Can Apple shut down a stolen Macbook?
My 13 inch Macbook was stolen and I wanted to know if there was any way to shut down the laptop. I dont have the serial number as I purchased it a long time ago.
No. If you did not have Find My Computer installed and configured, then there is no way to locate it.
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Can apple shut down my stolen iPod?
can Apple shut down my stolen iPod?
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What To Do If Your iDevice or Computer Is Lost Or Stolen
If your Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, or iPad is lost or stolen what do you do? There are things you should do in advance - before you lose it or it's stolen - and some things to do after the fact. Here are some suggestions:
1. Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
2. Find my lost iPod Touch
3. AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon can block stolen phones/tablets
4. What-To-Do-When-Iphone-Is-Stolen
5. Lost or Stolen iPhone? Here’s What to do
6. 6 Ways to Track and Recover Your Lost/Stolen iPhone
7. Find My iPhone
It pays to be proactive by following the advice on using Find My Phone before you lose your device:
1. Find My iPhone
2. Setup your iDevice on MobileMe
3. OS X Lion- About Find My Mac
4. How To Set Up Free Find Your iPhone (Even on Unsupported Devices)
Third-party solutions for computers:
1. VUWER 1.5.4
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Can you shut down a stolen ipod
I got my ipod stolen, is it possible for it to be tracked down and shut down?
Here is all you can do. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
Basic troubleshooting steps
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Ok, I have searched for months for an answer to this question to no avail, probably because no one has experienced it before. I am hoping however that you guys can help me figure this one out cause it is driving me nuts! Also, I am not entirely sure what section of the support I should put this under so if I stick it in the wrong place, I apologize.
Right now my problem is very simple. When I turn off my laptop, and then try to turn it back on, my internal hard drive disappears... and I get the blinking folder with a question mark on it. I have figured out something interesting however. I have an install disk with Ubuntu Linux on it. If I boot into that first, then RESTART the laptop, not shut down and turn back on, it reads the internal hard drive just fine and I can boot as if there is nothing wrong.
Second part to the problem... If I allow the laptop in either OSX or Windows to go to sleep (aka shut off the hard drive but the computer remains on), when I attempt to wake it up, I am greeted with the usual log in screen of whichever OS I am in, but is frozen and after a few seconds goes black and restarts the computer to find that... Surprise! The hard drive is gone
I have tried every trick in the book that I can think of, but can not seem to come up with a solution to the problem... I know when the problem happened and if anyone thinks that that will help them figure this out I will type everything I did up till, including the crash that caused this, and my attempted fixes, but I have class right now so only if you guys want it I will type all that out.
What I am currently running is:
2011 MacBook Pro 13in screen
4Gb of Ram
1TB internal Hard Drive
OSX 10.11.whatever the newest update is... just updated the other day again.
Windows 8.1 on BootCamp 5 (yea I know its not supposed to work but it does) again, fully updated
Ubuntu 13.10 (I think? Doesn't really matter, its just an install disk I use to boot the computer)
If there is anything else that you guys need me to provide, I can, just simply ask. I can provide as much info as is necessary.Sorry it took me so long to write back, But unfortunately this didn't help my issue.
My uncle and I did a lot of tests on this computer and have narrowed down the location of the problem a little bit.
We tried to first reset the SMC and the NVRAM as suggested, but the only thing that did was make the fans run on full tilt for the first session after restarting it for some reason. After that we tried re installing OSX over the OSX that was already on the system (not removing any of the files). This also didn't do anything but make refit stop working. Then we moved onto the next task at hand by removing the hard drive entirely and booting it as an external drive from one of the USB ports... as long as you booted it with the options key held down, it worked perfectly fine. Then we put an alternative hard drive into the computer and installed OSX on that. This time there was no trouble booting anything up. Everything seemed to work flawlessly. So we made a backup of my original drive (OSX, Windows, and all) onto an external hard drive and tested booting to it via USB. That again worked perfectly fine and booted right up with no problems. So after that we formatted the original hard drive and reinstated OSX. We then proceeded to transfer all the old files from the backup onto this new installation and LOW AND BEHOLD..... we were back to square one with it refusing to recognize the hard drive again.
So this basically told us that there appears to be something either wrong with the hard drive, or something got really screwed up in the software along the lines and by me copying all my old files back over, I just ended up bringing the screwed up file back over with it! (despite not copying over any settings of any kind) So I am still extremely confused as to what is going wrong... did some boot sector possibly get screwed up may be? -
How can I shut down a stolen iTouch?
My older brother David sold his 4G iTouch to our friend Michael.
Michael claims he left it w his mother here in Oregon before he moved
Down to New Mexico. Myself and David's friend Meagan have received
Text messages from someone by the name Austin. Michael says
It's been stolen recently, so says his mother. David would like to 100%
Deactivate the iTouch itself before more people are disturbed. We have
All the iTouch information except the serial number. If there's any
Way possible we can shut it down, please let us know. Thank you.If you had previous set up the FindMyiPod feature and wifi is on and connected and the iPod has not bee restored, go to iCloud, sign in and go to FindMyiPhone. Select the iPod and select the wipe/erase option. After wiping you will not longer be able to do anything with the iPod. If it has been restored then you also can't do anything.
Apple will not help
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product -
I can't shut down my MacBook Pro. Each time I try, I get the following message: "The Finder can't quit because some operations are still in progress." How can I determine what is running?
