Clean HDD & load Mountain Lion when it was a Leopard install when bought
Hi,
I want to clear my hard drive and do a fresh install of the operating system. My reason for this is my Pro is sluggish and I have a lot of unnecessary software and to be honest I want to give it a go.
My questions is this - I bought it many years ago and it had Leopard as it's original operating system but is now upgraded to Mountain Lion. Can I install Mountain Lion at the outset or do I have to install Leopard and then perform the upgrades to return it to Mountain Lion?
Hope you can help.
Mark
You can boot into your Mountain Lion Recovery partition (hold down the Command and R keys whilst booting), use Disk Utility to erase "Macintosh HD" (or whatever you've named your boot drive) and then reinstall a clean copy of Mountain Lion. You will likely need your Apple ID to install ML, so make sure that you've the ID name and password handy.
Good luck,
Clinton
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Clean HDD & Load Mountain Lion when it had Leopard installed at purchase
Hi,
I want to reinstall my operating system to clean my laptop and maybe speed it up a bit. When I install the OS I want to go straight to Mountain Lion rather than Leopard and then go through all the upgrades. I understand that I can doing this if I do the following:
You can boot into your Mountain Lion Recovery partition (hold down the Command and R keys whilst booting), use Disk Utility to erase "Macintosh HD" (or whatever you've named your boot drive) and then reinstall a clean copy of Mountain Lion. You will likely need your Apple ID to install ML, so make sure that you've the ID name and password handy.
I just want a little reassurance that this is correct. In my head I am struggling to see how I will log onto the app store for Mountain Lion if I have HDD.
Hope you can reassure me.
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Apple might not let you purchase Mountain Lion from the App Store now that Mavericks has been released. See https://discussions.apple.com/message/23497806#23497806
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anyone have this experience?
We need to know more about your system, please download EtreCheck and run the report and please post it on your next reply. Then we can see how your system is configured, what apps are on it and look for anything obvious. We will look forward to seeing your report.
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Anyone experiencing problems sending mail using Apple Mail viaTalkTalk - can receive but not send - was ok up until pm 24/08/12 - have recently loaded Mountain Lion patch could this be the problem?
jag157 wrote:
"I managed to solve the problem. Under smtp settings (mail preferences/accounts/edit smtp) I set the outgoing port to 25 (as recommended by Talktalk), no authentication (set to none) and unchecked SSL. I found that until I set the port to 25 and authentication to none I was unable to uncheck SSL. One I had done this I was able to send from my main email and other email adddresses set up under my account."
Superb advice R&W! My email sending block using TalkTalk started 2 months ago using Snow Leopard, continued when I upgraded to 10.8.2, and has been persistent on my wife's new iPad (IOS 6.1). Implementing your wise words has fixed all that, and now enables me to call her on FaceTime — previously only she could call me. Thank you so much; this will save hours of further fruitless searching and phoning.
Please remember that your email is now insecure, if you wish to have a secure connection SSL must be on and port 25 should be avoided. -
I used to shoot video in my Powershot S3 IS (Format MVI_.AVI) and load them into iPhoto, I used quicktime pro so I could convert for emailing to family members. That was when I was running Leopard now with Mt. Lion nothing works. Videos do not open at all. Any simple suggestions, I am not real keen on iMovie Productions and not real certain how they compress for emailing attachments. Something simple here that I am missing? Thanks so much. I am a grandpa trying to share with family members far away (quickly & simply).
I am surprised that Apple did not build a converter into Mt. Lion.
Apple does have a converter built into Mountain Lion. It is call "Quicktime." However, in order to use this converter, you must first make sure the compression formats are playback compatible with QT. Basically, there are three levels of QT compatibility. The lowest is "Playback." These file can be played by QT but may not be conversion or edit compatible with QT. The second level is QT "Conversion" compatible. These files are playback compatible and can be converted to other compression formats using QT. "Edit" compatible media files are "Fully" compatible with QT since the can be played, converted and/or edited by QT. The main problem here is that AVI is a "legacy" file format that has not been officially supported by Microsoft for more than 11 years when it was replaced by Windows Media multimedia file/compression formats. Many of the original compression formats used in AVI files have never been transcoded for the Mac platform, use beyond system 9, or use beyond PPC platforms. In addition, some commonly used AVI codecs are proprietary or use non-standard (hybrid) profile and level combinations. In short, there is little wonder that Apple has been distancing itself from this outdated file type as it re-writes and upgrades its own QT structure to support more standardized, more scalable, more modern high definition file types and compression formats. It is really unfortunate that users continue to use this outmoded file type simply because it is freely available, easy to use, or they are simply too lazy to move on to a more modern or more efficient file types and/or compression formats.
I tested Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate for the Mac, which seems to be the "state of the art". I may be purchasing a new camera which might create a whole new set of variables. This program seems to cover all bases and is great for novices.
There are many third-party apps available if you wish to search for them. Many are even available in the App Store. Most do their job well and it is usually a matter of personal user preference as to which is best.
HandBrake seems more suited to folks with more experience and knowledge.
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion -
Aperture doesn't open after clean installation of Mountain Lion
I have just done a clean installation of mountain lion.
After that, I have downloaded my copy of aperture from the store and installed it ( i think, just becase when done, at the store says that it is installed )
But when I try to launch aperture from de applications menu, an error appears and aperture quits immediatelly. The error says that, "an error has occurred. You should reinstall aperture or could be your operating system is not supported", more or less, translating it from the Spanish.
I have been searching for the installed files with finder, but nothing seems to be installed at the hard disk. Even the library that tipically appears at the Pictures folder doesn't appear.
Could somebody help me, please?
kind regards to everybody.Many thanks for your answer.
Attached detailed message or error that I get:
Process: Aperture [311]
Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier: com.apple.Aperture
Version: 3.4.3 (3.4.3)
Build Info: Aperture-310022000000000~2
App Item ID: 408981426
App External ID: 12009533
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [117]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2013-01-02 18:22:43.533 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report: 26292 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 13
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 13
Anonymous UUID: 94615913-F3B0-01D5-C740-D0C4474C62F7
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
/Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Binary Images:
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1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/
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Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move
the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You
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2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
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I loaded mountain lion and now my computer can't handle video or load itunes
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