My mac screen flashed then locked up so i held down the power button until is shut down now when i try to start it up the apple appers on the screen and under it the little round thing goes round for 5 minutes and nothing hapens then it just freezes after a few more minutes. Any suggestions on starting u the mac in a different mode i.e.holding down a keyboard key.
View 2 RepliesI installed the new EFI update for my MBA Mid 2011 (the software updater said it is recomended). The update went fine and restarted the mac afterwards.Â
Then while booting the apple logo turns to a grey forbidden sign and nothing happens from there. I turned the mac off and tried again. Same thing.Â
Then I booted the recovery partition and tried to repair my disk. It says that it can't repair the disk because it is corrupted.Â
I have to erase the disk. There is some unbackuped data on it and I can't get it out using a linux-live because my disk is encrypted.
Old Macbook Pro died yesterday. (details unimportant, was planning to replace soon anyway)New Macbook Pro will arrive tomorrow.I have an up-to-date Time Machine backup. Over the past four years, I filled up the old machine with all sorts of clutter, most of which I don't need or want. I do want to transfer my mailboxes in Mail, my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, and a few specific subdirectories of my Documents folder. Is there an easy way to just get these few things, or am I better off using Setup Assistant to transfer everything, then pruning ruthlessly?
View 1 Replies View Relatedafter bought external drive and back up all my macHD , did ask couple question with Apple IT person at Apple store about trying to format my hardisk on my Imac, and deleted some files and try to restart and turn out Imac didn't restart and all I get is black screen with flashing dash looks like I'm in terminal mode or something and my keyboard is not respond too.My Imac model is iMac 7.1, Intel Core Duo 2,4 Ghz also just update my leopard to Lion last year.
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Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I get a spinning grey wheel that will not stop after I power up. I finally started up, by holding the Command and R keys down. This took me to the recovery area where I checked my HD out with Disk Utility. Everything checks out ok. Permissions,etc.
Are there any other keys I can hold down during startup to get to my login area. Otherwise, I may have to do a reinstall of Lion. I have so many other programs, files, etc. and my Time Machine backup disk is no good.OR, is there a way to do a "custom install" of Lion that will just put the Systm Files back on.I have a feeling this is related to a System-Library-Core file that I was having problems with before my current problem.
If all fails and I have to reinstall Lion, is there a way to get back all my Safari Bookmarks, iTunes files, Images, iCal events, etc. that are on my iPod Touch back onto my computer. I back up to iCloud, from my Macbook Pro and my iPod Touch.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Just did an upgrade to the latest version of OS X 10.7.4. Once restart, the MBP stops and a message of "You need to restart your computer. Hold down power..." Did all that, still same message. Did a safe mode start up, but same message. Saw something with regard to kernel panic. But didn't see of what to do or how to fix the problem.Â
What should I do? If it can't be fix, is there a way to start and restore from time machine? Because it stuck at the start up screen and nothing I can do. Â
after the update from 10.7.3 to 10.7.4 , when system restart, the apple logo remains, and the mac will not start.
How can I do to solve this common problem of 10.7.4?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Every Time I have to log out or restart my 10.7.4 Server DNS Fails to start an I get all the standard unable to read settings in the server app
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Some Apps, (e.g. VLC Player, but others also) won't start if I open them regularly, they're just bouncing in my Dock until I kill them.
BUT, if I open the App as a folder (Rightclick, Show Package Contents) and find the executable (Contents/MacOS) and start it, it works just fine. Launching the shouldn't do much other than location this executable and running it.
Since I work with Lion , all programs start automatically. Takes to much time. How can I change this?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010)
I upgraded to Snow Leopard a few days ago, my Imac is from 2008, and today, I upgraded to Lion, and just when the computer rebooted, it got stuck in some form of reboot screen, dark, bunch of code. What do I do now? Do I need to turn it in?
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iMac
I recently used migration assistant to transfer my data from my old iMac and operating system to my new iMac operating 10.7.3. The results are mess, mostly it seems from transferring 2 users over. Now I want to remove everything and start over. This time I will only transfer my account. How do I remove the mess and start over?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Since I boot camped my mac (I think this is when the problem started, I've kinda ignored it for a few months) I am no longer asked for my password upon starting up my MacBook Pro, it simply automatically logs me into Lion.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Since I downloaded the Lion, it takes a long time to start up the mini.
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Mac, Mac OS X (10.5.4), MacBook Pro
I just downloaded the Photoshop CS6 Beta on my Macbook Air (August 2011) with Lion 10.7.3. The Adobe installer app fails to launch. I just installed CS6 on my Mac Mini Server with no problems and in fact, created a new user on the MBA and the installer app will launch and install CS6 under that user account. I have run the 'repair permissions' utility on the hard drive.What is going on inside my main user account that is preventing this app from initializing?
