Ok, let's see if anyone has a clue of what I need to do here.
I have had my 2011 Mac Mini since the spring and have upgraded the RAM to 8gb in the past couple of months.
Sunday night I was playing with Wine and Winebottler, planning to install a couple of old windows programs onto my Mac.
I installed a simple calculator program from the internet to test out the programs, but left the house before I had time to install anything else. When I returned, Winebottler was still open and had the option to update the software. The wait cursor was displayed and would not let me select anything in the app, dock, or taskbar.
I eventually had to hold the power button until the mac shut off, but when I restarted it, the same apps reopened, and the problem persisted.
I repeated this several times, witht he same results until last night when I was turning the mac on it said something along the lines of "The computer was shut down incorrectly, would you like to restore your open programs". I chose not to, but the wait cursor is still present. I am unable to select anything on my taskbar, my dock will not appear, right clicking the desktop shows no results.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to resolve my problem?
The apps I had open at the time were (I believe) Photoshop CS4, Chrome, Winebottler, uTorrent, & Finder.
Thanks in advance fo any help you can give.
I have had my 2011 Mac Mini since the spring and have upgraded the RAM to 8gb in the past couple of months.
Sunday night I was playing with Wine and Winebottler, planning to install a couple of old windows programs onto my Mac.
I installed a simple calculator program from the internet to test out the programs, but left the house before I had time to install anything else. When I returned, Winebottler was still open and had the option to update the software. The wait cursor was displayed and would not let me select anything in the app, dock, or taskbar.
I eventually had to hold the power button until the mac shut off, but when I restarted it, the same apps reopened, and the problem persisted.
I repeated this several times, witht he same results until last night when I was turning the mac on it said something along the lines of "The computer was shut down incorrectly, would you like to restore your open programs". I chose not to, but the wait cursor is still present. I am unable to select anything on my taskbar, my dock will not appear, right clicking the desktop shows no results.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to resolve my problem?
The apps I had open at the time were (I believe) Photoshop CS4, Chrome, Winebottler, uTorrent, & Finder.
Thanks in advance fo any help you can give.