How to reinstall yosemite

Macbook Pro with brand new hard drive runs very, very slow. How do I reinstall Yosemite? I have read elsewhere on this sight that this might be a solution.

OS X Yosemite: Reinstall OS X

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How do I reinstall Yosemite on my retina MacBook Pro when the only disk option to choose is Recovery HD and it is locked?

I was trying to install windows 8 on boot camp but it said the disk couldn't be partitioned because some of the files couldn't be moved. So I went into disk utility and selected my HD (the second option) and clicked erase but I went super quick and I believe there was an error. Now I am trying to reinstall OS X Yosemite but when I click on "Re-install" Yosemite the only two options for where I want to install it are my recovery HD (which is 650MB total) and my Wininstall bootable windows USB. I don't know if I did something serious or how to reinstall Yosemite when I can't select or do anything with the first main Macintosh HD option in Disk Utility. Please help!

Install or Reinstall OS X from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
      the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
      the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
           because it is three times faster than wireless.

Need help reinstalling Yosemite/Question about external hard drive

I have an early MacBook Pro and I have to reinstall Yosemite because I've been getting nothing but spinning beach balls, slow loading, lag in type showing up, and wi-fi issues. I took the laptop to the Genius Bar at the Apple store last week and they ran diagnostics on everything and all was perfectly OK. No hardware issues, no memory issue and he said my laptop was very clean. He saw the spinning beach ball many times while he was working on my laptop and suggested that I turn off File Vault as that could be causing the slowdown. He said if that didn't work (it didn't) to buy an external hard drive (which I received today) and to back up everything through Time Machine then reinstall Yosemite. I specifically bought an external HD that says "for Mac" and as soon as I connected it Time Machine opened and did the backup.
Now these are my questions. Are all my photos on iPhoto, and my Word for Mac documents backed up so that when I reinstall Yosemite, everything is going to be right where I left it? Will I lose Word for Mac and have to reinstall it? Isn't Word for Mac a one time use/install and will I have trouble and have to call Microsoft to input my authentication key in again and will they let me? I know silly questions but I'm really worried about losing stuff.
Also step-by-step detailed instruction on how to reinstall Yosemite would really be appreciated. Thank you!

YoJoLo wrote:
Are all my photos on iPhoto, and my Word for Mac documents backed up so that when I reinstall Yosemite, everything is going to be right where I left it?
If you have taken the backup using the Time machine then there is nothing to worry as all your photos from iPhotos and Word for mac documents are backup safely by your time machine.
Only keep one thing in mind that the external HDD which you use for the time machine backup should have the capacity size of about 3-4 times that of your backup data size. Or else, the time machine external drive will start deleting the files if the external drive is about to be full.
YoJoLo wrote:
Will I lose Word for Mac and have to reinstall it? Isn't Word for Mac a one time use/install and will I have trouble and have to call Microsoft to input my authentication key in again and will they let me?
You absolutely don’t have to reinstall the Word for mac if its install in the first place because Time machine will backup the system installed files of your MS Word which you had installed.
Word for mac is a one time install and you don’t have to call Microsoft for any authentication key after you have restored your Word backup files from the time machine drive. As I said before the time machine will backup your Word system installed files leaving you no chance to reinstall it again.
YoJoLo wrote:
Also step-by-step detailed instruction on how to reinstall Yosemite would really be appreciated. Thank you!
Here, Yosemite reinstall procedure......
Important: To reinstall OS X, you must be connected to the Internet. Make sure your power adapter is plugged in. Reinstall OS X using the built-in recovery disk.
In the menu bar, choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command and R keys.
Select Disk Utility, then click Continue.
Select your startup disk on the left, then click the Erase tab.
Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format menu, enter a name, then click Erase.
Important: Erasing the disk removes all the information from the disk. Be sure to back up the information you want to keep to an external device.
After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
Select Reinstall OS X, click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Hope this helps.....

How do i reinstall yosemite on new hard drive without a disk?

