I'm really frustrated. I installed snow leopard on my 2007 white 1.8ghz 2gb macbook on saturday and everything seemed absolutely great. Things were generally much snappier and apps started up quicker. I also gained much needed hard disk space.
This afternoon, completely out of the blue, the macbook decided it would rather not boot up properly and instead I waited about 15 minutes and it was still stuck on the grey apple logo and usual grey spinning wheel of doom.
It has happened before, I seem to remember.. And so I used the same technique of resetting the PRAM (I think?), holding down p + r etc, which had fixed the problem previously. After doing this the macbook booted normally (took a little longer than normal but that was to be expected), everything took much longer to load up than normal and the apps that start on launch were bouncing away as per usual... But just as things started to look normal again, the dock dissapeared and reappeared multiple times to reveal exactly the same dock but without white running dots underneath the apps that were running... I thought it was a bit odd that the dock had become completely unresponsive and would now not let me open apps or anything. Other things didn't work either, like when divices were plugged in and dragging didn't work. NOTHING WOULD LAUNCH. INCLUDING THE A-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY HOMEWORK I NEED TO PRINT OFF FOR TOMORROW
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I've tried repairing the disk and all that jazz on disk utilities on the OS X SL dvd and nothing seems to have worked so far. Any help would be valuable as I have some important things on this mac and I'VE NOT MADE ANY BACK UPS. Really stupid, I know. But I'm only a student and will need to make backups for a replacement macbook pro sometime near the end of the year.
I'm really upset about this problem, because it's the first I've had in at least 1 and a half years.
Thank you
This afternoon, completely out of the blue, the macbook decided it would rather not boot up properly and instead I waited about 15 minutes and it was still stuck on the grey apple logo and usual grey spinning wheel of doom.
It has happened before, I seem to remember.. And so I used the same technique of resetting the PRAM (I think?), holding down p + r etc, which had fixed the problem previously. After doing this the macbook booted normally (took a little longer than normal but that was to be expected), everything took much longer to load up than normal and the apps that start on launch were bouncing away as per usual... But just as things started to look normal again, the dock dissapeared and reappeared multiple times to reveal exactly the same dock but without white running dots underneath the apps that were running... I thought it was a bit odd that the dock had become completely unresponsive and would now not let me open apps or anything. Other things didn't work either, like when divices were plugged in and dragging didn't work. NOTHING WOULD LAUNCH. INCLUDING THE A-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY HOMEWORK I NEED TO PRINT OFF FOR TOMORROW
.I've tried repairing the disk and all that jazz on disk utilities on the OS X SL dvd and nothing seems to have worked so far. Any help would be valuable as I have some important things on this mac and I'VE NOT MADE ANY BACK UPS
. Really stupid, I know. But I'm only a student and will need to make backups for a replacement macbook pro sometime near the end of the year.I'm really upset about this problem, because it's the first I've had in at least 1 and a half years.
Thank you