OS X :: Deleting Application Where Mac Crashed?
Jul 31, 2009
So my Mac Pro crashed after I installed and used an application (MacTheRipper) which enabled me to rip videos off of DVDs. I was then using Final Cut Pro and Live Type after for my video project when my Mac continued to crash and soon it won't load anything past the blue screen of death. I attempted to boot up my system in safe mode, but still nothing. And after going through it in single user mode, I still have no luck. At the current moment it seems that my OS has decided to restart itself and now I am in the current process of resetting up my mac. But it's way too slow (taking about an hour or more to load up each panel). So I was wondering if it's possible to delete an application when your Mac has crashed? If so, how?
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Jul 12, 2009
I just installed "Automatic" to my "other" section of my preference pane. I no longer want it. Using a mouse, i was able to right click and remove it from my pane, but in Spotlight, it still seems like its listed under system pref. how do i get rid of it all. Currently, if i select it in Spotlight, i am prompted to re-install to the pref pane.
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May 14, 2009
Next week I am dropping one of my email accounts and I want to delete the account in Mail. The Edit menu grays out the Delete option and right-clicking on the account does the same.
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Apr 22, 2012
I can't close system preferences and it won't do anything else. Did i do something wrong or is it normal?
Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 19, 2009
I used a retail OS X 10.5 DVD to "erase and install" OS X on my PPC G4. It had been running OS X 10.5 without problems before but I wanted to erase everything on it. (In fact, I believe I upgraded it 10.5 with the same DVD). However, the mac crashed about 80% of the way through the process. It displays an alternating sad mac and question mark when I boot it up. I am occasionally able to boot it up from the CD but there is always a kernel panic before I can click the install button. What should I do?
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Nov 24, 2010
ok so i suppose the inevitable had to happen. and so my mac OS X crashed badly within a few days of my getting this new MBP!
i had a short word document open in 1 workspace some firefox tabs in another, and was checking out the movies in my ext HDD (formatted with NTFS).and suddenly i start seeing this multi colored round icon which i guess is the cousin of the windows hourglass. after trying unsuccessfully to force quit, i was forced to hut down using the boot up button. yes, the same procedure that wreaks havoc on the HDD.
- so my questions are - what to do if even force quit doesn't work ? its surprising that it didn't in this case, as i have used ubuntu for almost 3 years and never had the OS crash on me! of course there were a few application crashes but the force quit always worked. and there was the keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- also what is the norm with macs in this regard ? do they crash often and for the flimsiest of reasons as in my case ?
- probably i am not aware of the Mac OS equivalent for the Ctrl+Alt+Del function that almost always works in ubuntu. so is there some key combination that is guaranteed to work in the even that even force quit does not?
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Jan 2, 2007
Im a graphic artist and the other day my macs harddrive crashed and i lost all my work! whats the best way (if there is any) to retrieve it? It would be really helpfull because now im going crazy and people are waiting for their jobs.
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Jul 10, 2009
I have my 17" MBP besides me when it pronated me to restart after a software update. I am working in my other mac pro. Then I see the MBP with the blue screen for a while with no sign of activity. I press the power button, goes black and that is it. It won't want to start up again. The hard drive tries to read or something inside moves just once and that is it. Is not the hard drive broken, there is not reason and is not the sound of a broken drive, it sounds like the optical drive too. But the thing is that there is not activity, no sound of any sort. I disconnected the battery, unplugged the machine, power up, reconnect the battery and power and nothing. Is dead. The power light is on. It seems the software update did something to the computer. It has been on my desk for a week with Skype and messenger mostly.
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Jul 22, 2009
I had an Apple "Genius" swap a hard drive from a MacBook 13" to a MacBook Pro 13". When I got it back, the hard drive was unreadable. The "Genius" said that he did nothing wrong and the problem was that the Hitachi hard drive from the MacBook was incompatible with the new MacBook Pro. My original MacBook was purchased in May 2009 and exchanged for the MacBook Pro in July 2009. When I booted the MacBook Pro from the installer disk, and launched Disk Utilities, my internal hard drive was blank/unformatted. How could the Genius destroy my hard drive just by swapping from one MacBook to another?
