Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-05 Thread Dean Adams
t same flash drive and back that app up some ware else in case you need >>> it again.On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:32 PM, chris hallsworth >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ar, great to hear you can do it via the Apple retail store. >>>> - Original Messa

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-05 Thread chris hallsworth
It is unfortunately. :( will keep you all posted. For now though, thanks for all the help so far, much appreciated from a prospective customer. - Original Message - From: "Gordon Smith" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 7:03 AM

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Gordon Smith
Sarah You can skip the registration process I am sure there is a "Skip" button. Possibly you've missed it if you've just rushed through the process. On 4 Aug 2012, at 22:04, Sarah Alawami wrote: True. the activation has never been required for mac osx. I don't ever remembering to enter a lic

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Chris You're missing the point, yes. You do not necessarily have to register the OS I don't think, not immediately, anyway. I don't want to start discussing Windows but I'm sure it's possible to install Mac OS X without being online. I see that you are still using Windows for your mail.

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
lize you > could skip part of it. > - Original Message - From: "Gordon Smith" > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later > > >> Chris >> >> There are "Skip"

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello Gordon and all oh thank you so much for that. I didn't realize you could skip part of it. - Original Message - From: "Gordon Smith" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later Ch

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread chris hallsworth
point. - Original Message - From: "Gordon Smith" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later Hi Mike, and Chris it's also worth pointing out that Microsoft also assumes Internet connect

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
the app file to a flash drive and when you get home >>>> just use your tools you have in your mac to then make a flash drive, or >>>> use that same flash drive and back that app up some ware else in case you >>>> need it again.On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:32 PM, chris hallsworth &g

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Tyrer
4:32 PM, chris hallsworth >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ar, great to hear you can do it via the Apple retail store. >>>> - Original Message - From: "Thomas McMahan" >>>> >>>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" >&

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
ware else in case you need it >> again.On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:32 PM, chris hallsworth >> wrote: >> >>> Ar, great to hear you can do it via the Apple retail store. >>> - Original Message - From: "Thomas McMahan" >>> To: "Mac OSX &

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Gordon Smith
lty wrote: I think it pulls some information from apple's servers when it's installing lion or later, plus it links in to ICloud too, have to keep that in mind. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-a

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Gordon Smith
Chris There are "Skip" buttons whereby you can do the install if you don't have a network connection. Also, there has been much talk on this list recently about installing via flash media. So yes, of course you can install your OS without an Internet connection. Gordon On 3 Aug 2012, at 19:

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-04 Thread Dean Adams
do it via the Apple retail store. >> - Original Message - From: "Thomas McMahan" >> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" >> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:32 PM >> Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later >> >> >>> Not that I know of, I

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
OSX & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:32 PM > Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later > > >> Not that I know of, I think they presume everybody has a fast internet or >> can get to an Apple store which I know of a person who does that for his o s

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread chris hallsworth
Ar, great to hear you can do it via the Apple retail store. - Original Message - From: "Thomas McMahan" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later Not that I know of, I think they pres

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread Thomas McMahan
Not that I know of, I think they presume everybody has a fast internet or can get to an Apple store which I know of a person who does that for his o s upgrades because his internet seems to drop it partly through the download. On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:37 PM, "chris hallsworth" wrote: > You know g

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
2012, at 1:14 PM, chris hallsworth wrote: > Thanks, not sure if I know any libraries in my area who have macs, so will > see what I can do. > - Original Message - From: "Sarah Alawami" > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Friday, August 03,

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread chris hallsworth
Thanks, not sure if I know any libraries in my area who have macs, so will see what I can do. - Original Message - From: "Sarah Alawami" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later Yeah. go to

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah. go to a friend's computer or a library one, sign in to the app store under your account, download lion or what ever and make a flash disk and then take it to the off line computer and then install it by booting in to the flash disk. This is the reason why I can't use the recovery tool. My

