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"Recovery system update required." for Find My Mac -- after already updated!

I've run the latest round of updates on My 2011 MacBook Pro, and I have run into a snag with the new iCloud control panel.

I want to enable the "Find My Mac" feature, but unfortunately I am not able to, as the checkbox is grayed out. There is an error beside the control saying that I need to update the recovery system as per the title of this thread. I actually already *did* do this earlier today, however, and there are no other updates.

What is going on here? Is it possible that the update didn't actually install properly? I was away from the computer at the time it rebooted and would have installed that portion, so I can't tell, but if I look in the update history, I see "Lion Recovery Update 1.0" from today in the list.

Is anyone else having this problem? I wonder if it's just a buggy update 😝 Hopefully this will be fixed soon by Apple in a subsequent update, but I'm curious if there's something I can do in the meantime.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Just updated to 10.7.2, not listed

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 3:08 PM

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stanswx

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Oct 12, 2011 8:23 PM in response to Supacon

Same issue on my 2011 MBP. It works on my mid 2007 mac mini though. Can't figure this one out. Both were updated from SL to Lion.

Oct 12, 2011 8:51 PM in response to SP Forsythe

Negative, gold leader. Both Macintosh HD and Recovery HD checkout fine.

bmx8

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Oct 12, 2011 9:08 PM in response to SP Forsythe

Nope, I didn't work, disk verification came back with no errors!

nitro345

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Oct 12, 2011 9:13 PM in response to SP Forsythe

That didn't work I'm afraid. Rather frustrating, as I had the dev version working just fine for a while now.

Zrch77

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Oct 12, 2011 9:33 PM in response to Supacon

Same issue here, Macbook Pro 15" Early '11

Jmaster

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Oct 12, 2011 9:44 PM in response to Supacon

Alright guys. Im sure you all got it by now. But apple is having some server issues.

just go to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464 and download the file.

Restart your computer and install it. Should go well. If that fails. then do the repair disk ... etc

Supacon Author

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Oct 12, 2011 9:56 PM in response to Jmaster

Reinstalling the update in this way didn't help me. The process completed fine in MacOS, although I didn't notice anything different about the boot process and EFI and such that indicated anything was updating there.

I still have the same problem with iCloud's Find My Mac complaining that I need to update the recovery system.

nitro345

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Oct 12, 2011 10:07 PM in response to Supacon

I also still have this problem after attempting everything suggested. Jobs is rolling in his grave. I am bored trying to fix iCloud right now; it is just another MobileMe fiasco. Apple servers cannot handle the demand and it has taken me an age to just get things running today...

MCBT

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Oct 12, 2011 10:33 PM in response to Jmaster

I can confirm this worked. I just downloaded the file and then went to the iCloud preferences, where I was could enable find my mac. I just tried it on icloud.com and it works.

Supacon Author

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Oct 12, 2011 10:44 PM in response to MCBT

I tried this once more with no change...

Just throwing this out there, but I also have a Windows 7 partition, and at one point I had used rEFIt, but have uninstalled it because it was preventing brightness controls from working under Windows.

I'm wondering if there's a special way of installing this update (ie closing all other programs, etc) that would help.

Also, should anything noticeably change about the boot process? This changes the recovery system, right? So shouldn't this initiate some special update process after rebooting? I don't see anything like that.

Oct 12, 2011 10:49 PM in response to Jmaster

Same problem, Late 2011 MBP w/OWC SSD, no Filevault, no encryption. 10.7.2 installed from the downloaded combo updater.

Disk Utility turned up some directory issues, so I booted from Recovery Partition and repaired the boot drive. That didn't help.

Manually re-downloaded and reinstalled the Recovery HD Update as suggested by Jmaster, and that worked. Didn't even need to reboot.

Jmaster

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Oct 12, 2011 10:52 PM in response to Supacon

Guys, Relax.

Apple servers are really busy. They are handeling thousands of migrations. Not to mention, some of them have loads of data/emails and contacts. I would just wait it out. If anything, youre being kept from minor problems that will happen.

This has nothing to do with filevault. or EFI password. or partitions.

Go to bed. it will be fixed in the next 10 hours.

Oct 12, 2011 11:05 PM in response to Supacon

Running Disk utility (found errors) , booting in recovery, fixing errors and installing the Lion recovery update fixed my Problem, I can now enable the Find my Mac!

Supacon Author

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Oct 12, 2011 11:26 PM in response to SuperMarioB

I did this process as described by SuperMarioB -- and it worked! I had a whole bunch of errors, but I couldn't detect them while booted into MacOS, so I had to boot into the recovery system first (Command+R on boot), then run a check, then repair on the "Macintosh HD" partition. That found quite a few errors (disturbingly).

I then reinstalled the update from the link above and even without rebooting it appears that Find My Mac works fine now and could be enabled from the iCloud prefpane.

Thanks to those who made the relevant suggestions!

Neovex

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Oct 13, 2011 1:12 AM in response to Supacon

I too have the problem! I have a MBP 13 "2011
All updates are made yet "Find my Mac" asks me to update = (

"Recovery system update required." for Find My Mac -- after already updated!