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! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com From: on behalf of Patricia Scott Reply-To: WAMUG Date: Friday, 16 August 2019 at 18:31 To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Serious problem Hi,Neil, I just spent several hours

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list ourselves and, at least for > me, my ageing brain probably needs the challenge ;o) > > > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > From: on behalf

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R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com From: on behalf of Patricia Scott Reply-To: WAMUG Date: Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:27 To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Serious problem Hi, Neil, I have now tried the diagnostics test as you

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From: on behalf of Patricia > Scott > Reply-To: WAMUG > Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 15:47 > To: WAMUG > Subject: Re: Serious problem > > Hi, Neil, > > The simple constraint is that the only items showing on the monitor are the > Apple and the progres

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: Re: Serious problem Hi, Neil, The simple constraint is that the only items showing on the monitor are the Apple and the progress bar — absolutely nothing to click or see. At least, it is rigorously protecting the computer. I just now have written to Daniel. Again, thanks — WAMUG

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> > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > From: on behalf of Patricia > Scott > Reply-To: WAMUG > Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 13:58 > T

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: on behalf of Patricia Scott Reply-To: WAMUG Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 13:58 To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Serious problem Hi, Neil, Thank you for this information, it’s a good thing to know. I tried it, but it didn’t work, at least for this kind of situation. I am pretty sure

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> > > HTH > > > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > From: on behalf of Patricia > Scott > Reply-To: WAMUG > Date: Thursday, 15 August 20

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problem lies. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com From: on behalf of Patricia Scott Reply-To: WAMUG Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 09:58 To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Serious problem Hi,Ronni

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Hi,Ronni, Thank you very much for the information. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. The same black screen with just a white Apple is all that is visible. I read all the rest of the support information, and I think the only option is to take it in to a repair shop and hope for the best. Again,

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Hello Pat, You could try: Shut down your Mac, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063 Kind

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I have a Wacom pen tablet. Yesterday a message came up on the computer that the firmware for the tablet needed to be updated because in the new Mojave update Apple neglected to classify Wacom as safe software, and it was necessary for users to modify items in the Security Preferences panel. So

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Yesterday the boot disk of my Mac Pro suddenly began filling up with something unknown. Tech tool Pro put up messages saying the disk had only 13% free space left, out of 320 GB. The only thing I could think to do was try to find out where the excess was accumulating. This seemed to be the

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Hi Pat I am probably less qualified than others to respond, but in the interests of urgency I can think of two causes: your hard disk is rapidly becoming corrupt and there is a decreasing amount of usable space. something is writing huge

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Hi Pat, In System Preferences Other - TechTool Protection, check the Directory Backup Interval. If you have it set for every 4 hours, if it is doing this on every drive that is ever connected to your Mac (backup drives / Time Machine etc) it can create a very large folder. I had similar to

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Also, just to add to Ronni's post. If you still find after searching that nothing turns up large files anywhere a couple of other things to look out for are:- 1) backups that are saving back to the original hard drive instead of another drive (eg Silverkeeper, Time Machine, Deja Vu.) Sometimes if

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Thanks so much, everyone, Ronni, Rob and Daniel, It looks like it was TechToolPro that was the culprit. The main disk was down to 0 and now it has 163 GB free after I threw out the entire TechTool folder. Neither of the other 2 disks had any problem. Is TechTool of real value, worth having