Sam - bodhisattva of macness (as you probably know - an enlightened being who choses to "stay behind" to help the benighted) It's working now and rather shamefully I'm not entirely sure how it became fixed. I accessed my own screen and somehow managed to get the mouse to make commands function. It seems to be running a little slowly as if it has to process a lot of stuff but at least it works....
Big thanks Phil Sent from my iPad On 16 Aug 2012, at 20:55, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil > > You need to wait until the fsck -fy command reports that the drive appears to > be ok, then you can type the other commands in in sequence. fsck usually > takes 2-5 minutes. > > Have you tried a different keyboard & mouse? > > Regards > > Sam > MacAmbulance > > Providing affordable Apple & PC services > > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [email protected] > > > On 16 Aug 2012, at 20:45, Phil Tomlinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > 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.
