How do i repair disk?
when i went to very disk this is what it said how do i repair disk? 10.6
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 308201 instead of 308204)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 95626 instead of 95623)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
Those are the steps, it's simple.
1 Boot from the original OSX disk that came with your Mac
2 Choose Disk Utilities from the DVD menu when it boots up
3 On the First Aid select the disk (top entry) and select Repair Disk
4 Leave it alone until it finishes.
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How can I repair disk permissions
How can I repair disk permissions on a non boot drive? I have a SSD as my boot disk and a HD as a storage drive. The permissions are not correct on th HD and in disk util the option for fixing the permissions is ghosted out. I really would hate to do this one folder at a time.
ThanksFYI, BB
Below is a quote from Apple describing what Disk Permissions deals with.
If you still need assistance, please describe what problem/issue you are trying to solve.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452
"Many things you install in Mac OS X are installed from package files (whose filename extension is ".pkg"). Each time something is installed from a package file, a "Bill of Materials" file (whose filename extension is ".bom") is stored in the package's receipt file, which is kept in /Library/Receipts/ in Mac OS X v10.5 and earlier. These files don't take up much disk space and you shouldn't put them in the Trash. Each of those ".bom" files contains a list of the files installed by that package, and the proper permissions for each file.
Does Disk Utility check permissions on all files?
Files that aren't installed as part of an Apple-originated installer package are not listed in a receipt and therefore are not checked. For example, if you install an application using a non-Apple installer application, or by copying it from a disk image, network volume, or other disk instead of installing it via Installer, a receipt file isn't created."
Is this what you want to "fix"? -
How can I "repair disk" with Repair disk grayed out?
My external back-up has been complaining of late, Time Machine can no longer access it, and now, after trying Verify Disk, it stopped that process and told me to use Repair Disk.
Repair Disk is grayed out. But my WD unit isn't even six months old.
Where do I turn?I found a Grab of part of the response from Verify Disk.
If that's impossible to read, (1) blame Apple and (2) let me know -- I'll punch it up. -
How long does Repair Disk take?
When starting up my iMac - only bought 3 weeks ago, I open Safari and my screen gets a black screen over it and say "You need to restart your computer. Hold down..." after 3 times of doing this I rung apple and went through some steps with technical help. I'm now waiting for Disk Utility to repair my disk - it's been over an hour. How long should this take?
An hour seems too long to me. That screen effect and message sound like a kernel panic. Such freezes are generally attributed to hardware but not always.
If the machine is only three weeks old and you are getting kernel panics, I'd make a booking for the shop to check it out. -
How can i repair disk permissions i know i altered?
sigh... this is the second time i've fudged my wife's MacBook.
i downloaded some music on my MBP. i then gave her the same files via USB (then again later via Bonjour). the files work on my MBP and on my iPod Touch no problem. her MacBook received the files into her inbox no problem. but in iTunes, trying to add the files into her Library, an error comes up saying roughly 'you do not have sufficient access to preform this action'. a few google searches later, i figured it was a permissions problem in the file folders.
command-I over her Music Folder, change privileges to "Read and Write" for 'My Wife', 'Admin', and 'Everyone'. click the gears icon below that, and 'Apply to Enclosed Items'. restart.
didn't work. so i thought to myself: hmmm, maybe its a folder im not thinking to check. if i just changed those permissions across the board, it'll work then! i'm so smart.
command-I over her disc icon on the desktop, change privileges to "read and Write" for 'My Wife', 'Admin', and 'Everyone'. click the gears icon below that, and 'Apply to Enclosed Items'. restart.
Grey Screen... Apple Logo... Wheel... automatic restart... Grey Screen... Apple Logo... Wheel... automatic restart... over, and over, and over.
ok, so i troubleshoot on the forums here. after quite a few reads, i land on:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
follow steps for safe boot, no luck.
follow steps for resetting PRAM, nuthin.
follow steps for Disk Utility, and i find there were quite a few Permissions that were changed (duh).
the Repair Permissions finishes and most of the log says the 'Permissions were modified and will not be Repaired'. i know i can ignore most of the SUID files that won't be repaired, but there a re a handful of files that im sure are causing the problem. is there another step i can take here? can i rewrite the permissions for the problem files in the terminal?
or am i barking up the wrong tree here entirely?
