My macbook pro sat for two days

It was plugged in, but now will not go past spinning gear. tried safe boot but same thing. tried fsck -fy and same thing. can hear things moving, but seems like the fan is kicking in a lot. any help would be appreciated.

Start with comprehensive user tip article:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
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I keep seeing articles since yesterday stating that the new MBP retina display supports 3 external monitors and the new Macbook Air supports two (through just one ThB port?) but how come no one says anything about the new regular MBP's support? If the Air supports two isn't the regular MBP also supposed to be able to work with two external monitors?

USB video has performance limitations, but it's fine for stuff that doesn't involve fast-action video.
ah yes, sorry, the new USB 3 now supports speeds up to 5 GB/sec so it may become suitable for AV use. Actually, only ThunderBolt (and HDMI) has higher speed than the USB 3 port.
but I just found this page here at the Apple support, which states that the Air and Pro both support 2 displays and the retina MBP one more through the HDMI port, so I guess now it's official

I own a 13-inch MacBook Pro and for the past day, my wifi on my laptop says I only have two bars of connection and is running very slow,but all of my other devices such as my iPhone and iPad are connecting perfectly to the wifi. How can I fix this? Thanks

I own a 13-inch MacBook Pro and for the past day, my wifi on my laptop says I only have two bars of connection and is running very slow,but all of my other devices such as my iPhone and iPad are connecting perfectly to the wifi. How can I fix this? I have tried to shut my laptop off and let it rest and I have also re-started my wifi router three different times. Someone please help me with this problem so I can begin to use my laptop again as I take it to school and use it for class.
Thanks so much!

FCP, and all software on OSX, has a few different "preference" files (the extension is .plist), which store all your user settings. Each time you resize a window, change a setting, anything, this file is re-written. Kinda easy to see how they would become corrupt every now and then.
-Close FCP
-Navigate to User>Library>Preferences and delete com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist
-Navigate to User>Library>Preferences>Final Cut Pro User Data and delete Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs
-Empty your trash
Relaunch FCP and see if that worked.
Download FCP Rescue to make this process easier in the future. When you have FCP running really smooth, open FCP Rescue and create a backup of your preference files. If it starts acting wanky, just run FCP Rescue and Restore your backup preferences. Works really slick, and it's free.
EDIT: Or use the really simple explaination that X posted as I was typing.

I bought new Macbook Pro 13" around two months before .My Apple ID is working on all other things except app store . It is buffering for a lot of time and lastly coming on screen " can not connect to app store " Please help me

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HT3964 I just opened up my MacBook Pro after a few days of not using it and it was frozen. I turned it off and back on and all I see is a white screen, there was a file with a question mark flashing for a bit but I can't do anything, please help me!!

I just opened up my MacBook Pro after a few days of not using it and it was frozen. I turned it off and back on and all I see is a white screen, there was a file with a question mark flashing for a bit but I can't do anything, please help me!!

Jerricayoung,
you have a 13-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. It’s modern enough that it supports booting into Recovery mode. To do so, hold down a Command key and the R key as you start up. It should eventually show a Mac OS X Utilities menu. Select Disk Utility from that menu; when the Disk Utility window appears, select the bootable volume from the left-hand side of the window. (It’s typically called “Macintosh HD”.) When the volume is selected, some buttons will appear on the right-hand side. If it’s not greyed out, press the Verify Disk button; if it is greyed out, or if it reports on errors that it found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu; that will restart your MacBook Pro in its normal mode. With luck, that will be enough to get you to your normal login screen, rather than the white screen.

I am a new Logic user. I attempted to download the additional data (roughly 20GB) and for two days my Macbook has been alerting me that there are five seconds left for my download. Ha. I cant quit Logic, or shutdown my computer. Any suggestions?

I am a new Logic user. I attempted to download the additional data (roughly 20GB) and for two days my Macbook has been alerting me that there are five seconds left for my download. Ha. I can't quit Logic, or shutdown my computer. Any suggestions?

Sorry for the long subject line. Ha.

Macbook pro shuts down two minutes after start up

Hi
Can anyone help with a problem on my Macbook Pro. I have had it for two days and loaded all of my info and set up everything as I would like it and it froze.
I waited and waited and in the end had to power down. When I restarted it I get the spinning wheel for about two minutes then it just shuts off the power. I have tried to start in safe mode etc to no avail.
I feel so unlucky with Apple as month ago I bought myself a new Imac and within three weeks the hard drive failed. They have replaced it with a new one but now this problem is making me feel unsure about Apple am I just unlucky? Thank you

The forum you want MBP
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190
Or try Using Snow Leopard also
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro

Best Macbook Pro 15" for photo editing?

Hi,
I have to get a MacBook Pro 15" for my work. I'm a photographer, so I will be editing a lot of images with Photoshop, Aperture, plug-ins, etc. + I will connect a large external monitor to it.
I will also have to edit some videos in FCP but not much, and recording some audio using Logic.
My two choices are: MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz (i5) or 2.66 GHz (i7). From what I understood the 2.53 GHz (i5) is not really worthed, since there is almost no difference with the 2.4 GHz.
I was wondering if in your opinion the better graphics of the 2.66 GHz could make a big difference to me.
I don't play any games on my mac.
Thank you so much for your advises
Have a good day
Luca

I think you will find the only difference with the Nvidia graphic card between the i5 and i7 is the i5 have 256mb less dedicate vedio RAM than the i7 model. This mades no difference for the tasks you listed.
Both i5 and i7 can display resolution upto 2560 X 1600, so you can connect it to a 30 inch monitor without any problem.
I agree with you the 2.4Ghz model is a good choice, you can use the rest of the money for 6 to 8Gb of RAM upgrade.
The i7 in my MBP only get pushed to the limit when I test software in multiple vitural windows. Most time incl working in Photoshop CS4 in virtual Windows 7, the cpu only operate around 30%. So I don’t think you will notice any performance difference with the 2.4Ghz model.

