Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Other Digital Version | cd spotlight query language from "missing CD" |
link is broken by mac intro of mountain lion |
Kathy Dalton | May 23, 2012 |
Page 1 Missing CD-ROM: Setting Up a Dial-Up Modem, p 1 |
Instruction ? |
Anonymous | Dec 09, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 1 |
I have scoured Pogue's manual and find no reference to Apple Hardware Test. If it's there, where is it? If it's not, why no mention of it? |
John Delack | Jul 08, 2012 |
Page 1 Entire Document |
In Chapter 16, Enabling the Root User account (Free PDF), the information presented does not work AT ALL anymore. |
Anonymous | Nov 15, 2012 | |
Page 6 Figure I-1: First Sentence |
The sentence reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 29, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 12 the Note |
"If you have a non-Apple mouse that has as scroll wheel, then the Mouse preference pane doesn't offer this scroll-direction.You can still reverse the Lion scroll-direction logic, though, if you're handy in Terminal (Chapther 16)." |
Stian Dr?bak | Nov 19, 2011 |
15 5th paragraph |
If the Mac asks for your password, type it and then click Log In (or press Return). You arrive at the desktop. |
Johann POLEWCZYK | Nov 23, 2011 | |
16 Figure 1-1 - Inset: paragraph |
Inset: At this point, you're asked to type in your password. Type it, and then click Log In (or press Return). |
Johann POLEWCZYK | Nov 23, 2011 | |
17 4th item in the bulleted list |
When you click a folder's icon, you get a stack--an arcing row of icons, or a grid of them, that indicates what's inside. See page 134 for more on stacks. |
Johann POLEWCZYK | Nov 24, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 22 text line 16 |
?? requirement to press the ⌘ key is new in Lion.? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Thomas Godfrey | Dec 03, 2011 |
Page 35 United States |
"Your Page Up and Page Down keys let you scroll up and down, one screen at a time, without having to take your hands off the keyboard. The Home and End keys are generally useful for jumping directly to the top or bottom of your document " |
David Biesack | Oct 25, 2012 | |
Mobi | Page 43-47 throughout |
There are references to page ranges, such as "pages 43-47." Page numbers are provided and are unlinked. For instance at loc 2742, 6718, 15318 |
Anonymous | Sep 23, 2013 |
Printed | Page 104 "Gem in the Rough" box, 4th paragraph |
Spotlight did not accept the syntax: |
Anonymous | Feb 25, 2012 |
Printed, PDF | Page 135 Figure 4-2 Last paragraph |
"...and the press the space bar." |
cherrypi3 | Jul 29, 2012 |
Printed, PDF | Page 149 "Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons" paragraph |
The last sentence of the paragraph reads: "You can also get rid of a toolbar icon by right-clicking it and choosing Remove Item |
cherrypi3 | Jul 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 167 2nd Tip |
As of the OS X 10.7.3 update, cycle through the Launchpad backdrops by pressing Control-Option-Command-B (instead of the previous keystroke Command-B). The Launchpad icons also wiggle while the Control-Option-Command keys are held down. |
Anonymous | Mar 07, 2012 |
Printed | Page 181 Deleting a Desktop section |
The "delete desktop" symbol is an X in a circle, not a minus sign. |
Anonymous | Mar 07, 2012 |
Printed | Page 186 Unchained Widgets box |
1. The correct command is: |
Anonymous | Mar 09, 2012 |
Printed | Page 187 Dictionary heading, 3rd sentence |
The navigation buttons in the upper-left corner of the Dictionary widget are actually left and right arrows, not up and down. |
Anonymous | Mar 09, 2012 |
Page 206 Top |
Double-click the window?s title bar. (If this doesn?t work, choose a?System Pref- erences?Appearance. Make sure ?Double-click a window?s title bar to minimize? is turned on.) |
Mark Wilk Moloney | Mar 22, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 218 Line before Spotlight heading |
"by clicking the [up] button to the right of the Where pop-up menu" |
Anonymous | Mar 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 233 Last paragraph. |
"The Home key jumps to the top ....". What "Home" key? I don't see a Home key on my Macbook Pro. |
Anonymous | Jun 16, 2012 |
Printed | Page 234 Bottom of page |
The Help key no longer exists on the current full-size Mac desktop keyboard. It was replaced by the Fn key. |
Anonymous | Apr 11, 2012 |
Printed | Page 236 5th paragraph |
"There's a picture on page 236." |
