Hanging on Login- Please HELP

[legaleye3000]

I type in my password to login and I get the beach ball. I'll wait for as long as an hour and nothing! I've done the following:

1. Reboot to recovery partition: Disk util=repair drive, repair disk, repair permissions.

2. Reset PRAM and SMC.

*Logging into Guest works. But I can't get to my profile. I really can't afford to erase/restore my system. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[GGJstudios]

I type in my password to login and I get the beach ball. I'll wait for as long as an hour and nothing! I've done the following:

1. Reboot to recovery partition: Disk util=repair drive, repair disk, repair permissions.

2. Reset PRAM and SMC.

*Logging into Guest works. But I can't get to my profile. I really can't afford to erase/restore my system. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

It might be some app hanging that you have automatically starting on login. Try booting into safe mode. Then, check the following locations for apps that automatically launch on startup and delete any you don't need/want:

• System Preferences > Users & Groups > yourusername > Login Items (SL and older: System Preferences > Accounts > yourusername > Login Items)
• In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > /Library/LaunchAgents
• In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > ~/Library/LaunchAgents
• In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > /Library/StartupItems

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After you delete items from the list, restart your Mac and those processes should not be running.

 

[legaleye3000]

Safemode makes no difference. I type in my password and it hangs... Can't even get to system preferences.