After Lightroom CC update, PS & Bridge fail to update and get error U43M1D204. Retried for two days still same error.

After installing the lightroom CC update, PS and Bridge reported they had updates. When trying to update I get the error U43M1D204 and it fails. Retried for two days now and still cannot get it to work. Tried removing PS and Bridge but there is no uninstall or reinstall options.

UPDATE: I managed to get both uninstalled and they re-installed ok. They reported installing ok but required a patch and that failed. So back to the same issue, I cannot patch these two applications.
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Unable to activate photoshop C3 as helpline is not answering,I have been ringing for two days..!

I am having real problems contacting the adobe helpline to activate my software, I have been ringing for two days and its always engaged.. Unfortunately The motherboard on my macbook pro failed ( and it was only just over two years old, so out of its warrenty)..
Anyhow I cannot therefore de-activate my photoshop software on my old computer, so therefore I am unable to activate on my new computer I just brought..
It is so frustrating as i have all the discs infront of me, but I only have four days left now to use the software that I have paid for and own..
Does anyone know of other phone numbers I could use, as the ones I have tried on this site are always engaged, I really can't afford to go out and purchase the software again.. Has anybody else come across this problem and how did you solve it..?
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Tenerifedoggies

Hi Wade,
I thought when I received your email it was somebody directly from adobe trying to help me...! indeed it was not a wise thing to do. I have deleted the post..
With the greatest respect I have tried calling quite a few numbers and at different times and if you have read other posts on this forum you will see that they have had similiar problems to me..
Anyhow I have had a nice email from Tracey an adobe person and hopefully she will be able to help me out.
Thanks again for your suggestion of an alternative number..

Macbook pro freezes for no reason even after installing 10.8 on a brand new hard drive

Macbook pro freezes for no reason even after installing 10.8 on a brand new hard drive.
Tried to reset pram, smc, nvram.
Tried installing new RAM.
Tried installing new hard drive.
You should know that my internal drive is installed in a cheap external case and plugged in a USB 2.0 port because i am waiting for a new hard drive cable.all
Yep all good things happened to me...i don't know if all these problems are linked, ahh and also my trackpad is behaving very erraticaly sometimes, it's like it is possessed by a ghost. My computer is not under warranty anymore so i'd like to avoid a trip to the Apple store but i'm close to doing just that.
Any help appreciated...

It's diagnostic software. It's supposed to help you find problems. I don't think anyone is making any software yet that fixes hardware problems.
That said, the two comments:
Le husky wrote:
Macbook pro freezes for no reason even after installing 10.8 on a brand new hard drive....
.....also my trackpad is behaving very erraticaly sometimes, it's like it is possessed by a ghost....
would lead me to think it's the logic board. On older MacBook Pro's both the USB I/O ports and the keyboard/trackpad are fed out of an integrated USB controller integrated into the South Bridge I/O controller. On newer models, the USB ports come out of an integrated North/South bridge controller and the keyboard/trackpad are handled by an SMC controller, which itself interfaces with the I/O controller. All of these items are on the logic board, and they're all unrepairable.
...unless of course the "internal drive [that] is installed in a cheap external case" is itself causing the problems. Another thing to try might be a different USB port, if you haven't done so already.
I didn't know the price for Scannerz went up. I could have sworn I only paid 30-some bucks for it. Maybe it was on sale at the time. I don't remember.
In any case, good luck.

HT201250 which external hard drive should I choose/use as I am setting up Time Machine on my MacBook Pro 15 for the very first time?

Which external hard drive should I use/choose as I am setting up Time Machine on my MacBook Pro 15 for the very first time?

Any of these SATA HDDs that are at least the same size as your internal HDD (preferably larger capacity). In addition you will need an enclosure, preferably one with a Firewire as well as a USB connection.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
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My ipod has been stuck on the apple logo for two days

my ipod has been stuck on the apple logo for two days after plugging my ipod into a macbook that has recently jailbroke a friends ipod. i did not jailbreak but my ipod still crashed. my home button is broken so i am not able to do all these home remedies i find on the internet. can apple help me or should i just give up on my ipod?

Place the iPod in recovery mode using one of these programs and then restore via iTunes:
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and
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IPod 5th Gen doesn't find any WiFi signals after battery was dead for two days.

I recently bought an ipod 5th generation, it only has the selfie camera (no back camera).
My battery then ran out, and my iPod was dead for two days.
My iPod charging cable wasn't working, so i went out to buy a new one.
After charging it with the new cable, it would not connect to the internet.
My brother has a 4th generation ipod and his picks up and connects to the wifi signal we have here at home, but mine won't even pick up the signal, or any wifi signals period.
I looked around here on the Apple Support but found nothing that helped, I already reset my network settings.
Is there any way to fix this?

If not this
iOS: Wi-Fi or Bluetooth settings grayed out or dim
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Then
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Does the iOS device see the network?
Any error messages?
Do other devices now connect?
Did the iOS device connect before?
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
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Firefox has been randomly crashing for two days. I always have google and facebook running. Firefox seems to crash at random times - no specific web page loading. My Firefox is up to date.

Firefox has been randomly crashing for two days. I always have google and facebook running. Firefox seems to crash at random times - no specific web page loading. My Firefox is up to date.

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