Logo of QuickTime with a question mark!

For thi first time, in every sites I choose to visit appear, instead of advertising (publicity), a QT logo (transparent) with, in the middle of it, a question mark ("?"). What happen? Thank you very much.

Hi
First, make sure the web content boxes are checked in your Safari Preferences>Security.
If they are:
Do you have a VLC plug-in in your Internet Plug-ins folder? If you do, remove it, restart Safari and try the sites again.
If you don't, have a look at the Quicktime>Advanced settings via System Preferences:
Enable flash ought to be checked
Also, look at your Mime Settings for still images - everything but Photoshop, Flash Pic and PDF selected; video - at least Quicktime Movie. Miscellaneous - nothing checked.
Just to be sure your permissions are current, "repair permissions" via Disk Utility in your Utilities folder before you restart Safari.

Similar Messages

Quicktime logo continually appearing with a question mark

Recently various pages viewed with Safari (and Firefox) are not displaying correctly and a Quicktime logo with a question mark is being shown. I thought I had perhaps erased a codec of some sort but I cannot solve the problem. I cannot view any flash animations, movies within web pages etc.
Help!!!

The Quicktime logo with a question mark refers to Flash video.
These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!
Assuming you already run OS 10.4.9 or above and have Quicktime 7.2, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install (or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:
RealPlayer from http://uk.real.com/player/
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
Adobe FlashPlayer from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).
In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).
Now repair permissions and restart.
The world should now be your oyster!
You should also have the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.

Quicktime with a question mark

I am trying to play some Mp4 movies that I uploaded to my MobileMe gallery and I cannot play the same on my Mac. I get a question mark within the Q symbol. No movies on my MobileMe is playing after upgrading to 10.6. Any suggestions?

Well, I am still no wiser, but will let you know if anything else occurs to me. Your movie will not play for me either. The page loads, and the poster frame loads, get a spinning pizza for maybe 20 seconds, and the a notice plastered to the bottom of the movie that QuickTime can't play it. It will download, and then plays in QT just fine. From this I'm going to assume it isn't a problem with your plugins, since it won't play for me either.
Since it was playing in QT after I downloaded it, I tried uploading it from QTX to my web gallery:
http://gallery.mac.com/francines#100086
I'll take it down of course as soon as I finish trying to figure this out. Anyway, the point is that it plays there just fine, but I quickly discovered that QTX had converted it to the m4v format for the two larger versions, and to a 3gp format for the smallest version.
So I wondered if the mp4 format was the problem. I seem to have disposed of most of my mp4s online, but did find one still up:
http://homepage.mac.com/francines/.Movies/kenstr.html
Oddly enough in the web page it plays in the QT7 plugin (you can tell by the control bar), but downloaded it plays in QTX. And if I drag the downloaded mp4 into the Safari window it plays with QTX, as does the download I did of your movie!
And I am indeed running Snow Leopard, and have been working on my review here:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/snowleo1.html
It is working surprisingly well. This is the first real glitch that I can't understand AT ALL that I've run into.
One final question: how did you get your movie into your Gallery? I ask because there are several different ways to do that. As I mentioned above, I put your movie up using the QTX Player, went to the Share menu and selected MobileMe Gallery.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

QuickTime logo with a question mark

Apologies if this is answered somewhere else, but I couldn't find the exact problem and I'm also very new at this.
On certain web pages I get a quick time logo with a question mark over it appearing, that seems to indicate some kind of missing plug-in (though I may be wrong about this). It's only started happening recently, but I can't pinpoint why. I have Flip4Mac, Quick Time Pro and the latest (I think) Flash Player installed. It means that I cannot read certain pages or see certain elements of pages. As an example, I tried to visit 'www.menierchocolatefactory.com/index2.asp', but just got a big QuickTime logo with question mark. I downloaded their suggested plug-in, but to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Not sure what resets these settings. Glad the solution was one of the easier paths.
Thanks for the and Aloha from Big Island.

QuickTime logo with a question mark on it

Some websites i go to show a picture or video instead a faint quicktime logo with a question mark shows up. How do I get rid of it and show the picture or video instead?

I find it interesting that this is clearly a topic of interest since 450 people have clicked on it---significantly more than the other questions on this page---and yet, NO ANSWER.
I have not been able to download Apple trailers. For instance, just went to a link to download the trailer for You Kill Me:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/youkillme/
Click on Medium size for the screen, so I go here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/youkillme/medium.html
A little button says you have to have version 7 of Quicktime which I keep downloading, since I keep trying to see trailers.
Although I know I've downloaded this software in the past, I'm getting the crazy Quicktime Q with a question mark.
So I go so far as to download Quicktime 7, yet again, then Restart. Try the movie. Still get the question mark in the Q.
What is up with this??????
iBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) Very cute
Very cute

Quicktime comes up with a Question mark?

