Re: MacBook won't boot up
I managed to get the MacBook to boot by holding c using the OS disc. I went to Disk Utility and selected Repair Disk. It indicated that would take approximately 3 minutes and the progress bar moved forward to around 70%. It has stayed there for around an hour now saying there is 1 minute remaining. It reached the Checking Catalog hierarchy stage in the repair. I will leave it run all night in the off chance there might be some good become of it. At least the Disc image is viewable, maybe there is life in the old cactus yet! Regards Pete On 18/01/2013, at 9:38 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Ok Severin thanks. Peter, you need to hold the C key down until the computer boots into DiskWarrior. Note: this may take a long time over 10 Mins. If you still can't boot from the DW disc try holding down the Option key. Hold the option key down until you see the boot menu. The boot process should happen almost immediately. When this boots, wait for the spinning wheel to stop spinning, then select the CD drive title (DiskWarriorCD) and then click the right arrow (-) to continue loading the CD. Note: this option will be faster to boot, but takes longer once the CD is chosen from the menu. In addition to the option key being the faster boot process, it also allows you to see fairly immediately whether the computer's hard drive (usually named Macintosh HD) is viewable. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 18/01/2013, at 9:22 AM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I sent two disks, one was 4.1 specifically for Leopard and one was 4.2 specifically for Snow Leopard. Severin Crisp On 18/01/2013, at 9:15 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, I believe that DiskWarrior 4.2 is for Snow Leopard. You will need DiskWarrior 4.1 for Leopard. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 18/01/2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, so my Dad kindly sent me Disc Warrior (for Leopard and Snow Leopard) and I put it in and did a restart whilst holding c. The DVD drive spun indicating it was booting from the DW disc. I left it all night last night and this morning still grey screen but with Apple icon and the spinning spinner thing. I will eject this disc and try with the OS disc to see if that gets anywhere. I think it's cactus. Regards Pete On 13/01/2013, at 4:26 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter Susan, I'm having a break from WAMUG but in this instance... I felt I should contribute. On startup a Circle/Slash (Prohibitory Sign) means your Mac can’t find a valid Startup Disk. This can indicate a corrupt installation of Mac OS X or a failed (or failing) hard drive. A pass through the excellent DiskWarrior utility is highly recommended for any disk-related startup problems. You can also try Apple Disk Utility (booted from the installation disc as Susan has already mentioned), or another third-party utility like TechTool Pro or Drive Genius to try to repair the disk. If the drive is OK after repairs but the Mac still won’t boot, do an Archive Install of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) to replace the operating system. If Mountain Lion: Reinstall Mountain Lion Restart your Mac holding the cmd+r keys. When Mountain Lion installs it creates a special small, hidden Recovery Volume on your hard drive. Booting cmd-r will boot your Mac into that Recovery Volume. http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/ The screen should give you these choices... Restore from TM backup Reinstall Mac OS X Get help online Disk Utility Choose Reinstall OS X. This will be an install in place and won't affect any of your own data. Cheers, Ronni back to her break from WAMUG On 13/01/2013, at 4:04 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, I did a quick google and found this question and answer which solved someone's problem. If your son has the original install disk he should boot up in from the install disk, by holding down c when starting up. He can then run disk utility on his hard drive to check for problems as a first step. Also, we need to know which operating system he is running. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/271143-macbook-pro-wont-boot-up-no-recovery-disk.html Regards, Susan Sent from my iPad On 13/01/2013, at 12:59 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My 12 yo's MacBook has refused to boot up after shutting down in the normal way a few nights ago. I am remote so trying to resolve this remotely from him is a bit challenging. I did a quick google and it suggested to try boot up in Safe mode. He tried this but screen stays on the grey screen with a circle with a diagonal slash through it the whole time. I left overnight thinking it might be processing but to no
Re: MacBook won't boot up
Yes, these disk fixings can take a very long time, and it seems to be progressing. Good luck Pop On 19/01/2013, at 10:00 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I managed to get the MacBook to boot by holding c using the OS disc. I went to Disk Utility and selected Repair Disk. It indicated that would take approximately 3 minutes and the progress bar moved forward to around 70%. It has stayed there for around an hour now saying there is 1 minute remaining. It reached the Checking Catalog hierarchy stage in the repair. I will leave it run all night in the off chance there might be some good become of it. At least the Disc image is viewable, maybe there is life in the old cactus yet! Regards Pete On 18/01/2013, at 9:38 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Ok Severin thanks. Peter, you need to hold the C key down until the computer boots into DiskWarrior. Note: this may take a long time over 10 Mins. If you still can't boot from the DW disc try holding down the Option key. Hold the option key down until you see the boot menu. The boot process should happen almost immediately. When this boots, wait for the spinning wheel to stop spinning, then select the CD drive title (DiskWarriorCD) and then click the right arrow (-) to continue loading the CD. Note: this option will be faster to boot, but takes longer once the CD is chosen from the menu. In addition to the option key being the faster boot process, it also allows you to see fairly immediately whether the computer's hard drive (usually named Macintosh HD) is viewable. