The goodies just keep on coming. Following on the heels of the release of iOS 5 and OS X Lion’s 10.7.2 update, Apple has also issued a new Lion Recovery update, a new 452MB fix that improves on the software and addresses an issue with Find My Mac when using a firmware password. Since you’ll be rebooting for OS X 10.7.2 anyway, might as well get downloading.
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19 responses to “Apple Releases Lion Recovery Update”
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downloading using Software Update. massive software overhaul this time for my Apple gadgets. yay!!!
downloading using Software Update. massive software overhaul this time for my Apple gadgets. yay!!!
Where’d you get it for only 450MB? Mine’s 1.2 GB. Should be here sometime tomorrow at this rate. :-(
Romeyn – you’re downloading both the updates if it’s as large as that! They’re around half a gig each.
So what if you have already created a lion recovery disk on an external USB drive via the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant tool? This creates a Lion Recovery disk on a hidden partition on an external disk. How does one update that hidden partition recovery disk?
So I have the same question; if you’ve already created a lion recovery disk on a thumb drive, how do you ‘run’ this update and update the drive?
I called Apple support and they gave me this link. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…
When you run the update with your USB drive connected, it chooses the USB drive to update. I had already run the one that Lion wanted me to run as per normal updates and it updated the original system drive recovery tool.
Apple support directed me to the update on their support site. You just download it again, manually, and run it again and it will see the disk it wants to update this time, i.e. the USB drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…
Incredibly slow download – over a day at this rate.Â
Apple Support directed me to the download location of this update which I ran for a second time and it found the USB drive on the second installation and updated it. See here to download and update your second drive. Â http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…Â
Run the update again and it finds the USB drive and updates it. You can download the update here:Â http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…Â
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…