Okay, I just tried it. There was a long pause after I hit enter, then a quick run of text scrolling up the screen... then a blank screen... long pause... then that god-forsaken folder icon with the question mark flashing again.

So that didn't work.

I'm starting to get seriously demoralized here. What in holy hell is going on with this machine? I bought it less than five months ago. It's THE top of the line SSD MacBook Pro. When it crashed I had no apps open. I was online using Safari. That's it. I mean, WTF?!

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 11:36 PM Paul Darrigo <fedguy2@...> wrote:

No  Hold down the  Command  and the S key on boot up

You'll see a bunch of white text    let go of the keys 

Then

After it gets to a prompt  type  FSCK -fy   hit return

 

Paul

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323-244-8020

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From: "Davaldod davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Paul Darrigo <fedguy2@...>
Cc: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>; Randall L. Rike <indypix4u@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Catastrophe - Help!

 

So if I understand you, try booting up in recovery mode, such as Option + R, get to the terminal and enter the command you specified?

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 8:35 PM Paul Darrigo <fedguy2@...> wrote:

Sounds like PMU reset.

Did you try that?

Try booting in single use mode run type fsck -fy   hit retrun

 

Paul

CHULA - Citizens for a Humane Los Angeles

https://www.facebook.com/groups/773416409436730/

323-244-8020

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From: "Davaldod davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Randall L. Rike <indypix4u@...>
Cc: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Catastrophe - Help!

 

An office IT type brought over a boot drive on a USB stick. We got it to the point at which we got to the disk utility, but it didn't see the laptop's drive at all. Even when we tried to reinstall High Sierra, the installer could not see or find the laptop. Only the external boot drive. So... still working on it.

There's something really ugly going on here. One theory is this SSD laptop is encrypted, thereby making it impossible to recover. I don't fully understand this theory, but I hope it's not as ominous as it sounds.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 1:38 PM Randall L. Rike <indypix4u@...> wrote:

From the Option+R boot option, are you able to run macOS Utilities > Disk Utilities> Disk First Aid?

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Date: Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 8:00 AM
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Avid-L2] Mac Catastrophe - Help!

 

Some truly FUBAR has happened with my MacBook Pro. I'm on location in
Ukraine, working, suddenly the computer screens went dark, and everything
froze. I forced a shut down then tried to restart. The progress bar on
restart went only so far then was replaced by a blinking folder icon with a
question mark in the middle. Now no restart can complete.

Any ideas what in hell just happened here? This feels bad. This feels
really bad.

Help.

Thanks,

DD

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