Great, thanks Buddy, I'll give that a go. I tried booting into safemode a couple of days ago but that wouldn't talk, even with command f5. I'm going to be doing the format in a couple of hours. Just backing things up to a second USB drive.
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Jul 2015, at 14:01, Buddy Brannan <[email protected]> wrote: > > No sighted help required. Shut down your Mac and then restart it while > holding down CMD+r as it chimes. Wait a few seconds, then let go. Wait a bit > longer and press CMD+F5. You can access disk utility from here with Fred. > Fred will walk you through a disk erase, then an OS reinstall. > > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: 814-860-3194 > Mobile: 814-431-0962 > Email: [email protected] > > > > >> On Jul 6, 2015, at 8:44 AM, 'onlineeagle' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I've managed to do something stupid with read write permitions and now >> my mac is running rediculously slow. I've tried repairin permitions but that >> hasn't helped. I think it might be a good idea for a format anyway, so I was >> wondering whether it is possible to do this without sighted help, or am I >> going to have to call in the eyes on this one? >> >> Thanks.Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
