OS X V10.7 Lion :: Backup The Os X Installation?
Jun 22, 2012
i'm getting rid of my cable internet ISP. they place i have moved in, in India, is not a metropolitan region and there is just a terribly bad internet serivce here via cable. Disconnections to slow speed to high cost. so now i'm planning to move to 3G internet and use it all the time via my iphone 4. Â
the obvious problem is that that while 3g in this area isn't slow or intermittent, its still very costly. so i cannot afford to make a 4.5 gb download of os x lion (and mountain lion in future) everytime i have to clan install the OS. and unfortunately, this year i had to do it nearly thrice. back in the days of leopard and snow leopard this was like NEVER! anyway, So now i want to download LION while i'm still on cable internet and back it up on a usb stick or a dvd.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Mid 2010
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Jun 7, 2012
I recently installed Lion on my Core 2 Duo Macbook (late 2010 model). Everything seems to have gone smoothly. I also installed a Windows partition with Boot Camp. Windows 7 seems to be working okay, too.I had the impression that Lion installs an emergency backup partition on my hard drive. I had the impression I would see this partition if I started the machine with the option key down (along with the Boot Camp partition). Actually, I could swear I did see the Lion backup partition several times when I started the machine with the option key down. That was several days ago. Recently, when I start with the option key down, I don't see the Lion emergency backup partition. I just see my Macintosh Hard Disk and Windows.Was it my imagination, or has the Lion backup partition disappeared from the optionkey-down startup screen? If so, why? Has something gone wrong?Â
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 31, 2009
I'm upgrading my mac to snow leopard but I don't really have a external hard drive to back up my data or the software to do the backup. Is it safe to do an upgrade without backing up?
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Apr 30, 2012
I have a external HD which has always worked fine under snow leopard. Since upgrading to lion I keep getting the following message The identity of the backup disk has changed since the previous backup.The disk may have been replaced or erased, or someone may be trying to trick your computer into backing up to the wrong disk. And after this the drive disappears from the desktop appearing agian only after restart. What can I do do rectify this? Delete and re-intialise the drive?
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MacProQuad2.6 4gbRam, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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Jul 2, 2012
TIME MACHINE ERROR:Unable to complete backup, An error occurred while creating the backup folder.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 9, 2012
Is there a way to make a backup of your Time Machine backup on a 2nd hard drive? I want to be doubly sure that my data is backed up!Right now I get an error saying that the second hard drive isn't authorized to copy my Time Machine data from the original hard drive I have set up as my Time Machine.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 6, 2014
Running OS X 10.8.5
Trying to backup to Passport Time machine. Has worked fine until a few days ago.
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Feb 10, 2012
my TM wil not back up! It states that this backup is too large for the backup disk. The back up disk requires 573.50 GB but only 225.23 GB are available. The TM needs work space on the backup disk, in addition to the space required to store backups. Upen TM perferences to select a LARGER backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding file.Â
Okay I;m sorry but obvioulsy I dont get this. I've never called Apple for help! I have every product they sell practically including Protection Plans I never used and no one will help me with this. My MAC is starting to have black or white screens and i can hear it running but it will not do anything so i have to reboot it, it screws up Enturage and then I have to rebuild that ( 5 times this year) anyway... I would like to back everything up- can I delete everything on the Time Capsule or Time Machine; god I dont even know what it is called Im so MAD... help if you can please. I'm going to have to take this to the genius people at the store and probably buy another computer but like before they will not save my files.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), time cap or Time Machine
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Apr 16, 2012
trying to backup my mac bookpro but just saying indexing backup?
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May 23, 2012
I need to reinstall lion OS from recovery, but when I start the computer holding the option key down it doesn't take me to the recovery program.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Jul 5, 2012
i've downloaded lion from the App-Store.After the download the installer startet automaticly and reboot the System.The problem is, that the installer starts after the first reboot and failed with no error and shutdown the system.After restart the MacBook Pro, the system reboots during the installation anymore,
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 9, 2012
I wanted to do a clean install of Lion and change the name of my disc so I booted in Recovery Mode and erased my disc. When I install lion, it goes through everything and I wait the full 2 hours or so for it to download and install but right at the very end it says an error occurred while installing the mac os x and then I get the rainbow pinwheel and am required to shut down my mac by holding the power button. I am currently booted from an external hard drive as this is my only connection to the internet. I really want to get Lion to work on my internal drive. I just partitioned out my internal into 2 partitions (I read something about that?) and I'm going to give the install another go.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 21, 2012
I have my 15" MacBook Pro, Mid-2010 model, which had Snow Leapord and then from the AppStore I had upgraded the OS to Lion.Now I'd like to have a clean installation of Lion. I have few constraints and have already tried few options but without luck. From the AppStore I downloaded the OS Lion (from Purchases) and I saw a note about create a bootable DVD and have created one. I tried the following...Â
Problem #1 : My MBP wouldn't boot off the DVD. It just keeps spinning.
Problem #2 : I then tried restarting and then choosing "Options" while coming up to choose the Disk. Again it just spins.