Anonymous | Apr 11, 2012 |
Printed | Page 262 1st paragraph |
"In all cases, the backup disk must be bigger than the drive you're backing up (preferably much bigger)." This should read "bigger than the used amount of the drive you're backing up". For example, I have a 1 TB drive of which about 75 GB is used, so my backup disk needs to be at least 75 GB. Apple does recommend that the backup be at least the capacity of the drive being backed up (1 TB in my case), but that's not a requirement. |
allenstenger | Mar 21, 2012 |
Printed, PDF, | Page 280 third bullet under Time Machine |
Third bullet states: "Add another bullet with text:" This seems like a space holder |
Mark Douglas Greco | Feb 29, 2012 |
Printed | Page 334 Desktop pictures section, first para |
The text and figure 9-6 refer to a range of desktop pictures from Apple (Nature, Plants, Art etc.), but OS X Lion as installed on new macs seems to have dropped those and you only get the "Desktop Pictures" folder (unless you upgrade from Snow Leopard etc. in which case they are retained from the previous version). At least, that is what I have, and hunting around the internet it seems to be a Lion change, rather than an error. If there is a way to add them, or a website to get the old ones from, that would be a useful edit to the next edition (probably have to wait for Mountain Lion now, I guess). |
Richard Butlin | Jun 23, 2012 |
Printed | Page 343 "Lion Watch" |
The last 3 sentences on the page: "If you close your laptop while it's connected to an external monitor, the machine doesn't go to sleep. Instead, it keeps the external monitor on. The laptop remains on, so you can keep right on working..."; |
Anonymous | Mar 31, 2012 |
Printed | Page 343 Lion Watch-Last 3 sentences. The laptop remains on......... |
This only works if you have a separate mouse/trackpad and keyboard which converts the laptop to a desktop, however you can't turn the computer on with the cover closed. |
Jay Downing | Apr 17, 2012 |
Printed | Page 344 - 348 UPS Battery function omitted |
There is no discussion that I could find of the function and settings in the System Preferences . . . > Energy Saver when a UPS Back-system (such as an APC Back-UPS CS 350 - in my case) is connected via USB to the Mac (Mac mini mid 2011 - in my case). |
Bill Caplinger | Jun 12, 2012 |
Printed | Page 438 Gem In The Rough ("The Sparse Image") |
The book suggests creating a sparse disk image, when I believe it should really be recommending the creation of a sparse bundle disk image instead. |
Chris Hartman | Feb 26, 2012 |
Printed | Page 439 middle of page |
The text says you can turn a disk image into a disk by either: |
Bert Schultz | Jun 04, 2016 |
Printed | Page 447 power users clinic |
The window refers to Xcode being downloaded to the Developer folder. In fact the most recent version of Xcode now goes into the Applications folder. |
Antony Fryer | Apr 25, 2012 |
Printed | Page 464 Figure 11-7 |
Figure is actually of burning a CD rather than ripping from a CD as described. |
Van | Jan 31, 2012 |
Printed | Page 623 2nd paragraph |
The text says that the command line prompt is shown in |
Byron Barclay | Mar 28, 2012 |
Printed | Page 671 9th (last) paragraph |
This page refers to the "Missing CD" Page. |
Peter Wait | Apr 29, 2012 |
Printed | Page 709 First paragraph |
The section headed Importing Old Mail should have a cross-reference to the corresponding section headed Exporting Mailboxes on page 740, and the exporting section should have a cross-reference back to this section. Also it should be possible to locate both of these important sections via the index, both directly (under import/export) and indirectly (under mail). |
Stephen Yates | Aug 07, 2012 |
Printed, PDF | Page 835 Reinstalling Lion: Tricks of the Trade Paragraphs 3,4,5 |
I wanted to do a clean install after buying a new MacBook Pro with Lion already installed because I transferred all my old stuff from an external drive with my old system OS X 10.6 Time Machine data and didn't like the results. |
cherrypi3 | Jul 31, 2012 |
Page 883 whole page |
When viewing the PDF edition in Adobe Reader, the table of contents link for the Index displays an unnumbered page with just the word "Index", and the following unnumbered page is totally blank. This gives the impression that the Index is blank/missing. |
Ward Clark | Nov 13, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 908 1st column |
"VirtualBox , 318" is listed on this page of the index. |
Alan Henderson | Mar 14, 2012 |