Archive and install is my next step, but i want that to be my last resort, if only because she's gonna kill me. the last time i "fixed" her MacBook, it ran me $280 for the file recovery service. we're in a recession people, i don't wanna blow another $280.Hiram Quesada wrote:
sigh... this is the second time i've fudged my wife's MacBook.
i downloaded some music on my MBP. i then gave her the same files via USB (then again later via Bonjour). the files work on my MBP and on my iPod Touch no problem. her MacBook received the files into her inbox no problem. but in iTunes, trying to add the files into her Library, an error comes up saying roughly 'you do not have sufficient access to preform this action'. a few google searches later, i figured it was a permissions problem in the file folders.
command-I over her Music Folder, change privileges to "Read and Write" for 'My Wife', 'Admin', and 'Everyone'. click the gears icon below that, and 'Apply to Enclosed Items'. restart.
didn't work. so i thought to myself: hmmm, maybe its a folder im not thinking to check. if i just changed those permissions across the board, it'll work then! i'm so smart.
command-I over her disc icon on the desktop, change privileges to "read and Write" for 'My Wife', 'Admin', and 'Everyone'. click the gears icon below that, and 'Apply to Enclosed Items'.
that was not clever. you now have to do an archive and install. and in the future NEVER EVER and I mean under ANY conditions use "apply to enclosed items" on ANY system created folders and your startup drive. that includes among other things your home directory, your Music folder, your desktop folder, etc. Use it ONLY on folders you make yourself. you should never change permissions on system files period. the reason you shouldn't do it on system created folders in your home directory like the Music folder is that such folders often have hidden ACLs and using "apply to enclosed items" will propagate those ACLs to everything inside. in particular, the Music folder has "everyone deny delete" ACLs and if you use "apply to enclosed items" on it you'll have to enter your admin password any time you need to delete move or rename anything in that folder.
restart.
Grey Screen... Apple Logo... Wheel... automatic restart... Grey Screen... Apple Logo... Wheel... automatic restart... over, and over, and over.
ok, so i troubleshoot on the forums here. after quite a few reads, i land on:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
follow steps for safe boot, no luck.
follow steps for resetting PRAM, nuthin.
follow steps for Disk Utility, and i find there were quite a few Permissions that were changed (duh).
the Repair Permissions finishes and most of the log says the 'Permissions were modified and will not be Repaired'. i know i can ignore most of the SUID files that won't be repaired, but there a re a handful of files that im sure are causing the problem. is there another step i can take here? can i rewrite the permissions for the problem files in the terminal?
or am i barking up the wrong tree here entirely?
Archive and install is my next step, but i want that to be my last resort, if only because she's gonna kill me. the last time i "fixed" her MacBook, it ran me $280 for the file recovery service. we're in a recession people, i don't wanna blow another $280. -
In Lion, how would a user REPAIR disk without a disk to boot from?
In Lion, how would a user REPAIR Disk without a disk to boot from? It's cool to download Lion from App Store, but I think they need to solve how they will repair disk without optical disk to boot from. I have had to repair disk in with the disk utility around 5-10 times in the past.
Kappy wrote:
No doubt, but who's going to delete their installer? That would be a tad stupid don't you think?
Well it should be stupid, but people do it anyway not realizing it's importance later when something goes wrong.
Kappy wrote:
We'll need a GIF with a Bill Engvall "Here's your sign."
Not familiar with Bill Engvall's acts I'm afraid, I know it's terrible.
Kappy wrote:
I guess we shouldn't forget the recovery partition. But why confuse the issue.
That does confuse the issue, a bootable DVD is for installing the operating system after a hard drive replacement, which also will include the recovery partition.