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 18/01/2013, at 9:22 AM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I sent two disks, one was 4.1 specifically for Leopard and one was 4.2 specifically for Snow Leopard. Severin Crisp On 18/01/2013, at 9:15 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, I believe that DiskWarrior 4.2 is for Snow Leopard. You will need DiskWarrior 4.1 for Leopard. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 18/01/2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, so my Dad kindly sent me Disc Warrior (for Leopard and Snow Leopard) and I put it in and did a restart whilst holding c. The DVD drive spun indicating it was booting from the DW disc. I left it all night last night and this morning still grey screen but with Apple icon and the spinning spinner thing. I will eject this disc and try with the OS disc to see if that gets anywhere. I think it's cactus. Regards Pete On 13/01/2013, at 4:26 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter Susan, I'm having a break from WAMUG but in this instance... I felt I should contribute. On startup a Circle/Slash (Prohibitory Sign) means your Mac can’t find a valid Startup Disk. This can indicate a corrupt installation of Mac OS X or a failed (or failing) hard drive. A pass through the excellent DiskWarrior utility is highly recommended for any disk-related startup problems. You can also try Apple Disk Utility (booted from the installation disc as Susan has already mentioned), or another third-party utility like TechTool Pro or Drive Genius to try to repair the disk. If the drive is OK after repairs but the Mac still won’t boot, do an Archive Install of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) to replace the operating system. If Mountain Lion: Reinstall Mountain Lion Restart your Mac holding the cmd+r keys. When Mountain Lion installs it creates a special small, hidden Recovery Volume on your hard drive. Booting cmd-r will boot your Mac into that Recovery Volume. http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/ The screen should give you these choices... Restore from TM backup Reinstall Mac OS X Get help online Disk Utility Choose Reinstall OS X. This will be an install in place and won't affect any of your own data. Cheers, Ronni back to her break from WAMUG On 13/01/2013, at 4:04 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, I did a quick google and found this question and answer which solved someone's problem. If your son has the original install disk he should boot up in from the install disk, by holding down c when starting up. He can then run disk utility on his hard drive to check for problems as a first step. Also, we need to know which operating system he is running. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/271143-macbook-pro-wont-boot-up-no-recovery-disk.html Regards, Susan Sent from my iPad On 13/01/2013, at 12:59 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My 12 yo's MacBook has refused to boot up after shutting down in the normal way a few nights ago. I am remote so trying to resolve this remotely from him is a bit challenging. I did a quick google and it suggested to try boot up in
DISPLAY
Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: DISPLAY
Julie, It is possible that you have activated the Zoom feature of the screen display. Go to the Apple menu System Preferences, click Accessibility, and then click Zoom. Open the Zoom pane of Accessibility preferences Turn off “Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom” and “Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.” If zoom isn't turned on then check your screen resolution in the Displays preferences. robin On 20/01/2013, at 12:05 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: MacBook won't boot up
The Repair Disc process reached a point where it states Error:Filesystem verify or repair failed. There is in red font in the details from the repair process, Invalid key length and Volume check failed. In addition the disc name in left panel of Disc Utility is now disk02 and not James' MacBook. I suppose my next action would be to attempt to reinstall OSX from the system disc but not sure if an unrepairable disc is an adequate start point for that process. Will try that later. Regards Pete On 20/01/2013, at 12:00 AM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, these disk fixings can take a very long time, and it seems to be progressing. Good luck Pop On 19/01/2013, at 10:00 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I managed to get the MacBook to boot by holding c using the OS disc. I went to Disk Utility and selected Repair Disk. It indicated that would take approximately 3 minutes and the progress bar moved forward to around 70%. It has stayed there for around an hour now saying there is 1 minute remaining. It reached the Checking Catalog hierarchy stage in the repair. I will leave it run all night in the off chance there might be some good become of it. At least the Disc image is viewable, maybe there is life in the old cactus yet! Regards Pete On 18/01/2013, at 9:38 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Ok Severin thanks. Peter, you need to hold the C key down until the computer boots into DiskWarrior. Note: this may take a long time over 10 Mins. If you still can't boot from the DW disc try holding down the Option key. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: DISPLAY
