White apple logo and status bar on startup
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Need to know the following:
1. What exact Mac OS are you running? Also, how did you "arrive" at that version? Did you upgrade "in place"?
2. Have you ever done an disk cleanup/maintenance/repairs, from a software perspective? By that I mean have you ever run any disk-related software to help with those tasks? There are some excellent products available (both free and commercial) that can help you with that.
3. This is critical: are you making backups to an external device? If yo are, what software are you using for that?
4. How much free space do you have on the SSD?
1. What exact Mac OS are you running? Also, how did you "arrive" at that version? Did you upgrade "in place"?
2. Have you ever done an disk cleanup/maintenance/repairs, from a software perspective? By that I mean have you ever run any disk-related software to help with those tasks? There are some excellent products available (both free and commercial) that can help you with that.
3. This is critical: are you making backups to an external device? If yo are, what software are you using for that?
4. How much free space do you have on the SSD?
Hi
thanks for reaching out
Apologies for the delayed response. Work has been crazy busy
im not a techie as such and have used my MBP continuously since new ( 2012)
the details :
10.11.6 OS X el capitan. normal apple upgrade
For what it means this is what I found under about this mac:
EFI:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
disk0s2:
Capacity: 499.42 GB (499,418,030,080 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s2
Content: Apple_CoreStorage
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Macintosh HD:
Available: 204.42 GB (204,424,384,512 bytes)
Capacity: 499.05 GB
Backups: i havent made backups and done a clean reinstall as im afraid i do something wrong and lose my documents and moreover my photography files
I would try it if i know how to do it well without losing anything ( i have bad experiences with changing phones etc)
thanks for reaching out
Apologies for the delayed response. Work has been crazy busy
im not a techie as such and have used my MBP continuously since new ( 2012)
the details :
10.11.6 OS X el capitan. normal apple upgrade
For what it means this is what I found under about this mac:
EFI:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
disk0s2:
Capacity: 499.42 GB (499,418,030,080 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s2
Content: Apple_CoreStorage
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Macintosh HD:
Available: 204.42 GB (204,424,384,512 bytes)
Capacity: 499.05 GB
Backups: i havent made backups and done a clean reinstall as im afraid i do something wrong and lose my documents and moreover my photography files
I would try it if i know how to do it well without losing anything ( i have bad experiences with changing phones etc)
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That is now normal. The status bar did disappear for a while with OSX updates, but it returned 2 or 3 versions back.