[OSX-Users] Re: Outlook 11 Problems

[Hugh Glaser]

Thanks mate.
Helpful to have it all laid out.
Mind you, once I have alt-booted I might just go into Boot Camp and stay in Windows :-)

Do you think one or other might help?
A painful problem is that after Safari has been running for any length of time, downloading a file causes it to crash.
Would a simple re-install help, or do I need to go for the full monty?
(Which is why I have been putting it off.)

On 14 Dec 2011, at 13:55, Jules Field wrote:

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> On 14/12/2011 13:01, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> I have a sense that a problem for me is around the file system - something is just not quite right. I also suspect that if I hosed the disk and did a re-install things would be better, but that is quite a business to do in particular because Apple decided not to facilitate that. 
> You can do a Lion reinstall very easily. Just hold down Alt when you power on your Mac.
> 
> Boot from the Recovery HD and from there you can do a totally non-destructive Lion reinstall.
> Or if you want to wipe it and reinstall then run Disk Utility from the Recovery HD, reformat the Macintosh HD partition and then reinstall, again straight from the Recovery HD.
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> In case it decides it wants to download Lion to do this, do it while connected at work so you have a good fast network, as it may well want to download the latest Lion image to reinstall it.
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> I've done this several times on several Macs and it all works fine.
> 
> Jules
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