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Avoid the 10.7.3 update if you can

I did the 10.7.3 update and since I have made that mistake, my mac has been unstable. It has failed to wake from sleep, it has crashed webpages, it has slowed browsing down to 56k speeds including breaking Zemanta and I bet if I tried to play Civ 5 it would crash that as well. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo here and will update this after a few days.

Yikes! What a mess. It seems to cause problems with Wacom tablets as well. No solution here. It would be fun to have one of these.

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Is Software Update downloading in the…: Apple Support Communities

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Thanks cathy fasano. Nicely done!

Go to System Preferences (under the apple) and Software Update is about the middle of the “Systems” line. On the bottom of the Pref panel for SW Update there are check boxes for checking automatically and downloading automatically. If you spend any significant amount of time attached via an expensive or slow connection, turn them both off.

I would turn off “download automatically” under any circumstances — when you are trying to do something and it runs really slowly, it’s pretty frustrating to realize that it’s because your computer was downloading 500MB of printer driver updates for a printer that broke and you threw in the trash two years ago!

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Why won’t Photoshop CS3 in Lion?: Apple Support Communities

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Several suggestions on this thread to fix the issue. The user Scenario fixes his own problem. I wonder if this is a reference to Bill Maxwell?

I tracked it down to a problem in my Network settings. Somehow after upgrading to Lion, I had to reenter my custom DNS server settings to use Google’s (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). After doing that, Software Update worked. Apparently one can be on the internet just fine, but not entirely to Software Update’s liking.

All is well now– CS3 does indeed run under Lion. (Whew!)

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Is your iCal is off by one month?

Strange issue isn’t it?  Ferd II suggests “Next refresh your iCal plist. You will find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. Quit iCal, drag the com.apple.iCal.plist file to your Desktop, log out/in or restart and check iCal for normal behavior.

If that is unsuccessful, download and reinstall the Mac OS X v10.6.3 v1.1 Update (Combo).”

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