If there’s one thing that drives me crazy about Lion, it’s the bugginess of the Finder. I’d mentioned the problem where Spaces clears the Desktop of icons in my initial review. But I’ve since found additional problems. For years now I’ve kept my Desktop organized by file type. I like this because it groups all [...]
Here’s a Versions mistake I’ve made numerous times at this point. I open a document. I make some temporary or test changes — changes I don’t intend do actually keep. Once I’ve seen what I need to see, I quit the application. In the past I’d have been asked if I wanted to save the [...]
Here are a bunch of little things I’ve noticed, worthy of sharing but not big enough for their own post. A Lion Correction I had originally reported that one of my favorite new Lion features was that Quicklook stayed active even when switching away from the Finder to another app. This apparently only happens on [...]
Call me crazy, but I still prefer ASR for disk cloning. It’s simple and accurate. But ASR in Lion no longer allows file-level cloning. This means that block copying is now the only option. Block copying is great, but it requires the unmounting of both disks. This means that cloning a boot drive while booted [...]
I’m starting to not like Lion’s whole “Versions” implementation. It’s a system that’s supposed to simplify file management, but is, in fact, complicating it in certain situations. Case in point: Locked Files. Lion now locks files that haven’t been edited for a certain period of time. It does this in order to prevent accidental changes [...]
Well, it wouldn’t be new OS season without some complaints, now would it? Yes, as always, I have some beefs. The inaugural article on this blog was a piece called Tiger Beefs. Tiger was — and remains — my least favorite Mac OS release of all time. I really hated it and couldn’t wait for [...]
At long a last the time has come for me to post my impressions of Mac OS X 10.7, affectionately referred to as Lion. Lion is a mixed bag, for me. There are few areas where I think it really impresses and then some areas that are a bit less well thought out. Overall it’s [...]