I'm not Gprdon but I"m stuck at the university and board so here goes.
1. after you back everythign up turn off the computer. 2. plug your stick in to the usb slot 3. hold down option key 4. hit the power button. 5. arrow left once. this shuld put you in your usb stick 6. hit enter. 7. wait for about 30 seconds and then turn on vo. 8. go through the prompts and choose disk utility 9. choose your drive name let'ssay Sarah's lovely mac. 10. choose erase. 11. choose mac hfs extended journaled from the pop up menu. 12. Hit erase and conferm. 13. quit disk utiility and you are back to the table. 15. choose reinstall mountain lion 16.. go throug th eprompts and away you go. You will have to set up yoru icloud again but it's worth it. HOpe this hleps. On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:38, Cait Furness <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a > repair permissions twice. > > I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from > scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it and I am now putting > all my important stuff on my back up drives so I can do everything cleanly. > > thanks, > Cait > > On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Cait >> >> This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would >> suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as >> quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or >> from a backup. >> >> Gordon >> >> On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a >> whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard >> disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an >> error -50 and an ok button. 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