Upgrading your cat.
These are the problems, issues, annoyances and tweaks that I’ve experienced so far when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to Lion.
For starters, spotlight lost the index of my applications. Then, it started to index one of my external hard drives. Quite random behavior. Now, when I try to Add and immediately remove the Applications folder from the privacy list (so it is reindexed), I get an error while adding it. So here I am without spotlight index on my application folder, which is the thing I use spotlight for 99% of all times.. I guess a reboot will fix the error, will give it a try in a bit.
Update: after a restart, Spotlight started to re-index the whole computer. Great. And it was not just my applications that were removed from the index..
I’ve gotten used to swipe left/right on my magic mouse to go back/forward when navigating in finder. That’s gone, at least as default. Now it switches spaces, more iOS behavior than needed, if you ask me. Also, my Spaces indicator (showing current desktop) was removed from the system toolbar. And I can’t find the Spaces settings to re-add the icon.. Instead, my user name is there which I won’t be clicking on more than once or twice every month, at most! I don’t get it.
Warning! I just realized the swipe left/right gesture to go back/forward in web browser has been (re)moved as well. It is now Alt+gesture. This is a disaster, the single most used feature in everyday work. Apple you bastards..
False alarm, go to mouse settings, “more gestures tab”. Then select “Swipe between gestures” option, and set that to use two fingers. Done.
Wifi was turned on during installation, despite the fact that I have a wired connection.
Java required a quick reinstall as well.
Facetime icon was added to dock. I don’t even have a webcam.. *poff*
One positive thing is that the mouse acceleration seems snappier. I do use Mouse Acceleration preference pane (add-on), but it still seems quicker than before.
There you go. I’ll add more when I find out. Oh, yes the scrolling. Totally awkward when using a mouse. Don’t like it, but I’ll try to..