Re-install and SMC reset seems to have fixed everything (it’s also cured an occasional USB issue I’ve had for ages). Touch wood.
Thanks Sam and Jason P ---- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] Please support The Galleons' new album at: www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-galleons W: philward.biz W: audio-icons.com W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com W: soundcloud.com/philberish W: thegalleons.com W: facebook.com/thegalleons W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com • Freelance writer and product designer. • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. > On 4 Dec 2015, at 18:21, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try an SMC reset for the Bluetooth issue. In the recovery partition, did you > rejoin your wifi network? Without that it won't be able to speak to App Store > and get a list of your purchases. > > Regards > > Sam > > > > <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> > <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> > <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 <tel:+44%20(0)7747778022> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 <tel:8466597> > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > > On 4 Dec 2015, at 17:40, Phil Ward <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Just tried that Sam. It wouldn’t play ball - says it can’t reinstall OS X > ‘cause it can’t confirm the machine’s eligibility (or something like that). > > I’ve just restarted it again (booting as usual) and all seems normal except > that it's lost Bluetooth - the wireless mouse won’t work and if I click on > the Bluetooth icon at the top right of the screen it just says “Bluetooth > Unavailable”. The Bluetooth system preference icon has disappeared too. > Curiouser and curiouser… > > Phil > > ---- > Phil Ward > > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Please support The Galleons' new album at: > www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-galleons > <http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-galleons> > > W: philward.biz <http://philward.biz/> > W: audio-icons.com <http://audio-icons.com/> > W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com <http://peggysdiaries.wordpress.com/> > W: soundcloud.com/philberish <http://soundcloud.com/philberish> > W: thegalleons.com <http://thegalleons.com/> > W: facebook.com/thegalleons <http://facebook.com/thegalleons> > W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com <http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com/> > > • Freelance writer and product designer. > • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com > <http://www.veilletteguitars.com/>. > • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. > >> On 4 Dec 2015, at 13:23, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I'd try rebooting holding down cmd+R then select to reinstall a copy of OS >> X, usually fixes most problems. >> >> Regards >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> >> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> >> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. >> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >> >> Sam Mullen ACMT >> +44 (0)7747778022 <tel:+44%20(0)7747778022> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >> number 8466597 <tel:8466597> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >> privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in >> error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. >> >> >> On 4 Dec 2015, at 13:20, Jason Davies <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> In my experience, though it's not cheap, it fixes so many things that it's >> really vital to have it somewhere. It also builds a start-up recovery disk >> (with Diskwarrior added) via its utility so it's helpful just for that. >> >> Hope it works after all that expense;) >> >> Does Spotlight (or Launchbar, or similar utility) show the Finder? That >> might persuade it to launch. The Finder app lives in >> System/Library/CoreServices/ (but manually launching it won't solve other >> problems). >> >> On 4 Dec 2015, at 7:13, Phil Ward wrote: >> >>> There was no dock, so no the finder doesn’t appear. Finder didn’t appear in >>> the Force Quit dialogue box either. The problem seems to occur only when >>> the iMac wakes from sleep (it’s just done it again). But if it restarts >>> from “cold”, it all boots up normally. 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