hey,
when you boot into a stick does it work just like on the system?
is this what i should do if i need to fix ML?
On 16/03/2013 10:59 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
I'm not ester, but what I do is boot in to it via the start up disk thing in system
prefs in my main os since I can't memorize the layout of that option left right
thing and I normally don't have the patience to see if what I"m booting in to
is my recovery drive internal or my usb stick.
Take care.
On Mar 15, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> wrote:
hey,
how do you boot into a ML disc or USB stick?
how do you know what to choos?
On 16/03/2013 3:20 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Cathy,
In most cases you can repair permissions or repair a disk by running Disk
Utility from the Applications folder. However, repairs cannot be made on any
files that are open at the time you run the repair operation, so for really bad
problems running a Disk repair from the same system volume that is open and
currently giving you problems may not work to fix things. So the convention,
from back in the days when we used install CDs or DVDs for the operating
system, was to run Disk Utility from the install DVD or CD, on the chance that
one of the files that is open when your system is running and booted from your
hard drive is the one that needs repairing. James translated the action for
the current operating systems that do not use install DVDs or CDs to running
the repair operation from the recovery partition.
What I usually do for instances that require extensive trouble-shooting is to
attach a hard drive with a bootable clone or a USB memory stick on which I have
created a bootable version of the operating system (with Carbon Copy Cloner or
Lion Diskmaker), then boot from there. This is also the usual procedure that I
adopt if really heavy-duty repair and diagnosis tools, such as Alsoft's Disk
Warrior, are needed. I have a copy of the software on the cloned disk drive,
and run it from there.
You can read a summary of good Maintenance practices, that includes
periodically running Disk Utility to repair permissions, at this OS X Daily web
site:
• OS X Daily: 4 Simple Mac Maintenance Tips
http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/04/mac-maintenance-tips/
(For new Mac users, remember to use Command-Shift-R to bring up Safari Reader,
so you can focus on reading the article without viewing any of the other page
content.)
If you want a (much) more extensive description of maintenance practices, this
old Mac Attorney page on Mac OS X Routine Maintenance hits all the conceptual
highlights, even if it was written for systems 10.2 through 10.6, and includes
details about older systems:
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Cleaning out caches, and corrupted preference files, both discussed on the Mac
Attorney page, are much lower down on the trouble-shooting list, but are
situations you may eventually encounter if you run your Mac long enough.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Cathy wrote
hello,
the update is various security and bug fixes. details are on the ap store site
when you download and install.
I wanted to thank James for explaining how to repair a disk, this is a handy
thing to know. however, in this instance, my husband found an easy fix. instead
of opening the program from my desktop, he suggested I open it from the
application window. sure enough it worked like a charm. so I sent the old mail
program to trash and copied the mail from the applications window to my desktop
and now I am in business.
Cathy
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