![]() ![]() Start off by opening the App store to see if any that you’ve sourced from there have updates waiting for you. If the install shouldn’t work for some reason the first time round, you won’t have to go through the whole tiresome wait of a download from the App store again if you save a copy to your Downloads folder.Īssuming Mountain Lion boots up just fine, the first thing you’re going to want to do (after having a nose around, of course!) is update your 3rd party apps. The reason for doing this is that when you install Mountain Lion the Install app in your Applications folder will self-delete. Then you can run the installer in your Applications folder. app’ and save it to your Downloads folder or somewhere else. Then go to your Applications folder and copy the ‘Install OS X Mountain Lion. Do NOT click ‘Install’, but instead quit it. If you can do it from the office or somewhere else that has a lot more bandwidth than the usual home connection, do so.Īfter the download completes the installer will run automatically. At the very least, connect your computer to your router via ethernet cable rather than wifi – that’ll at least help push things along a bit faster at your end. Uninstall MacKeeper, Little Snitch, LogMeIn or any other 3rd party utility that runs prior to user login.Īpple’s servers will be hotter than a forest fire on release day, so you can expect download times to be pretty poor. After upgrading, if you must use them, look for updates. If you have Sophos, VirusBarrier, iAntiVirus, F-Secure, or similar uninstall these prior to upgrading. See Steps 8 & 9 below about re-activating your Login Items after the installation.ĥ. Login Items are one of the main causes of OS problems at the best of times, but with a major upgrade like this, you don’t want any incompatible software choking the system from booting up. There’s a couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it’s to ensure that you can log in without difficulty. > System Preferences…> Accounts | Login Items If you’re upgrading from Snow Leopard 10.6.8, go to > System Preferences…> Users & Groups | Login Items As the old boy scout saying goes ‘Be Prepared’. An OS installation is like performing major surgery on your computer and the chances of complications are always a significant risk. Moreover, even when the install proceeds as expected, you want to be able to get back to your previous system if you find things are not to your liking. Like Lion, Mountain Lion will be delivered as a download from the App Store, and while this method is certainly convenient, corrupted downloads are not uncommon. Without a doubt the biggest cause of trouble and frustration with every OS release is among users who didn’t backup their systems before trying to install the new one. This will help to cut down any compatibility problems when installing Mountain Lion. Make sure you have the latest version of everything by runningīefore you upgrade. If you are upgrading from Snow Leopard, you should also check out will my old apps work with Lion?. ![]() So here’s a few things to do both before and on the big day:Ĭheck out the tech specs for Mountain Lion and the list of supported machines to make sure you can run it on your current system. While rumours abound for just about every conceivable day left being the ‘official’ release date (with the 25th being the most popular, it seems), the sensible are making sure they’re prepared. With the last seven days of July upon us, the suspense is just killing some people waiting for the release of Apple’s latest version of OS X, 10.8 Mountain Lion. ![]()
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