Hi,

Just moved from Snow Leopard to Lion, and now can't find stuff.

I'm going to dig into YouTube vids to try to catch up, but in the meantime can you tell me a couple of things?

1. I used to see a list of volumes in the left sidebar, including the hard drive. I could click on that and get access to libraries, etc. That's gone. I can't see how to access the HD and mainvolume.

2. I wanted to drag out my Firefox folder from the user Library while I do a migration from my last system, then drop the Firefox folder back in and be up to date. I can't find the user Library, per my question above. Is there a document or video somewhere that shows the differences in going to Lion, where stuff is, etc?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/2012 10:56PM by dmag.

Welcome!

1. Go to the Finder menu and select Preferences. Select the Sidebar tab and check off the things you want to appear.

2. The Library folder is invisible in Lion, in Apple's effort to keep lay people from rooting around in dangerous places. You can access your User Library folder in the finder from the Go menu and selecting Go to Folder... then enter ~/Library/.

From there, I think your Firefox folder should be in the same place, under Application Support.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/2012 11:02PM by bik.

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bik
Welcome!

1. Go to the Finder menu and select Preferences. Select the Sidebar tab and check off the things you want to appear.

2. The Library folder is invisible in Lion, in Apple's effort to keep lay people from rooting around in dangerous places. You can access your User Library folder in the finder from the Go menu and selecting Go to Folder... then enter ~/Library/.

From there, I think your Firefox folder should be in the same place, under Application Support.

I don't have Lion yet, and I dread the day.... but would it let me make an alias of the Library folder once I've located it using the workaround you describe? Put it in the Dock maybe?

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Lion Tweaks lets you un-hide the user Library very easily.

[www.macupdate.com]

This is a powerful, but yet very simple application that will allow you to change the new annoying features in Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8. What you can change:

Show/Hide the user Library folder.
Change to a 2D or 3D dock.
Enable/Disable system window animation.
Enable/Disable mail reply animation.
Remove/Add Reading List Icon in Safari.
Enable/Disable Spelling Correction.
Enable/Disable repeating keys.
Enable/Disable permanent scrollbars.
Show Hidden Files.
Disable Crash Dialog Pop-Up.
Get a new Stack List View.
Highlight Stack items on mouseover.
Change iCal leather interface to aluminium
Change Address Book leather interface to aluminium
Disable resume for a single app
Enable the hidden FTP-server
Customize Launchpad folder background
Disable local Time Machine Backups
Enable Airdrop on old hardware
Enable colours in the Finder sidebar
Enable iTunes Dock Animation
Enable TRIM support in Lion
Enable secret iCal debug-menu
Remove Spotlight icon

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Thanks!

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bik
Welcome!

1. Go to the Finder menu and select Preferences. Select the Sidebar tab and check off the things you want to appear.

2. The Library folder is invisible in Lion, in Apple's effort to keep lay people from rooting around in dangerous places. You can access your User Library folder in the finder from the Go menu and selecting Go to Folder... then enter ~/Library/.

From there, I think your Firefox folder should be in the same place, under Application Support.

Thanks for the tip on LionTweaks.

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decay
Lion Tweaks lets you un-hide the user Library very easily.

[www.macupdate.com]

This is a powerful, but yet very simple application that will allow you to change the new annoying features in Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8. What you can change:

Show/Hide the user Library folder.
Change to a 2D or 3D dock.
Enable/Disable system window animation.
Enable/Disable mail reply animation.
Remove/Add Reading List Icon in Safari.
Enable/Disable Spelling Correction.
Enable/Disable repeating keys.
Enable/Disable permanent scrollbars.
Show Hidden Files.
Disable Crash Dialog Pop-Up.
Get a new Stack List View.
Highlight Stack items on mouseover.
Change iCal leather interface to aluminium
Change Address Book leather interface to aluminium
Disable resume for a single app
Enable the hidden FTP-server
Customize Launchpad folder background
Disable local Time Machine Backups
Enable Airdrop on old hardware
Enable colours in the Finder sidebar
Enable iTunes Dock Animation
Enable TRIM support in Lion
Enable secret iCal debug-menu
Remove Spotlight icon

Another questions, folks...

Since Apple decided to save a buck and not include a restore disk as in all past OS releases, what's to be done if the computer has an issue and you want to use Disk Utility for a possible fix?

Thanks.

hold Option and a hidden disk partition with utilities appears in boot manager. pick that one & boot from it.

'course, if your hard drive dies or becomes corrupt... better have a bootable external ready...

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Thanks...so if you want a bootable external you have to spring for $30 to get one from the app store?

That's messed up, if so.

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decay
hold Option and a hidden disk partition with utilities appears in boot manager. pick that one & boot from it.

'course, if your hard drive dies or becomes corrupt... better have a bootable external ready...

FYI - Command-R during boot will take you right into Recovery...

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dmag
so if you want a bootable external you have to spring for $30 to get one from the app store?

No.

[support.apple.com]

[support.apple.com]

[hints.macworld.com]

[help.bombich.com]

etc.

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StingMe

If you download the Lion Installer to another computer, you can save the ESD.dmg found in the installer and use it to install Lion on other volumes, including a backup external drive.

But move the Lion installer to another place and/or grab the ESD.dmg out of it *before* installing Lion on that drive, as it all disappears once you do the actual install.

You can also clone your boot drive to another drive.

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I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

The answers to all of your questions have been all over the internet for months at most of the popular pro-Apple websites.

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Why didn't you just wait for ML?

Where's the series of periods, four question marks and an exclamation mark?

They're all still here!