Resolved iCloud - Find My Mac

[Weaselboy]

Yeah, that is what I thought. Unfortunately, I am not willing to sacrifice encryption for Find My Mac. I guess you just have to pick your poison sometimes.

I don't follow? I have FV2 on and FMM on and both work. Try the steps in post 15 of this thread.

 

[Patriot24]

I don't follow? I have FV2 on and FMM on and both work. Try the steps in post 15 of this thread.

I have tried the steps in post 15 to no avail.

I read previously in this thread that FMM requires a guest account in order for it to work since someone must connect to Wi-fi to send a signal. If that is incorrect, it would be welcome news, but it makes sense to me.

 

[Weaselboy]

I have tried the steps in post 15 to no avail.

I read previously in this thread that FMM requires a guest account in order for it to work since someone must connect to Wi-fi to send a signal. If that is incorrect, it would be welcome news, but it makes sense to me.

No. Enabling FMM with FV2 turns off the quest account. What you heard about is this creates a new option at login to restart the computer in Safari only mode and it looks just like the guest login but it is not. If you click this login option it reboots the computer onto the recovery partition and starts Safari. In this way a thief can access the Internet and it would tell FMM where your machine is. Again, it is not a guest account.

 

[Patriot24]

No. Enabling FMM with FV2 turns off the quest account. What you heard about is this creates a new option at login to restart the computer in Safari only mode and it looks just like the guest login but it is not. If you click this login option it reboots the computer onto the recovery partition and starts Safari. In this way a thief can access the Internet and it would tell FMM where your machine is. Again, it is not a guest account.

OK, I just went through the steps again for good measure and it worked. I am not sure what the difference was this time vs. the last time I did it.

Thanks for the clarification on guest/safari-only logins. That makes much more sense. Appreciate the help all!

 

[knarzie]

This is what i just found in the Apple forums. I have not tried it yet, but according to the thread, it works.

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.

Original thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3373829?start=0&tstart=0



EDIT* Just tried it and it worked great!!

silly question, but I don't know what 'reboot the main partition' means.

I have tried restart with cmd+r, but nothing is happening. I does not take me to disk utility but just to my regular log in.

 

[Weaselboy]

silly question, but I don't know what 'reboot the main partition' means.

I have tried restart with cmd+r, but nothing is happening. I does not take me to disk utility but just to my regular log in.

If you have Lion installed and do a command=r boot, you should be taken to the Recovery Partition. Once there, click on the Utilities menu and you will see a choice for Disk Utility. After repairing the disk using disk Utiltiy, you can go back to the menu and restart. Once you restart (without holding command-r) it will boot to the "main" partition with Lion on it and start normally. By "main", jam ski meant the normal (no recovery) partition with the OS on it.