Many thanks Sam. I tried your first suggestion and typed in the commands. Perhaps I didn't wait long enough for the computer to respond to each command and scrambled up the sequence? Because it didn't seem to be working I tried your final suggestion - booting with Shift. This did as you said and eventually it showed the Users' log in page with "safe mode" written in red at the top. The mouse still didn't make the icon function, but, by chance I pressed the arrow keys and managed to highlight my user icon and type in my password. It took me to my own Mac screen but the first automatically generated event (a reminder about a calendar event) cause a freeze again. The arrow keys can access a limited range of files on my screen vertically but I can't make them open and I can't move to any other icons sideways. The mouse can get the app icons to appear from hidden mode at the bottom of the screen but nothing else!
Phil Sent from my iPad On 16 Aug 2012, at 18:36, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil > > Try booting holding cmd + S into single user mode then type the following > commands (pushing return after each command) : > > fsck -fy > > mount -uw / > > rm /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist > > reboot > > See if that works. If not then try booting holding down Shift until you see > the spinning wheel under the apple logo and a progress bar. This will boot in > safe mode. Restart normally again and see if that helps. > > Regards > > Sam > > MacAmbulance > > Providing affordable Apple & PC services > > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
