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Find My Mac still greyed out after update

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ekundayo

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Oct 12, 2011
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Anyone else having this problem?

I downloaded the Lion recovery update through software update (though I did it AFTER downloading 10.7.2), and restarted, yet in my iCloud pref pane, find my mac is still greyed out and says "Recovery system update required" below it.

Any thoughts?
 
i have the same problem.
did u use the GM of 10.7.2 and then rolled back to 10.7.1 and then installed the official update?
 
Not sure (and don't really make sense) but IIRC, I had to update to iPhoto 9.2 from the AppStore in order to get that feature... :confused:
 
"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.

I bet your problem will be solved."

this fixed it for me. found it on the apple discussion boards
 
faible said:
"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.

I bet your problem will be solved."

this fixed it for me. found it on the apple discussion boards
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This is exactly where I am. I have an appointment at the genius bar for another issue, so I think I'll let them handle it. I can't seem to locate the jump drive OS that came with my machine.
 
LapsangSouchong said:
This is exactly where I am. I have an appointment at the genius bar for another issue, so I think I'll let them handle it. I can't seem to locate the jump drive OS that came with my machine.
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jump drive os?
just restart and hold "alt", then select the recovery partition
 
it's 2:56 pm here, sun is shining :p

well thanks to the guy on the apple board... btw.. first time i didnt do it exactly like he said and it didnt work. follow his instructions exactly!
cheers
 
faible said:
it's 2:56 pm here, sun is shining :p

well thanks to the guy on the apple board... btw.. first time i didnt do it exactly like he said and it didnt work. follow his instructions exactly!
cheers
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Yes my brain went old school and said "must find OS install disc." I rebooted in recovery and am running through it now. Thanks again. Cheers
 
As described, I found out my startup disk needed repair, booted into recovery to do that, THEN returned to normal and ran permissions repair, THEN re-installed the manually downloaded recovery update, and bingo!

Agreed - hopefully I never need to use it!
 
I went more than once through every step with Disk Utility and re-install RecoveryHDUpdate but Find My Mac is still grey until I Click "Enable Journaling" in Disk Utility so the startup disk becomes Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and after re-install RecoveryHDUpdate Find My Mac works.
 
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