The disk utility will check over your drive to detect and fix any issues
it can. There are two types of issues - repair permissions and repair
disk. You can do a repair permissions by picking your drive in disk
utility and then navigating to the First Aid tab and then to the Repair
Disk Permissions button. You'll also find a Repair Disk button but that
will be dimmed because you can repair a disk you are booted from. So
you'll need to boot from another place before you can do that. How you
do that depends on what type of Mac and OSX you're running. The most
common case is to restart and hold down command-R to boot from the
recovery partition. From there you can turn voiceover back on, launch
disk utility and then select your Macintosh HD to do a disk repair. Kind
of a bit of rigamarole but often times fixes up weird things happening.
CB
On 1/7/14 4:33 PM, Brian Fischler wrote:
Hey Chris,
What does a disk repair do? I have never done that before, so it might help.
Yup all backed up.
On Jan 7, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
Just the usual stuff. Backup beforehand, which you say you already did, and I'd
do a disk repair ahead of time. The upgrade only changes the system files, not
your apps or documents. So having a lot of stuff on there should have no impact
on how long the install takes. If the drive or machine are slow that would
change things though.
CB
On 1/7/14 12:57 PM, Jessica D wrote:
It may run slower though I am not sure of this.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey all,
I successfully updated my 2012 mac air a few weeks ago to Mavericks and didn't
notice any problems, so am thinking about updating my 2010 iMac to Mavericks
which is now fully backed up. I know it will take a lot longer as I have a lot
more files on my iMac. I just wanted to see if there was any last minute words
of wisdom before upgrading a 4GB iMac to Mavericks, or if there are any
additional concerns I should expect running Mavericks on a 4GB machine, as I am
pretty sure my Mac Air is 8 GB. Thanks.
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