I bought a used imac late 2009 as mine died and needed far to much to be repaired. It came with yosemite installed. I used carbon copy cloner were I had an external hard drive with a recent backup image. I connected a usb external device and boot from my external backup. I copied the image I had back to the new iMac internal HD. I thought it would have been as simple as that. NOOOOOOO! that failed and now I am completely messed up. Purchased software says my serials are no longer good. I can't do any work. Office 2011 and outlook won't even read my email. Adobe software hangs and won't allow the OnOne software I purchased work. I bought the latest version of OnOne 9 Suite and it fails to install stating to contact the vendor. (of course no one is there to help). I have several photo sessions I need to edit. I am under pressure. I tried for hours to work around and try to resolve my issue. I safe booted and used time machine. It was chugging all night for 9 hours and in the end it said an error occurred and failed to restore my computer. I have now had 1.5 hours of sleep and truly frustrated and had enough. I dug out my PC laptop and posting to this forum. I gather at this point just say **** it and format and start over. Documents are saved and photos are on a raid device. SO I am not concerned about my work. I am concerned about getting the reinstalled software reinstalled because many of them when I tried to launch stated it was not compatible with Yosemite and to download a compatible version. Of course the vendors want money to get the latest greatest. I don't need the latest greatest because the version I had did exactly what I needed and I do not need anything more. My email in outlook is a concern. My livelihood, meaning how I make a living, is primarily based on email communications. My business purchases are in email. My billing and receipts and sales are in email. The last time I had a catastrophic failure with outlook and hours and hours of trying to recover from backups, I ended up asking my clients to forward me their copies and just started over with Outlook. iMail can't handle the 10,000 emails I deal with weekly and the deluge of email accounts I manage. I could not find any other email client that offers what I need... Calendar, appointment collaboration, organization etc etc. All this does not change the fact I am still stuck. I was told in a pop up this iMac is not registered on my Apple ID account. I can't even find where my broken one is registered, remove it and add in this used one. From what I can read, the solution is to bite the ******* bullet, again, and format and start over. Well, with the downloads of MAC OS X I don't have a hard copy on disc to boot from and just do that. With all the issues with Yosemite, I am not even 100% positive I want to go there and just be happy with Maverick and ignore the lies from Apple just how much better Yosemite is as it is not and just a license to print money with all the cash I need to spend to get my purchased software up to speed. Ok, I have ranted enough. I still believe that MAC is better than WINDOWS. Considering to buy a WINDOWS PC had crossed my mind and when it crossed I pushed it in from of the MAC truck and lost that consideration. I am a Microsoft engineer and know all the reasons why not to buy Windows. I need help from the community. I can't afford to pay a Apple support guy that says just reboot and hold down this key and when it fails to help he says he will have someone call be back that is smarter than he is. I am out the cash and never get that call. Your suggestions, recommendations and "How To's" are very much appreciated. Thank you for reading my query and my rant. -Brian
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Thank you to all that helped. I did get the CD from Apple Care and managed to rebuild from scratch. In conclusion, there should be a better way to help recover from a complete disaster. I lost the original computer and hard drive. I had a Clone Copy of the hard drive I regularly updated. I used Time Machine. I thought I had all my bases covered in the event of a disaster. Even the cloned hard drive is stored is a fire safe guaranteed not to exceed room temperature even if the safe was in a fire 2700 degrees for over 25 minutes. (Enough time to have a fire department put water on the fire) The safe cost me a lot of money. The time Machine external hard drive is a RAID striped system with 5 HDD with a failover of 3 complete HDD failures simultaneously. Because of piracy, software installs will go to extraordinary lengths from having a license copy of the software cloned from one computer to another. I get it. People steal. Software companies deserve a pay cheque just as much as I do. I did what I did because of all the money and time I spend in setting up, installing and configuring my licensed software I wanted a fast resolution to recovery. As I learned from this experience it is simply not possible. If your HD changes, there are several disc sectors that are used for licensing that is not recovered in a carbon copy. Carbon Copy to me I thought was old school Bit Copy if you remember. Not so. Changing a motherboard or whole computer even if it is to a same make and model has issues too. It's called an ESN. Electronic Serial Number. This number that is specific to every motherboard made is used in licensing software. I searched the net looking for a way to PAY to have a fail safe system for recovery. I only found systems that are available or for very high sensitive information servers and is priced way out of reach for an average consumer. Meaning, that a complete disaster in your city will not loose billable or liable information about you. You can rest assure that after the zombie apocalypse you will still get your cell bill, hydro bill, mortgage payment schedules and your criminal record will remain intact. We can thank Hitler for teaching us that error when