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 | Lion's Recovery HD is likely to be a welcome new feature. It lets you boot your Mac in an emergency and repair a drive, search the web, or reinstall OS X Lion. The problem is that Lion only creates the Recovery HD as part of the startup drive. Who thought that was a good idea? If the startup drive has problems, there's a good chance the Recovery HD will have problems. Well, Apple saw the light and released a new Lion utility called the Recovery Disk Assistant. We took a look at this new tool and discovered that it has flaws as well, but we created guides that will let you navigate around the issues. This week we also have answers to reader questions about changing the size of a disk partition and migrating individual application data to a new Mac. | |
Using OS X Lion's Recovery Disk Assistant
The recently released OS X Lion Recovery Disk Assistant allows you to create a copy of the Recovery HD volume on an external drive. Apple seems to have rushed the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant out the door, however, leaving out a few features that would make it a much more usable utility. To make things a bit better, we've created a guide that gives you a little control over what the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant does... Read more
| Enable Disk Utility's Debug Menu
Disk Utility has had a hidden debug menu for quite some time. But unlike other applications with hidden debug or developer menus, Disk Utility's hidden menu really didn't offer much in the way of usable features; that is, not until the release of OS X Lion... Read more
| Disk Utility: Add, Delete, and Resize Existing Volumes
One question we often see, in one form or another, is: How can I change the size of a disk volume? Maybe it's happened to you. You partition a drive and later realize one of the partitions is too big or too small. You wonder if you can fix the problem without reformatting the drive and erasing all of the data it contains. If you're using Leopard (OS X 10.5), Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), or Lion (OS X 10.7), then you're in luck. Disk Utility can add, delete, or resize partitions without losing data. There are some restrictions, however, so before you head off to fire up Disk Utility, it's a good idea to... Read more
| Mac to Mac Transfer: Move Your Important Mac Data
Your Mac contains tons of personal data, from saved emails to calendar events. Backing up this data, whether just to have a backup on hand or to move the data to a new Mac, is actually pretty easy. The problem is it's not always an intuitive process. We've gathered detailed instructions on how to move important info to a new Mac, as well as how to create backups of individual application data. The process works for OS X Leopard and later. This includes moving data to OS X Lion, with one small change. Lion hides the ~/Library directory that you need to work with, so if you're moving data to Lion, you need to make the Library directory visible first. Once you've done that, take a look at our Mac-to-Mac transfer guide for instructions on moving Mail, Bookmarks, Address Book, and... Read more
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