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Aug 11, 2009
I'm not your typical windows-bashing mac guy. I really loved using XP and was a power user on XP Pro for years. I still use it for a few programs I use. But I just switched to mac. I've still got my old Sony laptop sitting around. When I got the thing, it had Vista Business on it. I used it for a month, but liked XP better and ultimately did a dual boot. Eventually, I just wiped it (having made a "Windows Image Backup" of Vista as it came on the computer so I could restore it when I needed to sell). The original hard disk crashed at one point, so the recovery partition is long gone. Fast forward to today, when I've been trying to restore to Vista and sell the Sony (for over two weeks).
I have TWO separate backups of the original vista install. But MS has their stuff locked down so much that you cannot restore your computer from a windows backup unless the original operating system installation is still in place. The best part is that Windows PC's RARELY have recovery media anymore, and Sony wants $30.00 for recovery CD's when I'm only selling the computer for about $400. Think about how much sense this makes (same idea with recovery partitions). If your original disk crashes, you can't use the restore partition AND your OS is gone AND you can't use your backup to get it back. The kind of crap M$ is pulling these days makes me glad I made the switch.
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Jan 7, 2010
I just had my first Hard Drive crash on me . When I turn it on it makes a clicking sound for a few and then nothing happens. Its a Western Digital 500gb HD. I was wondering two things. 1) How can I get my stuff off the HD and 2) What's the best HD to get that wont give me any problems. I want to get a 1tb or 2tb HD.
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Jan 2, 2009
My HD on my Powerbook G4 crashed - tried everything, won't start up but I was able to use the startup disk to get into disk utility and create a .dmg file of the HD.
The .dmg files is 74GB. I have it saved to a firewire external HD now.
I am currently using my sister's Powerbook G4 that only has 15 GB of space left.
How can I get into that .dmg file to save all my pictures and music?
PS - I already tried to mount it and it warned me that the file my be corrupt and might cause the computer I am on to fail. So I stopped at that point.
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Sep 4, 2009
I was working my mac using the terminals. I logged in as root using sudo root, and I changed the permission for /urs folder to 754. I should not have done this but I was intending to change /usr/local/svn. Now all the terminals wont open and after the os crashed I tried to log in but that is not happening either. I have tried to boot in safe mode, it is not helping. I was wondering if any one knows if it is possible to log in as root or system. Because at the moment the only thing that seems to be possible way out is to try and repair the OS with the install disk, which I think is risky.
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Feb 6, 2012
I updated to iTunes 10.5.3 I think a few days ago (I don't really keep track of when or what I update). Anyways, today. iTunes has refused to work correctly. Whenever I play my music and go to a different program, and come back a few minutes later to chance the song. The instant I click on it my whole computer freezes. It goes like 0.5 frames per minute. so I can eventually close iTunes via force quit menu. and after that, my system is full speed again. I mean really. I would greatly like to listen to my music I have spent years collecting, yet it just crashes on startup. one thing is I have my iTunes library on on external hard drive so I can access it from my MBP and Mac Pro. It works perfectly fine on my laptop.
Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Oct 23, 2010
So unfortunately, the hard drive on my 2005 G5 crashed, atleast that's my guess. All it does is click when I attempt to turn it on. I'm fairly good with computers, but when it comes to fixing one - I hand it off to someone with a little more knowledge.
I have two hard drives in the computer - one that's got the OS installed (factory 150GB), and another I use for saving videos, pictures, music, etc (750GB). Now, I'm assuming that because the computer doesn't boot up, that the hard drive with the OS is the one that crashed? Is that a safe assumption?
Secondly, is it possible to recover the application files and other data that's been stored on the crashed drive? If so, how much should I expect to pay? Is it something a local 'work from the home' computer tech could do? The reason I ask is because craigslist is full of guys willing to work on the computer for a decent price.
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Dec 30, 2010
I had upgraded my software to Leopard and after a year or so the HD crashed the week before Christmas.
I got a new HD installed and I loaded the Leopard software I had purchased. Today I noticed there is no iPhoto. It came basic when I bought the Mac in Dec 2008, I'm certain.
Do I have to buy the iLife to get iPhoto now? Wasn't it free at one time and came installed?
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Jan 2, 2011
I been using Mac all my life, I have boot camp with Windows 7 X64 install and my leopard is running X64. I been using my windows 7 more than my mac spent 4 month straight using windows (windows put cocaine in there to get us hook). Any way one day my friend wanted to play a game of age of empires on Mac since he doesn't have windows so I boot in mac fine after a swift victory. I boot in mac and windows no longer works: blue screen of death so I reinstall after a few weeks I go back to mac to update and I check my windows partition from my mac all I see is 1 file with weird symbols? I go back to windows and it crashes again. So I figure it my bootcamp has a problem or it my mac side.
