Smooth Transition from Snow Leopard to OS X Lion...

Wow… I’m excited to share MacBook Pro transistion to Mac OS X Lion.

I purchased Mac OS X Lion from App Store on Jul 21, 2011. Besides I went through reviews comments on App Store for OS X Lion; I was so much worried and my mind went into dilemma

Should I upgrade Max OS X Lion or not?

Issues mentioned in reviews

OS X Lion installation failed
Office mac 2011 not working properly
Parallels Desktop not working properly
etc…

Then I surfed and luckily found the following articles, which appeared as a solace, and believe me; it’s really helped out.

Performed the steps based on above guide

Verified Disk as I had a issues in primary partition and Repaired Disk using Disk Utility
Created a bootable disk for future purpose
Took backup into date, on TimeMachine for safer side :)
At last started installing Mac OS X Lion from Applictaions/Install Mac OS X Lion.app
Provided a admin password, that’s it

And that’s it, I got back my Login window. Ofcourse it took approximately 37 mins for complete installation got installed perfectly and migrated data as well.

I’m ready to go!

System Configuration

MacBook Pro 13″

Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB RAM memory

250 GB Harddisk

As you can see my system configuration is minimum one; which OS X Lion support 🙂

Applications [Before Transition]

Address Book, Adium, Adobe Reader 9, App Store, Automator, 
Calculator, Chess, CleanMyMac, coconutBattery, Cyberduck, 
Dashboard, DavMail, Dictionary, DiskLed, DiskInventory, 
DVD Player, eclipse, Emailchemy, eviware, ExpressBurn, 
FaceboxPro, FileZilla, Firefox, Full Deck Solitaire, 
FrontRow, GoFlex Home Desktop Applications, Google Chrome, 
GrowlSafari, HermesJMS, iCal, iChat, Image Capture, iTunes, 
JD-GUI, LockScreen2, Mail, Microsoft Communicator, Microsoft Office 2011, 
Microsoft Silverlight, Mikogo, Miro, Mobile Mouse Server, Mobile Partner, 
MySQL Tools, Navicat Lite, OpenProj, Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X, 
Parallels Desktop, Photo Booth, Preview, QuickTime Player, Safari, 
Seagate Diagnostics, SimpleTask, Skype, SpeakLine, SQLDeveloper, 
Stickies, SugarSync Manager, Symantec Solutions, System Preferences, 
TeamViewer, TextEdit, TextWrangler, Thunderbird, Time Machine, 
TinyExpander, Twitter, Utilities, VLC, Vox, Zimbra Desktop

Address Book, Adium, Adobe Reader 9, App Store, Automator,

Calculator, Chess, CleanMyMac, coconutBattery, Cyberduck,

Dashboard, DavMail, Dictionary, DiskLed, DiskInventory,

DVD Player, eclipse, Emailchemy, eviware, ExpressBurn,

FaceboxPro, FileZilla, Firefox, Full Deck Solitaire,

FrontRow, GoFlex Home Desktop Applications, Google Chrome,

GrowlSafari, HermesJMS, iCal, iChat, Image Capture, iTunes,

JD-GUI, LockScreen2, Mail, Microsoft Communicator, Microsoft Office 2011,

Microsoft Silverlight, Mikogo, Miro, Mobile Mouse Server, Mobile Partner,

MySQL Tools, Navicat Lite, OpenProj, Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X,

Parallels Desktop, Photo Booth, Preview, QuickTime Player, Safari,

Seagate Diagnostics, SimpleTask, Skype, SpeakLine, SQLDeveloper,

Stickies, SugarSync Manager, Symantec Solutions, System Preferences,

TeamViewer, TextEdit, TextWrangler, Thunderbird, Time Machine,

TinyExpander, Twitter, Utilities, VLC, Vox, Zimbra Desktop

Applications [After Transition]

Address Book, Adium, Adobe Reader 9, App Store, Automator, 
Calculator, Chess, CleanMyMac, coconutBattery, Cyberduck, 
Dashboard, DavMail, Dictionary, DiskLed, DVD Player, eclipse, 
Emailchemy, eviware, ExpressBurn, FaceboxPro, FaceTime, FileZilla, 
Firefox, Full Deck Solitaire, GoFlex Home Desktop Applications, 
Google Chrome, GrowlSafari, HermesJMS, iCal, iChat, Image Capture, 
iTunes, JD-GUI, LockScreen2, Mail, Microsoft Communicator, 
Microsoft Office 2011, Microsoft Silverlight, Mikogo, Miro, 
Mobile Mouse Server, Mobile Partner, MySQL Tools, Navicat Lite, 
OpenProj, Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop, Photo Booth, 
Preview, QuickTime Player, Safari, Seagate Diagnostics, SimpleTask, 
Skype, SpeakLine, SQLDeveloper, Stickies, SugarSync Manager, 
Symantec Solutions, System Preferences, TeamViewer, TextEdit, 
TextWrangler, Thunderbird, Time Machine, TinyExpander, Twitter, 
Utilities, VLC, Vox, Zimbra Desktop

Address Book, Adium, Adobe Reader 9, App Store, Automator,

Calculator, Chess, CleanMyMac, coconutBattery, Cyberduck,

Dashboard, DavMail, Dictionary, DiskLed, DVD Player, eclipse,

Emailchemy, eviware, ExpressBurn, FaceboxPro, FaceTime, FileZilla,

Firefox, Full Deck Solitaire, GoFlex Home Desktop Applications,

Google Chrome, GrowlSafari, HermesJMS, iCal, iChat, Image Capture,

iTunes, JD-GUI, LockScreen2, Mail, Microsoft Communicator,

Microsoft Office 2011, Microsoft Silverlight, Mikogo, Miro,

Mobile Mouse Server, Mobile Partner, MySQL Tools, Navicat Lite,

OpenProj, Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop, Photo Booth,

Preview, QuickTime Player, Safari, Seagate Diagnostics, SimpleTask,

Skype, SpeakLine, SQLDeveloper, Stickies, SugarSync Manager,

Symantec Solutions, System Preferences, TeamViewer, TextEdit,

TextWrangler, Thunderbird, Time Machine, TinyExpander, Twitter,

Utilities, VLC, Vox, Zimbra Desktop

Yes, FrontRow application haas been removed from Mac OS X Lion. DiskInventory application did not work after transition.

Now, everything is set. All applications are working fine as before 😉

Note: Java Runtime is no longer part of upcoming Mac OS X versions; including Lion . Steps for Java Runtime installation. However, Java update dialog will popup. If not, follow the below steps.

Go to Applications > Utilities > Java Preferences
Open the Java Preferences
If Java is not installed you will receive the following message, To open Java Preferences, you need a Java runtime. Would you like to install one now?” with Not Now and Install buttons.
Click Install button and follow the instructions.