Recovery parititions are a great idea for Windows as it fails often, but hard drives fail more often in Mac's than the operating system. -
Unable to verify and repair disk, with my new 10.5
I'm trying to work out some problems on my older G4 desktop (with lamp bass). I upgraded recently from 10.3 to 10.5 (bought new box with the 10.5 disk). I have 750 dramm.
I wish to verify and repair the disk. I can't figure out h ow with the new 10.5 disk I have.
In the past, I would boot up my computers with the 10.3 and 10.4 disks (I've had both) with "C" key down, and then I could use the utility.
That does not work with this new Leopard disk. Won't boot up with the "C" (or the "option" key for that matter).
That normal? And how do I repair disk for the install disk?
thx..
JonJon,
The Leopard disk works (or is supposed to work) just like previous versions of OS X. In other words, booting the G4 while holding down the "C" key should boot the machine to the installer.
A couple of things might get in the way of this happening, though. First, let's establish that your G4 meets the minimum requirements for Leopard. For a G4, the important item would be at least an 867 MHz processor (if I'm not mistaken). Are we still "go?"
Also, let's eliminate the "duh!!!" possibility of a third-party or wireless keyboard, which may not be supported by the startup manager.
If you meet the minimum requirements, and you're using a standard, wired USB keyboard, your PRAM may be causing an issue. This happens, sometimes. To clear this up, first flush out the PRAM by holding down Command-Option-P-R at startup, and continue to hold it until you hear a total of four startup chimes. When you hear the fourth, immediately switch to holding the "C" key (with the Leopard disk inserted, of course).
If this doesn't get you booted to the installer, there may be something wrong with the installer disk.
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How do i repair or recover data from a corrupt USB external hard drive that does not show up on my Mac desktop or disk utility?
Last night i was using my external hard drive, for some reason the folder just closed and i couldn't find it on my desktop.
After googling solutions, i found it in the disk utilities, i clicked on the 'repair' button many times, but it said the 'error...' message.
So i ejected it to try again, now when i connect the USB external hard drive it doesn't show up on my desktop or disk utilities.
I really just want to either repair or recover the data on it because it literally has everything (documents, work files, photos etc) on it,
I downloaded an application to recover my files but it needs the USB to at least show up.recognise it which mine doesn't.
I know i should've backed it up on another USB, this definitely teaches me for next time to back up all my files.
Are the files lost forever or can i recover them by going to a shop or using a software?Thank you for responding.
This might sound stupid since i'm not really knowledgeable with Macs,
but since all my files were moved from my mac computer to the external hard drive,
is it possible to recover those files through my Mac - like recovering deleted files? -
How do i repair my hard drive in single user mode when disk is full?
Hi there Apple Community!
I have an old Macbook Pro 17" with an upgraded 500GB harddrive and 4GB memory. I'm running Mac OSX Lion.
Was hoping you could help me out. THis is the situation:
Long story short I spilt wine on my macbook and the screen went a bit blobby. Switched it off for a few days, removed the battery etc. etc. Opened it up cleaned out as much of the wine as possible, but unfortunately some of it came in behind the LCD, so now the screen has a nice red stain. Obviously I'm not going to try to clean that out of the LCD.
My Macbook Pro still worked for a few days after that, but then my harddrive gave up. I booted in the Recovery HD menu, verified the drive and I got the error "Keys out of order - This disk needs to be repaired, click Repair Disk." I attempted to repair the disk but got the error "Keys out of order - Disk Full Error - The volume could not be repaired".
Unfortnately of this 500GB I only have about 7GB free on it, as I have a huge iPhoto and iTunes library. I did make a TIme Machine backup of my user directory, but not the system files. I don't really want to do a clean install because:
1) I'm paranoid that there's something I did not fully back up
2) I don't want to have to download the whole Mac OSX Lion again. I should have made a USB bootable backup when I had the chance. I don't have access to a broadband connection.
What I feel are my viable options, are as follows:
1) I did buy a replacement internal 500GB harddrive, so I can probably try to make an image of the hard drive to this new drive, but not sure how. I believe it's through the Disk Utility with the "New Image" option but not sure how to go from there.
