HI since Sierra update wifi goes from slow to stop. Apple emails arrive intermittently on imac, yet both these issues are OK on iphone 6 and iPad 3rd gen.
ANy help would be appreciated.
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Verify your location in System Preferences > Date & Time.
Verify System Preferences > Security & Privacy that location services is checked.
Click on Location Services.
Select System Services (bottom of list)
HI Diane, thank you for the response.
All as you said - the only thong is the 'enable locatons' box is ticked but greyed out.
Does this affect anything.
No change in wifi nor emails.
Regards
If your account an admin account? If not, then log in your admin account to make the change.
If yes, then do a Get Info on your User's folder (home) and your User's Library. Do you have Read & Write permissions?
If you do not have Read & Write permissions, click on the lock and set YOUR NAME (me) to Read & Write. Then click on the gear and select Apply to enclosed items... This could take a few minutes.
For good measure, boot into Recovery drive and run Disk Utility > First Aid on your Macintosh HD.
Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
Open Disk Utility
Run First Aid on your internal drive, Macintosh HD
Quit Disk Utility
Under the Apple in the Menu bar select Restart.
HI again -I took a little longer than expected
I Have 'read and write' permissions on both HOme and LIbrary.
I therefore didn't go on to the next stage - should I?
REgards
Since your permissions are OK, I would boot into Recovery Drive and run First Aid.
If you still have issues many users are reporting that installing Sierra again fixed issues for them. You can select to do this in Recovery Drive. With Wi-Fi this can be slow. If you saved the Sierra installer you can run it again or create a USB Installer. Apple has changed the way the macOS installer shows up in the App Store. Previously it was under Purchased tab. You can try downloading again via the Featured tab.
How to make a bootable usb installer for Sierra GM and public release
Hi Diane
I've re booted in Recovery and used DU & First Aid - I also rebooted 'ordinarily' and used Disk Utility & First Aid.
In the Recovery mode the purgeable box was zero, but in the ordinary mode it was a3 figure number - do I need to do anything with this?
I'me replying from my iMac as your instructions seemed to have done the trick.
Many thanks
Michael
the purgeable figure
Purgeable space represents data stored on your disk that can and will be removed if you start running out of space, usually because there is already a copy of that data in the cloud. There's nothing you can do to manually purge this storage via Disk Utility, though. You just need to trust macOS to handle things based on the options you've enabled.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/ 9/#h2
DIane
Thank you.
All now seems OK.
Thank you oncecagain for your help tonght ( .afternoon)
Regards
MIchael
Wifi slow, emails arriving intermittently.
