A hard disk icon started appearing on my iMac yesterday at log in. I have also started having error messages appear about random software or hardware e.g. error message advising mouse is not connected when it clearly is.
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iMac
Odd stufff, I have a 500 gig Lacie ext HD that my user uses on her Vista machine...
I am setting up a replacement for the Vi$ta machine, which is a 24 inch imac.
I plugged in the ext HD and nothing happened after I powered on the ext HD.
I checked disk utility and it showed up but as a 2TB size ext HD...
I unplugged the Lacie and plugged it back in and all the info showed up correctly.
But ALL the buttons under "First Aid" are greyed out so I cant verify permissions, disk, or repair disk or permissions.
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imac 24 inch
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have tried logging out and logging back in. The Eject is not highlighted under edit. Not sure what to do next.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iMac 27" Intel (2009)
One quirk about the Finder is driving me bananas. I just recently bought a new Penryn Macbook Pro and its the first time I've had a triple digit hard drive (200 Gb). In the Finder view options in Leopard, I enabled the "Show item info" and the icon of the hard drive in the desktop displays the size of the hard drive and how much is free. Right now it says "185.99 GB, ...,27 GB free". (see jpeg)
The "..." is driving me up a wall. I can't stand that it won't display "127" and instead puts "...," in there. Is there any way to get the Finder to quit doing that?
I tried searching but I can't find anything here or elsewhere. Hoping you seasoned Mac users may know of something I can do about this.
Can I remove it? or erase it? I want my desktop without icons
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Does anybody know where this icon would be? (And any other common system ones that are not in CoreTypes.bundle)
ok so my new 2.4 aluminum macbook which i have had for a while and its been amazing is having tons of isues.
kernal panic the screen goes gray with a box in the middle with a power button behind it saying it need to hold the restart button and then presss it again.
i called applecare and the lady had me delete the plist files and for some reason a couple kept coming back and would not delet virus maybe. but i did that then restarted my computer and my doc was full blown huge loast alot of data and all that. plus my computer started to play the video when installing leopard really odd. my email information is gone to...and now my aluminum macbook says in a pop up install box remote install mac osx helps you install mac os x on your macbook air what the ****.
also my hard drive icon on my desk top was renames to ]..
i am scared as to whats going on. i can usually fix most things this is messed up i think its a virus
all my applications have been un installed and stuff. this is so odd. the mac os x intro video huge dock and my computer telling me its a macbook air
I am on an iMac Intel, OS X 10.6.3. This morning, a "remote installer" line appeared near the Apple icon on top of the screen, but very briefly. I could not even capture it.
Should I worry?
Little Snitch 2.2.1.is installed but I have given permanent access (not the "until this session closes"one ) to a few reliable requests such as Apple
After I logged out of my account, I logged back in to see nothing on my desktop except for "Macintosh HD." I click on it and noticed that my home folder is mounted as a disk image under "Places." By "home folder" I meant the folder found at MacintoshHDusers ame-of-folder. I did not shutdown and login again, I logged out back to the main login screen, then logged in again under the same account. Shutting down the computer before logging in to the same account prevents this from happening, but logging out then logging back in causes it to happen.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I deleted by accident my cd/disk icon from the dock and now I can't open any cd's . How can I restore it?
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iMac
How do you switch users without logging logging out?
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iMac
Mac Mini but there appears to be some changes on the layout out since my Mac Mini 2009 model. I am trying to see where the software Logic is set up or stored. And I cant find even how to get to Library.Its like its all changed. When I go to Finder (is this library?), under devices all I see is a Firefox icon and my External Hard Drive.But where is the main drive within the mac?? I used to be able to drag an Icon for my hard drive, ex hard drive to the dext top and it wont let me.Â
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5Â
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3Â
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MBÂ
Hard Drive 500GBÂ Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4GB Mem & 2.5Ghz i5
My Hard Disk is nearly full, and I would like to know if there is any way to upgrade it to a larger disk?
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iMac 2.66GHz i5, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
My hard disk has been indicated as saturated for the past weeK. Despite the fact that I freed Space (90 Gigas of movies) the next day when I opened my mac the Hard disk saturated warning comes up, and when I read the information on the hard disk; effectively there are 0 octets available. It is as if someone is using my computer to store data.
I haven't downloaded any new files and I haven't been working on any stuff that requires huge amounts of space. The situation is that even if I want to save a letter or any small file I have to make space simultaneously. I tried going into preferences to see if there are any malwares installed but it won't open, another thing is that 'mail' no longer downloads my emails so I have to consult them directly on Gmail.
I would be most grateful for any advice or informationon haw to solve this problem,
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How do you change the hard drive icon picture in the top right corner to look like the macbook pro computer? I've seen this on a couple people's desktops and was just wondering how you do it. Also, how do you change the folder icon to something that looks cooler.
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iMovie '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Gray screen and 'prohibited' logo appeared today without apparent reason.Forced a power down by holding power button. Restarted....eventually reached user login screen but froze again on login attempt after password entered.
Restrated again by forced power down but only got gray screen and spinning gear.
Have now spent many hours going through most conceivable options including...
following instructions on http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 re gray screen troubleshooting
have disconnected peripherals; reset smu, smc, and pram;
safe boot w shift key did nothing; Â
safe boot shift+v produced a screen of text that got as far as com.apple.launchd 1
but then several lines of text appeared repeating twice eaxctly same, each headed by disk0s2: I/O error. with [ErrNo 5], then
dyld: Library not loaded:Â Â and Reason: no suitable image found
final line ends with The System bootstrapper has crashed: Trace/BPT trap:5Â
I have tried installing from the original install disk several times but holding C key or Option/Alt key or D key gets no response and I cannot get the install disk to eject either holding down mouse button, eject buttonÂ
I haven't done any recent upgrades or installed new software, no new peripherals attached.
Is this a dead hard drive or does someone have other suggestions that might work?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My hard and back up disk both failed on the same day, strange but the kids were on the computer and things happen.Running Mac OS 10.6 I paid $800 to "super geeks" to recover the pics > 30,000 (many duplicates)I will receive a 500 gig external drive from them today via Fed Ex with the pics recovered . My plan is to move them to my iMac (had a new HD put in) but I do not want to transfer 30,000 pics priorto running duplicate annihilator & thumbnail annihilator on the new external drive. Is there an easy way to do this > looking for help?Can I run the programs on the recovered drive I will receive today prior to my transferring? Or is there a more efficient way of doing this.
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
when I install a cd-r the message appears that the disk is not recognized and no icon appears on the desktop. I am unable to copy to the disk.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I had to power off my iMac by Pressing the power key and holding it several times over the last few weeks. The last time it wouldn't reboot - I'd just get an apple icon. When I tried a safe boot I'd get the icon and it would change to a no entry sign.Next I started up from the snow leopard installation disk with the intent of repairing the iMac disk. The installation disk worked but when I opened disk utility it only found the installation disk. It didn't find the iMac disk.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
How to recover space on the hard drive
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
