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Mac OS X 10.6.2 has finally arrived and it brings tons of new bug fixes for existing OS X Snow Leopard users This new 10.6.2 Update is highly recommended for all the current Snow Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. It also includes the fix for the critical issue that caused data to be deleted when using a. If you're not, just go to Menu Software Update, download and install the update. Not on Mac OS X 10.6 at all? You can't upgrade to Lion unless you're running.
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Android emulator reddit. Ingredients. A Mac upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. An Apple ID with a valid credit card (or gift card credit) linked to the account. 8GB of available hard drive space.
– a shareware program and automator action for finding duplicate files., a free application to make sure all of your software is running the latest version. – now freeware from our friends at OmniGroup, this will help us clean slim down our drives.
— a freeware/shareware app that makes a bit-for-bit copy of your hard dive. Usually used for making backups. Extra hard drive or external hard drive, either USB or Firewire. This hard drive needs to be at least as large as your main drive.RecipeStep 1 — Make Sure You’re Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Update: Reader Dustin Wielt has an even better way of accomplishing this step: “There is an easier way to check for Rosetta apps than opening each app and looking in Activity Monitor.
Just open System Profiler in the Utilities folder, click on Applications, and in the resulting list of all applications on your Mac, click on the Kind column to sort them by Kind. Scroll down to see all of your PowerPC apps in one place!”Step 3 — Put Your Hard Drive On A DietTo upgrade to Lion, you need to have at least 8GB of hard drive space free. Even if you already have 8GB free, though, it’s a good idea to clean up your drives.
After you’ve cleaned up all your redundant files, now it’s time to ‘sweep’ your disk. Our hard drives always seem to be shrinking, and it’s often hard to tell where most of that space goes. Fortunately, our friends at Omni Group have a utility just for that.Give it a whirl, and you may be just as surprised as we were to learn that your ‘Downloads’ directory is taking up half your hard drive. Just be careful to know what you’re deleting.Step 4 — Create a Reliable BackupUpgrading to Lion through the App Store is uncharted territory, and while it’s unlikely anything will go wrong, why take chances? Let’s make a bootable backup of your main drive just in case.To create a bootable backup of your main drive there is only one totally free, easy-to-use choice, Carbon Copy Cloner, and it’s push one button simple. Just remember to make your backup drive bootable, you will have to completely wipe your destination drive.Now, depending on the size of your hard drive, you’ve got a chance to watch either the standard, or extended version of Lord of the Rings.Once CCC is done, reboot your Mac with your external drive still connected, holding down the option key to boot from the backup drive.
Make sure everything boots up, poke around a bit, make sure everything seems to be working.Pop the installer in, power down your Macintosh and unplug your backup drive, it would be a cryin’ shame if you accidentally installed over your backup.Step 5 — Install LionThis step’s easy. Just open the App Store under Applications and do a search for Lion.
Buy it, then download it. Alternatively, you can just.Once you buy Lion, an install file will open up in your dock, complete with a download status bar. Be patient: this file is 3.4GB, and takes a while to download.When it’s finished downloading and the statusbar goes disappears, close all your running programs, open the Lion install file, accept Apple’s EULA and then click “Install.” Your machine will restart, and the Lion install process will begin.From here, everything’s easy. The Lion install process is just stupidly simple: you aren’t called upon to do anything but wait. For us, it took about thirty minutes for Lion to fully install.Once the install is completed, your Mac will reboot and you should see either the new Lion login interface, or, if you are the only user on your Mac, a short animation about the new scrolling behavior in Lion, like so:Congratulations! You’ve installed Lion while simultaneously making sure that your machine is as clean and compatible as possible. If you find there are any problems with the install, you also have a USB hard drive with a bootable clone of your disk as it existed before you installed Lion, which you can always boot from and use to restore your Mac.Have fun using Lion!
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