My itunes work and my music can play however when i go to certain websites, images and movies come up as the quicktime logo with a question mark in the middle. I have all the updates and dont know why it wont show or play images, movies or games.

Is this on your Dell or on a Mac?
If it's a Mac I'd repair the permissions and see if that didn't cure it. If it doesn't.....
Download Quicktime again and reinstall...which will probably work on the Dell also.

I have a older intel MacBook pro, now when I try to start up instead of the apple logo I see a file folder with a question mark. Need some help please.

I have a first gen MacBook pro with intel chip. All of a sudden when I try to start up instead of the apple logo I see a file folder with a question mark. Phone support wasn't much help since it is a older machine. It's either a software issue or the hard drive went. Any ideas on how to fix if it's a software issue would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Thanks I tried that and when I click repair it tells me
Invalid volume header
Checking hfs plus volume.
Invalid b-free node size
Volume check failed
Error: the underlying task reported faliure on exit.
1 hfs volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.

My apple logo doesn't shows up instead of it there is folder with a question mark on it?

my apple logo doesn't shows up instead of it there is folder with a question mark on it. how do I start up my macbook?

Click here and follow the instructions. If the computer was running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier and you reach the third set of steps, insert a Mac OS X install disk.
(122478)

I accidentally pushed the power button of my macbookpro... it restarted but doesnt open... what appears now is a flashing FOLDER logo with a QUESTION MARK on it.. can someboby help me to fix this?

i accidentally pushed the power button of my macbookpro... it restarted but doesnt open... what appears now is a flashing FOLDER logo with a QUESTION MARK on it.. can someboby help me to fix this?

(Assuming you don't have a firmware boot lock set)
First easy step...
1. Shut down the computer if it's on (hold the power button down... until it shuts off)
2. Press the power button
3. Immediately press AND hold the Option key ASAP
Hold until drive option images appear in a single row across the screen. Typically most people running 10.7 or 10.8 will see 2 drive options to boot from: the main volume they usually boot from, and a recovery volume. If your main volume pops up. Use the cursor or arrow keys to highlight/select the main volume and press enter. That should boot your main volume. Let me know what you get from this point... I'll give you more as you go along.

Pls my macbook air is not booting up,when i switch it on the apple logo blinks with a question mark in it.what do i do?, pls my macbook air is not booting up,when i switch it on the apple logo blinks with a question mark in it.what do i do?

pls my macbook air is not booting up,when i switch it on the apple logo blinks with a question mark in it.what do i do?, pls my macbook air is not booting up,when i switch it on the apple logo blinks with a question mark in it.what do i do?

See here > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

I have some old pagemaker files that I need to open so I have bought a G3 on ebay. It turns on OK but all that comes uo on the screen is an envelope with alternating question mark and apple logo. Any ideas?

I have some old pagemaker files that I need to open so I have bought a G3 on ebay. It turns on OK but all that comes uo on the screen is an envelope with alternating question mark and apple logo. Any ideas?

I suggest you get 9.2. You need to install the same or later version of the OS. One some computer the shipped version has extra drivers. The drivers will not be in the official release in this case 9.1. They would be in 9.2.
Mac OS 9.1 (Mac OS ROM 7.5.1) and Mac OS X 10.0.4 (4P13)
*blinking question mark*
The blinking question mark means that your mac firmware could not find a valid operating system
on one of your disk volumes.
Somethings to do to resolve the blinking question mark.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042
Try holding down the option key then power on. This brings up the startup manager. Click on your hd. Click on right arrow key.
You need to figure out the level of your firmware before installing 10.2 or greater. ( The PC name for firmware is BIOS. ) Installing 10.2 with a down level firmware will most likely make your iMac unusable and difficult to fix.
What is firmware?
The firmware software receives control when you poweron your machine. It does some hardware testing and some hardware configuration then passes control to your version of Mac OS. It reside on a PROM ( program read only memory ) chip on the logic board.
Figuring out what level of firmware you have?
Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down command+option+o+f
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
On my machine, I have 4.1.9f1.
What firmware do you need?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
For a slot loading iMac, this article indicates that you need to be running 9.1 or later version of Mac OS Classic.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130
"The iMac Firmware Update 4.1.9 will only run on iMac computers with lot-loading CD or DVD drives running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local drive. If you are using Mac OS X you must boot from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD, or network disk) prior to following the update instructions."
You can download the Mac OS 9 updates from the Apple site.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387?viewlocale=en_US

Quicktime Icon with a Question Mark

I've been using quicktime for years and now when I go to some sites or try to download items I'll get the quicktime icon with a question mark in it. What is that and how do I fix it?

