![]() Just open the App Store under Applications and do a search for Lion. Pop the installer in, power down your Macintosh and unplug your backup drive, it would be a cryin’ shame if you accidentally installed over your backup. Make sure everything boots up, poke around a bit, make sure everything seems to be working. Once CCC is done, reboot your Mac with your external drive still connected, holding down the option key to boot from the backup drive. ![]() Now, depending on the size of your hard drive, you’ve got a chance to watch either the standard, or extended version of Lord of the Rings. Just remember to make your backup drive bootable, you will have to completely wipe your destination drive. To create a bootable backup of your main drive there is only one totally free, easy-to-use choice, Carbon Copy Cloner, and it’s push one button simple. Upgrading to Lion through the App Store is uncharted territory, and while it’s unlikely anything will go wrong, why take chances? Let’s make a bootable backup of your main drive just in case. Just be careful to know what you’re deleting. Give it a whirl, and you may be just as surprised as we were to learn that your ‘Downloads’ directory is taking up half your hard drive. Fortunately, our friends at Omni Group have a utility just for that. Our hard drives always seem to be shrinking, and it’s often hard to tell where most of that space goes. ![]() To update to Mac OS X 10.6.8, users can either launch Software Update from their Mac's Apple menu, or download the standalone installers from Apple’s Support Downloads area, or from Softpedia using the links below.After you’ve cleaned up all your redundant files, now it’s time to ‘sweep’ your disk. improved reliability for cascading Software Update Servers properly enabling previous updates in Software Update Server improved authentication support when accessing iCal Server from iOS devices improved reliability of processing international character encodings in iCal Server reliability of using sharepoints with Time Machine properly displaying videos in Wiki pages when viewed from Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers Mac OS X 10.6.8 weighs in at 474.2 MB for the delta update, and 1.09 GB as a combo update, which increments the base version of Snow Leopard (10.6) to the most recent version specified.Īs usual, Apple also updated the Server version of Snow Leopard with an incremental 10.6.8 release.įor users of Snow Leopard Server, fixes incorporated in 10.6.8 include: ![]() It delivers the usual bag of security fixes in areas like AirPort, App Store, ATS, Certificate Trust Policy, ColorSync, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, FTP Server, ImageIO, International Components for Unicode, Kernel, Libsystem, MobileMe, MySQL, OpenSSL, QuickLook, QuickTime, and others. OS X 10.6.8, however, is primarily focused on enhancing the Mac App Store “to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion,” according to the release notes. The release includes general operating system fixes that enhance stability, compatibility, and security.Ĭode corrections included in the update target issues that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit, support for IPv6, VPN reliability, and the ability to identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender, a recently emerged piece of malware targeting Macs worldwide. Apple this week released the final version of Mac OS X 10.6.8, an incremental update to its Snow Leopard operating system mainly tasked with preparing Macs for the upgrade to OS X Lion.Īccording to the tech giant headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, the 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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