By mistake I now have two Skype volumes on my hard disk. As soon as I click on the icon on my desktop the 'Trash' is changed to an eject icon. Trying different methods all result in some message preventing the delete option. I also have similar difficulties deleting a downloaded GraphicsConverter app.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Skype, Adium, IPhoto, Photobooth and preview have all just disappeared from my hard disk. I suspect someone might have been on my computer without me knowing but it seems unlikely they would've accidentally deleted all of that. Is there anyway I can get preview,iphoto,photobooth back without the apple cds? I'm afraid I don't have them anymore. Is there also any way I can check some sort of log to see what might have happened...
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1) remove the rubber base.
2) unscrew all the teeny screws.
3) invert the unit (so its on its top case).
4) lift the metal cover off (carefully as it has a fan mounted to it).
5) pull the foam cover from the heat sensor on the drive.
6) unplug the sensor from the clip on the base of the disk.
7) hand over the drive, invert again to make the disk 'fall' gently out of its casing.
8) un-invert and unplug the SATA data and power connectors.
9) re-assemble the unit.................
I forgot the password when i encrypt my external hard disk .
Is there any method i can do to remove my password without lose the data .
I have a new macbook pro 15 inch and I downloaded the newest version of skype and I can't get the video to work every time I get "video in use by another application." My ichat and photobooth both work too. I've tried everything even deleting the camcamx5.component file but I don't have it.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
i dont know how to remove files from my startup disk
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Does anyone know how to remove a foreign object from the DVD/CD disk drive. I've accidently put a digital camera card in this drive and can't get it out. It won't eject because it doesn't recognise it. I've tried putting a DVD in to see if it would eject with that put it just ejects the DVD.
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I've connected my new Iomega Minimax with a firewire cable directly to my iMAc but nothing appears on my desktop.
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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)
So i put the OSX disk in (10.3) and when i make it boot from the disk the mac logo pops up then it shifts a quarter inch to the right and freezes. I then tried booting it normally and pressed the install button now it boots off the CD automatically with the same result and can't be turned off. Is there an emergency disk remove thing for a powerbook G4? And is there a way to reformat my computer without the disk?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am in need of some cleaning up of my hard drive. Here is what I have done so far. I purchase a 2 TB hard drive, I also have a 500 GB, both external. I have created 2, 1TB partitions. One is for the time machine and the other is for my music, imovies, large artwork files and random documents. Now that all of that is off of the internal hard drive, I need to clean up the dirve do that when I look at the drive, it doesn't say 2 GB available.
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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)
So I have a Macbook pro and I have Lion and my computer continues to occasionally freeze while I am running skype. This issue has also occured while I was running Imovie as well. I took it into the Apple store and everyone checked out ok. And when the screen freezes it sometimes goes all black or a grey textured background.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have Mid 2011 iMac of 500GB hard disk capacity. Is it possible to add/increase the hard disk capacity internally, say add another 500GB or replace it with 1 TB drive?
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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.
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How to recover space on the hard drive
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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
I have searched and googled in different forums and found this issue but never found a good resolution or explanation. many of the posts were related to 2009 or around that time. since yesterday I started to hear a noise like clicking or something (it's a hard disk noise that we all know and have heard) from my hard disk. I have no clue where it comes from. my mac is absolutly idle and no huge process or I/O is going on. its happing once in 10 minutes maybe. Well, I want to start observing it on when exactly it happens! but to me it should not happen!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
The problem is that the mac will not boot period.When I press the Option on start up, it takes me to a screen where I could select to boot from the Macintosh Hard disk or Recovery 10.9 disk.Choosing either of these still does not boot up the computer.Â
I think that the hard disk is damaged but what I do not understand is why I can still get the option to choose the Hard disk or the Recovery disk.I am waiting to hear from Apple Support on when I can take my imac to the genius bar and I was wondering if there is anything I can do before then. Intel imac 27-inch bought refurbished in November 2010 with imac apple care.Intel quard core processor, 4 Gig RAM, 1 terabyte HDÂ
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iMac
Does anyone know what would be a good hard disk wipe program for the intel iMacs? I am also wondering if Dban works as well.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I turned on my iMac (20in 2008 model) and after the apple logo appears, I get a gray screen that says "process 1 exec of sbin/launched failed". I'm pretty sure it's because my hard disk is full. I tried booting up in safe mode, but my wireless keyboard battery died. I put in new batteries, but I need to get to the desktop to reconnect the keyboard. I tried using a usb wired keyboard, but it doesn't power up until I'm on the desktop screen. I don't know what else to do. I need a keyboard to boot to safe mode, but I need to be fully booted to work the keyboard.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
why does empty waste display as N201, and hard disk show as SD5, SD7, SD8?Also Skype not able to open, unexpectedly quit?
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