I've been using
quicktime for years and now when I go to some sites
or try to download items I'll get the quicktime icon
with a question mark in it. What is that and how do I
fix it?The most common problem is
Flash. If you do not have the current free Adobe
Flash Player software installed, download and install
it. Once installed, you must tell the browser plug-in
player to ignore the built-in QT Flash software
(which only handles Flash 5 and below) and use the
newly installed software instead. To do this, open
the "QqickTime Preferences > Advanced > MIMI Settings
Misc." area and ensure the "Flash Media" option is
deselected.
Hi,
I'm experiencing the very same problem and I was indeed adviced to install adobe flash player; it didn't work. I tried adjusting the quicktime settings, but when I go to MIME Setting, I simply get this completely blank window...Any ideas?
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

IMac crashed & on reboot I get the folder with a question mark

This happened last night when I went downstairs to put my computer to sleep, it was frozen. On reboot, I would get the chime, but not the apple logo—just the gray screen. Finally, after a minute or two, the folder with a question mark appeared. I tried resetting my PRAM and that didn't seem to work. I tried rebooting from the install disk to repair permissions, but my volume wouldn't even mount. It wasn't there.
Since this was 10:30 at night, I just went to sleep and when I woke up this morning, I turned it on just to see what would happen and lo & behold, it turns on, apple logo appears and ultimately takes me to my login screen. Needless to say, I was thrilled.
However, when I went to login on either my account or my husband's account, neither of our passwords will work now.
I have tried everything—typing the letters one by one. Nothing. How on earth am I supposed to login now? I'm afraid of restarting for fear of that infamous folder with the question mark appearing.
Any suggestions on how I could possibly login? Not only that, why are our passwords no longer working? Our names and avatars show up (they're custom avatars), so something is showing up on my HD, but why don't our passwords work? Weird.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, my specs are below and the only thing that I have done differently is I upgraded to v10.5.6 a few days ago. Otherwise, this never happens. No, I have not installed new RAM or anything like that.
Thanks!!!
Suzanne

Thank you so much for your replies, but I wanted to give you a heads up.
After speaking with tech support yesterday morning, and trying to verify disk via install disk, it was recommended that I bring my computer into Apple to have my HD replaced. I took it to the Genius Bar yesterday and yup, I need my HD replaced. Pain in the butt, but oh well, it could have been worse.
I pretty much back up all of my work (I'm a graphic designer) on a regular basis, but hadn't backed up my recent iTunes purchases, which I was told yesterday I could easily transfer from my iPod back to my "new" iMac—since they're purchased from iTunes. What a relief.
I guess the only thing that's a pain is pretty much all of my bookmarked websites (and there were a lot) and my photos, which I believe for the most part, were backed up.
Regardless, a lesson learned—never take advantage of the fact that your computer is what you think brand new (less than a year and a half old), and thinking it won't die, because you never know. This guy that was sitting next to me at the GB had a brand new MacBook Pro and it died after one week. Ouch!
I am going out right now and purchasing an external HD and having Time Machine back up on a regular basis. What a pain, but a harsh lesson learned.
Thank goodness for Apple Care.

Laptop turns on but has a folder with a question mark in the middle

for the last month or so my computer has been acting weird. when i turnd it on one morning it wouldent load it just kept the apple sign logo on the screen then it would change too the circle with a line though it sign.
now the logo doesnt even show up and a folder with a question mark on it is shown. is there a way to fix this problum and if so estimated how much...

Hi wizy;
It sounds like either your disk or the directories on your disk have been slowly going bad.
Do you have a backup?
The question mark indicates that your Mac is not able to find a system to boot from. I would suggest that you boot form the install media for your Mac and repair the disk with Disk Utility. Let us know the results of that and we can go from there.
Allan

Images appearing as little blue box with a question mark

Hi, I have Safari version 3.1.1 and in the last two weeks, I've been missing data and having in it's place a small little blue box with a question mark show up in Safari and in some of my mail downloads too.
Can anyone assist
Thanks
Tony
p.s. I have started a new topic because the other string relating to this topic is showing as solved with cause being devleopers.

I have exactly the same problem with safari and mail but firefox works fine. If i go to a website that requires flash in safari it will say i need to install flash 8 to view the stuff even though i have flash 9 installed. I thought it might have been a problem with flash and thought about uninstalling and reinstalling but because firefox works fine it would seem to be a safari problem. This only started happening with the latest quicktime update to, and i've tried downgrading back to an older version but my pro-apps require the latest version to run.
I did the same updates on my macbook but didn't encounter the same problems,although i lost audio playback on avi's in quicktime which i have since fixed with perian.

Logo of QuickTime with a question mark!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for