first aid

I'm facing having to backup, create a USB Ventura installer (can't install Sonoma yet because of various VST3 plugins that don't support it yet), wipe the internal storage and spend two weeks getting everything back to normal. So I thought I would ask here before getting started on all that...

Hi, I have a MacBook Pro 2015 that was running Mojave, and am having a boot problem. When I turn the computer on, I get the Mac logo, the progress bar makes it a third of the way across the screen, and then shuts off. I've tried a few things to fix this so far, but nothing's working so far. I...

Hi, Today I noticed my external Samsung HDD is very slow suddenly. It’s also impossible to eject it from my Mac (I have to turn off my Mac every time I want to eject it). So I have run First Aid on it in Disk Utility. Here’s the result: What does it mean? Is this disk unfixable? Is recycling it...

Hi, I am using a mac book pro 2017, Mojave 10.14.6. I was having some issues so i reinstalled the operating system via command r and restart etc. I was having to keep changing my passwords via apple id and then finding after sleeping they would not work so i would have to do the same again...

I had some trouble with CCC backup disk corruption and decided to check the main system disk, a 2TB SSD on my Mac Pro 5,1. A couple of observations: - You cannot just boot into the recovery partition and run First Aid with the Disk utility. The recovery partition is a mounted container of the...

Hi guys. I have Mac Mini with installed SSD and it worked well since one and half year. Recently i got some trouble with it. For some reason(i don't know why),my High Sierra crashed(freezed) two times, third time reboot didn't help and seems to be OS has come to broken state :(...

I had a Sony 8 gb usb drive. Tried to format it on the Mac. After formatting, Mac won't detect usb anymore. Tried First aid and recovery option. Nothing works. Please help

Hello! I ran First Aid on disk in normal mode and after booting into Recovery. In both cases, First Aid said everything was okay. But when I tried it in Safe Mode, it says about Apple HDD that "Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting". Is this serious? And it is...