Hello Mike, The idea of the bootable USB key is to ensure that whatever the situation, you can do a clean install of Mavericks without even needing an internet connection.
In your current situation, you really need to do a clean install of Mavericks and retrieve your data using Time Machine. For anyone updating to Mavericks who uses the Infovox iVox voices, I would strongly advise them to uninstall the voices and do a Time Machine back up before upgrading to Mavericks as these voices cause a lot of trouble after an upgrade. It's definitely worth reinstalling the voices afterwards as they really are excellent. Another thought. Have you done a Time Machine backup since upgrading? If not, reinstall Mountain Lion, restore from Time Machine then uninstall Infovox iVox, do another back up then you can do a clean install of Mavericks and restore all your information from Time Machine without worrying about the voices. Cheers, Anne On 9 Apr 2014, at 16:59, Mike Busboom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Anne, > Thank you very much for your response. I have what might be a naive > question, so please bare with me and be forgiving. > > You wrote: > > "If you have access to another Mac, you should download Mavericks to that one > without installing it, then make a bootable USB key with which to reinstall > Mavericks on your own machine." > > Does this mean that I will always need to reboot from this external source? > If not, once I have booted from it, is my next step to repair permissions, or > somehow attempt to do an entire re-install? > > Thank you. > > Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
