I have turned on my computer, and I am trying to login with my wireless keyboard. When I type, nothing registers on the screen. I have tried restarting, shutdown, and changing the batteries. Any other suggestions?
Last night I changed the system preference to make you have to login when the computer is turned on. I somehow must have disabled my wireless keyboard. With the keyboard not registering, I can't login. I'm stuck at the login screen. (I don't know the operating system. It is an iMac G5, OSX something.)
If it's an iMac G5 (and not a recent Intel iMac), it originally came with a wired USB keyboard. You'll probably need to connect it or some other USB keyboard (it can be one from a Windows PC), so you can get passed that screen.
If you have not already, you can try turning OFF and turning ON the keyboard, while you are on the login screen
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I can't enable the ownership of my back-up volume via get info. Any other suggestions?
Hi people, My external hard drive is not working well. When I try to make a time-machine back up a window pops up: ‘Mac-OSX can’t repair the disk. You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can’t save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can’. So now I am trying to copy my back-up files to another disk so I can reformat it. But when I try to do that, the following text appears: The backup files can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled. The problem is that I can’t enable the ownership of the back-up volume.
ALF316 wrote:
Yes its my Time Machine disk that’s damaged. What can I do now? Format the disk and loose all my back-ups?
You may be able to restore individual items, or even an entire backup, as long as you don't happen to hit the damaged area(s). But yes, your only real option is to erase the disk and start over. When you do that, you might want to take the time to have Disk Utility write zeros to the entire disk (see section (b) in the blue box of #1 in Using Disk Utility if you're not sure how to do that) -- if that fails, you know the disk itself is failing and must be replaced. If it succeeds, the drive may be ok.
And how can I prevent this in the future. I know at least I had to have a second back up disk but I never did that.
You probably don't know yet what caused it. If it's the disk failing, obviously you need a new one. Other things that can cause disk corruption are power blips, being disconnected improperly, or your Mac crashing or losing power while the disk is connected, especially during a backup.
For power problems, the best solution is a U.P.S. (battery backup) system. A good surge protector will protect against power spikes, but not dips or sudden loss of power.
I allready tried several times to change ownership with Get Info but I can’t. I don’t see a checkmark and the
section isn’t clickable either. Any other suggestions?
The screenshot is of your TM drive. The message is about the drive you're trying to copy to, such as: -
I have two computers, my desktop has much more music on it, but my laptop is 10 times faster. I originally sync'd my iphone 4s with the desktop to try and keep the hard drive on the laptop from bogging down. My desktop is on it's way out and I'm trying to sync with the laptop but itunes won't let me. When I go into my iphone on the computer I check off to manual manage music and when I hit apply it tells me that the iphone can only be sync'd to one computer and requires the contents of the phone being deleted. Is there anyway around this or am I going to have to delete everything and go through my laptop?
This is from article on device with multiple computers:
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Help! My MacBook is all of a sudden not working past the login page. A white screen comes up that I cannot get rid of. I attempted a safe start up and that failed as well. It's a white screen where I have a mouse and when I click the volume buttons I can hear it working but nothing else just white. Please help.
Something you can try is resetting it all Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings. Or go to Settings > Store & sign out & log back in. Another thing you can do is restore your ipod. This has happened to me but the only thing i did was that i created a new account but try doing the things above i just told you. :)
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when I type symbol font appears on screen (Safari, Mail, Firefox text boxes) and browswers fail to work properly (click on reply and browser tries to download), reboot will temp fixe, new keybord fixed it but it now back? driving me crazy..virus??? When this starts up iMac does not work properly, odd things, start happening, like all my screens will dissappear and I have to click on app to 'show' then as quick as it started it will stop. Run MacPilot/Onyx, no change.
Wireless keyborad, 27" i7 chipset, 2.8 Ghz,12 Gigs RAMwhen I type symbol font appears on screen (Safari, Mail, Firefox text boxes) and browswers fail to work properly (click on reply and browser tries to download), reboot will temp fixe, new keybord fixed it but it now back? driving me crazy..virus??? When this starts up iMac does not work properly, odd things, start happening, like all my screens will dissappear and I have to click on app to 'show' then as quick as it started it will stop. Run MacPilot/Onyx, no change.
Wireless keyborad, 27" i7 chipset, 2.8 Ghz,12 Gigs RAM -
I have an iphone 4s that is having display issues. If I turn the phone on, it vibrates to acknowledge it successfully turned on but the screen stays solid black. I can plug the phone into my computer and itunes will recognize the phone as well. However, itunes can not do anything with the phone because the phone is locked and I can not unlock the phone because the screen is black.
