Hi Josh Firstly, Josh, from the Finder you can press Command+Shift+A to open the /applications folder. Command+Shift+U will open the /applications/utilities folder. There are a number of other shortcuts, (Found in System Preverences>Keyboard>Shortcuts.
If you use the recovery tool, it gathers the information from whatever OS you happen to have installed. So, although it says it is a "Lion" Recovery tool, it actually works fine on Mountain Lion. So really, I do not understand why people are finding it so hard. :) Just run the recovery tool, point it to where you want your drive created and it copies the OS, block by block on a sector-level so it erases everything on your recovery destination drive. You do not even need to have the installDVD.dmg on your system. I hope that makes things more clear. Now, for those who might want the recovery tool, I will repost the link to it on our dropbox: No need for Lion Diskmaker or anything additional. I gather from what I've read on MacWorld, you can also use this to write the recovery disk to a flash card. Again, it's done at a block level so you shouldn't, although it's probably a good ideas to, partition your drive as "Guide" Partition in advance. You can find the tool here: <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22572701/RecoveryDiskAssistant.dmg> Gordon On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:52, josh gregory <[email protected]> wrote: Didn't even know that command existed! Ah, the joys of being a newbee... :) so, ok, now that we're on the same page, how would burning a copy to a thumb drive be done? Thanks! <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