he destroyed the records of the cities he overthrew. It leaves me with an argument about accountability. Why is it when I buy software, I own nothing. It is a licensed agreement to use the software but I never own it. The developer sides with the fact they own the intellectual property and can not just sell it once and loose it. Agreed! It's the legal departments of the companies that want a piece of that pie too. So they remove any accountability of that licensed agreement that would hold them accountable the end user does in fact own nothing. When the software or product breaks down, their system they use that writes information to parts of your HDD that you can not back up and to be used against you because they don't trust you, there is plenty of small print that states they can not be held liable for their decisions. No matter what happens, their fault or not, with or without prejudice, they are not accountable, whatsoever. Being that I had no choice but beg and plead the people I paid money to for permission to use their software, on ways to help myself in a disaster, get copies back, to put me in the same state I was in before the disaster happened without getting further ahead of the game, I was simply told its not my problem or responsibility. When I asked about accountability? I am told read the fine print and when you are done, pay me to get the old copies back, to get the bootable medium you need and all along they way, let me ram a few more policies down your throat and say, your working software you had is no longer supported and you need to buy the updated version.
Can someone explain to me how I am a better person for all this. How about at least explain why I should not cave in like most other people I know and seek out pirated copies instead of paying for them. It's certainly not for support. I go none and what I was offered I had to pay for on top of paying for the license agreement.
My personal argument came to this head. I asked why do companies and people want to rip off each other. Was it greed? Was it economy? Was it the state of technology is changing so fast everyone is eventing on how to deal with this by the seat of their pants? Here is my conclusion: People generally are followers and not leaders. People that are leaders, thinkers and risk takers are generally outcasts, different and unusual people. Einstein said there is a very thin line between genius and insanity. He never said if they crossed that line or not or what happens. I think, the ones that do cross the line are more than we would like to consider acceptable. We coerced by their insane thinking, there leadership and their ideas. We elect them and let them form governments. We allow them to invent things and then tell us we can't live without it. I know most of you agree and some of you will say it has been going on for a long time. It's true. But like I said we are mostly followers. Thus it has been accepted as a way of life. Right? Wrong! The masses are getting fed up. They are being tired of being ripped off. Need to test this??? Just go a mall and on it's busiest night stand in the middle and shout at the top of your lungs "FREE 10" TABLETS, RIGHT OVER THERE" and point at some poor unsuspecting store. Watch what happens People love the word free. Because they are tired of not getting value for that they pay for. Free Software, Free Games, Free this and that. People download by the millions. Why, they no longer see the value of one person making money and getting value for that hard earned money. They are tired of paying for it and getting nothing. The know this intimately. Themselves are ripped off every day by government, insurance companies, banks, energy resources and yes even software companies. We have learned from the best, well at least the most insane. Here is a thought to leave you with as I seek to ponder about this experience and how I thought I had done the right thing for myself... get my value for my dollar: Have we been here before? YES, many times. The most recent one like this were the fat bubble burst was WWII. What happened in that war was not so much about the atrocities of the murdered and killed, the real story was the living, the survivors. The playing field was leveled. It no longer mattered just how rich you were, how new of a car your drove or what job you had made you different from everyone else. There was one objective. Survive. Live to see another day. After the war the survivors were not liberated. We had a great depression. Overcoming the loss of that war and the rebuilding that needed to be done when no one was willing to pay to have it done. We had to put our differences aside. Our culture, our creed, our resolve had no bearing. We were all in the same leveled playing field of life. My pondering is leaving me one tough question... What happened to us. How did we become so greedy and so racist with each other that we threw out accountability. Not only did we through it out, we all said ion way way or another that it was acceptable. Our problems may very well be different from each other but what has not changed we all feel we deserve respect and should hold each other accountable for our decisions. What happened to that very resolve that government bodies, religious leaders and factions, manufacturing and developing companies all feel this resolve does not apply to them. What happened?
LOL: Funny how a 12 cent CD could have been offered in the first place with a little knowledge being shared could have misdirected what I just said to the focus of this group. Wow.
Thank you people for helping me with my issues. I truly appreciate it. Thank you to those of you that put up with my rant. More thanks to those who read it. My sincerest apologies to those I reminded just how life *****. To the rest of you... click the home button on the browser. I hope it lands you on Google, Wiki or God forbid, Bing, were you can start a new quest in life.
-B

