A couple of strange things occured when I installed Mountain Lion on my work laptop. For some reason, there seemed to be a phantom iCloud account which I couldn't initially get rid of. In Notes, I could see the second account which caused all notes to duplicate, but I couldn't remove it. When I removed the account from the "Mail, Contacts, and Calendar" preference pane, it would reappear. Eventually I was able to get things working by some combination of removing the iCloud related keychain entries using Keychain Access, and manually deleting the data files which Notes uses (which I found via the lsof command).
I also had some problems sending iCloud email. Removing the old Mobile Me smtp setup and removing and re-adding iCloud email seemed to fix it.
I didn't encounter any of these problems in my Mac Pro. One thing that was different during the install was I didn't get prompted to login into iCloud on the MacBook Pro while I did on the Mac Pro.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Intitial OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Notes
The installation was uneventful. One nice touch during the installation is that you setup different accounts for iCloud and the iTunes store.
A couple of things that I have noticed so far:
- Web Sharing is no longer available in System Preferences. Apache is still installed so it can still manually be started/stopped from the command line. A 3rd party preference pane is available here: http://clickontyler.com/blog/2012/02/web-sharing-mountain-lion/
- X11 is no longer included. If you have a pre-existing X11.app icon, it'll prompt you to install XQuartz from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
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