Thanks, gents. I have two Time Machine backup drives running, and Backblaze, so I doubt I’ll lose any data. But oh, what a PITA and voracious gobbler of scarce time!
Oh, yeah, and my iPhone and work computer decided not to recognize each other anymore. Technology...... On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 21:05 Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. Sounds like a drive gone south. Seems pretty unusual. > > Let the Apple folks do diagnostics and do whatever is needed at the > hardware level and get the latest macOS installed and running. Once that's > out of the way, you should be able to restore the rest of your system from > the Time Machine backup. Perhaps you should bring that along to the store > and let them do the reinstall too. > > I'm scheduled to buy a new Mac mini about the end of February. My current > mid-late-2012 Mac mini is still running fine, but the new one has way more > power, and I think it's best to just buy and set it up fresh, from scratch > .. keep this one in the closet as backup, and in case anything I have (and > need!) doesn't run on the new one. > > I've lost a machine and a drive or two along the way, but never any data. > My hopes 'twill be the same for you. > > G > > > On Jan 6, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > More AAARGH! > > > > Restored the system from a Time Machine backup. > > > > Black screen. Won't even boot into Recovery mode. > > > > Use command-S to boot into Single mode: "ERROR! Could not find APFS > > system volume handle." > > > > Taking it back to where I bought it, tomorrow morning. > > > > Rick > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:07 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> For those keeping score: > >> > >> A bit less than a year ago, my Mac Mini (photo computer) suffered > >> toasting of its i/o board, and I had to replace it with a new one. > >> > >> Yesterday the new one froze while I was transferring pix of > >> Herculaneum to SmugMug. When I tried to restart it, nothing happened > >> -- the white apple on a black background appeared, the "thermometer" > >> crept about 10% of the way along, and then everything went blank. > >> > >> I had no time to attempt repair until this afternoon. I booted in > >> "recovery mode," and ran Disk Utility . It reported a problem in the > >> SSD. So I ran Disk Utility on the Apple SSD, Container Disk 2, Mac HD, > >> Apple Disk Image, and OS X Base System. All were deemed healthy, > >> except a note that there was an "overallocation on main device."* > >> > >> Restarted, and it started. Then it froze again. > >> > >> I'm now restoring the OS from a Time Machine backup, and then I'll > >> have to restore all the data. > >> > >> I was besieged by computer problems in 2018; and they seem to have > >> crept into 2019 too. > >> > >> Thanks for letting me vent. > >> > >> Rick > >> > >> > >> *Anyone know what this is? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