By mistake i erase my macbook pro hard disk how to reinstall the yosemite on my macbook because it donsnt read the bootable drive?

by mistake i erase my macbook pro hard disk how to reinstall the yosemite on my macbook because it donsnt read the bootable drive?

usamafrombeverly hills wrote:
when i start the macbook & press cmd+R it goes to the internet recovery
Well then when you erased your hard drive, your erased the Recovery partition, also.
Use Internet Recovery to either restore from your Time Machine backup or reinstall the OS if you don't have a TM Backup.
It will install the OS that shipped on that Mac. You can then upgrade via the App Store.

How to reinstall Safari using Yosemite

Safari is frozen after openingk with a constant "rainbow circle" spinning,
How do I redownload Safafi?
Do I have to reinstall Yosemite?

Hi KathleenfromSanford,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I know that it can be very frustrating when an application is unresponsive, like Safari in your case. I would first suggest Force Quitting Safari. Please use the attached article for information on Force Quitting applications.
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit - Apple Support
Best regards,
Joe

How do I reinstall Yosemite while keeping my personal files & settings?

Hi,
I am running Yosemite (10.10.2) on my 2013 Macbook Air and its in need of some love. Most notably, my Notes app has broken (it crashes on every attempt to open it) and my bluetooth has gone haywire (device detection and personal hotspot works when they feel like it), my display will randomly go black and is becoming an increasingly mysterious and lengthy process to get it back (normally just mashing keys and opening and closing the lid several times over). Thats just the half of it.
I want to say the mass majority of these issues began after signing myself up to receive all these alpha, beta, omega, apple tree pre-seed, under-cooked releases or whatever apple pushes down the pipeline. Needless to say, I feel its time to reinstall my OS though I am quickly discovering that this whole process was significantly easier in a Windows environment which seems really counter-intuitive considering well, this is Apple and things are just supposed to work like magical butter.
So I ended up reinstalling Yosemite through the Recovery Utility (CMD+R). It downloaded from the internet and installed. My personal files were kept intact but it didn't fix my Notes app as it still kept quitting unexpectedly when trying to launch it. So I opted to perform a clean install. I quickly realized this was a TERRIBLE idea as I was unable to recover important settings like my keychain passwords, my email accounts and so forth. Thankfully I made a time machine backup before attempting any of this so I am right back where I started (sort of).
I need some help please.
My goal is to perform a clean install of Yosemite to rid myself of these OS oddities meanwhile keeping everything important. This includes, most notably:
my personal document, photo and music files
my iTunes library
my iPhoto library (and more importantly, the settings, albums tags, image edits etc etc) that I've made over the years
my keychain passwords
my email accounts (it took me almost an hour to setup and properly configure all 9 of my email accounts and i don't want to go through that again)
my calendar and events within it
Other settings I would like to keep, but am willing to sacrifice are:
my iMessage history
my applications
my user experience settings; things like the dock size and behaviour, track pad scroll speed etc etc etc. I'm on the fence with this one since I've plugged in so much sudo code into terminal trying to accomplish things in the past, that I fear theres some settings that shouldn't be restored.
So Apple community, what say thee; what is my best course of action?
Thank you,
-Brendon

Oh boy... throughout all of this i think I've really done a number. In trying to execute the instructions in the link you provided, I receive this error while trying to access my internet accounts panel under system preferences:
"Preferences Error
Could not load Internet Accounts preference pane."
What have I done lol...

