[mac4theblind] Problem with email
- From: Wendy <wendy.poth@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:51:29 -0500
I'm so sorry. I meant all of that with humor and joy. It was really funny and I
loved reading it. I'm so so sorry that my message wasn't more clear and I so
didn't mean to start anything negative.
I was actually very happy when I was reading it and sad to think I wasn't
clearer.
Wendy
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:48 AM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
<cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ex, cuze me? You need to take this off list, if you have an issue with what
> I wrote. Stop being a troll!
>
> cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> And yes for your information, we are still friends, 100% the way, he thanked
> me for my determined help to get him back up and running to the best of my
> ability, and no, we're not like friends, we have and still are literally
> inseparable, like brothers.
>
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy" <wendy.poth@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 7:38 AM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Weirdest thing I've ever seen! This! is bizarre!
>
>
> The only thing that is more awful than this book you just wrote is what parts
> of it I understood. I got the sh** and the, blankity blank, the hell was easy
> along with the woopse, for using the H*** word but after all that I was lost.
> I think at the end of the book all was well accept for your understanding
> regarding how the book wrote itself? Have I got that? LOL.
> That was really fun to read so thanks for taking the time to help your friend
> F up and fix it. Are you all still friends?
> Wendy
>
> On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:58 AM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
> <cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> OK, so, if this isn't totally bizarre, I don't know what is!
>>
>> My best friend, who like me, is an Avid primary Mac user decided to install
>> Mountain Lion yesterday. So, he went to the app store with my help, and we
>> bought and downloaded ML with his Apple ID.
>>
>> All went perfectly, from what we could see at first. I should add before we
>> go any further that he has identically the same model macbook that I have...
>> the mid 2010 stocked white 13 inch. This system is not a macbook pro.
>> Beware. It is just the standard mid 2010 white 13 inch.
>>
>> Anyhow, he went through the install window, and the system restarted as
>> expected to finish the installation. We hear the startup chime, and think
>> all is well. We give it a few minutes, then hit command+F5. Sure enough,
>> Voiceover came up with the Fred voice talking perfectly. We were quite
>> satisfied so far. The progress indicator looked perfect, and was moving
>> along just fine. Once it reached 100%, the system restarted as expected. I
>> told him get ready, here comes ML! You're gonna love this. Huhho! Boy? oh,
>> boy? was I? wrong! I should a said: Get ready! Here comes disaster!
>>
>> We hear the chime, and wait? and wait, and wait some more? and continue
>> waiting? and more waiting? and, oh, by the freaking way, did I by chance
>> mention, waited? LOL! So now, great as I am, not just at the mac, but in
>> general with trouble shooting technology, I'm going, well? sh**! Um? Like,
>> uh, hmm! what the! Heck? So here I am, trying to figure out, what in the
>> God blessid heck happened, as I swear! we didn't do anything! out of the
>> ordinary from anyone else. So, I had him shut down, and simply restart by
>> holding his power button down. I know, bad? move, but what else were we
>> gonna do!? He was hung! We kind a had no other choice of the matter. It
>> was either do that, or sit here and watch the perty apple whilst singing: I
>> haven't gotta clue, I don't know what to say, what the bird is wrong with
>> it, all the do dah day. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! So, it reboots, we hear the
>> chime, and again, we wait for all eternity. Nothing happens. Just that
>> stupid little apple on the grey background that shows it's loading. You
>> know, kind a the Darwin boot loader, I guess you'd call it, ish. No error
>> messages that I know a, just the blasted thing not booting. It's totally
>> weird, as it said! it installed correctly.
>>
>> So, the next thing I had 'em do, was to go into the hidden recovery
>> partition by hitting command+R once he heard the startup chime. That worked
>> absolutely flawlessly. He did hit the ML, not the Lion, Recovery Partition
>> with no issue at all. So I'm going: Sh'sh'shewwwww! At least? that
>> worked! So, only cause I didn't feel like having him fetch an ethernet cord
>> from the back of his desktop windows machine out in the living room, which
>> would a waken his folks up, plus is way back in a cavinet which, yeah, good
>> luck trying to get that tower pulled out to get back there with all the
>> cords in the way... LOL! So, at my disgression, I had him go up to the
>> airport icon in the menu bar instead, and connect to his wifi network. That
>> worked again, perfectly. Once connected, I had him try to reinstall from
>> the recovery partition. That worked again perfectly. Then the system
>> restarted, but here's the weird thing. Then, it went again through this
>> stupid progression thing again. It's almost like it repeated the
>> installation. it didn't sho anything different it was doing. The extra
>> components it had to download did go through successfully, so it's not like
>> it got hung there. Trust me. We both watched the screen with Voiceover
>> very closely.