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Apr 19, 2008
I'm new to this and haven't found anything like my problem on this website but about a month or two ago our iBook G4, which I am on right now, started to make a weird sound every so often. At first we just ignored it but then in the middle of backing up our HD the laptop started to make that sound again.
I was backing it up in one account while working in iMovie in the other and it froze. I shut it down by taking the battery out because it would not turn off any other way. I put it back in and it got to the loading screen and started to make that noise again and froze up. We recovered everything on that hard-drive and got a new one put in but I was hopping one of you fine people could tell me what went wrong.
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Mar 13, 2009
My sisters PC laptop's hardrive crashed last weekend. She lost 1000's of songs, but they are all on her iPod still. Whats the best Windows solution to get these songs off the iPod and onto a new HD? I do have an iMac, so if theres an easier Mac solution, I'd love to hear about that too. Will there be an issue copying over the music she purchased from the iTunes store? A quick google search brought up 5 year old results though.
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Jun 25, 2009
I just messed up the boot folder on my mac. i can get it fixed, but in the meantime can i access its music folder to sync my ipod? I am running 10.7 with a windows boot camp running xp. can i just go into the hidden folders and get the music folder out?
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Aug 9, 2009
I have important information on it. is their anyways to save the information on it?
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Sep 10, 2009
I swapped out my stock 160GB HDD for a 500GB WD HDD a year ago and put the old HDD into an enclosure. I guess I didn't screw it in tight enough and after jostling around a move or two, I just plugged it in to clear the clicking sound of a crashed drive. I can't even mount it onto my computer, so I pretty sure it's gone. My question is: I was about to take it to Best Buy to put in their electronic recycling bin, when I wondered if whatever data that was on there is secure, and if there's another step I should be taking before disposing of it properly.
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Jan 4, 2010
is there a way to run Drive Genius on Mac Air? The MA is getting slower by the day and I saw the same symptoms right before my iMac's HDD crashed. I want to run a HDD scan but Drive Genius requires that I scan a non boot drive. Since Target mode is not an option, I am out of ideas.
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Apr 12, 2010
I have tried:
Disk Utility
Disk Warrior
Drive Genius 2
TechTool Pro 5
When I tried to rebuild the hard drive on each one, they all gave me the result, "failed," basically, except TechTool Pro 5, which said it completed it with no problems, but obviously it had no idea what it was speaking of because the external hard drive still did not mount on the desktop. I chose basically every thing that each program offered me that might help the disk, but I think it's finally dead. I've had to rebuild it about 3 or 4 times now and it's only been a year or so...
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May 5, 2010
My MacBook HDD crashed and I just had some questions. This is still in the middle of the quarter and thankfully my midterms are already over so I'm free till finals, besides papers. The problem is I was walking around my apartment and tripped over my chair, which caused the macbook to fall and the hdd to fail. I took it over to the bookstore for them to check it out and they said they could see the hdd but not the partition. I'm not exactly sure what this means but I need 3-5 folders out of my documents folder and the entirety of my pictures folder (completely forgot to back it up). I also needs my bookmarks from firefox and calendar/mail stuff (not sure if that's possible) What are the chances of this happening? I'm giving my mac to a buddy of mine who has a good friend that's a genius at the apple store in OC. I'm just wondering if I can get my information back... or I'm screwed for finals pretty much? On a side note I did order a new MBP so I guess I'll have half the quarter's notes.
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Jun 22, 2010
my hp desktop crashed because of viruses. When I get it restored and whatever i want to install mac osx on my pc. but i dont know how to do it and i dont know what version i could install.its a 2005 hp with intel pentinium 4 3.0 ghz processor, 1 gb of ram, 500 gb hd.
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Feb 14, 2012
I recently had 2 computers that were destroyed by a flood and now I cannot de-authorize them (I have used the de-authorize all computers in Sept. of last year)
Info:iPod touch (4th generation), iOS 5.0.1, The computers, iBook G4 Emachines
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Mar 23, 2012
when i was updating osx 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 the system has been crash so what can i do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 24, 2012
My hard drive crashed.
Info:MacBookPro
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Apr 24, 2012
trying to figure out what to get because mine crashed. any suggestions?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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