Dear Listers, Since the news of Mountain Lion - I still run Lion - I've been reading a lot about how to make sure I install it as well as possible. Jo Kissell in his "Take Control of upgrading to Mountain Lion" strongly recommends verifying one's disk for possible errors because if an error is present, this might cause problems during and after the installation. At first I was a bit reluctant to do this because my macbook air is relatively new (end of 2010), and has a solid drive, and I thought, oh no, it is surely fine. But today I actually did perform the verification, and an error was found on my drive and repaired. I therefore thought I'd share the steps I took to accomplish this in view of the fact that questions have been asked on the list with regard to the installation and people have been reporting weird behaviour of Mountain Lion.
1. Start your mac from the recovery partition of your Lion OS. This is accomplished by pressing and holding for a few seconds command+r key combination immediately after the startup chime is heard. It took a few minutes for my macbook air to boot up so do not worry. Remember, Voiceover will not start automatically when booting from recovery partition or any other media. 2. Start Voiceover with command+f5 (add fn key if the former doesn't work). Now this is a bit tricky because if you are on your own without any sight, you don't quite know when the booting process has finished. I kept trying to start Voiceover a few times unsuccessfully because the booting process was still going on. Actually, my macbook air while booting was quite hot so the fan was going, and when the booting was accomplished, the fan stopped too and I was able to activate Voiceover immediately. 3. You will now find yourself on a list applications which are arranged in a table. Interact with the table, and you will see 4 applications here (if I remember correctly). Restore from time machine, reinstall OS, erase or repair disk, and disk utility. Press the button which says disk utility. 4. The disk utility will look exactly like the disk utility application window you are familiar with. Arrow right past the toolbar and interact with the table of available disks. Place Voiceover on your mackintosh hd and stop interacting with the table. Move right to the list of available tabs. Choose "first aid' which is usually already highlighted. Move further to the right and choose repair disk permissions (which you might just as well do to start with to be sure). Permissions will be repaired (you can watch results in the table of results which Voiceover announces clearly as you move around the window. After permissions repair, choose "verify disk", and again you can see the results in the table. At the very bottom of the table once the process is complete, you will be told whether any problems have been found and if the repair was successful. 5. Quit disk utility and restart your computer as normal. Hope this will help. 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.
