TS1989 My desktop screan on my I Mac computer

My desktop screan on my I Mac computer will not show up all I see is the apple logo

Will it Safe Boot if you hold the Shift key...?
see > Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
Can you startup from your Recovery Partition if you hold the Command R keys..?
see > OS X: About OS X Recovery
If you startup into the Startup Manager by holding the Option key, can you see and select either your Macintosh HD or the Recovery Partition...?
see > Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume

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    NOTE: refer to article "About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature" found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1452 - for the actual apple article on these step. ----
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    - select "Disk Utility" on the resulting screen then 'Disk Utility' ---
    - When prompted to select a disk volume or image, select the 'Macintosh HD' in the left column
    - ensure the the "first aid" tab is highlighted blue in the middle of the screen
    - click the button at the bottom that says 'REPAIR DISK' .......NOT "Repair disk permissions"
    - this process will take a few minutes to run.  It will indicate it's done, by scrolling to the bottom of the "details area" displaying "The Macintosh HD appears OK"
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    ...but all my Photography plan is running on my MAC computer (LR5 and Photoshop CC). Do I have to click install on LR, and I choose to install again, will I ruin something?

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    hi friends i have mac ibook g4 i know its a really old model but its perfectly fine it has installed mac os x 10.5.8 ok whenever i copy and paste anything it says no free space weather i copy from folder to desktop or from usb to mac plz help plz

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    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10381710#10381710
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    What version of Blackberry desktop manager is compatible with Mac OS 10.7 Lion?

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    r7p wrote:
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    r7p wrote:
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