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
my iMac OS x 10.7.3..is 8 months old and now takes over 2 minutes to start up. ???imac slow start up
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Web Sharing Does Not Start I can not find the file httpd.conf
They could give me another solution to avoid the problem of "Web Sharing Does NotStart After Update from Mac OS X 10.0"
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Okay, so my iMac has been slowing down recently and I have gotten the pop-up saying the start up disk is full. When I got this, I went through and deleted a lot of things and moved things onto my external hard-drive. I can't remember how much space it got me, but it only lasted a few days. The same pop-up came up and I was confused because I hadn't really downloaded anything or done anything to use that space. Okay, so I delete more stuff. This second time I deleted enough (my whole downloads folder I forgot about) to get 15GB of space back. That was just a few days ago. Today, I got the same pop-up and had only 1GB of space left. I haven't downloaded ANYTHING especially 14GB worth at least for me to run out of space again.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have bought this Mac six moths ago. Now for unknown reason, it crashes when it starts booting. Before it crashes, it shows the Apple logo, then it shows the Apple logo with a loading bar. I guess it try's to restore the system... I don't know. But when the loading bar starts loading, the computer crashes.
Info:MacBookPro
My Macbook pro refuses to start up in 32 bit mode. At least as I believe so. When I go to "Apple > About This Mac > More Info > System Report > Software" It says "64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No" which leads me to believe (through previous research) that I am currently NOT in 64 bit mode and thus 32 bit. However in activity moniter it says everytihng is running in 64 bit mode, which to me, is quite confusing. I have tried holding down key's "3" and "2" during start up and I have tried the terminal command line for it ("sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture i386"). Both to no avail.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When I open applications now, whatever windows were open when I quit now re-open. When I'm done with a window, I'm done! I don't want to see all the browser windows or word processing windows or whatever I was last working on. When I quit, I expect it to quit - close all windows and exit the program. When I re-launch the program, I want to start over fresh. Is this something that can be set? Or do I just have to close all the windows before quitting?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
my macbook pro froze so shut it down by holding the power button, now when i try to restart it i get a prohibited sign instead of the apple logo. any way to fix it?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz)
I purchased Lion at the App Store. I hit Download, it goes grey for about 3 seconds, then "Download" shows again. I get no progress bar. It appears to be locked up for some reason and won't start the download. Lion is listed in my Purchases, so the purchase appears to have gone OK. It just won't start the download. I am running OS 10.6.8, on a 2x2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon.
I dragged the following to the trash:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist
~/Caches/com.apple.appstore
~/Caches/com.apple.storeagent
Maybe it thinks I have already downloaded but I can't find it in my Downloads, and the "Download" button would not be there if it thought this.
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Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
my mac pro early 2008 will crash a few times just after start up and then it will stabilise and work fine. i have done a repair disc on a few occassions still with same result.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My screen saver was working fine, but I noticed one day that I walked away and when I returned the screen saver was not running.
I went in an checked the settings, all was well. Now I cannot even get the hot corner to work.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
My 2011 27 inch iMac which was purchased in February 2012 is not turning on. I have never had a problem with it until now. I was working on Bootcamp and when I restarted the computer, it froze at the login screen so I force restarted the computer by pressing the power button down for 10 seconds. When I restarted the computer it did not want to turn back on. The only thing that happens when I restart much computer is I hear something that normally sounds since I purchased the computer which is either the hard drive or the DVD drive but no white screen comes up. I have tried to pull the power plug for 15 seconds and then plug it back into the back of the computer and wait five seconds before turning it on and I have also tried restarting the computer while pressing command option P and R. I removed the memory sticks and put them back in properly get the computer still did not turn on. I have a 27 inch mid 2011 iMac running Mac OS X 10 7.4. It is a quad core I73.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM 256 GB factory installed SSD +1 TB hard disk drive with the AMD 6970 and 2 GB graphics card. Sorry for the long post.!I wanted to be as descriptive as possible as I am really trying to avoid bringing it to the Apple Store because I need the computer because I go to school online and have finals this week.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), i7 3.4, 16GB, 256GB+1TB, 6970M 2GB
I was installing latest update of OSX and lost internet connection now laptop will not start just see Apple logo and spinning wheel.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I installed the virtual microscope application "Virtual microscope 6.2.2" as system administrator and all works fine.As soon as I switched to my daughters account (standart-user) the application did not start. All I know is that the application needs java but I see no hint for additional requirements or permissions and also no error messages.I'm using OS-Lion, version 10.7.3?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have a 2008 MacBook Pro that is running a little slow lately.I've done four years of work on it and since it's time for me to upgrade for Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Lion I thought I'd blow everything away and then restore.I always hear Leo Laporte (The Tech Guy) recommend starting from scratch and then restoring about once a year.I'd like to install Lion as a new installation onto my MacBook Pro and then use Time Machine to do a complete system restore.I have Time Machine backing up my system every day on a 500G external drive via firewire.It's completely up to date.
1)Will I see improvement from blowing everything away, installing the new OS (Lion) and then restoring? It seems to me that if I do that I'm just putting all the same garbage that I've built up over the past four years right back where it was. Might as well just do the full Lion install and let it restore everythign on it's own.
2)Say I load Lion fresh; isn't it going to run through that whole "new user" 30 minute script where I have to input all kinds of information? Then I connect my external drive and make it do a complete restore?
Lion won't start up properly,it goes to grey screen asking for my name and password..starts up but only a few things will work! and when I reduce say email or safari it staggers and I have no sound! I have been in contact with support twice but problem has not resolved.If I shut down and or restart it starts perfectly with my desktop working perfectly?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
