My screen on my MacBook Pro blacks out constantly. If I press on the bottom left side of the MacBook, I can keep the screen on. I have been placing a small note pad to keep pressure on the bottom in order to keep the screen lit up.

You should try taking the battery out and putting it back in, but then if that doesn't work, you should take it into your Apple Retail Store and have a genius at the Genius Bar take a look. That seems like a hardware problem to me.

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I can't update them as I have my own AppleID and not my colleague's.
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What system version are you running and what version of iApps do you currently have?
How do I change the AppleID matched to my utilities
What versions did you have? Did you purchase the iApps with your Apple ID as some previous time?
Go into the System/iCloud preference pane and sign out. Then sign back in with your Apple ID. Also sign in to the App Store with your Apple ID. If you have purchased those apps previously you'll be able to download them for free from the Purchases section.
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Take it to an Apple Store, it's under warranty.

HT1446 My Mac book pro black out just so, and the charger show a blinking light after I pressed the power button (green to yellow)

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HT4623 My IPad keeps blacking out constantly. Any suggestions??

My iPad keeps blacking out constantly. what's wrong, any suggestions?

McHi76 wrote:
My iPad keeps blacking out...
The Basic Troubleshooting Steps are:
Restart... Reset... Restore from Backup... Restore as New...
Restart... Reset > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Restore from Backup... Restore as New > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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Be sure to make an appointment first...

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During an aborted migration attempt from old Macbook Pro to a new machine running Yosemite my recently installed apps and settings have been placed in a deleted user folder. How do I reinstate them?

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last resort. Backup the phone. Do a full reset, then restore as new with the backup.
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I have recently updated my macs software then been onto Photo Booth and realised that all of my pictures/videos have been deleted and are not in iPhoto? Im not sure where they have all gone?

Photobooth and iPhoto are two quite different apps with no connection between them. I'd try the Using Mac OS X forum for whatever version of the OS you have.

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807976 wrote:
Hi.
I'm experience something similar.
Did you finally resolve this stuff?.
ThanksDon't resurrect old threads. Create a new one and provide a complete problem description.

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This does show a heap of stuff.
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Purchased gift have been charged but recipient not received gifts even after resending

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Hello and thank you for reading this. I really have no idea what to do next, as I think I have exausted most options.
My Macbook Pro recently blacked out and I haven't been able to get it to boot/load (?) for several days now. It just stays in the grey screen with the apple on it and flickering wheel, and won't go beyond that. I installed Lion on it a couple of weeks ago.
I bought it in September 2009, and have had it updated every time I have been prompted to do so.
My only concern is that I have been eating away the memory with various media.
After reading some posts here about how to do a recovery, I tried the following:
I have been able to get into Disk Utilities and Mac OS X Installer, but I am not getting anywhere with the choices.
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My macbook pro blacks out??!

Hi i have a macbook pro, and every so often when i have left it turned on but closed for a short while, when i try to wake it up it keeps blacking out, but the fans are still going. So i usually just hold the off button for ages until it turns off and then when i turn it on again, its fine... ...for about 30 seconds, until it blacks out again. It usually blacks out while i am trying to reconnect to the internet; i find that i cannot get internet when its about to black out. Usually even after restarting about 4 times it just does not stay on, and then after I leave it for a while, I come back and open it, and it works fine! Is there anything you think I can do that will immediately stop it from blacking out? Also, sometimes when I have left it for a while and come back, when i try to wake it up it stays black for agggeesss with the rainbow circle loading thing, but I can easily make it work just by turning it off and on again, but even though are these problems related? Is it anything to do with the battery? Thankyou!
ps i know my macbook is OSX if that helps

If MBP does not respond properly to display lid opening and closing, reset SMC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
Best.

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