![]() Good thing I did, after a few days (keeping mind, I don't spend a whole lot of time on the home computer), Safari would lock up with that darn error message outlined in the OP. The first I did was to download firefox, so as to have a functional browser in case Safari continued to give me issues. I realized I needed to address the issue. For example, if I was on the Amazon site looking for something, I would get pop ups related to whatever I happened to be looking at. I started getting several pop up screens while trying to complete usual internet activities. I completed the "update" and safari starting acting strangely. I think I picked up this "bug" last week when I thought I was responding to a prompt to update my adobe flash player. Like the OP I ended up with this nasty little bugger on my iMac: Again, not knowing whether you have a backup or not is why I said "wherever". Finally, you can use Migration Assistant to "migrate"/copy non-Appel stuff from wherever you have it to the Air. ![]() If none of that is successful, then about the only remedy is to use Disk Utility (could do it with the iMac) to 1) Erase, Format, and Partition the Air's drive, 2) do a clean installation of OS 10.8.5 (do you have the file "Install OS X Mountain Lion" somewhere on the iMac? If you do, you can install it on the Air (it will be OS 10.8), and then download and apply the OS 10.8.5 Combo Updater, which you can get from here: ). From there, you can use whatever tools you have on the iMac to try and repair the Air's drive. Hopefully, the Air's drive will appear on the iMac's desktop. ![]() (This link,, discusses it in somewhat more detail). When it is done completely booting up, start up the MacBook Air, but hold down the T key on the keyboard. With both machines off, plug the Firewire 800 cable into the iMac's Firewire 800 port, plug in the adapter to the other end of the Firewire 800 cable, and plug the other end of the Thunderbolt-to-Firewire 800 cable into the Thunderbolt port on the Air. I have a mid 2013 13" MacBook Air with a Thunderbolt port, along with one of those adapters (costs $49 US Dollars), and I have successfully used it many, many times to connect either of my external hard drives, each of which has a Firewire 800 port, to my MacBook Air. What you will need first is 1) a Firewire 800 cable, and 2) a Thunderbolt-to-Firewire 800 adapter. Thus, the next thing to try is to boot the Air in Target Disk Mode. Now, your MacBook Air has a Thunderbolt port, and your iMac has a Firewire 800 port. Use Disk Utility to 1) Verify and Repair the disk at the Volume, ie, top level, 2) Verify and Repair the disk at the Partition, ie, second level, and 3) Verify and Repair Permissions. This link describes how to boot to that partition, and what it contains: Īssuming that is successful, you can run Disk Utility from there to check out the drive (I believe you have a 128 gig SSD in it). ![]() Have you been making any kind of backups of the Air to an external device? That is just about necessary (unless you can stand to lose everything on the Air's drive).įirst thing to try is to boot to the (invisible) Recovery Partition on the MacBook Air. ![]() Please clarify that for me, as it affects what I am proposing.Īlso, I forgot to ask you another important question. It is very helpful.įrom what you said above, "Everything of the affect computer is locked.", that seems to indicate that the MacBook Air will not even boot up! I hope that is not the case. ![]()
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