Re: [sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-16 Thread Philip Tomlinson
Well, the upgrade to Yosemite seems to have worked - the problem seems to have been that an Apple identity was needed to get Yosemite to run despite no warning messages or requests appearing to tell us that. When I was confident that the "No Name" drive was indeed the actual hard drive of the Ma

Re: [sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-16 Thread Philip Tomlinson
Yes but some of the usual Apps don't seem to exist (such as iPhotos). I opened disk utility and there are two drive names: 250 Fujitsu MJA2 and Untitled, so I'm assuming that "Untitled" is indeed the laptop's drive name. She has forgotten her Apple ID. My next hunch is to rediscover this and sig

Re: [sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-16 Thread Sam - MacAmbulance
Is all her previous user data still there? Desktop/Documents etc Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 i...@macambulance.co.uk www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company i

Re: [sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-15 Thread Philip Tomlinson
Well, her MacBook is working ok - it's just running the old OS 10.9.5 despite installing the upgrade to Yosemite. On the desktop her hard drive appears labelled as "untitled" but when logging on the MacBook is called by her name "Judith Miller". "Untitled" contains applications, library, system

Re: [sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-15 Thread Sam - MacAmbulance
Sounds like her drive was erased, can you list th exact steps she took to install? Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 i...@macambulance.co.uk www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a re

[sussex_mug] Helping friend with MacBookPro upgrade

2015-08-15 Thread Philip Tomlinson
Hi I am helping a friend who knows even less about Macs than me. She wanted to upgrade to Yosemite. All seemed to go well with the download until the restart which reverted to the original OS. It appears that someone has renamed her home drive "Untitled" (on her desktop at least). Might this be