After updating to mavericks on my MacBook, the screen keeps saying "setting up your mac." It has been like this for hours! How can I make it go faster?
After updating to mavericks on my MacBook, the screen keeps saying "setting up your mac." It has been like this for hours! How can I make it go faster? It's has been like this for 4 hrs.
I don't think your mac is setting up. It's stuck.
I would:
hold the power button until it shuts down
unplug all peripherals
do a safe boot (restart and hold down the shift key until you see the apple logo).
If it starts up in a safe boot, then you can try restarting with a normal boot.
If it does not start with a normal boot, then you probably have some incompatible third party software. Likely culprits are:
MacKeeper
CleanMyMac
third-party antivirus software
any other "cleaning" or "optimizing" or similar third party "utilities".
A good place to start would be to uninstall any of those (while in safe mode) and then restart.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
iMac - model: iMac12,2
1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
Empty
BANK 1/DIMM1
Empty
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 512 MB
iMac 2560 x 1440
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Time since boot: 0:2:47
Disk Information: ℹ️
ST2000DM001-1CH164 disk0 : (2 TB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 2.00 TB (1.68 TB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.ftdi (1 - SDK 10.9)
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.wacomtablet (6.3.10 - SDK 10.9)
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.systemstatsd.plist
[failed] com.apple.ucupdate.plist
[failed] com.apple.watchdogd.plist
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[not loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist
[not loaded] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist
[not loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[not loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
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iTunesHelper Ohjelma (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Spotify Ohjelma (/Applications/Spotify.app)
SpyderUtility Ohjelma (/Applications/Datacolor/Spyder4Pro/Support/SpyderUtility.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.0
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6
WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.6 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Click for support]
WacomTablet [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 2.00 TB Disk used: 316.51 GB
Destinations:
My Book [Local]
Total size: 2.00 TB
Total number of backups: 8
Oldest backup: 2013-11-03 12:06:31 +0000
Last backup: 2015-02-17 10:06:36 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk used 316.51 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
2% WindowServer
0% AppleSpell
0% ps
0% fontd
0% launchd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
94 MB Finder
86 MB WindowServer
73 MB Spotlight
69 MB com.apple.internetaccounts
64 MB NotificationCenter
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
589 MB Free RAM
1.91 GB Active RAM
1.34 GB Inactive RAM
451 MB Wired RAM
1.04 GB Page-ins
193 KB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Feb 27, 2015, 12:16:17 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WacomTabletDriver_2015-02-27-121617_[redacted]. crash
Feb 27, 2015, 12:08:32 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/fontd_2015-02-27-120832_[redac ted].crash
Feb 26, 2015, 08:19:12 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WacomTabletDriver_2015-02-26-081912_[redacted]. crash
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