Re: Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread Mike Welty
I think it pulls some information from apple's servers when it's installing lion or later, plus it links in to ICloud too, have to keep that in mind. -Original Message- From: chris hallsworth Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 14:37 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subje

Installing Lion or Later

2012-08-03 Thread chris hallsworth
You know guys, and this is no disrespect to Apple, but I don't like how they want you to install their software now. I read from their support web pages that an internet connection is required to install Lion or later. Well I have a point. What if you do not have either an ethernet or wireless

Re: refresh memory about installing lion

2012-04-12 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. insert your disk in to the dvd port then turn on your mac and hold down the c key for around 30 seconds. Wait about 3 to 5 minutes then turn on voice over. then follow the directions from there. I would choose disk utility and then choose the disk on which your os install is on and er

refresh memory about installing lion

2012-04-12 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, Ok, I think I might need to reinstall lion here, but can't remember exactly the steps on how to do it. My keyboard doesn't seem to be sending the correct characters to the mac. For instance, when I try and rename a file, it says "apple, in between each character I'm typing, but it does ty

Re: installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-19 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
actually, you can, delete the file which was downloaded, then go to purchases and re install it. lew On 19 Nov 2011, at 06:03, Sarah Alawami wrote: > You cannot redownload it from the app store. Once yu buy it the download > will be dimmed. I just looked. So I'm thinking there is no way for

Re: installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-18 Thread Shaun Oliver
I tried using disk utility to do that but I couldn't seem to get the dmg image to drag to the destination I don't know why, but it just wouldn't be in it. On 19/11/2011 11:24, Sarah Alawami wrote: The dmg is in the app. You go to show contents when you right click the install lion app Here

Re: installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
You cannot redownload it from the app store. Once yu buy it the download will be dimmed. I just looked. So I'm thinking there is no way for you to redownload it in case you loose the app which you will when you install it. On Nov 18, 2011, at 8:19 PM, william lomas wrote: > how do i redownload

Re: installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-18 Thread william lomas
how do i redownload it though Sarah from the app store please, and can i customize what installs if install over the top of the current OS snow leopard 10.6.8? On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > The dmg is in the app. You go to show contents when you right click the > install

Re: installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
The dmg is in the app. You go to show contents when you right click the install lion app Here is the path you will go to once you hot show contents. /Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg Burn that to a dvd using disk utility. Take care. On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:38 PM, william lomas wrote: >

installing lion for my sister on her macbook

2011-11-18 Thread william lomas
hi all if i wish to do an install over snow leopard for my sister, is their a customize button for deselecting options as their would be if i did a clean install or does it like it did with me, install all the rubbish i don't want and waste gigs and gigs of her hard drive? Also, how do I

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah Yes; we've done that once. The build of Lion we have as an install.app is obsolete I'd guess but I'm not sure about that. Has anybody downloaded it recently from the App Store? Lynne On 3 Nov 2011, at 00:48, Sarah Alawami wrote: If you backed up the dmg in the install lion app fil

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello James We've now changed our mind on this one. We don't want the machine to be an exact duplicate of the MBP's we use because those machine are all configured with Lion Server and that isn't how we want the little MacBook to be configured. So I'm now looking for

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Sarah Alawami
If you backed up the dmg in the install lion app file you could burn it to a dvd and boot from it with your os less drive I believe. then just install lion that way. It would probably take the same amount of time. Someone let me know if I am correct in this assumption On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:53 P

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread James AUSTIN
Hello Lynne, As far as I know, this should work, as the Lion download is not specific to any one machine, unlike the Snow Leopard DVDs that were shipped with Macs prior to Lion's release. I've not tired this though as I use CCC. HTH TC :) J On 2 Nov 2011, at 19:53, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello John Many thanks indeed. I thought it would work; but I decided to check first because I didn't particularly want to waste the time otherwise. It will take a while because the ™ backup is on a network volume. Thank you again. Lynne On 2 Nov 2011, at 20:37, g...@tznet.com wrote: • Short

