Lion tips, tricks & hidden stuff

adsl3g said:
Ah!! OK, that makes sense. Any ideas how I can access my bootcamp partition. It is greyed out in disk utility and cannot mount. Using 'option' key on bootup does not show the windows partition - only the recovery HD. Have tried reFIT-OSX. It shows the Windows partition but selecting it to boot with, it responds with 'insert boot disk' or something like that.
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Having a similar issue on my girlfriend's MacBook. Read somewhere that MacFUSE may be causing this issue, nto sure if you had that installed before you upgraded.
 
burn said:
Having a similar issue on my girlfriend's MacBook. Read somewhere that MacFUSE may be causing this issue, nto sure if you had that installed before you upgraded.
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Yes, unfortunately I did - never mind, I reinstalled it the weekend and all is fine again.

Don't like Parallels or VM Fusion and Parallels is not compatible with Lion.
 
adsl3g said:
Yes, unfortunately I did - never mind, I reinstalled it the weekend and all is fine again.

Don't like Parallels or VM Fusion and Parallels is not compatible with Lion.
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There is an update available for Parallels
 
It does introduce a new restore partition which causes bootcamp to have some issues, but they're fixable AFAIK.
 
Tip: If you don't like the window animations, turn it off:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

if you suddenly find your life to be empty without it, you can turn it back on too:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool YES
 
Pooky said:
Is it just me or does it seem considerably faster?
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Do you mean with animations disabled, or Lion in general?

Lion in general feels just the same to me. The only difference I noticed is that Aperture uses more RAM, which is good. Under Snow Leopard it barely ever went over 2GB, which is frustrating because I have 6GB and it's swapping with 3GB free memory. Under Lion, so far, I've seen it go up to around 3GB.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Do you mean with animations disabled, or Lion in general?

Lion in general feels just the same to me. The only difference I noticed is that Aperture uses more RAM, which is good. Under Snow Leopard it barely ever went over 2GB, which is frustrating because I have 6GB and it's swapping with 3GB free memory. Under Lion, so far, I've seen it go up to around 3GB.
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The whole thing seems more nippy.
 
Interesting. I have the usual fresh install lack-of-three-years-worth-of-curd-in-Library quickness, but I'm sure it's not feeling faster than my this laptop felt when I first got it.
 
Well I can think of a bunch of reasons why Lion feels faster:
Safari got a speed boost thanks to Webkit2.
Lion appears to use more RAM, (Koffiejunkie's observations with Aperture). It needs 2gb minimum, so I assume it caches more aggressively.
Lion only supports the Core 2 Duo CPUS and newer, so Apple can optimize the OS better for the latest Intel instructions.
Lastly Lion introduces ARC - a new memory management technique, which could enhance performance for all apps in general.
 
adsl3g said:
Ah!! OK, that makes sense. Any ideas how I can access my bootcamp partition. It is greyed out in disk utility and cannot mount. Using 'option' key on bootup does not show the windows partition - only the recovery HD. Have tried reFIT-OSX. It shows the Windows partition but selecting it to boot with, it responds with 'insert boot disk' or something like that.
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I'm not sure why everyone is losing their windows partition. I did a clean install of lion and i still have mine. No problems at all as ive booted into windows on a few occasions already.


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Only problem I have had so far is macfuse ntfs3g saying it can't mount my bootcamp partition.
 
Yeah it's now Paragon NTFS which you have to buy (or pirate). There was a way to enable native NTFS in SL, but I think it had a couple of bugs.

Anyway here's a tip for julle: in Mission Control, to drag all of an app's windows to another space, drag the app's icon.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Do you mean with animations disabled, or Lion in general?

Lion in general feels just the same to me. The only difference I noticed is that Aperture uses more RAM, which is good. Under Snow Leopard it barely ever went over 2GB, which is frustrating because I have 6GB and it's swapping with 3GB free memory. Under Lion, so far, I've seen it go up to around 3GB.
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I run aperture in 32-bit mode so I'm not noticing any difference there. :)

I've disabled Restore windows globally from the System Prefs.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Why?

I don't mind it using more memory - I have plenty. I prefer that to swapping.
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I found it to be more reliable and since I've still only got 4gb of ram it doesn't make that much difference. Plus some of my plugins are 32bit so it was constantly wanting to switch anyway.
 
bwana said:
I found it to be more reliable and since I've still only got 4gb of ram it doesn't make that much difference. Plus some of my plugins are 32bit so it was constantly wanting to switch anyway.
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Aah yes, plugins. None of the ones I use are 32bit, thankfully.

Speaking of RAM, are you still using the old 17" MBP? What model is it? Mine is the MacBook Pro 4,1 (late 2007 or early 2008, I don't remember which). It can officially only take 4GB, but 6GB works just fine (8GB apparently not).
 
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