Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-28 Thread Rosemary Spark
Weird stuff. There were a few folders on my husband's Mac labelled Previous System...contains Library and System files. Since everything else apart from selected Mac software ie Safari, App Store and Mail was working, I deleted this folder and voila all is now working fine. Must have been some

Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-28 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Rosemary, Did your husband upgrade from ‘Snow Leopard’? If so it was probably on his Snow Leopard system before he upgraded to Yosemite. The “Previous System Folder was made during re-installations of Mac OS X. They contain all that needed to be saved in case your new install went wrong. I

Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-25 Thread Rosemary Spark
Ronni As for Macbook same as mine (except for size) MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) He has signed in with Apple ID. Not sure about prompts to questions when he signed in. Can he re-do that somehow? The problems seem to be with most Apple programs, Mail and App store. Can't do

Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-24 Thread Ronni Brown
What are the details of your husband's MacBook? Are you sure that the MacBook is supported for Yosemite? Cheers, Ronni On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:34 pm, Rosemary Spark arkaysp...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for taking over the network! My husband's Macbook has a problem with Safari and the App

Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-24 Thread Ronni Brown
What are the details of your husband's MacBook? Are you sure that the MacBook is supported for Yosemite? After installing Yosemite did he respond to all the- Immediate Questions - Password Prompts - Optimization (which includes Spotlight re-indexing your disk)? Has he been able to sign in with

Yosemite and system software

2014-10-23 Thread Rosemary Spark
Sorry for taking over the network! My husband's Macbook has a problem with Safari and the App store. Upon opening Safari nothing works; the same with the App store. If re-starting Safari will work, then if closed and re-opened will stop working. Anybody come upon this and solved this? Cheers

Re: Yosemite and system software

2014-10-23 Thread Severin Crisp
No need to apologise Rosemary, makes interesting reading but sorry for your traumas! Severin Crisp On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:34 pm, Rosemary Spark arkaysp...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for taking over the network! My husband's Macbook has a problem with Safari and the App store. Upon opening