If she has iCloud and the "Find my Mac" feature turned on, don't sell it until you can remove the feature. Otherwise her iCloud account will be forever linked to the machine.
Check Apple's support site about how to clean it off. Dan > On Aug 23, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > The recovery utility is apparently in firmware somewhere somehow and you can > wake it up with finger incantations that require something like the gang sign > flashing thing. > > The problem appears to be an upgrade from OSX 10.8.4 to 10.8.5 which > apparently crashed many many machines. I think this is what it wanted to do > last night so I let it, with the GSOD then appearing. It is now saying 3:57 > which means at some point this afternoon something might work. I'm not sure > exactly what it is downloading, what version of OSX but I guess I might see > in 4 hours. > > My wife had pretty much cleaned everything off as she was going to sell it > but couldn't get much for it so it sat since like Nov or Dec (I did not know > this). So now I get to try to resurrect it after it tried to upgrade itself. > > --R > > >> On 8/23/14 11:10 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote: >> It's not the actual OS as much as all the junk attached to it. >> >> And no, it's NOT worse than Windows. Not enough OS left it if crashes to DO >> an internet restore, since it is still, so far as I can tell, running CPM-86 >> down in some dark basement through a thousand layers of interface software! >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
