showing through from the desktop). The difference here was, I could not move ANY file or folder after that. They all seemed to be stuck. Had to once again, reset.
All in all, a quite annoying day.
- Set "new finder window opens with" to a specific place. It has randomly reset to default "all my files" 3 times throughout the day.
- 3 separate video freezes with 3 different video sources (youtube, vimeo and even Apple's own movie trailer site). All requiring a hard reset.
- Problem with Steam. MACHD > Applications > Steam > Contents > MacOS folder pops up upon every restart no matter what I do. I have tried messing around with startup options. Uninstalled and reinstalled Steam and nothing.
- Chrome has crashed 3 times, mostly while trying to download images. (currently running Chrome 13 - so not sure if that has something to do with it).
- Safari has crashed 3 times as well, but only upon launch and at random.
- Typing sometimes comes to a crawl (such as right now) when I have a few browser windows open).
- Two graphical errors. The first one happened when I was trying to move a batch of files from one folder to another. The batch just expanded and froze on my desktop. Could not touch them. Had to reset.
- The other happened later when I was transferring some video from one of my externals. I was transferring two folders over. I did one first and then after that finished I started the other. I tried to move the first one to another folder and it froze half way and burned into my desktop once again (you can see that "BEGIN Japanology..." writing in the finder window. That is actually just showing through from the desktop). The difference here was, I could not move ANY file or folder after that. They all seemed to be stuck. Had to once again, reset.
All in all, a quite annoying day.
My sound randomly decided to stop working once. Not sure if this is Lion related but never had this happen to my machine before. Required a complete restart to get it working again. Strange.
Every new system needs time on both ends. I know many people, including myself that aren't having any problems, but maybe it's because we all have newer Macs or don't do a ton of altering or downloading of numerous applications. Who knows, but it's not everyone, so it has potential to work out for all soon enough.
Admittedly there are problems, however Dropbox does work -- syncs just fine, it just doesn't put the little check marks in the icons. And Safari under Windows crashes far more frequently than under Lion.
Sounds like you never performed an upgrade before! I've done Panther->Tiger->Leopard->Snow Leopard->Lion and the one to Leopard was by far the most disabling as it completely brought down my LAN. But Windows has been no better. Upgrading from NT 4.0 to 2000, my system was down for a week waiting for new scanner drivers (in the mail, no less!) and a replacement motherboard because of hardware incompatibilities. I also made the mistake of doing the upgrade in a narrow window of time.
Now I only do upgrades in the summer, slack time since I teach (and use the computer for classes) during the school year. If I didn't do the Lion upgrade now, I'd have to wait a year, and I didn't want to do that. From past experience 10.7.1 will appear soon and 10.7.0 while buggy does work well enough that I won't suffer much. Anyway, 7 Macs here and 3 are still on SL (one on Snow Leopard Server, and if that gets upgraded it will be Summer 2012!)
I cloned the system drives on the 4 Macs I upgraded before making the change so it would be an easy matter to go back if I had to.
Digital Audio, once you play video with digital audio the computer will lose all audio, needs reboot to fix. Snow Leopard had the same issue which was recently fixed. Poor Lion still has it. I find it pretty pathetic i buy a new Mac and digital audio has issues. Feels like I'm back in the Windows 98 days.
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The doc messed up full screen iTunes...
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7813/screenshot20110804at550.png
I don't think it's supposed to look like that when using Mission Control
Also encountered a bug where it would only show less than half of my desktop picture... And rest would just be gray.
All this happens on an external monitor after going into clampshell mode (which is automatic now, delightful!)
In addition to these two, I got a picture of the one described in the end, and a picture of another full screen mess up, which includes the top bar missing, but still allocated(?) room...
Spinning beach ball
I have a recently new MBP (but pre-Lion). Upgraded to Lion and latest Keynote. When working in Keynote, frequently get the spinning beach ball that takes about a minute to resolve. This is intolerable as I have major presentations coming up that require extensive work in Keynote to prepare. Also get significant delays in typing text. This is inconsistent - sometimes works just fine. Then suddenly doesn't. I've tried shutting down everything else without benefit.
I have a recently new MBP (but pre-Lion). Upgraded to Lion and latest Keynote. When working in Keynote, frequently get the spinning beach ball that takes about a minute to resolve. This is intolerable as I have major presentations coming up that require extensive work in Keynote to prepare. Also get significant delays in typing text. This is inconsistent - sometimes works just fine. Then suddenly doesn't. I've tried shutting down everything else without benefit.
iCal quits just by closing the window
Since installation of OS X Lion iCal will not stay open if you close the window. Lion wasn't ready for release. I'm not sure why it was released with all the bugs it seems to have.
Since installation of OS X Lion iCal will not stay open if you close the window. Lion wasn't ready for release. I'm not sure why it was released with all the bugs it seems to have.
Encountered another issue, this time when using dual display, VLC works fine outputting fullscreen video to an external display, Quicktime however either won't output to the external display or turns the external display off