Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac

ebook Take Control

By Joe Kissell

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The 17 basic troubleshooting procedures (along with the reasons why they can help) you'll learn are:

  • Restart your Mac
  • Force-quit an application
  • Start up from another volume
  • Run disk-repair utilities
  • Erase and restore from backup
  • Repair permissions
  • Start up in safe mode
  • Turn off login items
  • Check preference files
  • Reset PMU, SMU, SMC, NVRAM, or PRAM
  • Use Activity Monitor
  • Check free disk space
  • Check log files
  • Clear caches
  • Check your RAM
  • Test for reproducibility
  • Get system information

    Joe also explains how to solve 15 common problems, including:

  • Your computer won't turn on
  • Your computer keeps turning itself off
  • You experience repeated kernel panics
  • Your Mac is abnormally slow
  • You can't empty the Trash
  • An application grinds to a halt
  • An application crashes
  • The keyboard or mouse doesn't work
  • You lose your Internet connection
  • Printing doesn't work
  • Spotlight searches fail
  • Keychain (seemingly) forgets passwords
  • Apple Mail fails to connect
  • Time Machine misbehaves
  • A volume won't unmount
  • Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac