If I’d been busier this week I might not have done this, but OS X Lion was released yesterday and like a sheep I upgraded. So far so not-too-problematic, but here are some annoyances I’ve found, with solutions where available:
Pointless animations when composing and sending e-mail
Solution: in Terminal, type:
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES
and
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool YES
Pointless animations when opening and closing windows
Solution: in Terminal, type:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
Hugely annoying autocorrect, which I didn’t ask for, in Mail
Solution: System Preferences / Language & Text / Text tab / uncheck “Correct spelling automatically”. You still get the semi-helpful red underlines, but lose the hopelessly inaccurate autocorrect.
No doubt there will be more to follow …
Loads of annoying glitchiness
- Airport dropping out, and failing to reconnect when waking from sleep (turning-it-off-and-on-again works, slowly, but is annoying; 10.7.1 update no help)
- Finder crashing randomly and regularly
- Backups to my (non-Apple) NAS drive taking forever
- etc
Solution: Do what I should probably have done in the first place: clean install of Lion. Yawn.
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