Hi Bill, 1. Reboot the Mac and hold down Command+R to boot into Recovery 2. Select “Recovery HD” at the boot menu 3. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select “Disk Utility” 4. Select the boot volume or partition from the left menu and click on the “Repair” tab 5. Repair Disk is now possible, click on “Repair Disk” to repair the boot volume
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 27 Oct 2014, at 9:03 am, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter, > > I have had my share of issues with Mavericks. So when I see recommendations > to go another change/upgrade I am ever more reluctant. > > I won’t go into details but Mail has a some random behaviours, I still get > the occasional (random) warning about an improper removal of an external > disk. In the latter, no disk has been removed and nothing touches the USB in > the side of the laptop. Permissions repair takes sometimes an hour etc etc. > > So Yosemite? > > Bill > > >> On 27 Oct 2014, at 7:52, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On 24 Oct 2014, at 3:51 pm, Marlene Oostryck <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello David, >>> >>> I too had a problem this week with bank transfers to a nominated account >>> (RABO/Macquarie Bank) which I have been doing for many years. >>> I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.10. The transfers would not >>> go through using Safari. >>> I only use Safari - but tried using Firefox and the transfers went through >>> easily. >>> >>> So, as I prefer using Safari, I will be spending this weekend carefully >>> going through the WAMUG posts to be dragged kicking and screaming to >>> upgrade from my comfortable SL to Mavericks. Yosemite is a step too far! >>> >>> Hope it all goes well for me. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Marlene Oostryck >> >> >> Actually Marlene, if you intend going to Mavericks you might as weil go the >> "extra step" and install Yosemite, for the following reasons: >> >> 1. Apple have dropped Mavericks from the App Store, so if you haven't >> already downloaded a copy prior to the release of Yosemite you're going to >> find it a challenge finding a copy. >> >> 2. Apart from a handful of key improvements, the differences between >> Mavericks and Yosemite are largely cosmetic. Coming from Snow Leopard, your >> learning curve will be the same either way. >> >> 3. As nice as Mavericks was, it still had a few little rough edges that >> Yosemite has finally polished off. There will be no advantage to you trying >> to upgrade to Mavericks instead of Yosemite. >> >> You will have to make the move at some time. Now is the perfect time. >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
-- 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>
