Hi there, I thought I explained that I did already boot to Recovery and re-installed high sierra but it made no difference.
Yeah...the lack of backup is going to be ...difficult. My husband’s uncle didn’t consider it at all. Lesson learned I hope Rosemary On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 22:43, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hello again Rosemary, A link showing how to > > Reinstall macOS Sierra or High Sierra > > > http://osxdaily.com/2016/10/12/reinstall-macos-sierra/ > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > > On 22 Dec 2017, at 10:02 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hello Rosemary, > > Did you actually get through with Command + R? > You can do a recovery which basically reinstalls OS X but keeps your files > in tact. > It's kind of like Windows system restore. > > If that fails and ‘NOT having a backup’ … could be a hard lesson learnt! > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > > On 22 Dec 2017, at 4:19 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> 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. > > Any suggestions > Rosemary Spark > > -- > Kind Regards Rosemary Spark 0414268043 arkaysp...@gmail.com > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- Kind Regards Rosemary Spark 0414268043 arkaysp...@gmail.com
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