Hi Ronni, Thanks for the instructions.
I’ll report back shortly. Cheers, Walter On 10 Feb 2014, at 10:58 , Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > I still feel you have some corruption on your Mavericks system (or Drive > failing). > You did not mention if you 'Repaired' the Hard Drive that I mentioned in a > previous email. You only mentioned you had repaired permissions. > > I would suggest you Repair the Hard Drive following the instructions below > and then Reinstall Mavericks. > > Re-download and reinstall Mavericks. > > Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and > hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. > Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down > the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD > and click on the downward pointing arrow button. > > Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from > the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. > > When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select > your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side > list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status > of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is > failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB > drives.) > > If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the > left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then > click on the Repair Disk button. > If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until > no errors are reported. > If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until > the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. > > Reinstall Mavericks: Select Reinstall Mavericks and click on the Continue > button. > > Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet > if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
