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This is really getting old - computer crashing
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So I am running El Cap. There was an updtate for Pixelator and RAW camera support. I updated. The computer choked and hung up on a black screen with an outlined cursor in the upper left hand screen. Never a good situation in my book. After about 5 mintues, I said nuts to this and shut it down with a hard reset.

Well, the computer did not like that at all! It was slow to restart and needed three restarts to actually get to my finder. After that, I came to the rude realization that ALL of my aplications were corrupted! Not a one worked.

What?

Yup. Not a one worked. Tried to reset things, but not helpful. I am currently restoring from a backup with CCC. It should be a simple thing to restore from backup and I am on my way again.

HOWEVER! I have this sinking feeling that my parallels and bootcamp setup is FUBAR'd again. And that I will have to rebuild that part of my setup. Again. I hope and pray that I am wrong and that somehow things will work the way they should. But why should they? I have NEVER had a backup plan (SuperDuper, CCC, Time Machine, migrate from old machine to new) that actually worked. I have always had to rebuild from the ground up. It wasn't so bad in OS9. I had that puppy down to about an hour rebuild. This? Takes me several days and a lot of headache and overtime. I am now typing from my iPad 2 as the backup progresses. Slowly. 'Cause there is no USB 3 on this machine (2011 imac). If I'm wrong about that, I'm gonna kick myself (using a USB hub right now).

Thanks for reading. Enjoy the Apple event!
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This is really getting old - computer crashing - by Spiff - 09-07-2016, 05:51 PM

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