Yea,
I bought an original CRT iMac two day's before they were launched, which got the reseller into trouble, and had it replaced by APPLE.
This was a great learning process for me dealing with the glitches. :-)
I LOVE MAC. Now own 4 and on my 10th. in 15 years + 7 bought for family.
Cheers,
Tom -
Mail won't close, can't shut down my MacBook Pro
Dear Apple Community,
since 10.7.4 Mail won't close sometimes. I use mail sometimes in Full-Screen, sometimes in the standard mode. If I'm finished with Mail, I close mail using "cmd+w" & "cmd+Q" or "cmd+Q". The programm is closed (window is gone), but the little blue bubble stays under the Mail icon at the dock. If I want to shut down my MacBook Pro (early 2011) I get the message "Can't shut down. You have to end Mail."
This *****. Any suggestions for a fix?I had this issue and got frustrated having to force quit all the time.
I usually quit all programs with shortcut keys.
MAIL now quits everytime if I just click Mail-Quit Mail
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After installing Mavericks my MacBook Pro and my MacMini can't shut down, only a grey screen and finish. Must be killed by the power button. Why?
Nach der Installation von Mavericks kann ich weder das MacBook Pro (2 x 2.4 GHz) noch den MacMini (2 x 2.66 GHz) herunterfahren. Es bleibt ein dauerhafter grauer Bildschirm. Nach 20 min habe ich einen erzwungenen Neustart durchgeführt.
Ausserdem startet die Macs wesentlich langsamer als mit OS X 10.6.8.same here... sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't!!
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Can I shut down my Macbook during the setup screen
Can I shut down my Macbook May 2010 during the setup screen (The Snow Lepoard SetUp Screen)
Because I don't want to set it up due to selling it.
ThanksOf course. If you didn't set up the MacBook Pro yet, simply hold the Power button to turn it off and sell the MacBook Pro. Remember to give the DVDs that came with your MacBook to the new owner. Tell the new owner to install iLife from the Applications disc
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Why i can't shut down my Macbook Air? it says quit safari how do i do that?
i can't shut down my macbook air it asks for quiting safari and i can't quit safari tooo what is the problem????/
If it continues to happen go with Option-Command-Esc. That will bring up the force quit menu and you can choose Safari from there.
Hope this helps.
Jim -
I followed all directions and quit all processes, emptied trash etc. When I try to shut down I get pop-ups telling me apps are running even though I quit them. I can't install upgrades because I can't shut down. Doing a hard reboot doesn't help at all. Any suggestions?
If any of the apps won't quit on you in future, try ti kill them in Terminal:
killall Finder
then hit enter
If you don't know the official app name (how OS SX sees it), go to COMMAND_OPTION_ESCAPE and see the official name in the running app list.
The power button method above works 100%, but will bypass saving of session states for all services, so your OS X could be unstable after reboot and won't remember some settings you had prior to shuting down. Use it only as a last resort. -
So I can not shut down either of my MacBooks, 2006 Macbook and 2008 Aluminum Macbook, by going Apple>Shutdown. It just sits there and does nothing. Same thing happens when I go to Restart, Logout, or Sleep. I have repaired my permissions and disk and have scanned for viruses and nothing is wrong in either department. I did not download anything new or install a bootcamp partition or any new VM via VMWare. It just randomly started happening one day. Then when I got the new Macbook, I transfered my Applications and it still happened, which is what made me think it was either a virus or permissions. I have also tried to create a new user of each usergroup, ie Admin, Guest, etc... and I still have the same result.
Any solutions or idea would be greatly appreciated.Somewhere in other posts, it's been mentioned to check the processes in Activity Monitor; I will be doing the same tonight when I am in front of mac at home.
Meanwhile, you could try the same, try looking any drivers or any other processes that might be preventing the shutdown.
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My air won't open mail and I can't shut down computer because I can't quit mail
My MacBook Air won't open mail. Now I can't shut down the computer because mail interrupts shutdown but I can't quit mail either
Try doing a reboot by holding both the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears, ignore the red slider if that appears.
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My mail won't open or close and I can't shut down my mac
My mail won't open or close and I can't shut down my Mac
Same here.
Can't be. This forum covers pre-2006 iMacs; MacBook Pros have a completely different architecture and therefore different issues. For Mail problems, the best place to post is in the forum for your OSX version from the list here:
Mac OS & System Software
BTW, my wife and I both use Apple mail and have not had any issues from about OSX 10.6 on. Admittedly, when Mail was introduced with OSX thirteen years ago, it had some real problems, but they seem to have been fixed. -
iphoto has been importing photos for over n hour and I can't get it to stop. Can't get out of iphoto and can't shut down computer.
iPhoto works best when the source (Pictures folder) is on a different disk drive than the iPhoto Library is on.
And you need to have enough free disk space to work with, the faster the better.
Also, do not keep your media folders and those in your home folder on the same drive as the system, also another bottleneck.
Until or unless you have everything on 1400MB/sec SSD PCIe controller, you want
System boot drive
Media and data folders and such
scratch
backup
etc
I put iPhoto on an SSD off an SSD PCIe Sonnet Tempo card
If you stop- it, you will need to trash the Library it was creating.
Reading and writing to/from the same hard drive will be slow.
You don't mention which Mac, or how large you are trying to import etc
Also the support page and link to the iPhoto Commuinity is off this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto
Take a look in Activity Monitor. See what the % being used for iPhoto, how many pageouts, how much free space on the various disk drives, and how much RAM do you have installed?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
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