When I last posted about my wife’s Mac Mini, I had an issue that I couldn’t fix. Software update would throw this error;
The operation couldn’t be completed (nsurlerrordomain error -1012)
There were plenty of suggestions that I found via Google searches, but none of them worked. I then decided to do a reinstall the OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) operating system. Fortunately, Apple makes the process easy and it doesn’t affect your data. Here’s how I did it:
- You need to be connected to the Internet. So make sure your Mac is plugged into an Ethernet cable on a network that has access to the Internet. If you use WiFi, have your WiFi password handy. You’ll need it in a few minutes. But if I were you, I’d use Ethernet.
- Restart your Mac.
- Hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys while your Mac restarts.
- If you’re using WiFi, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu in the top-right corner of the screen. This is when you’ll need your WiFi password.
- Select Reinstall OS X, and then click Continue.
- Follow the onscreen instructions.
- In the pane where you select a disk, select your current OS X disk (usually only one hard disk will appear).
- To start the installation, click Install.
Now you need to go find something else to do. The process uses your Internet connection to download some files and then it installs. So depending on the speed of your Internet connection, the process can take as long as three hours. But at the end of it, it fixed my issue. I know that because it had to redownload the 10.8.2 update, followed by a reboot and a few other updates. I found that weird as I would think that if it spent all that time downloading files to reinstall the operating system, it would download the latest files. I can only conclude that some part of the Software Update mechanism got corrupted in some way, which is why a reinstall worked. I’ll also note that most things worked but I had to reinstall Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac via forcing an update.
Now Apple should really find a way to fix this without having to reinstall the operating system as that’s is kind of overkill. But it worked so I’m not arguing. Still there has to be a better way to fix this. If anyone has a better way to fix this, please post a comment and share your wisdom.
On another note, I also mentioned that these new Mac Mini models had an with video via the HDMI port and Intel was working on a fix. There’s now an update to the EFI firmware that apparently fixes this. I’ve installed it on my wife’s Mac Mini but I couldn’t tell you if it works or not. My wife’s 1920×1080 widescreen display is connected via the Thunderbolt connector.
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An Update On My Wife’s Mac Mini
When I last posted about my wife’s Mac Mini, I had an issue that I couldn’t fix. Software update would throw this error;
The operation couldn’t be completed (nsurlerrordomain error -1012)
There were plenty of suggestions that I found via Google searches, but none of them worked. I then decided to do a reinstall the OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) operating system. Fortunately, Apple makes the process easy and it doesn’t affect your data. Here’s how I did it:
Now you need to go find something else to do. The process uses your Internet connection to download some files and then it installs. So depending on the speed of your Internet connection, the process can take as long as three hours. But at the end of it, it fixed my issue. I know that because it had to redownload the 10.8.2 update, followed by a reboot and a few other updates. I found that weird as I would think that if it spent all that time downloading files to reinstall the operating system, it would download the latest files. I can only conclude that some part of the Software Update mechanism got corrupted in some way, which is why a reinstall worked. I’ll also note that most things worked but I had to reinstall Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac via forcing an update.
Now Apple should really find a way to fix this without having to reinstall the operating system as that’s is kind of overkill. But it worked so I’m not arguing. Still there has to be a better way to fix this. If anyone has a better way to fix this, please post a comment and share your wisdom.
On another note, I also mentioned that these new Mac Mini models had an with video via the HDMI port and Intel was working on a fix. There’s now an update to the EFI firmware that apparently fixes this. I’ve installed it on my wife’s Mac Mini but I couldn’t tell you if it works or not. My wife’s 1920×1080 widescreen display is connected via the Thunderbolt connector.
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