I managed to get Mom’s MacBook back running again today. I had to create an Apple ID on my machine, tap her Gmail, verify the address and confirm all the profile data before I could go back to hers to do the actual downloading, but it got done.

It took about an hour to download OS X Yosemite to her machine (wirelessly; maybe it would have taken less had she been directly connected to the router. Does anybody know?) and then another hour or so to install the bugger, but it’s a going concern again.

I hate stuff like this. Back when I was 35 it was interesting. Now it’s just a royal pain in the backside.