How to reinstall mail.app using Yosemite?

I downloaded some third party emoticons and now a windows pops up noting that the plugin is outdated. Searching for the plugin to be removed I opened the Mail.app and moved the webkit plug-in to the waste basket. accidentally emptied the trashbin and now I can't add any attachments to my mail.
How to reinstall mail with the webkit plug-in?
Wient

Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

MacBook Pro mid. 2012 got slow (even reinstalling Yosemite from cero)

Hello I'm Abraham,
This is my Mac:
Macbook Pro Mid. 2012 model (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB, 500 GB HD) with OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
(Purchased brand new from Apple Store since 2013 and I'm the only user of it)
The issue:
My MacBook started getting really slow that the only way I could use it was on Safe Mode. I'm a common user, the most demanding program I use is Photoshop CS4 (beginner level) and I'm extremly cautious installing non-safe or third-party software.
I found the problem was that FileVault bug that makes Yosemite hang or freezes with the last upgrade (If you choose FileVault turn on) so in some way the ecryption process get stuck the whole system.
I solve the problem doing this: (http://www.macissues.com/2014/10/27/filevault-bug-makes-yosemite-pause-or-hang-a t-login/)
After that I started using Mac as common and running really fast and smoth as Mac normal does, not demanding so much from it. But after some weeks from the FileVault problem it started getting slow again, not so much but with lethargy.
So I did this 4 tasks (in that order) trying to back my common Mac speed:
How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
Using Apple Hardware Test - Apple Support (The result from this Test was that everything is good)
And my last move, and I don't know if was the right choice, was format the hard drive with Level 3 secure option (from Disk Utility and took like 40 hours to finish) and reinstall Yosemite from cero and keeping the Hard Drive without nothing (software, photo, music, etc.)
So my Mac now it's like brand new, but it still has lethargy doing things (I mean more than usual) like:
Switching programs
Writing trough the keyboard / 'Backspacing'
Starting up the Mac
Logging in and out from the system (Usually took about 30 secs. - 1 min, now takes up to 4-5 minutes)
Opening Safari Tabs / Finder Tabs
Even with taks like those ones, the color wheel appears.
In conclusion: I can use the Mac, but after some time it gets really annoying, it's like going back to Windows.
If anybody knows what could be, I will appreciate your help.
Thank's.

Thank's!
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
    1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 478
Video Information: ℹ️
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
        Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
    OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 3:40:12
Disk Information: ℹ️
    APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (486.92 GB free)
            Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
    HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information: ℹ️
    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
    Mac App Store and identified developers
User Login Items: ℹ️
    None
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    None
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
         4%    WindowServer
         2%    com.apple.iCloudHelper
         1%    CalendarAgent
         1%    launchd
         0%    securityd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    326 MB    softwareupdated
    193 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
    129 MB    mds_stores
    76 MB    WindowServer
    60 MB    Safari
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    356 MB    Free RAM
    2.29 GB    Active RAM
    986 MB    Inactive RAM
    656 MB    Wired RAM
    2.44 GB    Page-ins
    3 MB    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Feb 25, 2015, 11:17:50 AM    Self test - passed

IMac 7,1. Snow Leopard. 2 printers that printed nothing, or more than ±1/4 from page top. Reinstalled OS. Time Machine BU now allows only latest (faulty) files. ±4 series shown, each taking +8 hours to complete. How to reinstall from 'DEVICES' in 'iMac'?

iMac 7,1. SnowLeopard. 2 printers that printed nothing, or more than ±1/4 from page top.Reinstalled OS. Time Machine BU now allows only latest (faulty) files. ±4series shown, each taking +8 hours to complete. How to reinstall from ‘DEVICES’in ‘iMac’?