RE: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread g...@tznet.com
From: Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:53:23 + To: mac-access@mac-access.net Subject: Installing Lion from scratch Hello everybody Gordon and I own a number of Macs; one of which is a 2007 MacBook with 4GB of RAM in it. Currently this machine has

Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Gordon and I own a number of Macs; one of which is a 2007 MacBook with 4GB of RAM in it. Currently this machine has no OS installed, and I would like to mimic one of our MacBook Pro's using Time machine backup to restore it. The backup is on a Time Capsule. What I would like to

Re: Installing Lion

2011-10-17 Thread Chris G
Hi, Doesn't it matter how one is installing Lion? If one is using a DVD it would not take as long as another person that is installing from a download. Then it also might depend on how fast the connection is from your machine to the apple servers. Thanks Chris On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:

Re: Installing Lion

2011-10-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
It took me about a half hour to install but every system is different so you never know. Well I had time to go eat dinner and I came back and it was about 3 minutes from finishing. I'd say keep voice over running during the whole thing so you can monitor it. On Oct 16, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Desi Nol

Re: Installing Lion

2011-10-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
ening. Best regards. Geoff - Original Message - From: Desi Noller To: mac-access Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Installing Lion I finally decided to take the plunge and install Lion. I'm wondering how long the installation should take. I think it

Installing Lion

2011-10-16 Thread Desi Noller
I finally decided to take the plunge and install Lion. I'm wondering how long the installation should take. I think it was about 2 hours ago when it started. Any ideas on this would be most appreciated! Desi <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address you

Re: Installing Lion

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
wrote: > Hi, Folks. I just bought Lion, thinking I could inswtall it after > downloading it. However, on the App Store app, I'm getting a message that > says: "installing lion dimmed". Does that mean that, once I purchased Lion, > it starts downloading and installing im

Re: Installing Lion

2011-08-07 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
"Purchased" section of the app sore. Just click the Purchased tab. Lynne On 7 Aug 2011, at 20:52, Matthew Chao wrote: Hi, Folks. I just bought Lion, thinking I could inswtall it after downloading it. However, on the App Store app, I'm getting a message that says: "installing

Installing Lion

2011-08-07 Thread Matthew Chao
Hi, Folks. I just bought Lion, thinking I could inswtall it after downloading it. However, on the App Store app, I'm getting a message that says: "installing lion dimmed". Does that mean that, once I purchased Lion, it starts downloading and installing immediately? If so

Re: installing lion in other languages

2011-07-24 Thread william lomas
oh i thought the installer used french or is that when you restart the OS you select french? On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Will, > > If I remember rightly, at the point where Alex kicks in in English, Virginie > Compact kicks in in French. > > Cheers, > > Anne >

Re: installing lion in other languages

2011-07-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Will, If I remember rightly, at the point where Alex kicks in in English, Virginie Compact kicks in in French. Cheers, Anne On 24 Jul 2011, at 20:19, william lomas wrote: > hi if one installs lion in other languages than english how will the voices > come up for the installer to work?

installing lion in other languages

2011-07-24 Thread william lomas
hi if one installs lion in other languages than english how will the voices come up for the installer to work? <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages post

Strange message on the boot up screen after installing Lion.

2011-07-21 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Hi Gang: After installing Lion on two computers, both display a message on the boot up screen which sounds like: "Com Apple Doc Extra" Does anyone know what this means? Thanks gang. The triune God created human kind to participate, through the Holy Spirit, in the incarnate Son&#

Re: Thoughts before installing Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. my hd is so slow I can't do that. and all of my hard drives are being used right now for other things but thanks for the tip. On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:12 AM, g...@tznet.com wrote: > Hello All: > > For those who have an external HD, you can install Lion choosing the > external HD, and if you w

Thoughts before installing Lion

2011-07-20 Thread g...@tznet.com
Hello All: For those who have an external HD, you can install Lion choosing the external HD, and if you want, migrate from SL and this way you can give it a test spin before you affect your current data. Have fun, John mail2we