[Elecraft] K3 Utility and OS X Lion

[Phil Hystad]

David,

For those slow dialup links, Apple offers a DVD version of Lion for $49 via the Apple Store.  My installation procedure on two iMacs and my Macbook Pro was about the same as your experience.  Thanks for the tip on the hidden Library.  When I read your message I jumped over to my terminal window which is almost always running somewhere on my mac to take a look.  I was surprised to find that ~/Library was quite visible.  Then, I realized that you were speaking of the hidden flag for the Finder GUI and not the File system itself.

I agree that Lion is a great system although I am still getting used to the change in gestures for scrolling.  I have the touch pad and also the magic mouse on all my systems (my wife has one of the iMacs) so I use gestures for scrolling quite a bit and the reversal is a little getting used to although I had known of this by watching the WWDC videos from earlier this year.

Unfortunately, we did find one little glitch.  My wife's Rosetta Stone application does not recognize the audio input microphones anymore although they are there and working just fine (both internal and external USB).  I need to call this into Rosetta.

73, phil, K7PEH


On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:50 PM, David Fleming wrote:

> I've received several emails concerning the compatibility of the K3 Utility for Mac with OS X Lion. I installed Lion on my development iMac and initial tests show no issues with the K3 Utility, P3 Utility and W2 Utility. Everything seems to be working FB.
> 
> There are already plenty of comprehensive reviews of Lion out there. I wanted to mention a couple of my observations that you might find useful. The online upgrade was an interesting experience. It was much like downloading apps on the iPhone and iPad. At 3.74 GB, the download took about 45 minutes over my fairly speedy Cox Cable connection. I don't know how dial-up folks will fare (if there are any Mac users still on dial-up). Not very well I suspect. Once the download was complete, after I kicked off the installer and clicked past the license agreement,  the installation took about 25-30 minutes.  One of the first things I noticed, other than the new "natural" scrolling, which you will either love or hate, is the fact that the User Library folder is now hidden. I suppose Apple did this to prevent new users from inadvertently deleting this important folder. The K3 Utility (and many other apps) use the ~/Library/Application Support folder to store
> application data. I find myself navigating to the Library folder very often. I was a bit panicky when I thought it was no longer there! Turns out it is still there, but it is now hidden. This is very easy to fix by opening up the Terminal and typing in this line:
> 
> chflags nohidden ~/Library
> 
> If you want to hide it again:
> 
> chflags hidden ~/Library
> 
> Scrollbars have been removed and now only subtly appear when you are actually scrolling (ala iOS). Once you get used to the natural scrolling of list views and windows there is no going back. As I mentioned above, you'll either love it or hate it. You can always switch back to the classic scrolling if you want, but give the new scrolling a chance. It is one of those things that once you get used to it, it feels completely natural.
> 
> 
> If you're on the fence about upgrading to Lion, I say go for it. It's an impressive piece of software.
> 
> 73,
> 
> David, W4SMT
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