Can't launch safari after reinstalling Lion
Hi All, I have had to reinstall mac os 10.74 Lion. Having done so, every time I attempt to launch sAfari, it crashes and I get the familiar problem reporter window. Has anyone else ever had this problem? What could possibly have happened? I can successfully use Google Chrome but SAfari? No way. How can it be explained? Thanks for any help. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Re: reinstalling lion
Hello, This brings up another question. When reinstalling Lion, how does a VoiceOver user access the internet from the recovery drive? In other words: 1. The computer has been rebooted using Command R at the chime. 2. VO using Fred has been started. 3. Now it's time to start the reinstall process for a clean install. 4. The OS wants to verify the machines serial number with Apple. Now the question comes in to play. How does a blind VO user access a wired internet service? When I emailed Apple's Accessibility group, they just said that they were working on this problem. Any suggestions? TIA. Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi, Thanks for this. Will it let me eerase the disk first during the re-install? Also, do you know f it is toosmart for its own good and remembers old user settnngs or can I set everything from scratch? I want to set os language and other such things. Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi again, So do you mean that to reinstall you need to be connected via cable? Would the iphone usb connection do? How much does it have do download? I am asking because I only have 6 gb per month and would love to avoid downloading the whole os. Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Dan key...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This brings up another question. When reinstalling Lion, how does a VoiceOver user access the internet from the recovery drive? In other words: 1. The computer has been rebooted using Command R at the chime. 2. VO using Fred has been started. 3. Now it's time to start the reinstall process for a clean install. 4. The OS wants to verify the machines serial number with Apple. Now the question comes in to play. How does a blind VO user access a wired internet service? When I emailed Apple's Accessibility group, they just said that they were working on this problem. Any suggestions? TIA. Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install
Re: reinstalling lion
Hello, Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know about an iPhone internet connection. I'm referring to my local ether net connection, from the Recovery Partition. Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi again, So do you mean that to reinstall you need to be connected via cable? Would the iphone usb connection do? How much does it have do download? I am asking because I only have 6 gb per month and would love to avoid downloading the whole os. Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Dan key...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This brings up another question. When reinstalling Lion, how does a VoiceOver user access the internet from the recovery drive? In other words: 1. The computer has been rebooted using Command R at the chime. 2. VO using Fred has been started. 3. Now it's time to start the reinstall process for a clean install. 4. The OS wants to verify the machines serial number with Apple. Now the question comes in to play. How does a blind VO user access a wired internet service? When I emailed Apple's Accessibility group, they just said that they were working on this problem. Any suggestions? TIA. Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011
Re: reinstalling lion
Iona, If you use disk utility, which is a choice when you boot up with command r and Fred, then yes. You can erase your drive. Afterwards, because it is erased, you will start from scratch. By the way, you can also change your language for the time being, that you have not reinstalled Lion yet. If you need help with a specific subject let us know. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi, Thanks for this. Will it let me eerase the disk first during the re-install? Also, do you know f it is toosmart for its own good and remembers old user settnngs or can I set everything from scratch? I want to set os language and other such things. Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ioana, and Teresa, Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the
reinstalling lion
Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: reinstalling lion
Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of? assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Iona, I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. Hth, Paul. On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Greetings, As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating system language and other settings. During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and purchaser of lion? Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
