Dear Tim, Yes, I think you are right that Lion thinks my recovery partition is missing. Before I tried to activate back to my mac, I did repair permissions and verified disk, and I did this from the recovery partition. Have you got any other thoughts on this?
Many thanks for your time. Andrew On 30 Jul 2012, at 02:32, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > It sounds like the Back-to-my-Mac feature believes that your Lion Recovery > partition is missing or damaged. Try going to Disk Utility and Repairing > Disk Permissions. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-07-29, at 2:35 PM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Listers, >> >> In system preferences/iCloud, the "find my mac" service option is dimmed. >> When I activate"more" button, I get the following message: >> "find my mac requires a recovery partition. Some configurations, such as a >> software or hardware RAID, do not support a recovery partition and can’t be >> used with Find My Mac." >> >> What does this mean? I run mac OS Lion on a macbook air. Any help would be >> gratefully appreciated. >> >> 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. >> > > > -- > 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.
