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.
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.
Sometimes when I turn on my computer, the start up screen comes on and then I can't do anything. I cannot move the pointer on my trackpad on my MacBook. It's just a frozen screen.
MacBook pro(2010) running Lion would not start. Tried restore twice with no luck! Trying to reinstall Mac OS X but I get the message that the disc is locked! Using Disk Utility it shows my hard disc has no problem!
While updating to the newest version of OSX I got a spinning ball. After two hours I decided to shut down the system and boot again. But now the spinning ball start spinning at start-up. what to do?
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro running OS10.9.x and in an attempt to troubleshoot another issue I moved all the system fonts into a folder on the desktop. I didn't delete the font folder, just moved the fonts. When I went to restart the computer all it would do is flash between a white and gray screen and randomly display a progress wheel but won't start up.
My computer won't turn on. Earlier today while playin music it just paused itself. I minute later it resumed. Then tonight it just shut off instead of sleeping and now it won't start. All I can get if I'm lucky is the start up chime and a super quick flash of a white screen.
My computer is a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Version 10.7.3, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB memory. Start-up has become somewhat erratic. Consistently, if I close the lid on the computer it won't restart when I reopen it. I'll have to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds, let up and then press it again. Sometimes restarting after a shutdown the computer will go through the long start-up I associate with a crash shutdown. Sometimes login start-up items don't start up. Sometimes I have to click somewhere on the screen to make the menu bar at the top of the screen visible. Overall, unexpected things keep happening. Although I don't think it probably relates, Chrome is my primary browser.
Whenever I take the hard drive out my laptop just stops working and it's back to normal when I put the hard drive in, is there a way for me to use my laptop without having to physically have my start up disk (hard drive) plugged into my laptop?
Macbook Pro can't start up beyond the grey start up screen. There's a spinning wheel and bar that moves to 1/4 before Macbook Pro shuts down automatically.
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.
I 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?
after 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.
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
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.
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?
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?
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
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?
