Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought the whole idea of using a MAC with all the proprietary restrictions was to avoid this sort of nonsense. Never happens to me on Windows nowadays..... Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:26 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > recent OSX.10 will start from a special restore partician if you runrepair > disck > > ric > > > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Nathan, > > > > Sounds like a software thing. I would go back to a blank disc and > install software one at a time to see if one of your programs is causing > the problem. > > > > Leo Wesson > > leowesson.com > > > >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 01:16, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > >> wrote: > >> > >> My 7-year iMac started acting up back in April: it became very sluggish > and finally refused to boot up. I managed to boot it from an external disk > and back up my mail and other stuff (my pictures all reside on external > drives, so no danger there). I then took the computer to the Apple Store > and had them look at it. The verdict was that there was nothing physically > wrong with the internal HD, so they just wiped the disk clean and > re-installed the OSX and all was well?until this week, when it started > showing the same symptoms again. It still boots up but is extremely > sluggish, to the point of being useless. Disk Utility reports no problems > but obviously something is wrong. I recently upgraded to El Capitan but I > do not think this is the cause because it was beginning to show the > symptoms already before the upgrade. Before I take it back to the store for > a hard disk replacement, does anyone have any idea of what else can cause > such behavior? > >> > >> I have my new Macbook Air, and all my stuff is backed up etc. But I > want the nice big screen of my iMac back, and I do not feel like buying a > new computer at this point. > >> > >> TIA for any ideas, > >> Nathan > >> > >> Nathan Wajsman > >> Alicante, Spain > >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > >> YNWA > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >