Hello Rosemary

On 22/12/2017, at 4:19 PM, Rosemary Spark wrote:

> My husband’s 82 year old has a almost 2 year old iMac, early 2016, running 
> High Sierra ...don.t know which version at this point. It decided not to turn 
> on properly the other day. It gets stuck loading with the bar almost 
> complete, but never starts.
> So far
> Re-started a number of times...same result.
> Re-set SMC (according to advice I found just unplugging , leaving and 
> re-starting does that on this computer.
> Booted to recovery 
> Repair disc...no problems I could see
> Tried to make disk image but no go ( He has no backup!)
> Re-loaded software
> 
> Re-started in safe verbose mode
> Got stuck on line after line
> 
>  "Process[1xx] crashed: opendirectoryd. Too many corpses being created" 
> 
> At this point I don.t know what else to try.

Have a look at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7100079

regards

Geoff
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Kaye and Geoff
k...@kgweb.org.au





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