For those who aren't on Mac yet: think about it...

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 19, 2015 at 05:10 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>even though I haven’t done a factory reset (yet; I’m thinking about
>it!). So I’d encourage you to brutalise your Mini and reset the thing. I
>think you’ll find it makes a big difference.

Thanks, Bill - I did a factory reset last night, now I’m just waiting to see if the problem recurs (essentially it refused to start up, saying it had zero charge, but after multiple soft resets it showed it had 100% charge). Wiggling the connector sometimes would help. Still wasn’t sure if it was a hardware or software problem.

BTW, before doing the factory reset, I made a local backup in iTunes on the PC, did the factory reset, and then restored the local backup. I hope that was the correct procedure and that the restoration of the local backup didn’t negate the benefits of the factory reset…