Hi Jewels, Are you using a Magic Mouse or a scroll wheel mouse? Have you inadvertently triggered Screen Zoom feature? Open System Preferences Mouse - is Screen Zooming turned ON? Zoom using scroll wheel while holding (if you have a Magic Mouse you won't see this). Also in the Seeing view in the 'Universal Access' preference pane Click the 'Options' button, and if you're certain that you never want to use screen zoom, uncheck the Use scroll wheel with modifier keys to zoom check box. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 12:05 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130120/47ed980c/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: MacBook won't boot up
Hi Peter, Not much point trying to install on a Hard Drive that is displaying these errors. It is looking like the Hard Drive is failing or has failed. I can send you privately Off List something to try as a last resort. I have used this on a client's computer with success when DW and all else has failed to repair the Hard Drive. But if you wish me to continue, there will be my support charge of $30. Reply to my supp...@ronnibrown.net email address if you wish to try. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 6:50 AM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The Repair Disc process reached a point where it states Error:Filesystem verify or repair failed. There is in red font in the details from the repair process, Invalid key length and Volume check failed. In addition the disc name in left panel of Disc Utility is now disk02 and not James' MacBook. I suppose my next action would be to attempt to reinstall OSX from the system disc but not sure if an unrepairable disc is an adequate start point for that process. Will try that later. Regards Pete On 20/01/2013, at 12:00 AM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, these disk fixings can take a very long time, and it seems to be progressing. Good luck Pop On 19/01/2013, at 10:00 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I managed to get the MacBook to boot by holding c using the OS disc. I went to Disk Utility and selected Repair Disk. It indicated that would take approximately 3 minutes and the progress bar moved forward to around 70%. It has stayed there for around an hour now saying there is 1 minute remaining. It reached the Checking Catalog hierarchy stage in the repair. I will leave it run all night in the off chance there might be some good become of it. At least the Disc image is viewable, maybe there is life in the old cactus yet! Regards Pete On 18/01/2013, at 9:38 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Ok Severin thanks. Peter, you need to hold the C key down until the computer boots into DiskWarrior. Note: this may take a long time over 10 Mins. If you still can't boot from the DW disc try holding down the Option key. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: DISPLAY
Thank you Robin, Bob, Ronda, Bill for coming to my rescue. Bob sorted me out last night by Command Option - I have the white magic mouse and only clicked it perhaps twice when this occurred. Thanks again, you are all worth your weight in gold !! Cheers Jewels On 20/01/2013, at 6:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jewels, Are you using a Magic Mouse or a scroll wheel mouse? Have you inadvertently triggered Screen Zoom feature? Open System Preferences Mouse - is Screen Zooming turned ON? Zoom using scroll wheel while holding (if you have a Magic Mouse you won't see this). Also in the Seeing view in the 'Universal Access' preference pane Click the 'Options' button, and if you're certain that you never want to use screen zoom, uncheck the Use scroll wheel with modifier keys to zoom check box. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 12:05 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130120/47ed980c/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: DISPLAY
Hi Jewels, Check your Magic Mouse settings, you might have set double tap for Zoom. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 9:04 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thank you Robin, Bob, Ronda, Bill for coming to my rescue. Bob sorted me out last night by Command Option - I have the white magic mouse and only clicked it perhaps twice when this occurred. Thanks again, you are all worth your weight in gold !! Cheers Jewels On 20/01/2013, at 6:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jewels, Are you using a Magic Mouse or a scroll wheel mouse? Have you inadvertently triggered Screen Zoom feature? Open System Preferences Mouse - is Screen Zooming turned ON? Zoom using scroll wheel while holding (if you have a Magic Mouse you won't see this). Also in the Seeing view in the 'Universal Access' preference pane Click the 'Options' button, and if you're certain that you never want to use screen zoom, uncheck the Use scroll wheel with modifier keys to zoom check box. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 12:05 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: DISPLAY
