Is there a way to get a Montain Lion recovery disk?
Would reloading Mountain Lion erase any new data since I installed it?
If I use Time Machine to go back to when I first downloaded ML (and it worked well) will I lose any current settings or information?
Sorry for the inexperienced questions.... no matter how much I learn there is still more!
God bless and thanks!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 750GB HD, 2.2 GHz, 6 GB RAM
You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
You can choose exactly what to restore from Time Machine. The problem, of course, is knowing what to restore.
I think your approach to this is not quite right. Can you tell us exactly what is wrong - maybe we can help you troubleshoot and fix it.
You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
You can choose exactly what to restore from Time Machine. The problem, of course, is knowing what to restore.
I think your approach to this is not quite right. Can you tell us exactly what is wrong - maybe we can help you troubleshoot and fix it.
It's auwsome to have this feature... thanks for the input!
Problem:
Montain Lion was great when I first installled it. Safari was fast and the computer was fast. Now I am having a horrible problem with the computer lagging really bad for a while at start up. Thunderbird and safari take forver to load or don't load at all so I have to force quit them.
This problem has been slowly getting worse over time but definitly got worse after I started up VMWare Fusion for the first time since the upgrade. Fusion loaded fine but very slow.
I have used the Disk Utility to fix permissions, etc but no difference.
I did not reinstall MN becuase it required another download and my speed is slow. Wish I could get a real backup disk for it.... or course I'm not sure if it would need a password anyway... I never got one or I don't remember getting one during my download.
Mountain Lion Recovery Disk?