>>
>> Once this all was done, the system restarted a second time. just as we
>> thought he would be good to go, we hear the chime, lots of hard disk
>> activity for about maybe 10 minutes, then no activity, and just regular fan
>> noise, nothing unusual sounding. It's not like his processor was over
>> heating, as there wasn't any fan noise out of the ordinary. I'd think the
>> EFI would a kicked in causing the fan to rev up to cool down had there been
>> an issue. OK, yeah, there is the possibility he has a bad EFI, but it's
>> real unlikely. Especially being what I'm gonna tell you all we did here in
>> just a second that proves that not to be the case.
>>
>> So, you can imagine, by this point, I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure
>> out what the hel., parden the language, is going on!
>>
>> Finally it dawned on me, maybe, just? maybe, it's the PRam having issues.
>> Again, it's really doubtful, I completely agree with you all, but at this
>> point, we really had nothing to lose. If you're wonderring, well D*** it,
>> Chris? why didn't you think to have him go to disk utility and run a
>> disk/permission verification and repair the disk/permissions, if needed. The
>> only reason I didn't have him yet do that, is because not even a week ago
>> literally! not even 7 days ago literally speaking, I myself had his macbook
>> literally in my hand, as he came down here for 3 weeks to visit with me, and
>> I ran a disk repair/permission repair at that point, as his finder kept
>> saying busy busy busy almost constantly, and so we thought maybe something
>> with the drive was screwed. Sure enough, it was, and I repaired, and
>> according to the log, it was fixed 100% of the way. So, I didn't really
>> think yet to have him try that, as why! He only just did it and fixed
>> things not even a week before. So, it just kind a seemed thus, pointless.
>>
>> I did however finally have him do this, and nothing at all came back with
>> errors. The drive appears to be completely 100% fine.
>>
>> Finally, in disk utility, I had him go to the macintosh HD volume, not? the
>> actual disk, but just? the partition/volume. Then on the erase tab, I had
>> him erase the disk entirely. I don't mean erase free space, I mean just the
>> full erase. Once done, I had him quite disk utility. Obviously, we were
>> doing this from the ML recovery partition.
>>
>> I had him do it this way, and not literally set the partition scheme from
>> current back to 1 partition, as for one thing, I knew if we did that, it
>> wouldn't a worked, as files were in use from the hidden recovery partition,
>> which we were currently booted into, so even had! we done it, it wouldn't a
>> worked. Plus, hypothetically, had! it been technically possible, I knew it
>> would a been a real stupid move, as that! would a not only! wiped his
>> macintosh hd volume with the supposedly installed OS, it also would a licked
>> his hidden recovery partition clean, so, yeah, that was out of the question.
>>
>> What my goal ultimately was, was to have 'em erase the macintosh hd, and
>> reformat it, just in case something really was going totally wackid. Once
>> he did this, I had him try, without first restarting to reinstall. At this
>> point, he did get the option to not only reinstall, but to install a new
>> copy, which we didn't see before. He clicked it, but then the install
>> button was dimmed. I had him reclick the new copy just in case we'd some
>> how toggled that option off. Still, no good.
>>
>> I wondered if it had somehow again decided to be a thing, so I had him
>> restart. Worst? choice, I ever? could a haddem make! Once that happened,
>> we hear the chime, he holds command+R down, and no? dice! It didn't even
>> let 'em go into recovery any longer! I'm going, what the blue flying
>> blankity blank! I didn't even touch! his hidden partition! I couldn't!
>> it's so hidden, even had I wanted to! I couldn't. I didn't have him wipe
>> the partition scheme, and again, even had I, it wouldn't a worked since
>> that partition was mounted, as was in use running the recovery, to start
>> with.
>>
>> So, I had him plug his external Seagate go flex USB 500gb drive in which has
>> a Super Dooper backup on it of his Lion install which was quite recent. I
>> had him boot, while holding down the option key, to see if we could boot to
>> it. No good.
>>
>> Finally, right as he said he was going to take the b***ard into the Apple
>> Store in his area, I told him to try in despiration one? last thing. I had
>> him leave the drive plugged in, and reboot, this time, without! holding down
>> the option key. Guess what folks!? Boom! Drive wirreled up, we waited
>> about a minute or two, and boom! Voiceover came right the heck up talking
>> with his Lion bootted Super Doop drive from the Go Flex drive. I had him
>> doop it back over to the macintosh hd.
>>
>> That too, worked perfectly. I had him then shut down, then remove, only!
>> then, the go flex drive from the USB port, then restart.
>>
>> Guess what? Again: Boom! it booted like gold! Flawlessly!
>>
>> So, what in the cotton blessed heavens gives here! I am beside myself! This
>> is totally! killing me! I hardly ever stump at this kind a thing, but I'm
>> totally cluelessly baffled! When we called Apple today, he spoke to a
>> senior advisor, who was pretty well just, if not more, as stumped as I am!
>>
>> He set up a mac genious appointment at 10 tomorrow Arizona time to have them
>> look at the thing and try to install it themselves, but I'd still! love to
>> know if you all know what in the heck! caused this!
>>
>> This is totally perplexing the heck outta me!
>>
>> Chris.
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