* The OS X Lion Thread *

Rain Man · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:28

Ive just purchased Lion and I wonder if anyone can help with an annoyance.

When I right click on any of my video players or document viewers it shows my last 10 opened files. Does anyone know how to switch this off? Thanks

ray168 · 28 Jul 2011 at 02:25

i did a clean install of lion on my macbook os x and works great so far no problems.

mr.sly · 28 Jul 2011 at 02:50

Rain Man said:
Ive just purchased Lion and I wonder if anyone can help with an annoyance.

When I right click on any of my video players or document viewers it shows my last 10 opened files. Does anyone know how to switch this off? Thanks

This might get annoying if you need to do it for every app you use, it's the only solution I've found so far though.

How to Disable Recent Items in Lion's Dock

uniQ · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:42

Rain Man said:
Ive just purchased Lion and I wonder if anyone can help with an annoyance.

When I right click on any of my video players or document viewers it shows my last 10 opened files. Does anyone know how to switch this off? Thanks

Take a look at my second screenshot above, you want to edit the 3 recent items settings above the green arrow.

mr.sly · 28 Jul 2011 at 14:12

Ah yes, uniQ is right. Change the number of recent documents to 0, then you need to clear the menu which was making me think it didn't work.

Rain Man · 28 Jul 2011 at 19:10

thanks fellas

Vonhelmet · 28 Jul 2011 at 22:52

Downloading now...

Logsi · 28 Jul 2011 at 23:14

Anyone else's mac run a hell of a lot hotter since lion?

It's been a tad taxing to the point that my old MacBook Pro that i reflowed the solder on has given up the ghost again and won't boot anymore. Just hang on loading the OpenGL part of the OS on boot.

Will need to crack it open and take a heat gun to it again.

My "newer" late 2008 still runs hotter too.

Vonhelmet · 28 Jul 2011 at 23:51

Installing now... See you on the other side, with a list of broken things...

Vonhelmet · 29 Jul 2011 at 00:35

Back...

Scrolling is backwards, NTFS-3G is broken, iTunes won't open. So far, so expected.

QwaF · 29 Jul 2011 at 05:10

Scrolling isn't broken. It's a feature. You can turn it off.

Vonhelmet · 29 Jul 2011 at 09:13

Yep, and I have done. I can see it working with a touchpad, but not with a mouse. I've fixed iTunes and I'm working on the ntfs issue, without which parallels won't work and I'll be killed by my wife.

Skyboat · 29 Jul 2011 at 09:50

Have you tried Paragon's driver?

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

I don't rate NTFS-3G at all.

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Jul 2011 at 10:24

I am a new user to lion and I bloody love it. Much better than Windows 7.

Vonhelmet · 29 Jul 2011 at 10:54

Skyboat said:
Have you tried Paragon's driver?

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

I don't rate NTFS-3G at all.

Not tried paragon. Using tuxera at the moment, on their 15 day trial. I'm going to convert my bootcamp partition into a disk image and run parallels from that. It'll also save me having a big bootcamp partition hanging around.

Ringiho · 29 Jul 2011 at 11:00

Just installed Lion on my MBP and I am liking the gestures etc. Got to get used to them now!

pingwing · 29 Jul 2011 at 12:48

Logsi said:
Anyone else's mac run a hell of a lot hotter since lion?

It's been a tad taxing to the point that my old MacBook Pro that i reflowed the solder on has given up the ghost again and won't boot anymore. Just hang on loading the OpenGL part of the OS on boot.

Will need to crack it open and take a heat gun to it again.

My "newer" late 2008 still runs hotter too.

Yep just got it re-installed on my 09 mbp and its gotten much hotter

Have though fixed the FM problem (there's a patch on steam now) so now it all works! The improved spaces is really nice though, having apps in full screen with their own area is pretty nice

LordSplodge · 29 Jul 2011 at 16:15

iDroid84 said:
I am a new user to lion and I bloody love it. Much better than Windows 7.

It sure is. I have to use Windows 7 for 8 hours a day and I really don't like it. Sure it is better than XP but it's no OS X.

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Jul 2011 at 17:48

LordSplodge said:
It sure is. I have to use Windows 7 for 8 hours a day and I really don't like it. Sure it is better than XP but it's no OS X.

I tried parallels but didn't like it so went to boot camp for Windows 7 so I have a duel setup at the moment.

I currently have a 30 day trial setup for Windows 7 but will require to purchase a licence once it's ran out but I will re-arm for a while.

Skyboat · 29 Jul 2011 at 18:10

Having an absolute nightmare trying to clone my BootCamp partition from my old HDD after upgrading, mainly down to WinClone not being compatible with Lion.

All I want to be able to do is clone the partition from my USB HDD onto my newly-created BootCamp partition and boot up as if nothing happened

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