Hi Sam and Jason, Sorry for the delayed response, but I took the scary decision to wipe my hard drive and reinstall the OS. I wasn't going to go up to the very latest version (I was, and am now, on 10.13.4 on a Retina iMac, late 2015, 21.5-inch), but as my Time Machine back up was very fortunately done at 7.15 yesterday morning, I have had to go fully up to date again in order to use Migration Assistant. Hopefully this time all will be well.
Thinking back, I have had a few peculiar things happening over the last week or so leading up to the non-start up. When the Mac went to sleep, sometimes when I woke it, it was almost as if it had shut down and took ages to get going again. Also, one older program (Softpress Freeway) loaded but was not available. I had to force quit it and then try again. Softpress went out of business a little while ago and their program has not been updated recently. I believe the company was bought out and the program is being worked on again now. I'm doing a new back up now and hope that the Mac will start up properly in future. David On 6 April 2018 at 12:31, Sam - MacAmbulance <i...@macambulance.co.uk> wrote: > I’ve seen it many times, reinstalling macOS from the Recovery Partition > works 99% of the time barring any hardware issues. > > Sam > [image: MacAmbulance] > MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 <//+447747778022> > i...@macambulance.co.uk > www.macambulance.co.uk > > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and > delete the email immediately. > > On 5 Apr 2018, at 20:26, David Ransom <printers...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone having problems starting up a Mac running High Sierra? > > My iMac gets stuck on start up progress bar. > > Just tried recovery mode and managed to run disk utility to repair but > still sticks! > > Very frustrating... Any suggestions? Seems like a great many people are > having this problem. > > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
