That's one thing I love about the mac among others, you can restore your system totally without sighted help, I don't know of any way to do this with windows. On Jul 25, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Hi! Thank you very much for telling me this! I'll definitely keep it in mind > for future reference, as I'm sure I'll be using this process to go back to > Lion eventually. For now, though, my little macbook pro is happily running sl > again, and everything is working perfectly. > Thanks again, and I hope that you're having a great day! > Missy > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Ekis > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Problem with carbon copy cloner resolved > > Hi Missy, > > I've seen this one time before. Here's what I eventually figured out. The > cloning process did start the first time I clicked the clone button, but for > some reason, VoiceOver didn't notice that the window had changed. The only > reason I knew at all is because I touched the external drive and felt the > vibrations that told me it was working. Toggling VoiceOver off and back on > revealed the window containing the status of the cloning process. Even > switching windows and then coming back didn't show the status window, only a > reset of VO would do. > > This is a highly unusual thing for VO to do, and it doesn't happen often. > Still, I might write the author of CCC to see if he has any ideas why it > happens. > > Glad you got it working. Hopefully this tip will save you some frustration if > this comes up again. > > Justin > > On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > > Hi, all! Please disregard my original message on this subject. Apparently, > the tenth time or so is the charm. It seems to be working now. No clue what I > did differently, but I'm pretty sure all is well. Barring any unforseen > catastrophy, my macbook should be back to "normal" in about half an hour. > I'll keep an external HD with Lion, and will reverse this process once the > lion service pack has been released or I hear from others that some of the > bugs, most noteably the com.apple.doc.extra thing have been fixed. Until > then, especially as a mac newbie, SL meets my needs quite adequately, and for > now at least, I'd rather have my mac run cooler and have a longer battery > life than to run the latest and greatest OS. > Missy > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Problem with carbon copy cloner > > Hello, all! I decided for the time being to go back to snow leopard, but I > backed up my lion install first onto a separate drive, just so I'd have it > available in case of emergency. Anyway, I booted from my SL external drive > with no problems, and have formated my macbooks internal hard dribe. Now, I'm > trying to clone my SL drive back onto the internal drive, but CCC isn't > working. I make all my selections, click the clone button, and then > absolutely nothing happens. I get a system/growel notification that the copy > is starting, but the window never changes. I've had this trouble before, but > usually, after 1 or two attempts, the cloning actually begins. This time, no > matter how many times I try, it just won't start. I have the latest version > of CCC running; it wanted to update itself right when I was preparing to > restore the internal HD. > If anyone has any ideas what might be going on and how to fix it, I would > really appreciate it. In the mean time, I can either boot from my sl external > drive or the lion external drive, but my internal drive is blank as can be. > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. This is a really strange and > frustrating problem. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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