2) Start up in Single User Mode and delete some unnecessary files and re-attempt to run the fschk -fy utility again (I tried this earlier and got the same Disk Full Error). - the problem with this is, I'm not familiar with the command line and have no clue how to delete files. I don't know my way around Unix.
3) I can also probably attempt to make a Ghost Image or Acronis Image of the failed drive to this new drive, but not sure if Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image will be able to read this HFS drive - I believe it's possible as it's a simple hard drive clone.
If you can guide me in the best option - probably there is a better solution than my proposed ones above, I appreciate any feedback and comments you might have!hi Baltwo,
So I ended up copying my user folder to another harddrive. I managed to download the whole osx lion again, reinstalled, and recovered my home folder using this discussion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428
I have managed to get all my files back. My iTunes library works fine, but my iPhoto library when I open it, get the following error:
iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem.
Here's the error log
Process: iPhoto [1540]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: 8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-4240000~8
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [209]
Date/Time: 2012-09-19 19:56:45.528 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Sleep/Wake UUID: 7948ABE2-5294-4F87-B6E3-777095A2F2EE
Interval Since Last Report: 4780 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 9
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 9
Anonymous UUID: 70117D38-03EA-4F9C-B810-50B743864B9E
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlid eshow
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Reason: image not found
I've done an Apple Software Update but it didn't find an update for iPhoto.
One thing to note is, this library was originally created on iLife 08, upgraded to '09 and it stayed on that version. It hasn't een upgraded to iLife '11. It worked fine on my previous install of OSX Lion. How do I recover the library without upgrading to '11 ? -
I can't burn a dvd using any method, idvd tells me that my super drive is missing, dvd studio pro quits when i click burn and disk utility keeps spitting the disk out when I click burn and enter the disk??? how do i repair my superdrive for imac, or how do I do whatever I need to do to get it working: I have already tried using a lens cleaning cd and also restored my nvram or something i forget what it was called but i restarted my computer holding down command+optoion+p+r and still nothing???
Free solutions are the best, although if I have to pay I will, I would prefer to not have to buy an external burner if possible and already know that is an option so please don't give me that answer... thank you for any help you can giveUnless your iMac is still covered by AppleCare, get an external DVD burner.
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disk utility can't repair the Macintosh HD, asking toback up all files as possible? and how to reformat the disk?
Some problems can indeed be fixed this way. But working from Recovery_HD or Disk Warrior DVDs and working in the restricted environment those provide can be difficult. You can literally spend days working on this problem (while your regular work is unavailable) only to discover the old drive is unsalvageable.
There is no way to know up front whether you are facing a major Hardware failure or a minor software glitch, or something in between. Often you are forced to work from the drive you no longer trust. I continue to recommend you do this work from a different, fully functioning Mac OS X booted from a different drive.
If you have had the foresight to (as The hatter often recommends) clone your virgin install onto another drive for use in such situations, you will be able to recover from such problems in record time. If not, my previous recommendations stands:
Buy a new Drive. Or two. Install Mac OS X from scratch on a new drive, and get your Mac running again. Later, you can use the full power of Mac OS X to attempt to rescue your data, if needed. Then Zero the old drive, to see if it can hold data again reliably.
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My Macbook started acting up....when rebooting there was a flashing file folder with a ? inside. Finally got to reboot, ran Disk Verfiy and my hard drive is corrupt. We just moved and I have no install disc. How do I repair my hard drive?
With no install drive and a potentially flaky boot drive there is no guarantee of success. Here's some schemes you can try.
1. Boot in safe mode. I believe it does a fsck (file system check) of the boot drive.
2. Related to 1.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
3. Ggt yourself an external drive and hope you can clone the boot drive to it using Carbon Copy Cloner (or Super Duper). Then boot from the external and try to repair the original boot drive.
Of course I shouldn't have to say that you should always have a backup (backups) of your drives anyhow.
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