Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

2014-11-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and

Re: Mail problems again

2014-11-23 Thread Pat
Hi, Ronni, It’s fixed! I tried all the suggestions with no luck, so started from scratch with the router: discovered that it only had its own DNS number in the Network Wi-Fi panel. Fortunately, I had all the original data written down, so was able to add the necessary. Now I can gather up the

Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni No joy I’m afraid. Also no chime at startup this time - just a litle squeak. But loaded Boot Manager OK. Using Recovery HD, SMART was shown as “verified”. Ran DU Repair Disk twice but had same error message each time “Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - reformat”. No errors

Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

2014-11-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Alan, Might be time to call in your Apple Consultant / Technician as the Hard Drive might be failing and need replacing. You mentioned some time ago both your iMacs 2009 2012 are running OS X 10.9 Mavericks As your newer iMac 2012 has Thunderbolt connection - your older 2009 has FW800

Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni I had just checked to see if Disk Warrior was installed on the 2009 iMac SuperDuper backup. It is! But I think it would be safer to leave any action until tomorrow.To extend your suggestion, I could copy the app to the 2012 iMac and download (?) version 4.4. Or even use the

Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

2014-11-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, To extend your suggestion, I could copy the app to the 2012 iMac and download (?) version 4.4. Yes. Or even use the 2009 backup as the 2012 Startup disk. A too-simple view of things? Follow my previous instructions below - Use the 2012 iMac to run DW - TDM 2009 You seem

Re: WiFi Home Network with Ethernet.

2014-11-23 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 21 Nov 2014, at 7:33 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: My home network has been wholly WiFi for nearly two years. Works well enough, but I’m looking for improvement. Network consists of 2 iMacs, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV to a Time Capsule base (and to an iiNet Bob Lite NBN

Re: WiFi Home Network with Ethernet.

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Smith
Thanks Peter Connecting the ethernet cable had automatically set ethernet to the top of the list. I hadn’t looked at the gear icon to realize it also set the “service order” parameter. I think I had both ethernet and WiFi working in the past when I had a Belkin modem/router with lower WiFi

Re: Walt Mossberg on the Return of the Mac

2014-11-23 Thread Ronda Brown
On 24 Nov 2014, at 7:37 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 11:27 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 8:57 am, Michael Hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: Another point of difference is that Apple also targets

Disk Warrior Update Problems

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Smith
Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed.I

Re: Walt Mossberg on the Return of the Mac

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Hawkins
My use of the word targets was in response to Peter's comment which was as regards Apple's software and hardware supplied to Apple users. I merely made the point that Apple supplies software for use on Windows equipment. Thus comments below arise out of use of extracts from my email out of

Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems

2014-11-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: Hi Alan, Did you drag the DW 4.3 Application from Utilities into the Trash and empty the trash restart your Mac before trying to install v.4.4? Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: 1) Open the

Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Your instructions are for Installing the DiskWarrior received via download purchase. They do not seem to apply to me. But I did follow the steps re trashing and restarting, with no benefit. Alsoft sell a new DiskWarrior for $100 or an “Upgrade” for $50. I understand the software

Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems

2014-11-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Alan I've sent you an email offlist Let me know if you want me to send the DiskWarrior.app v 4.4 to you please. Ronni On 24 Nov 2014, at 2:28 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Your instructions are for Installing the DiskWarrior received via download purchase. They