Hi Ronni, Yes, the smart zoom/double tap was set. Have unticked, so hopefully won't happen again. Thanks Jewels On 20/01/2013, at 9:46 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jewels, Check your Magic Mouse settings, you might have set double tap for Zoom. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 9:04 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thank you Robin, Bob, Ronda, Bill for coming to my rescue. Bob sorted me out last night by Command Option - I have the white magic mouse and only clicked it perhaps twice when this occurred. Thanks again, you are all worth your weight in gold !! Cheers Jewels On 20/01/2013, at 6:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jewels, Are you using a Magic Mouse or a scroll wheel mouse? Have you inadvertently triggered Screen Zoom feature? Open System Preferences Mouse - is Screen Zooming turned ON? Zoom using scroll wheel while holding (if you have a Magic Mouse you won't see this). Also in the Seeing view in the 'Universal Access' preference pane Click the 'Options' button, and if you're certain that you never want to use screen zoom, uncheck the Use scroll wheel with modifier keys to zoom check box. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/01/2013, at 12:05 AM, Julie Bedford jew...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Earlier this evening I tapped my mouse on my new Mac Pro (OS 10.7.5) which did something to my screen. I can only see my top menu buttons and no dock, or if I fiddle with the curser, I can get the dock visible but then the top menu disappears off the screen. To the right and left, icons are disappearing off the screen. I am sure this is something which everyone knows about, but I cannot fix it. I have tried changing the display to no avail. Can anyone help me please ? Cheers Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: My clock keeps stopping
When else do you do this? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 10/01/2013, at 4:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Also Rob i just noticed you did not mention if you had Reset the NVRAM / PRAM? Resetting NVRAM / PRAM 1. Shut down your Mac. 2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4. 3. Turn on the computer. 4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears. 5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time. 6. Release the keys. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 2:32 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rob, You might be experiencing problems with SystemUIServer. If you look in activity monitor and see that using a lot of CPU/RAM then just Quit Process. After doing this you will see the clock and date immediately change to the correct current time and date. You have Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com) set, and must have the same settings in System Preferences Date and Time as in the menu bar. If you have Digital in System Preferences, have digital in Menu Bar. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 2:05 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Hi people This is a strange one. For the last two days, the system clock which shows in my menubar has been stopping. I have Date and Time Preferences set to 'set date and time automatically' (but this probably isn't relevant). The symptoms are that the menu clock doesn't increment as the minutes go by. If I go to Date and Time Preferences, then the time updates again sometimes. The correct date and time is displayed in Date and Time Preferences, but not on the menu bar. I've rebooted, and it worked for an hour, then stopped again. Has anyone experienced this? MB Pro 17 2.4GHz i7 OS10.7.5 Rob -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130110/71896ff7/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130120/0456f5c4/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
password lockout
How embarrassing. I changed my admin password this am, and now I am locked out. Started up with Installer disk for S/Leopard. hence able to write this. Looks like I mis-keyed the password? And then repeated. But now I cannot repeat the mistake. I can see all my icons, I have Time Machine backups. I am on 10.7.5 MBP 15. There is no Master Password. Looks like I mis-keyed the password? Any help welcome…. Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: password lockout
Hi Bill, If your machine has just one administrator account (the original one), you can reset its password as follows: • Put your Mac OS X Install CD or DVD in your optical drive and restart with the C key held down (to boot from the optical disc). • Click through the language selection screen. Then choose Utilities Reset Password. • Select your usual startup disk. Then, from the pop-up menu below the volume list, choose the user whose password you want to reset. (Do not choose “System Administrator (root),” which represents an entirely different account!) • Enter (and repeat) a new password, and optionally enter a hint. Click Save, and then click OK. • Choose Reset Password Quit and then Installer Quit Installer. Click the Reset button to restart from the hard disk. • Once you’ve done this, you’ll still be prompted to enter a password for your login keychain. If that password was the same as your login password—meaning it too is forgotten—you’ll have to delete that keychain, make a new one, and set that keychain as the default. I will not be back on WAMUG probably until Wednesday, as I will be working. If you need more assistance other members should be able to help you. Cheers, Ronni On 20/01/2013, at 2:24 PM, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: How embarrassing. I changed my admin password this am, and now I am locked out. Started up with Installer disk for S/Leopard. hence able to write this. Looks like I mis-keyed the password? And then repeated. But now I cannot repeat the mistake. I can see all my icons, I have Time Machine backups. I am on 10.7.5 MBP 15. There is no Master Password. Looks like I mis-keyed the password? Any help welcome…. Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
