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What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
So last night I had a session, go to boot up my Mac Pro and can't get it to boot - got past the Apple screen but then it just flashed blue on the screen repeatedly without going to the Finder screen. Panic set in as I had people waiting to record. First thing I did was restart the machine by holding the power button to shut it off, wait a few seconds and press it again, wait for the chime then hold down shift. This will (in my case it did) boot the machine without any extensions/resources. Next thing I tried was going to the Disk Utility App and repairing permissions. This didn't work for me when I rebooted. Finally, I rebooted and held down (after the chime) Command-R. Miraculously, a special boot screen came up with the option to re-install OS X over the internet! This is way, way cool as who wants to search around for installer DVDs (not me). It took about 1 hour (maybe slightly longer) but when done, whallaa! I was back in business everything worked great! This is testimony to how Apple has made life a whole lot easier - perfect recovery. And BTW, while I don't bother with backing up my boot drive, I religiously backup my work to other network drives after every sessions. Just thought I'd share this story in case it may help someone.
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Justin (Proud Pro Tools Ultimate PERPETUAL license owner) Admin www.elevenrackpresets.com Studio: 2021 Mac Studio Ultra M1 20 Core CPU, 48 Core GPU, 64GB Ram, 4TB SSD boot | Pro Tools Ultimate 2022.12 | PreSonus Quantum 4848 interface| MOTU 112D interface | Digi PRE, FR OctoPre MKII, Mackie Onyx 800R, Panasonic WZ-AD96M (x2) and DA7, Eleven Rack, Apogee Big Ben, Mercury, Rode K2, Slate VMS ML-1 (x2). Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5559, i7-6500U 2.6Ghz, 16 GB RAM, 15.6" 1920x1080 1TB SSD |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Good to hear, Justin. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT Apple Certified - Technical Coordinator (v10.5), Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10) |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Hello Justin,
That's an interesting perspective on the Internet Restore - we have exactly the opposite reaction. We deal in large commercial television applications and when a workstation crashes we often don't have the bandwidth to download a full install from Apple in anything short of a ridiculously long period of time, meanwhile we've lost a huge amount of money because they aren't going to wait for us. We ship all our systems with clone drives and time machine drives; if the system refuses to boot we can boot off the clone drive. We and others in our position strongly dislike the fact that OS10.8 does not have install dvds, this limits us still further because we are completely reliant on our clone drives. We'd happily pay extra for those dvds but Apple has moved further from professional users and real world environments where downloading 4+GB over the internet before you can start to install is not acceptable and will cost us money. Good to hear you've recovered. Hugh |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Simple solution. Buy a $5 USB stick and restore your OSX installer to it. You then have a bootable installer same as a DVD.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianki...ble-usb-drive/ Then buy a 32GB USB stick for $16 and clone your fully configured Pro Tools system drive to it once it is all working properly. You can then recover from any situation quickly and easily. Carbon Copy Cloner. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/703...on-copy-cloner |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Our systems have the drive in Bay 4 of the Mac Pro as a system clone. If the Macintosh HD were to suffer a catastrophe, we would just restart off of the clone and get back to work.
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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT Apple Certified - Technical Coordinator (v10.5), Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10) |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Hello Tweakhead,
We already use CCC as our clone solution. Hugh |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
This is another situation where the much maligned iLok shines for professional users.
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Can you please send yourself over fiber to go spam some other forum? Darryl Ramm |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
Hello,
We all hate the copy protection annoyances but if it must be there we prefer the iLok/eLicenser usb schemes. Instant recovery. Just lock them down - they walk away on their own apparently. Hugh |
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Re: What to do when Mac OS X crashes on you...
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Can you please send yourself over fiber to go spam some other forum? Darryl Ramm |
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