Hi John, You could try to go to Disk Utilities and repair permissions. If that doesn't work, you can do a reinstall of the operating system. There's also another possibility that is less drastic than a reinstall that you can try first, which is to boot into safe mode, with restricted use. Although you can't log in and hear VoiceOver when you boot into safe mode, because audio is not on, I've found that simply booting into safe mode and then rebooting fixes several problems. Permissions are automatically repaired as part of the safe mode boot, and some caches and log files are cleaned. This worked to fix Matthew's girl friend's Mac update a few weeks ago.
To boot into safe mode, you press and hold down the Shift key immediately after your Mac starts up and continue holding it for a while (I think 40 seconds or so will do -- until a screen comes up). Then, leave it to boot up. This takes longer than a usual boot, because it does the repair permissions and the cache clearing. On a Mac with a normal hard drive, I can hear when the activity stops. Ten minutes should be more than enough, even on a loaded Mac (and yours is new). Then just boot up normally and see whether things work. I've found that Safe boot mode works to clear up some issues, so I've never had to use the recovery partition. Otherwise, first try using disk utility to repair permissions before you reinstall the operating system. There's also a way to force a reinstall from the network, I think, with Command-Option-R on the new machines, but I'm not sure of those details. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 7, 2013, at 8:16 AM, John Gallagher wrote: > Hi all the machine after command r then command f 5 it is in a menu not sure > how to go it says re instal mac os 10 but I have no disk with it on. at least > things are happening. > > <--- 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> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
