Problem When using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, you get the following message when creating a disk: “The recovery drive wasn’t created. There was an error creating recovery disk”. Solution Go to your Applications folder. Open the Utilities folder. Open Disk Utility. On the left, select the drive that you want to use to be… Continue reading “There was an error creating recovery disk”
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Create your own Mac OS X Lion Recovery on a USB
Creating this recovery drive will only give you the same options as the built in Recovery system in Lion (accessed by holding cmd + R on startup). To reinstall Lion, you will still need to download it from the recovery system. The following steps will erase all data on your USB drive. Make sure to… Continue reading Create your own Mac OS X Lion Recovery on a USB
Problems using Adobe CS on Mac OS X Lion
Problem You may experience any of the following when using Adobe Creative Suite products on Mac OS X Lion: Unable to run the software Some Features are missing or don’t function correctly Applications freeze, crash or quit unexpectedly Cause Adobe Creative Suite applications require Java to be installed which does not come with Lion unlike… Continue reading Problems using Adobe CS on Mac OS X Lion
Create your own Mac OS X Lion DVD or USB
This article applies to users who download Mac OS X Lion via the App Store. Once downloaded, go to your Applications folder. Ctrl + Click / Right click on “Install Mac OS X Lion” and click “Show Package Contents”. Open the Contents folder. Open the SharedSupport folder. You will see the file “InstallESD.dmg”. Copy and… Continue reading Create your own Mac OS X Lion DVD or USB
Missing Library folder in Mac OS X Lion
Problem In your home folder, you notice that there is no longer a Library folder. Cause This is the default setting by design in Mac OS X Lion. Solution To get your Library folder back: Lion 10.8 Go to your Applications folder. Go to the Utilities folder. Double click on Terminal. Select all the text… Continue reading Missing Library folder in Mac OS X Lion