New Osx, Now What

[dmetzcher]

I give up. I had, at first, begun posting responses in an effort to help this person. As it went on, I continued to offer responses, telling myself that someone else might benefit from this discussion - it was no longer about this him/her at that point. Now, this far into it, I doubt this will help anyone else in the future, so this will be my last post. Obviously, nothing that we have told this person has worked. So, my final piece of advice is that he/she should take the machine back to the store where the work was done. He/she is entitled to a consult from "them" anyway.

If all else fails, I'd say target practice is a great idea. How ever many rounds of ammo he/she puts into the computer amounts to that many less rounds available for climbing a clock tower and picking off the general public. I sure feel safer now. While he/she is at it, he/she should fire a few rounds into the printer. After all, it's evil isn't it? It caused all this in the first place by refusing to work with anything other than a Mac. ;-)

Hey, come to think of it, I have a printer that only works with my PC (I bought it prior to getting my Mac). I think I might have to go throw it off the roof as punishment.

 

[jbarley]

Actually you said you were given the opportunity to "Accept or Continue",
it is at this point, which must be more then just a grey screen, that a menu-bar should be available.
Now if your story keeps changing, just for the sake of staying "negative",
someone might just think you're trolling.

 

[hwyrovr]

I'm sorry if any of you felt I was trolling. We did get the CONTINUE line, but it was on a small box, surrounded by a grey screen and no hint of a menu bar and from there it went into full installation mode .

I will admit I'm a PC person and don't understand the machinations of a MAC and why adding a printer is such a major nightmare. I want to thank all of you that attempted to assist and if I offended you - well, that's just me.

The MAC has been disconencted and will be provided with a fine end tomorrow. Drastic - not really, it's kind ot like putting down a rabid dog - he was good for awhile, but no longer serves a useful purpose and is a danger to all who come in contact with him. Dragging it back to the store will just provide more excercise in futlilty, so it's better this way. So around ten AM PST, doff your hats as another MAC bites the dust.

Sincerely, thank you all for your advice - it was far superior to anything we got from Apple, even if it did not solve the problem. And we did try every fix you all recommended - it's just unfortuante that none of them worked.