Problem #3 : I chose "Command R" for recovery mode but it again tries to download OS Lion afresh and that's not an option for me right now (I'm not in USA now, but in India. No high bandwidth connection)Â How can I do a fresh installation of Lion?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 14, 2012
Why do I have no audio out on Mac Mini 2009 after installing Lion?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
I have a Western Digital MyBook 1 TB external USB drive that has worked fine for years. I used it a day and a half ago under 10.7.3 with absolutely no problems. I then upgraded to 10.7.4, and now the drive won't mount. It spins up for a second or two, then powers off. Console shows the following: 5/17/12 11:31:55.000 AM kernel: USBF:4544.789[0xffffff800aa42400] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 1 of Hub at 0x4000000)5/17/12 11:31:58.000 AM kernel: USBF:4547.797[0xffffff800aa42400] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.Â
Do I have a borked installation of 10.7.4? Would a simple re-install fix the problem? It seems highly unlikely to me that the drive just happened to silently die in the interim between its last use and the 10.7.4 install... What's going on?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009)
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Jun 19, 2012
ok, so i have a black macbook. im not sure what year, maybe 08 or 09. at first i tried installing lion via usb. i installed it onto a 8gb flash drive, inserted it into the computer, botted up, held the option key, and EFI Boot option appears. i click on it and i get the circle slash symbol. so i tried installing it onto a dvd and no luck. same result. I've done this several times before with other computers and its worked fine.
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Jul 1, 2014
I'm trying to install OS X mavericks but I have to install Lion first to install mavericks later, Here is it, I startup at disk utility, could never fix it, but it tells me to install Lion instead of mavericks, so I go ahead and try to install Lion, The Progress bar shows it's at the end and its done, but the time goes to atleast 2 minutes, then jumps back to 30 min or more, I kept it over night, still nothing, how can I fix that?! I also tried USB Didn't work, and no I don't have the CD if I did I would've used it.
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Mar 13, 2012
I've got this older iMac but it has 2 GB and few weeks ago I managed to install Lion on a second partition of the internal HD. Sometimes the computer would hang or cause problems and I decided to install the whole system from scratch. After several failed attemps I finally figured, that the internal HD had a defect. So I decided to use an external usb drive to fix that problem for the beginning and before I think about changing the internal hard drive. I created 3 partitions with a GUID-table on the external usb drive and managed to install Leopard on the first partition and so far it's working fine and I boot from that external usb drive.Â
Now I wanted to install Lion on that computer. So I took that Lion thumb stick I purchased from apple and pressed the option key during boot in order to select booting from the thumb stick. It worked for the beginning and a message like "Installation" appeared. After a while the installation would stop with a message like "an error occured during installation, please try again". I did this two times but it never finished the installation.
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iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.6)
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Mar 17, 2012
I recently re-installed my Lion by using the Lion Online Recovery thing. Works fine so far, but I got one problem..That my iLife suite is missing makes sense, since iLife does not come with Lion itself. My iLife was preinstalled on my MBP and I had to accept the Apps in the AppStore back then.
Now, after the reinstallation iPhoto does not show up in my purchases, just GarageBand and iMovie. If I'm trying to search for iPhoto in the AppStore, it says, that my App is already accepted and must show up in my purchases, but it does not. How can I resolve this issue? Without iPhoto I can't use my photostream.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 9, 2012
i accidentaly erased the main drive and now i am trying hard to reinstal the OS X again but i constantly keep seeing this "could not find installation information for this machine"
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 19, 2012
I know Lion need only be purchased once and installed on multiple computers, but is there a limit on exactly how many? Plus, can Lion be installed on a Mac that isn't mine, like my mother's MacBook for example, or would the installion require me to have an account on the MacBook?Â
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May 1, 2012
I get a white screen on my mac desktop after the os lion installation.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 14, 2012
during installation start up disk cannot be found
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
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Jun 15, 2012
On a daily basis we install a number of machines with our standard selection of software.
At present we use a command line script to to do this but we would like to know if there is another way to create an automated process to install a number of apps as opposed to installing each application manually.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 24, 2012
I received my 2006-2008 mac mini from a friend. I don't know exactly what year it is to be exact. It was a school computer that was givin yo him an now i have it. I want to wipe it completely clean and start over from the way it was right out of the box but I do not have the installation disk. How can i get a duplicate copy A.S.A.P and how much will it cost with shipping and all.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 7, 2012
I did a clean reinstall using a USB, now its saying "the additional components needed to install mac os x cant be found" what do I do? I wiped my whole computer!
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), iOS 5
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Feb 12, 2012
I wanted to let me friend log into my MBA 2010's Guest account. Now I am forced into Disk Utilities after every restart, I can't log back in.What can I do?
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Mac Book Air (2010), Mac OS X (10.7)
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May 21, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 25, 2012
Mac won't boot up after an update from apple
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 26, 2012
Is there a way to reset the login password without the installation disk? Or is there a way to get a disk sent to me? I don't have mine anymore. I'm using OS X Lion v10.7
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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