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title: Upgrading from Mac OSX 10.6 to 10.7
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author: mattcen
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date: 2012-03-20T10:53:12+00:00
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url: /2012/03/20/upgrading-from-mac-osx-10-6-to-10-7/
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date: 2012-03-20T10:53:12+00:00
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url: /2012/03/20/upgrading-from-mac-osx-10-6-to-10-7/
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title: Upgrading from Mac OSX 10.6 to 10.7
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- foss
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- software
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## Scenario
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## Performing the upgrade
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Upgrading to MacOS 10.7 has been made quite easy. If you're running Snow Leopard, you simply purchase Lion in the App store, and download the installer. Once the 3+ GB installer is downloaded and has begun, you can optionally [burn the image to a DVD or write it to a bootable USB key][1].
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Upgrading to MacOS 10.7 has been made quite easy. If you're running Snow Leopard, you simply purchase Lion in the App store, and download the installer. Once the 3+ GB installer is downloaded and has begun, you can optionally [burn the image to a DVD or write it to a bootable USB key](http://eggfreckles.net/files/burning-a-lion-boot-disc).
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Your next step is to actually perform the upgrade, which should be as simple as following the prompts for the installer. This will cause a reboot or two, after which the installation should be complete.
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Lion has some different defaults to Snow Leopard, at least 2 of which I didn't like. These two were:
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* ### Inverted scrolling
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* ### Inverted scrolling
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Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the scrolling direction when using a trackpad was not good enough, and inverted it. This was a bit of a shock, so I went and inverted it. Depending on your setup, you may need [this link][2], or the [first point in this one][3].
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Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the scrolling direction when using a trackpad was not good enough, and inverted it. This was a bit of a shock, so I went and inverted it. Depending on your setup, you may need [this link](http://www.ijailbreak.com/how-to/scrolling-is-backwards-in-mac-osx-lion-heres-the-fix/), or the [first point in this one](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/osx-lion-features-shortcuts/).
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* ### Remembering window and application state
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* ### Remembering window and application state
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In Lion, unless you specifically tell them otherwise, many applications will remember which windows and files they had open after you quit them, so that it can resume them later when you start it back up again. I didn't like this behaviour, so I [turned it off][4]. The recommendation is apparently that you _don't_ do this, but instead [disable it for specific applications][5]… or something.
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In Lion, unless you specifically tell them otherwise, many applications will remember which windows and files they had open after you quit them, so that it can resume them later when you start it back up again. I didn't like this behaviour, so I [turned it off](http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/18/disable-mac-os-x-lion-resume-window-restore/). The recommendation is apparently that you *don't* do this, but instead [disable it for specific applications](http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20083707-263/managing-mac-os-x-lions-application-resume-feature/)… or something.
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## Configure Time Machine (again)
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Lion uses a newer version of the Apple File Protocol (AFP), version 2.2, and this hasn't been packaged for many Linux releases yet, as it's either deemed unstable, or has been until recently.
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I followed [this guide][6] for how to reconfigure my Debian Squeeze server to talk to Lion, but instead of downloading the packages listed on the site, I manually downloaded the source code for Debian Wheezy and compiled it on my server. There's a bit of information in the above guide's comments about caveats with this (such as needing to install libacl1-dev on the machine doing the compiling, despite it not being listed as a dependency).
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I followed [this guide](http://www.mikepalmer.net/build-a-netatalk-time-machine-for-osx-lion-using-debian-6-0-squeeze/) for how to reconfigure my Debian Squeeze server to talk to Lion, but instead of downloading the packages listed on the site, I manually downloaded the source code for Debian Wheezy and compiled it on my server. There's a bit of information in the above guide's comments about caveats with this (such as needing to install libacl1-dev on the machine doing the compiling, despite it not being listed as a dependency).
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The basic gist of how to get the sources compiled and installed on Debian Squeeze is:
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## Conclusion
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So the process was more painful than I expected, and I suspect that if I'd known I'd have to jump through the above hoops to try and make the required changes in order to adapt (some of which I did until 3am Saturday night :S), I probably wouldn't have bothered forking out the ~$30 it cost for the upgrade, given that so far I've seen very little benefit. Having tackled the problems I considered major now though, hopefully others can benefit from my experience.
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[1]: http://eggfreckles.net/files/burning-a-lion-boot-disc
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[2]: http://www.ijailbreak.com/how-to/scrolling-is-backwards-in-mac-osx-lion-heres-the-fix/
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[3]: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/osx-lion-features-shortcuts/
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[4]: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/18/disable-mac-os-x-lion-resume-window-restore/
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[5]: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20083707-263/managing-mac-os-x-lions-application-resume-feature/
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[6]: http://www.mikepalmer.net/build-a-netatalk-time-machine-for-osx-lion-using-debian-6-0-squeeze/
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So the process was more painful than I expected, and I suspect that if I'd known I'd have to jump through the above hoops to try and make the required changes in order to adapt (some of which I did until 3am Saturday night :S), I probably wouldn't have bothered forking out the ~$30 it cost for the upgrade, given that so far I've seen very little benefit. Having tackled the problems I considered major now though, hopefully others can benefit from my experience.
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