Hi Andy how are you doing. Instead of going to internet recovery and ending up with Lion again since my computer originally had that this time I went to past purchases in the Mac store and downloaded Mountain Lion over Mountain Lion. It went good but it took my iTunes 10.7 Coverflow away and auto-intalled iTunes 11.3.3 which I didn't want. So then I shut it off and it brought back the recovery partition though that was great but didn't want iTunes 11. So then since the partition was back i tried to do a clean install from the recovery partition and it worked fine but again brought back iTunes 13. So then since the recovery partition was back i tried again to do a Time Machine backup well now what it did was leave the recovery partition missing again, it brought back my iTunes 10.7 but now again no recovery partition. Seems all those Time Machine backups will be missing the partition so now I have no partition again.
Tried to open iPhoto and it works fine now no more crashing and Back To My Mac is also function and is checkedd under the iCloud preferences so now I"m at like a happy medium, iPhoto works, iTunes 10.7 is back but now I'm without recovery partition once again. So I don't know what can I say?
The reason I originally toggled iCloud on and off was thinking maybe it would fix the iPhoto but it originally didn't and then lost Find My Mac and that was greyed out and had a note under sayiing to use Find My Mac I need a recovery partition. So that means that Find My Mac is now checked and working, I can tell when I access it form another computer from the web based icloudmail. It shows up in list of devices when I click on Find My Phone but when iCloud was toggled off and back on Find My Mac no longer worked when turning iCloud back on. When I went to a library computer and click on Find My Phone I saw both my Mac missing from this list. Only my iPod showed up so I knew it was no longer working.
So now I'm like in between a rock and a hard place. iPhoto now opens up, Find My Mac is back on as long as I don't turn iCloud off and then back on but again it had to be done from a Time Machine backup which again leaves me without a recovery partition once again but iPhoto is no longer crashing. So kind of stuck on what to do but it's like a happy medium. Was fine once I got the recovery partition back and did a fresh install of Mountain Lion but left me with version of iTunes without Coverflow so to get that back I had to install from Time Machine again. So now I have my iTunes 10.7 back, Find My Mac is on and iPhoto works but again no recover partition. Can't win 'em all. Ha-Ha. The only reason I held out on Montain Lion all this time was to keep my iTunes 10.7 or else I'd upgrade to Mavericks and be stuck with iTunes 11 but when I dowloaded Mountain Lion from Mac store past purchases anyways it installed iTunes 11 which leaves my kind of in the middle now.