The Zach

Q: Find My Mac in Mountain Lion System Preferences says "Recovery partition required"

Last week I noticed Find My Mac no longer works.

 

In System Preferences > iCloud > Find My Mac is grayed out and underneath it reads, "Recovery partition required."

 

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Selecing more, brings up this message:

 

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My hard drive was never partitioned and Find My Mac worked fine until recently.

 

Searching for this problem brought up an Apple help page. I followed the instructios, got no errors in the Disk Utilities. I downloaded the Recovery Update, but when I went to run it, the installer said I needed 10.7. I'm running 10.8.3.

 

Any idea how I can get Find My Mac to work again? Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Apr 14, 2013 7:36 AM

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  • by The Zach,

    The Zach The Zach Apr 15, 2013 11:45 AM in response to The Zach
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    Apr 15, 2013 11:45 AM in response to The Zach

    Argh. Just spoke with an AppleCare advisor. Says the problem is a result of how an OS upgrade was installed—and to upgrade, all I did was download the files from the App store as Apple instructs. His solution: archive and install. Again, argh.