Power went out and now spinning ball of death
This morning the power went out while I had been working in InDesign and Illustrator. I came in and saved the project before the back up power went out but did not get the Mac powered off completely before the back up stopped. When the power came back on, I restarted the mac and Indesign, and my project is now constantly getting the spinning ball of death; I can't even recover it anymore in Indesign (I can open the file, but the recovery was lost). ALL other programs are fine. Just indesign.
I went to look for help online and found a recommendation to turn everything off, unplug mac, let it rest then hold the power button down and replug the power then power the mac back on, and now my fan is running at super high speed and I still am having huge problems with InDesign. 1) can you tell me how to get the fan back to the way it was and 2) what do I do about spinny rainbow ball in Indesign.
HELP!!!!!
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For the fans issue, first reset the SMC > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 If it doesn't work, it's possible that the computer has a hardware problem.
Apart from that, it's possible that your hard disk got damaged because of the power outage. To check if it's OK, open Disk Utility (it's in /Applications/Utilities), choose "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar and verify the disk. If it shows a problem, start in OS X Recovery (hold Command and R keys while your computer is starting), open Disk Utility and repair the Macintosh HD partition. If it couldn't be repaired, the hard disk has to be replaced
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