thanks John, I'll save your instructions as well as I haven't gotten around to doing this whole thing yet. Between you and Gordon's help I think I can do this thing just fine!
thanks, Cait On 2012-09-07, at 11:35 PM, John Gunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Kate: > > I'm not Gordon but here is what I would suggest. > > Boot from the ML stick, and if you only have 1 partition, interact with the > table and choos disk utility. VO right to VO space on continue. > > Interact with the table to select your internal hard drive. Warning, do not > choose the Macintosh HD, choose above that which usually is a bunch of > numbers. > > Stop interacting, VO right to partition and VO space. Next choose OSX > journaling, and make sure when you VO space on the combo box referring to > partitioning, don't choose but instead choose 1 partition. > > You also can name the untitled to Macintosh HD. > > When the above is complete, go to option making sure it's set to GUID or > something like that. > > After you go to ok, then you want to apply. > > This is how I installed ML but of course I had a TimeMachine backup from > Lion. It sounds like a lot to go through but you can partition the hard > drive in minutes comparing to erase a volume which may take hours. > > I'm assuming you know how to start when you boot from the ML USB stick. > > Hope this helps and write if I might have missed something > > John > > > On Sep 7, 2012, at 6:14 PM, 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 >> 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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