>CURVEBALL!!!<
The screen does work though! Through trial and error along side a little troubleshooting, I was able to figure out that the screen will cut on after the phone dies completely. The phone has to die completely with no battery power left. Then if I plug the phone into a charge and wait a while for it to charge, the phone will turn on like nothing was ever even wrong with it. I charge the phone up to like 30% and turn it off then bam the phone turns on but the screen is solid black again.
I am currently in the process of waiting for the phone to die and when I turn the phone back on I am going to completely remove the auto-lock and lock code off of the phone for the time being.
Any other suggestions? Please help!Sounds like the device was dropped at some point and damaged as a result.
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When I go to plug in my iPhone 5 to my PC it will charge my phone but it doesn't show up that it's connected to my computer or in iTunes. I have tried just about everything that I can find in the support discussions but nothing has worked. Any other suggestions?
If you have carefully follow ALL of the steps in that article, you are using a USB port directly on your computer and not a USB hub (don't use a front port on a tower or desktop either, as they are an internal hub) and you installed iTunes correctly using an Administrator ID and you have tried disabling your antivirus and firewall then there is no hope of it ever working. Look at the tip again, and go through it carefully, not skipping any steps.
Note, BTW, that an iPhone will not show up on a computer, only in iTunes. If there are photos in the Camera Roll then it will appear in Windows as a digital camera only. -
I did the restore through Itunes and it still says Ipod disabled - Any other suggestions?
I did the restore on my Ipod through I Tunes and it still says it is disabled - Any other suggestions?
If you are talking about the screen-lock passcode, thate means that the restore never successfully completed.
Try disabling the computer's antivirus and firewall.
- Next try the manual install method of:
iDevice Troubleshooting 101 :: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Place the iPod in recovery mode after the firmware download is complete and then restore using the instructions in the article. Sometimes recovery mode timeouts and returns to disabled before the firmware download is complete.
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My computer temp runs at 120 degrees. I used scmfancontrol but it did not lower the temp much. Can you tell me what I can do to make it work or any other suggestions to fix this would be most appreciated.
To get rid of "pop-up ads and other crap on my computer when I am on the internet", click on Safari in the Menu bar, and select Preferences. Next select Extensions. Delete all of them. Restart Safari.
The first step in addressing the black screen is an SMC reset.
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
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We just added a new printer and bluetooth connection to our iMac. Now iTunes does not recognize our iPads as devices. Have already tried restarting everything. Any other suggestions?
You can try the steps recommended here: http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/assistant/itunes/
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After updating my iPad 2 to iOS 6, I cannot connect to my router. I have turned the router off, left off for a considerable time, turned the iPad off and on, reset the network settings, nothing works. Any other suggestions? It is obvious many others are having similar problems, so the iOS 6 looks like a loser.
I have just upgraded from a 3 to a 4S and now I can't connect to my wifi. I've tried everything, resetting network settings, switching to boot, renewing lease, rebooting, turning off cellular data etc etc. nothing works!! Very frustrating!
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Apple TV is continuous loop after accepting to download and install of the latest version of software ( sept 21) has been for several hours I have unplugged and hoped for some sort of reset or at least the chance to start the download again! Any other suggestions?
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Help. My iPad email screen went blank. I have rebooted, reset and deleted and reinstalled my email accounts to no avail. Any other suggestions?
Restore from iTunes. It is hard to say if you want to backup or rather revert to an old backup. I would recommend to save the previous backups to a safe place and then backup the current state and later test the backups incase your iPhone comes back to proper life.
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I tried all suggestions fo a grayed out wifi toggle and nothing seems to be working. Any other suggestions?
I had this problem last month. I ended up having to get a new iPhone 4S. It's a very, very common problem and in my opinion it should be covered by Apple for free since it is so popular and is an obvious hardware defect especially in the iPhone 4S.
So I suggest you order a new iPhone ($230 with no warranty) ($50 with Apple Care+). And while you wait for your new iPhone to come you could back up your iPhone and try some of the YouTube fixs. I put mine in a plastic bag (off with no air in the bag) in the freezer for 30 minutes, pulled it out, turned it back on, let the iPhone thaw out in the bag, and it then worked again for over a week before it died again. But I would only try that if you knew you had a new iPhone on the way. My cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth all went out so I had nothing to lose. -
monitor too faint to read. the greays on my monitor are so faint, they're almost impossible to see. especially the numbers of the dates in ical.
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