Apple today released Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 which is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. It also includes support for iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that automatically and wirelessly store your content on iCloud and push it to all of your devices.
iCloud on OS X Lion includes the following features:
• iCloud stores your email, calendars, contacts, Safari bookmarks, and Safari Reading List and automatically pushes them to all your devices.
• Back to My Mac provides remote access to your Mac from another Mac anywhere on the Internet.
• Find My Mac helps find a missing Mac by locating it on a map and allows you to remotely lock the Mac or wipe all its data.
Getting started with iCloud is easy. After installing the update, OS X will automatically present an iCloud setup panel. Simply enter an existing Apple ID or create a new one and then follow the on screen instructions. To learn more about iCloud visit http://www.apple.com/icloud.
The 10.7.2 update also includes Safari 5.1.1 as well as fixes that:
• Allow reordering of desktop spaces and full screen apps in Mission Control.
• Enable dragging files between desktop spaces and full screen apps.
• Address an issue that causes the menu bar to not appear in full screen apps.
• Improve the compatibility of Google contact syncing in Address Book.
• Address an issue that causes Keynote to become temporarily unresponsive.
• Improve VoiceOver compatibility with Launchpad.
• Address an issue that causes a delay in accessing the network after waking from sleep.
• Enable booting in to Lion Recovery from a locally attached Time Machine backup drive.
• Resolve an issue that causes screen zoom to stop working.
• Improve Active Directory integration.
For detailed information about Safari 5.1.1, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4922.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4767.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 is available via Software Update.
MacDailyNews Take: Schnappy!
Downloading NOW and it’s BIG
Before the articles went out, the download was fine, now it`s as fast as a lazy turtle…..
Seems like the whole world is downloading 🙂
Servers are getting hammered. Mine says 36 hours to finish. lol
Mine said seven minutes when the download began, but it’s going faster than that.
Thats great. Mine started going super speed again. 8 min then it crashed and said the download was corrupted and try again. Back to slow as molasses again. 4 hours to go.
Wow. I’m already up and running the update. Now, time to download iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and iPad.
Hoping you have better luck.
I hate you! lol 😉
My MBP is already in restart with the update, too.
So, now you can really ‘hate’ me.
This is crazy 3 hours for me so it says,and I have an extremely fast Internet connection.
LOL man 326 hours to download! How many weeks is that????
Too many!
Sounds like a question for Siri
Unless you like problem solving and using up a lot of time, it would be best to wait a bit until you are sure all your apps and utilities and BACKUPS are totally up to date and ready to go.
I personally will wait for 10.7.3. I can’t afford to waste time.
Unless you like problem solving and love wasting time, you should wait for 10.7.4 then. Oh wait that’s no good for you. You should wait for 10.7.5, or 10.7.6, 10.7.7… Let us know in a year or two when you finally update. lol
But when 10.7.3 comes out, won’t you wait for 10.7.4?
Got mine. Not quite what I was expecting. It let me use 2 of my names on the family pack but I am still curious how family email (wife’s) addresses will work on non Lion macs.
ETA for me is 2 hours. Bummer.
I run 10.6 and 10.7 on separate boot drives… That way the glitches in 10.7 I initially had caused no problem… Will install 10.7.2 and try Lion again.. If still too many problems the switch back to 10.6 will take 3 minutes… Been there done that
Hmm.. I don’t think ‘been there done that’ was the quip you were looking for…
Siri, get over here!
Ha. The lion recovery update is bigger than the 10.7.2
130MB and 2 hours to go – welcome back to 1998 🙂
Hmm. See my comments above. My internet connection is not particularly speedy – usually around 15 Mbps, and I’ve already updated two of our Macs. Weird.
Last week was one of the worst weeks ever in Tech. This week is turning into the BEST with new updates to iTunes, Lion, OS 5, the cloud and the new iPhone4S. What a difference a week makes. Did I mention that Apples Stock is up too?
“• Improve Active Directory integration.”
A never-ending, seemingly perpetually ongoing process….
Mine’s taking ten minutes. Are you guys all in the same Right-Wing ammo-hoarding gun-nut commune in Montana?
(snickers)
“Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage” — hoping they fixed the MacBook Air memory leak (finally)
Apple’s servers are getting pounded harder than a 12 year old girl in a Mormon compound.
Damn you, spit Diet Coke all over my keyboard!
Recheck your sources! Those guys doing that aren’t Mormons. The guys doing that are a cult.
Mormons are also a cult by the definition of a cult. They are a split off of christianity. This is just a smaller cult split off from a bigger cult.
Go to IMZDL website and download torrent. Mine took 18 mins.
For the love of Jobs, I hope this improves the performance of Safari. I’m about to lose my mind with the tab refreshes and spinning beach balls (like the one that seemingly randomly appear as I typed this comment).
I’ve been having the same issues with Safari for the last month or so, and I’m still on Snow Leopard.
“• Enable booting in to Lion Recovery from a locally attached Time Machine backup drive.”
Does that mean Time Machine drives will now have a boot partition?
No. It means that the Recovery partition (bootable) will reside on your primary hard drive but you can connect your Time Machine drive to recover your files (provided the primary drive isn’t completely hosed).
Is anybody else’s iChat/AIM broken from the update?
I disabled SSL and it worked again. I was able to enable SSL but had to change port to 5190 and server to slogin.oscar.aol.com
Well see how it goes.. the reviews for 10.7.1 weren’t great on the Mac App Store… maybe this will solve things..
Also, i know people here who have upgraded their Macs to 8GB of ram after upgrading to Lion… Yikes :S
10.7.2 fixes a lot of issues with me – esp. wacom and scrollbars – was losing my f&*(&ing mind.
how about fixing address book and bring back 3 panel ways of working and the save as common in simple text
it’s taking forEVER to download… this is just ridiculous.. what’s that new server farm good for it we all have to wait for this download?
Wait ’til Apple’s dreams come true of everyone downloading and streaming media…. You’ll be able to watch a 90 minute movie in no more than 4 hours!
Well, fixed a bunch of Mission Control problems. However, even worse, the Dock has a memory leak. Rebooted mine after it gobbled up 3.8 Gb of memory and 150% of the CPU (both processors). Wonderful.
Yep, me too. It’s spoiling an otherwise good update!
Is the AutoSave bug fixed now?
(see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3226457)