[macvoiceover] Re: Problems with Lion: and Can and should I reinstall lion?
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:07:17 -0400
Hi,
maybe a totally clean install is in order? I'm assuming you have snow leopard
on one of your externals? Boot into that then erase your Mac HD, and make sure
you have no other drives are partitions connecting running lion or the install
button will probably not be accessible in the app store. Then once you have
the app store download, choose to install Lion on the Mac HD you've just erased
via disk utility.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx
Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
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On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:
> I'm still having a couple of serious problems with Lion. I've installed it by
> direct download from the ap store on my hard drive and by burning a dvd on
> one of my external drives and the same problems occur in both places.
>
> 1. I cannot access Startup Disks in System Preferences; System Preferences
> goes busy and eventually has no windows. However, I know I have alternatives
> for startup disks because if I reboot and hold the option key down I can get
> to startup disks to choose from. Even if I detach all external drives, I stil
> can not get startup disk in System Preferences with the hard drive as the
> only drive showing.
>
> 2. It doesn't really appear that I can do permissions. Disk Utility claims to
> be doing repair permissions but that one line is all I ever see and I've left
> it on for hours!!!
>
> So I thought I'd try a fresh download of Lion and reinstall. Given that Abbyy
> doesn't work in Lion, I don't want to sacrifice my remaining two external
> drives to Lion conversion just to find out what is going on. But when I go to
> the app store, install is dimmed because I've already installed it. So how do
> I redownload it? Should I try redownloading and reinstalling if I can?
> My thought is that maybe there was something wrong with the download though
> that doesn't seem super likely. Does anybody have other sugestions? I did
> post this to another Mac list and only one person replied, thinking it might
> be a spotlight indexing problem because of my external drives but I don't
> think so since it does the same without external drives. I've also googled.
> If this is too OT and anybody has suggestions, you can email me privately.
> I'd like to go on to Lion but it's getting to the point where I'm wasting too
> much time on this project!!!
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> "Let the words of my mouth,
> and the meditation of my heart,
> be acceptable in thy sight,
> O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer."
>
> (Psalm 19:14: Bible KJV)
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