iCloud option "find my mac" can't be enable, system says "Recovery system update required" and the system suggest to update, but when it checks for updates there it gives a message "your software is up to date". How can I enable "find my mac" option???
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 13-inch, Early 2011
System Update should have provided you with an update for your recovery partition along with the update for 10.7.2. Did you get the 10.7.2 update via Software Update?
System Update should have provided you with an update for your recovery partition along with the update for 10.7.2. Did you get the 10.7.2 update via Software Update?
Dear JoeyR, thank u 4 your care, but i've already found a solution)
Run Disk Utility, and Verify Disk.
You will likely notice errors that require you to reboot to the Recovery Partition, and run Disk Utility from there, to "Repair Disk".
After running Repair Disk, reboot to the main partition, and run Repair Permissions from Disk Utility.
Then install the Recovery System Update again.
For all those who purchased a MacBook Air (and perhaps other types of Mac) later 2011 be aware that these systems shipped WITHOUT a Lion Recovery Partition at all. The bright idea was that all recovery would be done over the internet. The retail USB key for sale in the Apple Store is a lower version of Lion and incompatible with the newest MacBooks. It wouldn't even allow a R boot to get to a full (including system files) Time Machine backup. Why is this relevant? Because without a recovery hidden partition Find my Mac simply is unavailable. The latest update says it now has a way to recover from a Time Machine backup but my experience is that an R boot up simply shows a globe of the earth turning as it attempts to connect wirelessly to apple servers.
This decision was so incompetent it takes my breath away. What if you crash and don't have an internet connection? Say hiking in the mountains or somewhere in a non-wired country? Or worse - a place that is Stabuckless!
This decision has left consumers who paid for the latest technology (in my case with all the upgrades to memory, processor, etc.) without the most basic abilities that ALL the older Macbook's had.
So:
A: You can't recover Lion without an internet connection.
B. You still can't recover from a Time Machine backup without an internet connection
And
C. Find my Mac is not available to you. Period. RecoveryHD Update is for those who already have a hidden recovery partition. It won't make one for you.
You are hooped. Stymied. Eukered. Trumped. Jobless. And flat out cheated of the most basic functionality that previous o/s had and first iteration of Lion had.
Brenda
Thanks to everyone for the information on this. I successfully repaired the disk and reinstalled Lion Recovery update. After this, Find My Mac was available. I have done a post on my site, MacFilos*, to help any of my readers who have had this error.
Thanks again, all
See this page....
[http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4065
Its true it works.... if running disc utility after boot.... and pressing command + r
Then reinstall the RecoveryHDUpdate...
Then it'll work
Message was edited by: Martin Lund Larsen
Hi
As stated earlier there is NO repeat NO recovery hidden partition on newly minted MacBook Airs. All recovery of Lion requires an internet connection to recover from Apple servers. Which is a disaster for many. Regardless the various 'fixes' do not work because to update a recovery partition you have to have one. The apple techs all say that the new MBA's do NOT have a recovery partition. Without one - you or rather me can do nothing
Brenda
Tks for u and SP Forsythe now i finally have everything going smooth
iCloud option "find my mac" can't be enable
