Mac OS X isn't working.?
So today, I was on my mac on dong stuff I usually do on it.
My mac suddenly frozed and didn't respond for awhile, so I held the power button to turn it off. When I turned it back on, it went to a blue screen for awhile. A pop up came up saying:
"The application Spotlight quit unexpectedly.
Mac OS X and other applications are not affected
Click Relaunch to launch the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple.'
I clicked 'Relaunch' and it like froze for awhile and goes to a blue screen. I waited at least 15-20 minutes and turned it off. So, I restarted my mac and this time I clicked 'Ignore'. It does the same thing, goes to a blue screen and nothing happens. What should I do? Is it broken?
Please help. Thanks a lot.
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When I had that problem a while back on an old G5, it was the program stuffit expander causing the problem.
You may also have a corrupt hard drive, so I would try reinstalling OSX from your backup discs that came with your computer, and if its still glitchy, replace your hard drive.
And as a last guess if all else fails, you may be overheating, so depending on the type of mac you have, make sure your fans are running, and try running in a cooler environment.
You may need to get the Caches folder out of the startup process. To do that, you boot to single user mode and "mv" (rename) the caches folder.
Restart holding ⌘ and the S key. Ignoring the " marks and observing space or no space,
Type "/sbin/mount -uw /"
Press Return.
Type "cd /library"
Press Return.
Type "mv caches caches-old"
Press Return.
Type "reboot"
Press Return.
If that doesn't help. boot to single user mode again, navigate to Library, mv preferences preferences-old. If that doesn't work, single user, navigate to Users > yourhomefolder, mv library library-old. If you have to do this, you may find the result is some applications don't function normally. To resolve that, you would pick carefully among yourhomefolder's "Library-old" stuff and drag it to Library.