After installing Yosemite beta on external drive, Mavericks doesn't startup from the internal drive
Hi,
After I installed OS X Yosemite Beta on my external hard drive, my Macbook Pro no longer recognises and boots from the Mavericks partition on my internal drive. instead, it starts up the Yosemite installer even when the external drive is not connected.
And when holding the option key during startup, it shows 2 partitions: "OS X Installer" (that I've not created) and "Recovery-10.9.5". However from the system preferences in Yosemite, the partition is shown as a startup disk. and also i can see the Macintosh HD partition and its contents in Yosemite.
Any idea how to make it boot normally when turning on the macbook? any help appreciated!
Thanks!
Try this:
Go to "System preferences"
Click on " Boot-up Disk" (4th row)
Select the disk you want to boot
Restart the computer
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The Yosemite upgrade very often damages existing Photoshop installations. Thank Apple for that.
You need to uninstall and re-install Photoshop, then apply all the Photoshop upgrades from scratch.
But first, give us details about your setup:
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such as your platform (Mac or Win),
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the type of file you were working on,
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what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
A screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
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https://www.apple.com/support/osx/
https://www.apple.com/support/quickassist/
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