Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode – StumbleUpon. This is an excellent description and troubleshooting guide to consider when sleep doesn’t work as expected. A number of third-party programs can cause problems with sleep mode as well. It doesn’t say 10.7 or Lion but the majority of this applies to 10.7 as well.
OSX Lion Full Screen Bug Workarounds – Tantek. Interesting that this is still an issue. Strange how often third-party software works better than Apple software.
In Mac OS Lion, where do you find your…: Apple Support Communities. Thanks QuickTimeKirk. I didn’t know about this trick. I have typed the path in the go to folder command box.
Switch to the Finder.
Hold down the option key while using the Go menu to expose the User/Library folder.
Mac OS X 10.7.3 update causing severe app crashes for some users The Verge. Interesting that this is causing this problem. A combo updater is always the best way to fix an issue like this.
Finder right click \. Baltwo has the solution. I have never seen this solution before. Great work.
FWIW, there’s a com.apple.LaunchServices.plist in my user’s Preferences folder.
Launch the Terminal app in /Applications/Utilities/, copy & paste in this one-liner, hit the return key, quit Terminal, and restart:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
