Enable each piece of third party software one-by-one, rebooting after each one is enabled to see whether the newly enabled piece of software causes the panic. When you find the culprit, if this is software you really need, check to see if there’s a later version available and install it. If you need further help you can contact us for remote, phone, or email support.

So what is your suggestion, what should I do? And thank you a lot in advance 🙂 Besnik •.

If that fails, there may be no choice but to reinstall OS X. Here’s the reply I posted on July 26 for someone else who had the same experience, Isabella: Next try a “Safe Boot”. The Safe Boot disables any third party software that normally loads at boot up, but more importantly it rebuilds the Launch Database on your hard disk.

Luckily there a few Apple approved Time Machine backup options sans Time Capsule. However, not everyone will be able or willing to use a spare Mac as a backup location or attach yet another external drive or even buy an expensive Time Machine capable NAS. Run the latest Apple Disk First Aid (this is part of Disk Utility in Mac OS X) on your drives once a month or so (always backup first). After a full backup, you can also safely use DiskWarrior, TechTool, Norton or Drive 10.

Is there a chance to back up data even now? What can i try next? I wish i could visit you but i’m uk based. Thanks for your time! To access Safe Mode, just press the Shift keynot Command-R. Since you’re using a wireless keyboard, the timing can be a bit finickymake sure you don’t press the Shift key until after you’ve heard the startup tonethat’s when your computer makes a wireless connection to the keyboard. With OS X 10.6 and later, you shouldn’t have to hold down the key for so much time.

My specific question is, did you intend to write for me to click the same “repair permissions” button a second time, or to click the “verify permissions” button that is located just above it? Or is there another repair permissions button I am not seeing? Thank you again for taking the time to reply to people. Pretty please let me know if that is what you intened to write. Thanks again •. Definite directory issue. See some of my other posts about repairing your disk with Disk Warrior.

If you get to the login window, log in by entering you password. Add email account in outlook for mac. When you get to the desktop, simply restart normally without holding down any keys.

Adding USB3: It’s premature to say that Intel’s Thunderbolt will become the standard for connecting external devices to computers. The PC world, with its huge – if falling – volume has not exactly embraced the technology and until it does price will remain stratospheric.

So, for example, assuming that OS X is OK, and the database of user accounts is OK, and you log in with the correct password, if the Desktop folder (which is normally within your home folder) is missing, OS X can’t go to your desktop because the Desktop folder is missing. Or, if the user account database is corrupt, you could enter any password at alleven the one you know is correctbut it still might not match the corrupt password or user name stored in the damaged file, and wouldn’t allow you to log in. And of course, if part of OS X itself is damaged, it may not be processing your login request correctly. The very first thing to do is to boot your Mac from a different hard drive and make sure you have an up to date backup of the entire diskpreferably to an external hard drive. You can use Time Machine, or a third party disk cloning program like Carbon Copy Cloner (my favorite) or SuperDuper! Next, presuming you’re running OS X 10.7 or later, reboot your Mac from the Recovery HD.

Dec 15, 2006 I found this iBook in my dad's attic at his business. He said he had bought when they released and planned on using it for financial stuff, but figured his Windows laptop would do better.

Is there another way to create a shortcut to a destination on a server or another mac? Am I doing it wrong? Anyone have any suggestions? May 11, 2012 I cant eject a dvd. Info: iMac Jun 12, 2012 I was watching DVD - tried to eject - told me to shut down DVD Drive before eject - would not allow shut down - tried reboot and suggested eject - did not work because program DVD continues to run. Now have no DVD player and can not eject disk continues to run. Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), Open attachments Mar 22, 2012 I have a problem on my IMac 27' (early 2010) when I want so listen to some CD.

> I normally have only one external drive connnected, and that one is > for Time Machine. > > I conjecture that when the computer times out and goes to sleep, > sometimes Time Machine is writing the drive and something sometimes > causes OS X to think the drive was improperly ejected. After > awakening, the Time Machine drive is still mounted and as far as I > can tell no damage was done. My setup has me writing the t.m. Drive only once a day at 7pm. In message gtr wrote: > On 2013-04-13 02:24:57 +0000, JF Mezei said: >> On 13-04-12 20:31, gtr wrote: >> >>> I provided the full information upstream: No reference to a specific drive.

Move the On/Off slider to the On position and you are done! Now your Mac will begin to do its first backup, which depending on how much data you have, can take a quite long time. After it is finished, you are backed up and prepared for catastrophic failure of the storage in your Mac. Time machine preference pane Solution B: External Hard Disk This one doesn’t require such an expensive piece of hardware or nearly as much configuration. Here’s a standard set of steps to set up a backup to external disk.

Try to avoid any of these incidences from occurring by always checking the status of Time Machine before shutting down or restarting. Doing so can avoid a lot of problem for the back-up system. It’s a long time since this was originally posted but I hope someone can help. I have been trying for over a month now to come up with a solution. My Mac book pro (early 2011, running Sierra) won’t back up to a WD external drive. I reformated it after several attempts and still nothing, so thought would try my older time machine. Still either sticks on “preparing back up or follows through and sticks on 6kb of 120gb.

