What Is The Gray Progress Bar That Shows During Startup? The gray progress bar will sometimes appearing during startup or after waking up a Mac from sleep. If you are seeing it during startup, your Mac is... Read answer Asked by Pedro B. on September 26th, 2011 Filed Under: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X, Hard Drive, Sleep, Disk Utility, Time Machine, Backup
What Is Error Code -8084? If you are getting error -8084 one of the files you are copying must be corrupt. Try copying the files in small chunks to narrow down to the... Read answer Asked by Angie B. on April 30th, 2012 Filed Under: Utilities, Hard Drive, Disk Utility, Applications
How Do I Reformat My Hard Drive In OS X Mountain Lion? Restart your Mac and hold Command+R during startup to enter Mountain Lion Recovery. From there you can launch Disk Utility. Click the Erase tab... Read answer Asked by Shelia B. on August 22nd, 2012 Filed Under: Disk Utility, OS X Mountain Lion, Recovery
How Do I Create A Disk Image In Mac OS X? You can create a disk image in Mac OS X with the Disk Utility. Disk Utility is located in the Utilities folder inside your Application folder. Simply... Read answer Asked by Josh F. on March 22nd, 2011 Filed Under: Mac OS X, Disk Utility, Disk Image
How Do I Repair A Disk In OS X Mountain Lion? Open your Applications folder, then Utilities, and launch Disk Utility. Select the hard drive in the sidebar, click on the First Aid tab, and then... Read answer Asked by Greg T. on December 28th, 2012 Filed Under: Utilities, Disk Utility, OS X Mountain Lion
How Do I Get Rid Of The Gray Progress Bar Under The Apple Logo? The first step is to back up your Mac since there might be a problem with your hard drive. If this is happening each time you startup, track down your... Read answer Asked by Joshua A. on March 23rd, 2012 Filed Under: Mac OS X, Startup, Disk Utility, Snow Leopard
Can I Upgrade From Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server To OS X Lion? If you attempt to upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server to OS X Lion, the App Store will try to force you to download OS X Lion Server. The... Read answer Asked by Justin G. on February 28th, 2012 Filed Under: Upgrade, Disk Utility, OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server
How Do I Repair My Hard Drive In OS X Lion? A new feature in OS X Lion is Lion Recovery. Just hold down Command-R while starting up your computer and Lion Recovery will open. From there you can... Read answer Asked by Selena R. on July 24th, 2011 Filed Under: Disk Utility, OS X Lion, Lion Recovery
How Do I Password Protect A Folder On My Mac? Encrypting files or folders on a Mac can easily be done using tools built into macOS / OS X. First put the files you would like to password protect... Read answer Asked by Justin T. on March 11th, 2019 Filed Under: Mac, Disk Utility, Security, MacOS, Encryption