OSX Lion Annoyances
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OSX Lion Annoyances
Recovery Media Gone
My new Mac Mini and Macbook Air do not include any recovery media. Instead, it now "features" internet recovery that requires you to boot a "installer" environment from the Internet, then login to your iTunes account to prove you're allowed to install Lion on the hardware you own. Yes, you can make a install USB key from the installer package but then you run into hardware incompatibilities. For example I purchased the Lion upgrade for my previous generation MacBook Pro which was downloaded and used to create a install USB key. The OS was upgraded successfully, but the same USB key will NOT install Lion onto my new MacBook Air or Mini.
Preview Utility
The new version of the Preview utility "remembers" any opened documents so when you restart the utility it will open them automatically. This is a change from the previous version, and there appears to be no way to turn it off! So if you open a number of documents, you have to manually go a close every single one or preview will re-open them all the next time you open a document.
Solution! Unchecking "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" in "System Preferences -> General" solves that annoyance, but it's a global setting so affects all applications. There doesn't appear to be a way to turn it off on a per-application basis.
Save & Save As gone
The new "feature" of Lion for document versions also brought a change to the File Menu for Apple software (and a few commercial applications as they tend to conform to Apple's UI guidelines). Gone is the "Save As..." feature, instead you now have a "Duplicate" option that will duplicate the current opened document, then you can "Save..." - so a single function "Save As..." operation to save a copy of the current document has become a 2-step process.. "Duplicate", then "Save..."
For straight file-type conversions, as in Preview, an Export... menu item is also available.
iTunes keyboard control
NOTE: This is what I see on my MacBook Pro, may be different on other platforms
When the screen saver is on and you want to skip to the next track, pressing the skip buttons on the keyboard take 2 presses. The 1st press to stop the screen-saver, and the 2nd press to actually perform the desired function. This only happens when the screen-saver timeout causes the screen saver to kick-in, and not when you use a "hot-corner" to turn the screen saver on.
