Confusion reigns supreme here. The Macbook is working fine with Mavericks, but one thing.... I just tried to open my son's Keynote file from Dropbox, but now every Mac in the house says "You need newer versions of OSX and Keynote...." suggesting I install Yosemite and then update Keynote...
Why? I made it and saved it in Mavericks and Keynote 6.2.2 - what's happened for it to now demand an upgrade?!?! Thanks On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 9:32:58 PM UTC+1, mac98aop wrote: > > Now I'm confused. > > Just ran the Mac off the Mavericks Clone, and apart from being rather slow > (2008 machine) it's working perfectly? > > Could it be that my Snow Leopard install DVD is corrupted? Hence every > attempt fails to install it properly (despite what it says once completed?) > > HD installed, and it's busy syncing to iCloud, DropBox and away we go?! > > I give up! Sam, no wonder you're kept busy!!! > > > > On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 10:48:05 PM UTC+1, mac98aop wrote: >> >> Dear all >> >> A while back my wife's Macbook HDD failed, and many of you pitched in >> helpfully. I duly bought a new one, and installed it using a clone of mine >> to get her up and running asap. It worked well, thanks again. But.... >> >> That put her on Mavericks, and for speed she was keen to have Snow >> Leopard once more. So, tonight I erased the HDD, and rebooted with the >> original Snow Leopard install DVD. All seemed to go fine, but it seems the >> install is corrupted. It looks fine, but once you're logged in, after a few >> minutes it won't load a web page, or a window or app you've asked it to. >> The pizza wheel spins ad infinitum, and you can click and select other >> objects, but nothing works. The only option is to long hold on the power >> button to force a shutdown. >> >> I've rebooted from the DVD, and run Disk Utility > Repair Disk and Repair >> Permissions. All seems fine. Except it isn't. It's unusable :( >> >> Now, in having chatted to my wife through the frustration, she's >> confirmed that with Mavericks installed, it wasn't simply slow, but at >> times Safari and system requests were occasionally unresponsive. The OS >> never froze though, and she could simply select Restart from the Apple Menu >> to get up and running again. That's no longer possible. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Do I clone Mavericks again and see if it works? >> Could it be something other than the HDD that's causing the problem and >> for some reason it plays a little better with Mavericks? >> >> Would really value any help. It's been such a great workhorse, but can't >> think it's for the knackers yard yet! >> >> Adam >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
