Contents 3 Contents About This Book ..........................................................................................................................................20 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................20 How this book is organized ..........................................................................................................................22 Notational conventions used in this book ...................................................................................................23 Getting the most from this book ..................................................................................................................23 About the recommendations made in this book .........................................................................................24 About the Warning and Disclaimer .............................................................................................................24 About your license to use this book .............................................................................................................24 Acknowledgments .........................................................................................................................................25 Getting Started with Mac OS X ...................................................................................................................26 Installing Lion ..............................................................................................................................................27 About installing Lion ....................................................................................................................................27 Pre-installation issues and precautions ................................................................................................28 Post-installation issues ..........................................................................................................................30 The author’s Lion upgrade process ......................................................................................................31 Troubleshooting installation ........................................................................................................................31 Resolving common installation and post-installation problems ...............................................................32 Alert “...this disk cannot be used to start up your computer” .............................................................32 Alert “Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported…” ..........................................................33 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................33 Learning Mac OS X ......................................................................................................................................34 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................35 Maintaining Mac OS X ................................................................................................................................36 Routine maintenance ....................................................................................................................................36 Maintenance myths .......................................................................................................................................36 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................37 Upgrades: Planning, Researching, Buying, and Installing .......................................................................38 Planning upgrades ........................................................................................................................................38 Researching upgrades ...................................................................................................................................39 Buying upgrades............................................................................................................................................39 Installing upgrades ........................................................................................................................................40 Buying a new Mac .........................................................................................................................................40 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................41 Providing Feedback .....................................................................................................................................42 Prevention and Preparation........................................................................................................................43 An Ounce of Prevention ..............................................................................................................................44 Do… ..............................................................................................................................................................44 Do not… .......................................................................................................................................................45 Additional advice for Mac portable computer users ...................................................................................46 Backup and Recovery ...................................................................................................................................47 About backup and recovery ..........................................................................................................................47 Planning your backup and recovery solution .............................................................................................48 Contents 4 Recommended backup and recovery applications ..............................................................................49 Determining the volume of data to be backed up ...............................................................................50 Backup Devices ......................................................................................................................................51 Providing for off-site data protection ...................................................................................................52 Backup strategy ......................................................................................................................................53 Additional considerations in backup and recovery .....................................................................................55 Implementing your backup and recovery solution .....................................................................................56 Recovery ........................................................................................................................................................57 Recovering an entire disk or volume from a Copy ..............................................................................57 Recovering individual files from a Copy ..............................................................................................57 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................57 Create a Test Account ...................................................................................................................................58 Creating a test account ..................................................................................................................................58 Using a test account in troubleshooting ......................................................................................................59 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................60 Disk Utilities .................................................................................................................................................61 About disk utilities ........................................................................................................................................61 Recommended disk utilities .........................................................................................................................62 Disk utilities and FileVault ...........................................................................................................................63 Related links ..................................................................................................................................................64 Error Codes...................................................................................................................................................65 First Aid Folder ............................................................................................................................................66