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thanks John, I'll save your instructions as well as I haven't gotten around to doing this whole thing yet. Between you and Gordon's help I think I can do this thing just fine! thanks, Cait On 2012-09-07, at 11:35 PM, John Gunn g...@tznet.com wrote: Hello Kate: I'm not Gordon but here is what I would suggest. Boot from the ML stick, and if you only have 1 partition, interact with the table and choos disk utility. VO right to VO space on continue. Interact with the table to select your internal hard drive. Warning, do not choose the Macintosh HD, choose above that which usually is a bunch of numbers. Stop interacting, VO right to partition and VO space. Next choose OSX journaling, and make sure when you VO space on the combo box referring to partitioning, don't choose but instead choose 1 partition. You also can name the untitled to Macintosh HD. When the above is complete, go to option making sure it's set to GUID or something like that. After you go to ok, then you want to apply. This is how I installed ML but of course I had a TimeMachine backup from Lion. It sounds like a lot to go through but you can partition the hard drive in minutes comparing to erase a volume which may take hours. I'm assuming you know how to start when you boot from the ML USB stick. Hope this helps and write if I might have missed something John On Sep 7, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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
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Thanks Gordon. I'll save your instructions. I actually called apple yesterday since I flubbed up and did the reinstall incorrectly and did it On 2012-09-05, at 11:55 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait If you have the recovery tool on a USB thumb drive, just insert the drive, and when you boot the system hold down the option key. Give it 10/20 seconds, then hit the left/right cursor key once and press Enter. This should cause your machine to boot from the thumb drive and give you the options. I strongly suggest that, in the first table of options, you select Disk Utility and then re-partition your hard drive. Be sure to select Mac OS X (Journaled) from the list of options. Then in the Options section, select GUID partition type, click Apply, then click Partition. Once done, then you can proceed to the install as normal. This is a problem which I've only seen once in over 7 years of Mac usage. I honestly can't remember whether this indicates a hardware problem or a software one. I thick it was software, and I hope it was. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 19:38, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it and I am now putting all my important stuff on my back up drives so I can do everything cleanly. thanks, Cait On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please
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Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
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Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twic On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
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Hello Kate: I'm not Gordon but here is what I would suggest. Boot from the ML stick, and if you only have 1 partition, interact with the table and choos disk utility. VO right to VO space on continue. Interact with the table to select your internal hard drive. Warning, do not choose the Macintosh HD, choose above that which usually is a bunch of numbers. Stop interacting, VO right to partition and VO space. Next choose OSX journaling, and make sure when you VO space on the combo box referring to partitioning, don't choose but instead choose 1 partition. You also can name the untitled to Macintosh HD. When the above is complete, go to option making sure it's set to GUID or something like that. After you go to ok, then you want to apply. This is how I installed ML but of course I had a TimeMachine backup from Lion. It sounds like a lot to go through but you can partition the hard drive in minutes comparing to erase a volume which may take hours. I'm assuming you know how to start when you boot from the ML USB stick. Hope this helps and write if I might have missed something John On Sep 7, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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:
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Hi Cait To be absolutely honest, I think that some, (and I stress that word, Some) of the so-called support people at both Apple and also Microsoft are just trained monkeys. Some of them are not fit to be holding the positions they do. That said, I have also encountered a number of absolutely terrific support people at Apple, although it seems to be necessary to go direct to engineering to find them. I still believe that you have a couple of options here: 1. Try backing everything up from your external drive, re-formatting that drive and then restoring its contents. 2. Do a total fresh install, as I indicated earlier. As for the error being associated with iTunes, that's a distinct possibility. iTunes libraries do seem to get corrupted quite easily and I know that I have had to re-create our library on a number of occasions. In any event, I hope you succeed, and that you end up with your Mac back in tip-top condition. Gordon On 5 Sep 2012, at 21:47, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gordon. I'll save your instructions. I actually called apple yesterday since I flubbed up and did the reinstall incorrectly and did it right over top of the previous one without erasing files-big oops! In talking to the apple tech, he said that the error is one commonly encountered with i tunes. He had me unplug both my external drives and do a restart and that *seemed* to put things right. Now, having said all that, this guy also had no clue whatsoever about voiceover, even though I called the special number for voiceover users! So, I'll keep your directions and plan on doing the fresh install this coming weekend when I can devote time to it! Right now I'm not getting the message anymore, but doing things fresh can't hurt, right? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
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Hi Cait If you have the recovery tool on a USB thumb drive, just insert the drive, and when you boot the system hold down the option key. Give it 10/20 seconds, then hit the left/right cursor key once and press Enter. This should cause your machine to boot from the thumb drive and give you the options. I strongly suggest that, in the first table of options, you select Disk Utility and then re-partition your hard drive. Be sure to select Mac OS X (Journaled) from the list of options. Then in the Options section, select GUID partition type, click Apply, then click Partition. Once done, then you can proceed to the install as normal. This is a problem which I've only seen once in over 7 years of Mac usage. I honestly can't remember whether this indicates a hardware problem or a software one. I thick it was software, and I hope it was. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 19:38, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it and I am now putting all my important stuff on my back up drives so I can do everything cleanly. thanks, Cait On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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:
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Thanks Gordon. I'll save your instructions. I actually called apple yesterday since I flubbed up and did the reinstall incorrectly and did it right over top of the previous one without erasing files-big oops! In talking to the apple tech, he said that the error is one commonly encountered with i tunes. He had me unplug both my external drives and do a restart and that *seemed* to put things right. Now, having said all that, this guy also had no clue whatsoever about voiceover, even though I called the special number for voiceover users! So, I'll keep your directions and plan on doing the fresh install this coming weekend when I can devote time to it! Right now I'm not getting the message anymore, but doing things fresh can't hurt, right? Thanks again! Cait On 2012-09-05, at 11:55 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait If you have the recovery tool on a USB thumb drive, just insert the drive, and when you boot the system hold down the option key. Give it 10/20 seconds, then hit the left/right cursor key once and press Enter. This should cause your machine to boot from the thumb drive and give you the options. I strongly suggest that, in the first table of options, you select Disk Utility and then re-partition your hard drive. Be sure to select Mac OS X (Journaled) from the list of options. Then in the Options section, select GUID partition type, click Apply, then click Partition. Once done, then you can proceed to the install as normal. This is a problem which I've only seen once in over 7 years of Mac usage. I honestly can't remember whether this indicates a hardware problem or a software one. I thick it was software, and I hope it was. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 19:38, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it and I am now putting all my important stuff on my back up drives so I can do everything cleanly. thanks, Cait On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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:
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Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
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Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
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Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect. I've already done a repair permissions twice. I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from scratch, please? Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it and I am now putting all my important stuff on my back up drives so I can do everything cleanly. thanks, Cait On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Cait This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue. I really would suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a backup. Gordon On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an error -50 and an ok button. How do I fix this, please? thanks, Caitlyn --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Gordon Smith --- This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options 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 mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