You need to get rid of MacKeeper (Zeobit). Do not use their uninstaller, follow the instructions here ...
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
When that is done there does not appear to be a lot wrong if you correct the red ink entries.
The 4Gb is sufficient for Yosemite though 6 or 8 Gb would be better. You may find the download slow so be prepared.

How to reinstall CS6 InDesign by itself from the CS6 Design and Web Premium Student and Teacher Disc?

Hello,
I would like to know how to reinstall the CS6 InDesign. Is it possible to do it without reinstalling the entire disc?

The CS6 Suite is already installed in the Mac pro using Yosemite. When I went to open InDesign its said something about it could not open and metioned a plug in couldn't open please reinstall InDesign. That's why I was asking how to reinstall it from the disc it came from without reinstalling the entire suite again from the disc? It wasn't downloaded online. Is it possible?

After reinstalling Yosemite I cannot run Mail anymore

I reinstalled Yosemite and my mail app and contacts app don't work anymore. When I open the application it prompts me to begin the message import process.
I click 'continue' but nothing happens.

The Adobe Updater does seem to work in CS4 however.
A new Updater has been posted and there are a bunch of small updates for the Suite listed for downloading and installing and it would be a pain to do all of them manually.
If you have library/application Support/Adobe open while the installation is happening, you will see just how many files are being uninstalled and replaced by this operation!
I have just run the Updater (via Photoshop CS4's Help Menu) and it went flawlessly.

How to Uninstall Yosemite? System does not allow Erase the HD, nor does it allow re-install of original O/S Disc (10.6.7). I want Mavericks or even Lion Back.   Thanks.

How to Uninstall Yosemite? System does not allow Erase the HD, nor does it allow re-install of original O/S Disc (10.6.7). I want Mavericks or even Lion Back.   Thanks.

Start with reinstalling Snow Leopard:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. After you finish Setup Assistant will complete the installation after which
         you will be running a fresh install of OS X. You can now begin the update process
         by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your
         installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 Access the App Store to download Mountain Lion or Yosemite. Mavericks is no longer available since the release of Yosemite. If you purchased Mountain Lion from the App Store, then you can redownload it via your Purchases page in App Store. If not, then you will need to purchase it from Apple;
Purchase a redemption code at the Online Apple Store: OS X Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. Use the code to redeem a download of Mountain Lion from the App Store. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.

HT201364 I recently installed Yosemite from Mavericks. I find that Yosemite is slowing me down and causing havoc on my home web page. How do uninstall Yosemite and get back to Mavericks?

I recently installed Yosemite from Mavericks. I find that Yosemite is slowing me down and causing havoc on my home web page. How do uninstall Yosemite and get back to Mavericks?

kenmac1969 wrote:
I'm gonna jump in as I have similar issues with Yosemite.
My two old white MacBooks run perfect with Snow leopard, but my 2011 17" i7 Macbook Pro is a dead slug with yosimite installed.
Tried the start with C held down, also with option held down. All it does is beeps at me three times, then again three times.....
I want to remove yosimite and install Snow leopard from dvd as yosimite runs worse than a Windows OS.
Can it be done, what do I need to do please?
Examples of faults, even with a 1tb solid state drive and 16 gig of ram, it is incredibly slow. Took four hours to install Logic 8 last night, I still have to reinstall logic 9 upgrade. On the White MacBooks I got both 8 and 9 installed in under an hour and a half all up.
Beeping on startup means failed RAM.
Slowness is usually caused by incompatible third-party system modifications.

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I checked my install discs and application install discs, but iWork does not show up there. How can reinstall these programs?

Thanks, mate, but the computer did not come with any iWork DVD. It only had the OS install disc and the Application restore disc, neither of which contain iWork. The error message reads: "Pages cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Pages works with this version of Mac OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and Mac OS X. Clic Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple."
I sent a report to Apple. This message repeats for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. My original receipt shows the iWork app was paid for.

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