![]() Very handy, and I’m thrilled that this works fine in Lion. This is the greatest time-saver and desk-cleaner-upper ever… scans both sides of a sheet of paper in seconds, one-button operation, and if you couple it with Evernote you can search for items by their content! No more worrying about naming things perfectly or filing them perfectly. They know about it, and they’re fixing it.įujitsu’s ScanSnap scanner works, hallelujah. If you use Evernote, which I do, you will be sorry to hear that as of this writing Evernote’s Safari Web Clipping button does not work. However, if you have a FileMaker database with scripts that call on the xls export step you are going to have some work to do changing things over. This is not such a big deal because you can export to the “xlsx” format (the newer one) without Rosetta. ![]() Other issues in FileMaker include an inability to export files in Excel’s “xls” format (requires Rosetta, which is not available in Lion). Look at these screenshots of FileMaker Pro 11’s opening screen– the first, under Snow Leopard, the second, under Lion. It isn’t as fast as it was in Snow Leopard but that may be due to increased RAM requirements. Your mileage may vary but if I’m having trouble, who’s to say you won’t too?įileMaker Pro 11 seems to work, more or less. In fact, it won’t do anything other than launch and crash. Entourage 2008, which you really ought to ditch anyway (Microsoft did– that’s why they ship Office 2011 with Outlook instead), doesn’t work very well for me. Outlook 2011 works (part of Office 2011 if you pay for the Business version). I had my doubts about the installer but I was able to install Office 2008 on my Lionized MacBook without any trouble. Note: contrary to what I thought I knew a few days ago, Office 2008 can be installed under Lion. If you’re only up to Office 2004 (which definitely does not work), you should probably buy Office 2011. So, basically, if you have Office 2008 installed already, you’re probably good to go. You don’t need to know where it lives, but you do need to know that it works. The version of AutoUpdate that works looks like this:Īnd it lives in a totally different place (see below). (when you see it in Lion it will have a circle and a slash through it). Microsoft’s AutoUpdate used to be PowerPC code, and it is probably hanging around in your Applications folder, a mistake by Microsoft’s installer– it looks like this, and it won’t work in Lion: AutoUpdate DOES work (choose “Check for Updates” from the Help menu of any of those three apps). Office 2008 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) open and print. But, at least for the basics, Office 2011 seems to work. Nothing fancy, and of course I can’t test every feature in every program so there may be something that does not work. I launched them all, made a new document with them all, and printed from them all. Third-party apps, including Microsoft Word 2011, Microsoft Excel 2011, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2011, seem to work fine. Pages and Numbers ’09 work (but man is it weird to see Pages say “saving” when I quit without saving! That’s Lion for you.) Spotlight works but needs configuring (somebody, remind me to write about that). Address Book works but I like the old one better. Mail upgraded my old Mail and it’s better than the old mail. The Apple apps all seem to work just fine, as you would expect. ![]() I will probably have something to say about the new Finder, and it will probably not be totally positive, because my first impression with Lion’s Finder is it’s not as good as Snow Leopard’s Finder. This is going to take some getting used to. The first thing I noticed about Lion is how clumsy I am with it, especially with the scroll bars and window resizing. ![]() …I thought it would be better to leave it alone, have dessert, go to bed, and try it again in the morning. Considering the “About 10 hours remaining” in the following dialog box… Once installed, Spotlight began indexing my hard drive, and that’s a pretty intensive process that really slows everything down (except for the fans inside the MacBook, which were going full-speed). I installed Mac OS X Lion onto my MacBook last night.
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