But for many users, this is where they panic. And, as I wrote about recently - sometimes this is where they pay, and, including weekend and emergency rates, pay quite a bit.

Pressing ENTER merely repeats the message. Have replaced cables, taken off the 1.2 floppy, the Ctrl-Alt-Del restarts the computer in same sequence.

Just so you’re not surprised, even if you normally boot directly to your desktop, when you safe boot you always go to the login windowyou have to enter your password to get to your desktop. If you get a kernel panic during the safe boot (and never get to the login window), it’s a reasonably safe bet that there’s a problem with OS X itself, so you should reinstall it.

Something you said leads me to believe your internal drive may be failing. You said, “4. I tried another command which I don’t remember right now, but there I saw an error “disk0s2 1/0″ and it was repeating and repeating” The 1/0 error is more likely an I/O errorinput/output. Those errors indicate problems reading from (or writing to) the disk, and are often an indication that the disk either has places on its surface that are not storing the information written reliablyso it can’t be read back accurately.

My previous drives, target and source, were the same size under Leopard (500 GB), and I never had any trouble with Time Machine. Must the backup drive now be 2.5 times the size of the source drive?

• Click Done. Make the remote share automatically mount In order for this hack to survive reboots, we need to ensure that the remote share is automatically mounted when you restart your Mac. Here is a simple way to get this done. Some drawbacks of this method are that it only works once you've logged in and it won't work for other users of your Mac. • Start System Preferences. • Select Users & Groups.

Your Mac will always boot to the login screen when doing a Safe Boot, even if it normally goes directly to the desktop. Once you get to the login screen, simply restart one more time, this time without holding down any keys. Let me know if that fixes things. My computer shuts off before booting into the OS. Tried running fsck and got thiscan anyone make sense of it?

They go into such a low power state that the impact is minimal. The other recommendation is to get a Time Capsule and back up to that. It has the advantage that you can physically place it someplace else in your house (we keep our 4 TCs in a secured location) so that if your computer is stollen, it becomes unlikely that your backup data is stollen along with your computer.

I just did and > managed to readily find some complaints about the lack of availability > of a hard drive from the kernel at what appears to be a viable time for > the complaints. I've had one every day or two, today I've had about six. > > So I think I've found the drive, a Maxtor, 'disk4s2: media is not > present'. Of course it was present. > > Anyway I have some stuff to chase for now. I've had disk4s2 disconnected overnight and this morning.

If the file system is heavily damaged, many files may appear here. Click image to enlarge Extra Found Files (Drives Pane) If the file system on the disk is damaged too severely and you cannot find your files in any recognized partition, look for your files in the Extra Found Files on the Drives pane. (Not to be confused with the Extra Found Files folder in a recognized partition.) R-Studio puts files found using the Scan for Known File Types algorithm (or raw file search) in this place. Such found files lose their file names, but their content may be good. Click image to enlarge Step 6 Preview the files by double-clicking them. This step is optional, but is very useful when assessing the chances of recovering the file. This is particularly handy if you are using R-Studio in Demo mode and want to make sure your files can be recovered before purchasing a license.

To start the setup process, click Select Backup Disk and choose your disk. From here, you can encrypt your backup with a passcode, if you'd like. Then click Use Disk. Depending on your setup, you may see additional prompts to help you add a passcode, reformat your device, or connect to your network volume. Now your computer will prepare the disk and your backup will begin shortly after. Your first backup may take a long time depending on how many files you have, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway.

** Checking catalog file. Missing thread record (id = 9697) Invalid sibling link (4, 4017) ** Rebuilding catalog B-tree. ** The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired. ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** •. Did you try a Safe Boot, Mike?

By installing the clean OS X you know that the operating system is 100% healthy. Hope that helps! Hi, thx for reply, I have mounted the disk with Snow Leopard Server and I have copied only users folder, I need only this. I have recheck the disk with fsck_hfs, this is result: antwal-server:~ antwal$ fsck_hfs -fd /dev/disk5s2 ** /dev/rdisk5s2 Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=32768 cacheSize=1048576K.

Rebuilding the Launch Database frequently resolves the problem of the gray screen. Turn off the Mac. Then start it up while holding down the Shift key. (If you have a wireless keyboard, begin holding down the Shift key after you’ve heard the startup chime.) Continue to hold down the Shift key until you see a status bar at the bottom of the screen, beneath the gray Apple and the spinning gear. Then release the key. Your Mac will always boot to the login screen when doing a Safe Boot, even if it normally goes directly to the desktop. Once you get to the login screen, simply restart one more time, this time without holding down any keys.

If that fails to resolve the issue, we’d probably need to see your Mac to make a diagnosis. Let us know if we can be of further help. My Macbook with Mountain Lion will not boot either. How to enter serial number for mac 2011 word. I tried your suggestion of Command+S and /sbin/fsck -fy Came back modifications were made. I ran it again and got Disk appears to be ok.

If you now boot up normally, the problem was likely with the launch databases, and the safe boot resolved it by rebuilding them. If you still get the kernel panic, there’s probably some third party software trying to load during boot up, and it’s causing the panic either because it’s corrupt or incompatible with the version of OS X you’re running. In that case you’d have to safe boot so you can boot up, then disable any third party software normally loads at startup.