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With the incoming field promulgation of Mac OS X, 10.7 Lion, on the way, it’s a beatific intent to move preparing your Mac for the transformation soon. Here are whatever steps to attain trusty your Mac is primed for Lion.

Step 1: Get up-to-date

Make trusty everything on your Mac is up to fellow before upgrading to Lion. First of all, attain sure you’re streaming the stylish edition of OS X, which is Snow Leopard 10.6.8, using Software Update. Software Update module not exclusive analyse for updates to OS X, but also code updates or recent versions of Apple applications much as iTunes or iLife. You crapper encounter Software Update low the Apple trademark in the schedule bar. You should also analyse that your applications are apiece and every up to date, but for that you’ll requirement to analyse in the apps themselves, since Software Update exclusive entireness for Apple products.

Also state that you crapper exclusive establish Lion if you hit Snow Leopard installed; you can’t go straightforward from Leopard to Lion.

Step 2: Backup

You’re most to change the whole operative grouping on your machine with a recent one, so it’s a beatific intent to attain a backup, meet in housing something goes wrong. The prizewinning abstract to do is to create an literal double of your Mac’s hornlike intend using a agency much as SuperDuper!. SuperDuper! crapper either action a lawful backup, or create a bootable image of your hornlike drive, message that if something does go screwy, you crapper rush from the outside intend you prefabricated the patronage on. From there, you’d be healthy to essay to variety discover the problems with the Lion install.

If you don’t poverty to, or can’t, attain a flooded double of the whole hornlike drive, then patronage your most essential files and folders. Your Home folder is a beatific locate to start, since it belike contains a aggregation of files that are irreplaceable, same photos and bag movies. The Home folder is the folder titled with your username, and is institute in /Users on your hornlike drive, or low Desktop in the Places schedule in your Finder sidebar.

You crapper either ingest Time Machine or SuperDuper! to do this backup, or exclusive meet inspire and modify a double of the folder onto added hornlike drive. You strength poverty to countenance around in the Finder to analyse for another essential folders which aren’t in the Home folder, as well.

Step 3: Remove clashing apps

Lion is feat to be the prototypal edition of OS X which doesn’t hold PowerPC applications. That effectuation that whatever covering without an Intel-specific edition won’t impact on Lion, and are prizewinning uninstalled.

In visit to encounter which of your applications are PowerPC only, you crapper ingest System Profiler. Hold downbound the Option key, then utter the Apple menu. The crowning component in the itemize should be System Profiler. Click that, and System Profiler module open. In the sidebar, encounter Applications low the Software heading. After a whatever seconds, a itemize of every covering installed on your Mac module materialize on the right. Now go finished the itemize and for apiece application, countenance at the Kind in the lowermost pane. Applications which feature either Intel or Universal are fine; they’ll impact on Lion. You’re hunting for anything which says PowerPC.

If you encounter whatever PowerPC applications, you’ll poverty to uninstall them before you establish Lion. You crapper also analyse your another apps as substantially to attain trusty they module impact with Lion; whatever applications are extremity to hit issues, modify if they aren’t PowerPC applications. A enthusiastic artefact to analyse is using RoaringApps, a website which is assembling accumulation most which apps are harmonious with OS X 10.7.

Step 4: Make expanse on your hornlike drive

A exemplary establish of OS X commonly takes somewhere between 6 GB and 10 GB of hornlike intend space. You’ll requirement to attain trusty you hit at small that amount, and rather more, liberated on your hornlike intend in visit to establish Lion. To apace analyse how much expanse is acquirable on your drive, unstoppered a Finder pane to whatever folder on the drive. The turn of liberated expanse acquirable module be shown a the lowermost of the window.

If you encounter that you don’t hit sufficiency expanse left, you crapper ingest a agency much as OmniDiskSweeper to encounter the super files and folders on your hornlike drive. Once it’s been finished your hornlike drive, you’ll wager a itemize of everything, classified by size. Anything that has a super enter filler and you no individual need, withdraw in visit to attain shack for Lion. Remember, the more expanse you hit acquirable when it comes to upgrading, the better.

Step 5: Install Lion

Once you’re trusty that everything is as primed as it mayhap could be, your Mac is today embattled for the raise to Lion, which should come sometime within the incoming pair of weeks. Are there whatever alive player steps I missed? Shout discover in the comments.