Recovery mode includes four basic tools, and gives you access to much more in Terminal’s command shell.
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Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.
All the useful key combinations, arranged by function rather than keys.
What to do when your Mac won’t start up, and is acting dead, or at least mortally wounded.
You know, from soon after getting up, that some days are not going to be easy. Yesterday was […]
My iMac has two major flaws: no manual, and no way of removing an optical disk stuck in its drive. Or am I missing solutions?
When verifying my hard disk, Disk Utility reports that the ‘keys are out of order’. What do I do next?
How to repartition and install El Capitan afresh on an old iMac.
Crashes don’t come any harder than when your Mac just sits there, your startup disk missing or unusable. Here is how to prepare for, and recover from, such a hard crash.
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