Thanks Gordon. I'll save your instructions. I actually called apple yesterday since I flubbed up and did the reinstall incorrectly and did it right over top of the previous one without erasing files-big oops! In talking to the apple tech, he said that the error is one commonly encountered with i tunes. He had me unplug both my external drives and do a restart and that *seemed* to put things right.
Now, having said all that, this guy also had no clue whatsoever about voiceover, even though I called the special number for voiceover users! So, I'll keep your directions and plan on doing the fresh install this coming weekend when I can devote time to it! Right now I'm not getting the message anymore, but doing things fresh can't hurt, right? Thanks again! Cait On 2012-09-05, at 11:55 AM, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: > Hi Cait > > If you have the recovery tool on a USB thumb drive, just insert the drive, > and when you boot the system hold down the option key. Give it 10/20 > seconds, then hit the left/right cursor key once and press Enter. This > should cause your machine to boot from the thumb drive and give you the > options. I strongly suggest that, in the first table of options, you select > Disk Utility and then re-partition your hard drive. Be sure to select "Mac > OS X (Journaled)" from the list of options. Then in the "Options" section, > select "GUID" partition type, click Apply, then click Partition. > > Once done, then you can proceed to the install as normal. > > This is a problem which I've only seen once in over 7 years of Mac usage. I > honestly can't remember whether this indicates a hardware problem or a > software one. I thick it was software, and I hope it was. > > Gordon > > > On 4 Sep 2012, at 19:38, Cait Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> 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 <gor...@mac-access.net> 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 <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> 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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