Hi folks --
This morning, for the first time in months, I shut down (rather than sleeping or restarting) my early 2010 MBP. It had been behaving a little oddly (iTunes hiccuping, Mail.app hanging, occasional 20-second slowdowns) yesterday, and I wanted to give it a fresh start.
An hour later I tried to boot, but got nothing but the blinking question mark folder icon.
Not knowing what else to do, I opened it up and made sure that the hard drive was seated properly (I upgraded the drive immediately after purchase, and the thing's been traveling with me two hours a day since then). Everything was firmly connected. So I closed it back up and tried to boot again.
This time it booted normally (a lot of time on the Apple logo, as if performing a fsck, but reached the desktop with no trouble).
I have backups from about 24 hours ago (although they're an hour's ride away at the office), and most of my work is stored remotely in version control; and any new mail is still on the servers, so I'm not *too* panicked about data loss.
I'm running Disk Utility's "Verify Disk" at the moment.
Any suggestions of anything else to do, besides continuing to make daily backups?
Thanks!
This morning, for the first time in months, I shut down (rather than sleeping or restarting) my early 2010 MBP. It had been behaving a little oddly (iTunes hiccuping, Mail.app hanging, occasional 20-second slowdowns) yesterday, and I wanted to give it a fresh start.
An hour later I tried to boot, but got nothing but the blinking question mark folder icon.
Not knowing what else to do, I opened it up and made sure that the hard drive was seated properly (I upgraded the drive immediately after purchase, and the thing's been traveling with me two hours a day since then). Everything was firmly connected. So I closed it back up and tried to boot again.
This time it booted normally (a lot of time on the Apple logo, as if performing a fsck, but reached the desktop with no trouble).
I have backups from about 24 hours ago (although they're an hour's ride away at the office), and most of my work is stored remotely in version control; and any new mail is still on the servers, so I'm not *too* panicked about data loss.
I'm running Disk Utility's "Verify Disk" at the moment.
Any suggestions of anything else to do, besides continuing to make daily backups?
Thanks!