That's a pretty drastic step. Have you tried repairing permissions from the recovery partition first? 1, reboot the mac and at the chime sound quickly press and hold command+R for around 10 seconds. 2, Turn VoiceOver on with command F5. 3, interact and select the disk utility option from the table of options. ( incidentally, reinstalling the OS is one of the options here - don't do that yet!) 4, in disk utility, select MacHD in the table of disks and then navigate over to "repair disk permissions" and hit return. in a little while the disk permissions repair will be complete. 5, command Q the app and then command Q the options screen. 6, you'll be asked to select a disk for rebooting or something like that - make sure you select the MacHD or wherever your OS is located ( usually MacHD) 7, the system will reboot into your normal OS and disk permissions will be repaired.
See if that does the trick before going ahead with a OS reinstall. On Sep 22, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Brandon A. Olivares <programmer2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I posted about a problem a few weeks ago about my computer freezing when I'm > editing a file. I am not able to find a solution, so was thinking of > reinstalling the OS to see if this fixed it. > > But can someone walk me through doing this? Do I have to restore my data > afterwards? I have Time Machine backups of everything. So what exactly do I > do to reinstall, and if it deletes all my data, how do I then restore it? > > Sorry, I've never done this before. About how long does it take? > > Thanks, > Brandon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
